## Arakhin Daf 24a

###### Arakhin 24a:1
[Arakhin 24a:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Arakhin/r/24a:1)

״וְאִם מָךְ הוּא מֵעֶרְכֶּךָ״ — הַחֲיֵיהוּ מֵעֶרְכֶּךָ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**“But if he be too poor for your valuation”** (Leviticus 27:8). The word “he” [*hu*] is interpreted as a variation of *havaya*, existence or sustenance. In this manner the verse can be read as an instruction to the treasurer: **Sustain him from** that which he is obligated to pay for **your valuation.**


###### Arakhin 24a:2
[Arakhin 24a:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Arakhin/r/24a:2)

אֲבָל לֹא לְאִשְׁתּוֹ וּבָנָיו וְכוּ׳. מַאי טַעְמָא? ״הוּא מֵעֶרְכֶּךָ״, וְלֹא אִשְׁתּוֹ וּבָנָיו מֵעֶרְכֶּךָ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The mishna teaches that food and garments are left for him, **but not for his wife or his children.** The Gemara asks: **What is the reason?** The verse states: “If **he be** too poor **for your valuation,”** which indicates that **he** must be sustained **from your valuation, but his wife and his children are not** sustained **from your valuation.**


###### Arakhin 24a:3
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רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: אִם הָיָה אִיכָּר, נוֹתֵן לוֹ צִמְדּוֹ. וְרַבָּנַן? הָנְהוּ לָאו כְּלֵי אוּמָּנוּת נִינְהוּ, אֶלָּא נְכָסִים נִינְהוּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The mishna teaches: **Rabbi Eliezer says** that **if he was a farmer,** the treasurer **gives him his pair** of oxen; if he was a donkey driver, the treasurer gives him his donkey. The Gemara asks: **And the Rabbis,** why do they rule that these animals are repossessed? The Gemara responds: According to the Rabbis, **these** animals **are not tools of** his **craft; rather, they are** his **property.**


###### Arakhin 24a:4
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הָיָה לוֹ מִין אֶחָד. פְּשִׁיטָא! כִּי הֵיכִי דְּסַגִּי לֵיהּ עַד הַשְׁתָּא, הַשְׁתָּא נָמֵי סַגִּי לֵיהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The mishna teaches that if **one had** many tools of **one type** that he was allowed to keep and few tools of one other type, e.g., three adzes and one saw, the treasurer does not sell tools of the type of which there are many in order to purchase for him tools of the type of which he has few. The Gemara asks: Isn’t it **obvious? Just as** it was **sufficient for him until now** to work with one saw, **now too** a single saw should be **sufficient for him.**


###### Arakhin 24a:5
[Arakhin 24a:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Arakhin/r/24a:5)

מַהוּ דְּתֵימָא: עַד הָאִידָּנָא דַּהֲוָה לֵיהּ לְאוֹשׁוֹלֵי הֲוָה מוֹשְׁלִי לֵיהּ, הַשְׁתָּא דְּלֵיכָּא דְּמֹשֵׁיל לֵיהּ — לָא, קָא מַשְׁמַע לַן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara explains that the ruling is necessary **lest you say** that **until now, when he was** capable of **lending** one of his many adzes, if he required an additional saw someone **would lend** one **to him,** whereas **now that** his property has been repossessed **there is no** one **who will lend** such a tool **to him,** when he has nothing to offer in exchange. Consequently, the treasurer should **not** leave him with only one saw, but he should sell some of his adzes in order to purchase an additional saw. Therefore, the mishna **teaches us** that there is no concern that he might not be able to borrow a tool.


###### Arakhin 24a:6
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הַמַּקְדִּישׁ אֶת נְכָסָיו מַעֲלִין לוֹ תְּפִילִּין. הָהוּא גַּבְרָא דְּזַבְּנִינְהוּ לְנִכְסֵיהּ, אֲתָא לְקַמֵּיהּ דְּרַב יֵימַר, אֲמַר לְהוּ: סַלִּיקוּ לֵיהּ תְּפִילִּין. מַאי קָא מַשְׁמַע לַן? מַתְנִיתִין הִיא! ״הַמַּקְדִּישׁ נְכָסָיו מַעֲלִין לוֹ תְּפִילָּיו״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The mishna teaches: With regard to **one who consecrates** all **his property,** the treasurer **takes his phylacteries.** The Gemara relates that there was **a certain man who sold his property. He came before Rav Yeimar,** who **said to** the members of the court: **Remove his phylacteries** from his head and his arm and give them to the buyer, as they are included in his property. The Gemara asks: **What is** this incident **teaching us? It is** an explicit ruling of the **mishna:** With regard to **one who consecrates** all **his property,** the treasurer **takes his phylacteries.**


###### Arakhin 24a:7
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מַהוּ דְּתֵימָא, הָתָם הוּא דְּסָבַר מִצְוָה קָא עָבֵידְנָא, אֲבָל לְעִנְיַן זַבּוֹנֵי — מִצְוָה דְּגוּפֵיהּ לָא (זבין) [מְזַבֵּין] אִינִישׁ, קָא מַשְׁמַע לַן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara explains: It is necessary, **lest you say** that it is only **there,** when one consecrates his property, that the *halakha* **is** that his phylacteries are taken, **as he thinks** to himself: **I am performing a mitzva,** and therefore he intended for his phylacteries to be included. **But with regard to a sale, a person** would **not sell** an item used for **a mitzva that** he performs with **his body** without explicitly stating so. The Gemara therefore **teaches us** by means of the above incident that phylacteries are included in the property of such a sale.


