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The Talmud explains that this halakha is repeated in order to include an enhancement that occurs by itself after the death of the father or husband, for instance in a case when fodder [ḥafura], i.e., produce that has grown stalks but is not yet ripe, becomes full ears, or when date flowers [shalpu
With regard to the repetition of the statement: Nor does he take twice the portion in property due the father as he does in property in his possession, this serves to include property of the father’s father, in a case where the father died before his own father. The firstborn does not receive his
Mishnah: And these are the people whose properties, unlike an ancestral field, do not return to their original owners in the Jubilee Year: The firstborn who inherited his father’s property by the right of primogeniture need not return the extra portion for redistribution among the brothers; and one
And likewise, a gift of land need not be returned to the original owners in the Jubilee Year; this is the statement of R' Meir. And the Rabbis say: The halakhic status of a gift is like that of a sale, and it must be returned. R' Elazar says: All these lands return in the Jubilee Year. R' Yoḥanan
Talmud: The Talmud asks: What is the reason of R' Meir, who holds that none of these items return in the Jubilee Year? The Talmud answers: It is with regard to land acquired specifically by means of a sale that God states that it should be returned during the Jubilee Year (see Leviticus 25:28), wh