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Mishnah: One may not redeem a firstborn donkey, neither with a calf, nor with an undomesticated animal, nor with a slaughtered animal, nor with a tereifa, nor with a hybrid of a sheep and a goat, nor with a koy, which is an animal with regard to which it is uncertain whether it is domesticated or
Talmud: Whose opinion is expressed in the first clause of the Mishnah? It is the opinion of ben Bag Bag, as it is taught in a baraita that ben Bag Bag says: It is stated here, with regard to the redemption of a firstborn donkey: “And you shall redeem a firstborn donkey with a lamb” (Exodus 13:13),
The Talmud challenges: If this halakha is derived from the Paschal offering, then perhaps just as there, the Paschal offering must be a lamb that is male, unblemished, and in its first year (Exodus 12:5), so too here, the lamb must be male, unblemished, and in its first year. The Talmud explains
The Talmud asks: If the repetition of the terms “you shall redeem,” “you shall redeem,” serves to include, then even all of these types of animals that are listed in the Mishnah should be included. The Talmud answers: If so, what purpose does the verbal analogy of “lamb,” “lamb,” between the firs
§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: What is the halakha with regard to redeeming a firstborn donkey with a lamb that was removed alive from its mother’s womb after the mother was ritually slaughtered [ben pekua]? The Talmud explains the question: According to the opinion of R' Meir you should