###### Arakhin 24a:8
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**מַתְנִי׳** אֶחָד הַמַּקְדִּישׁ נְכָסָיו, וְאֶחָד הַמַּעֲרִיךְ עַצְמוֹ, אֵין לוֹ בִּכְסוּת אִשְׁתּוֹ, וְלֹא בִּכְסוּת בָּנָיו, וְלֹא בְּצֶבַע שֶׁצָּבַע לִשְׁמָן, וְלֹא בְּסַנְדָּלִים חֲדָשִׁים שֶׁלְּקָחָן לִשְׁמָן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** **Both** in the case of **one who consecrates his property and** the case of **one who valuates himself,** when the Temple treasurer repossesses his property he **has** the right to repossess **neither the garment of his wife nor the garment of his children, nor the dyed** garments **that he dyed for their sake,** even if they have yet to wear them, **nor the new sandals that he purchased for their sake.**


###### Arakhin 24a:9
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אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאָמְרוּ: עֲבָדִים נִמְכָּרִין בִּכְסוּתָן לְשֶׁבַח, שֶׁאִם תִּלָּקַח לוֹ כְּסוּת בִּשְׁלֹשִׁים דִּינָר מְשׁוּבָּח מָנֶה, וְכֵן פָּרָה אִם מַמְתִּינִין אוֹתָהּ לָאִיטְלֵיס מְשׁוּבַּחַת הִיא, וְכֵן מַרְגָּלִית אִם מַעֲלִין אוֹתָהּ לַכְּרַךְ מְשׁוּבַּחַת הִיא — אֵין לַהֶקְדֵּשׁ אֶלָּא מְקוֹמוֹ וּשְׁעָתוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Although** the merchants **said: Slaves are sold in their garments for profit, as if** a fine **garment** worth **thirty dinars would be purchased for him,** his sale price **appreciates by one hundred dinars; and likewise** with regard to **a cow, if one waits** to sell **it until the market [*la’itlis*]** day, when demand is high, **its** sale price **appreciates; and likewise** with regard to **a pearl, if one brings it to** sell it in **the city,** where demand is high, **its** sale price **appreciates;** nevertheless, one does not make such a calculation in this case. Rather, **the Temple treasury has** the right to collect the item based **only** on **its** current **location and its** price at the present **time.**


###### Arakhin 24a:10
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**גְּמָ׳** תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: ״וְנָתַן אֶת הָעֶרְכְּךָ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא״ — שֶׁלֹּא יְשַׁהֶה מַרְגָּלִית לְקַלִּים, ״קֹדֶשׁ לַה׳״ — סְתָם הַהֶקְדֵּישׁוֹת לְבֶדֶק הַבַּיִת.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** With regard to the statement of the mishna that the Temple treasury has the right to collect the item based only on its current location and its present time, **the Sages taught** in a *baraita*: The verse states, with regard to the redemption of a consecrated item: **“And he shall give your valuation as of that day”** (Leviticus 27:23). The phrase “as of that day” indicates **that he should not delay** the sale of **a pearl for the light** ones, i.e., for poor people, in order that they should take it to the city to sell it. Rather, it is appraised according to its present location. The verse continues: **“As a holy thing unto the Lord,”** which teaches that **unspecified** vows of **consecration,** e.g., when one states: My property is consecrated, are given **for Temple maintenance,** rather than to the priests.


###### Arakhin 24a:11
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**הֲדַרַן עֲלָךְ שׁוּם הַיְּתוֹמִים.**


###### Arakhin 24a:12
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מַתְנִי׳ **אֵין מַקְדִּישִׁין** לִפְנֵי הַיּוֹבֵל פָּחוֹת מִשְׁתֵּי שָׁנִים, וְלֹא גּוֹאֲלִין אַחַר הַיּוֹבֵל פָּחוֹת מִשָּׁנָה אַחַת. אֵין מְחַשְּׁבִין חֳדָשִׁים לַהֶקְדֵּשׁ, אֲבָל הֶקְדֵּשׁ מְחַשֵּׁב חֳדָשִׁים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** **One may neither consecrate** an ancestral field, i.e., a field that he inherited, **less than two years before the Jubilee** Year, **nor may one redeem** such a field **less than one year after the Jubilee** Year. When redeeming an ancestral field that has been consecrated, the sum paid to redeem the field is calculated based on the number of years remaining until the Jubilee Year. When performing this calculation, **one does not count months** of a partial year in order to lower the price to be paid **to the Temple** treasury; rather, he pays for the entire year. **But the Temple** treasury may **count months** in order to raise the price of redemption, as will be explained.


