Bekhorot 52 – בכורות נ״ב | Daf Yomi with Rashi, Tosafot, the Rambam and halacha
What Bekhorot 52 teaches
- A firstborn receives a double portion only from his father's existing estate, excluding post-mortem growth like ripening grain or uncollected loans.
- Dividing brothers act like buyers who must redistribute their inherited ancestral fields at Jubilee, though the firstborn retains his double portion.
- A husband inheriting his wife's ancestral burial ground must return it to her family for money to prevent family disgrace.
The sugyot
- The Mishnah excludes a woman’s ketubah, daughters' sustenance, and a yavam from collecting from property enhancement or uncollected assets.
- The Gemara derives that primogeniture applies only to a father's estate, and excludes post-mortem appreciation and uncollected property from the double portion.
- The Gemara establishes that rabbinic leniency denies marriage claimants property enhancements, and equates the levir to a firstborn regarding all uncollected and natural enhancements.
- The Mishnah defines which acquisitions do not revert at Jubilee, debating gifts and whether inheritances or a husband's estate ever return.
- The Gemara analyzes whether gifts, the firstborn's double portion, and spousal or levirate inheritances return in the Jubilee Year based on biblical exegesis.
- Rabbi Yochanan rules that dividing brothers return land in the Jubilee, and the Gemara establishes that the firstborn's portion can return for naught,.
- The Gemara clarifies that a husband's biblical inheritance only returns in the Jubilee if it is an ancestral family cemetery, preventing family disgrace.
Halachot from the daf
- Collecting a ketubah or sustenance from appreciation or uncollected assets
- Inheritance rights of a yavam in uncollected assets and appreciation
- Whether a creditor collects debt from expectant assets (ראוי)
- Firstborn portion in post-mortem enhancement (שבח) and expectant assets (ראוי)
- Widow collecting ketubah or daughters sustenance from estate enhancement
- Creditor collecting debt from property enhanced after debtor's death
- Return of a gifted field in the Jubilee year
- Inheritance portions of a firstborn and levir in Jubilee
- Husband inheriting his wife's estate and family cemetery
- Return of a land gift in the Jubilee Year
- Biblical or rabbinic status of husband inheriting his wife
- Reversion of divided inheritance and primogeniture shares in the Jubilee year
- Husband returning an inherited ancestral cemetery to the wife's family
- Family reclaiming a sold grave, funeral path, or eulogy site
Gems from the Daf
- Iyun of the day: Birthright Share: Inheritance or Gift
- Daf prep: Before you learn Bekhorot 52
- 3 to remember: Bekhorot 52: three things to remember
- The Passuk: Defining the Birthright Portion in Inheritance and Jubilee
- Halachot: Estate Appreciation, Levirate Rights, and Family Burial Grounds
- The Rambam’s view: Inheritance, Appreciation, and the Jubilee Restitution
- Tosafot: Inheritance, Enhancements, and Jubilee in Bekhorot
- Machloket: Gifts and Primogeniture in the Jubilee Year
- The inner dimension: Transforming Potential into Possession
- Words to know: Bekhorot 52: words to know
- Masechet so far: The masechet so far, chapter by chapter
- Elsewhere in Shas: Bekhorot 52 elsewhere in Shas
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