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he may not say: I will separate 10 and bring them into the pen, and I will take one of them as animal tithe, and the rest will be exempt. Rather, he must bring them all into the pen and remove 10 of them by causing them to emerge from the opening, and take one of them, the tenth one, as animal tit
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita that if one has 19 lambs he may not say: I will separate 10 and bring them into the pen, and I will take one of them as animal tithe and the rest will be exempt; rather, he must bring them all into the pen and remove 10 of them by causing them to em
Rav Huna bar Seḥora interpreted the baraita before Rava at the time of the Festival discourse: We are dealing with a pen that has two openings. And 9 of the lambs emerged through this opening and 9 of them went out through that opening, and this last one remaining in the pen is fit to come out here
The Talmud challenges: But let him teach instead that the baraita is referring to a case where he counted 9, and when the tenth lamb arrived to be counted he called it number one and began counting again from the start. In such a case he designated only the 19th lamb that emerged as number 10, and
The Talmud challenges: But let him teach instead that the baraita is referring to a case of a designated time for gathering the animals, and that the pen has only one opening, but he counted them pair by pair, i.e., he called the first pair number one, the second pair number two, and so on. In this