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Mishnah: Everyone substitutes a non-sacred animal for a consecrated animal, both men and women. That is not to say that it is permitted for a person to effect substitution; rather, it means that if one substituted a non-sacred animal for a consecrated animal, the substitution takes effect, and t
Talmud: The Talmud notes an apparent contradiction in the Mishnah: This Mishnah itself is difficult: You say that everyone substitutes a non-sacred animal for a consecrated one, which indicates that substitution may be performed ab initio. And then you teach: That is not to say that it is permitte
The Talmud responds: And can you understand the phrase: Everyone substitutes, as indicating that substitution may be performed ab initio? If so, before the Mishnah poses a difficulty for you, the verse should pose a difficulty for you, as it is written: “He shall not alter it, nor substitute it” (
Rather, Rav Yehuda says: This is what the Mishnah is teaching: Everyone can apply the status of a consecrated animal to a non-sacred animal by the act of substitution, both men and women. But that is not to say that it is permitted for a person to effect substitution, as, if one did effect substitu
§ The Mishnah teaches: Everyone substitutes a non-sacred animal for a consecrated animal. The Talmud asks: What does the comprehensive term: Everyone, serve to include? The Talmud answers: It serves to include an inheritor, and accordingly, this Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of R'