###### Arakhin 24a:13
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**גְּמָ׳** וּרְמִינְהוּ: מַקְדִּישִׁין בֵּין לִפְנֵי הַיּוֹבֵל בֵּין לְאַחַר הַיּוֹבֵל, וּבִשְׁנַת הַיּוֹבֵל עַצְמָהּ לֹא יַקְדִּישׁ, וְאִם הִקְדִּישׁ אֵינָהּ קְדוֹשָׁה!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** The mishna teaches that one may not consecrate an ancestral field less than two years before the Jubilee Year. **And** with regard to this, the Gemara **raises a contradiction** from the following *baraita*: **One may consecrate** an ancestral field **both before the Jubilee** Year **and after the Jubilee** Year. **But during the Jubilee Year itself, one may not consecrate** it, **and if he** nevertheless did **consecrate** it, **it is not consecrated.** Although consecration of an ancestral field is ineffective during the Jubilee Year, it is clear that such a field may be consecrated at any time prior to the start of the year.


###### Arakhin 24a:14
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רַב וּשְׁמוּאֵל דְּאָמְרִי תַּרְוַיְיהוּ: אֵין מַקְדִּישִׁין לִיגָּאֵל בְּגֵירוּעַ פָּחוֹת מִשְׁתֵּי שָׁנִים, וְכֵיוָן דְּאֵין מַקְדִּישִׁין לִיגָּאֵל בְּגֵירוּעַ פָּחוֹת מִשְׁתֵּי שָׁנִים — יְהֵא אָדָם חָס עַל נְכָסָיו וְאַל יַקְדִּישׁ פָּחוֹת מִשְׁתֵּי שָׁנִים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
In response, **Rav and Shmuel both say:** The mishna means that **one may not consecrate** an ancestral field for it **to be redeemed with a deduction,** i.e., such that the redemption price will be reduced to reflect the number of years remaining until the Jubilee Year, **less than two years** before the Jubilee Year. If such a field is consecrated less than two years before the Jubilee, it is redeemed according to its full valuation, as though it had been consecrated and redeemed immediately after the Jubilee. **And since one may not consecrate** an ancestral field for it **to be redeemed with a deduction less than two years** before the Jubilee, the mishna teaches that **a person should be concerned about his property, and should** therefore **not consecrate** an ancestral field **less than two years** before the Jubilee.


###### Arakhin 24a:15
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אִיתְּמַר: הַמַּקְדִּישׁ שָׂדֵהוּ בִּשְׁנַת הַיּוֹבֵל עַצְמָהּ, רַב אָמַר: קְדוֹשָׁה, וְנוֹתֵן חֲמִשִּׁים, וּשְׁמוּאֵל אָמַר: אֵינָהּ קְדוֹשָׁה כׇּל עִיקָּר.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ It **was stated:** With regard to **one who consecrates his field during the Jubilee Year itself, Rav says:** It **is consecrated, and** if he wishes to redeem it he **gives** the full valuation of **fifty** *sela*, i.e., fifty silver biblical shekels, per unit of area required for sowing one *kor* of seed [*beit kor*], **and Shmuel says:** It **is not consecrated at all,** and therefore it is not redeemed for any sum.


###### Arakhin 24a:16
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מַתְקֵיף לַהּ רַב יוֹסֵף: בִּשְׁלָמָא לְעִנְיַן מְכִירָה, דִּפְלִיג שְׁמוּאֵל עֲלֵיהּ דְּרַב, אִיכָּא לְמֵימַר קַל וָחוֹמֶר — וּמָה מְכוּרָה כְּבָר יוֹצְאָה עַכְשָׁיו, שֶׁאֵינָהּ מְכוּרָה אֵינוֹ דִּין שֶׁלֹּא תִּימָּכֵר?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Yosef objects to this: Granted, with regard to** the **sale** of an ancestral field during the Jubilee Year, it is logical **that Shmuel disagrees with Rav** and maintains that such a sale is invalid, as one **can say** the following ***a fortiori*** inference: **And if** a field that was **already sold** before the Jubilee Year **leaves** the possession of the buyer and returns to the original owner **now** in the Jubilee Year, then with regard to a field **that has not been sold, is it not logical** to conclude **that it cannot** be **sold** during the Jubilee Year?


###### Arakhin 24a:17
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אֶלָּא הָכָא, מִי אִיכָּא לְמֵימַר קַל וָחוֹמֶר? וְהָא תְּנַן: הִגִּיעַ יוֹבֵל וְלֹא נִגְאֲלָה — כֹּהֲנִים נִכְנָסִין לְתוֹכָהּ וְנוֹתְנִין דָּמֶיהָ, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי יְהוּדָה.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**But here,** with regard to the consecration of a field during the Jubilee Year, **can** one **say** such an ***a fortiori*** inference? **But didn’t we learn** in a mishna (25b): If one consecrated his ancestral field and the **Jubilee** Year **arrived and it was not redeemed** by the owner, the **priests enter into** the field **and give its** redemption **payment** to the Temple treasury; this is **the statement of Rabbi Yehuda?** Since a field that was consecrated before the Jubilee Year does not return to its original owner without redemption, one cannot infer that if one consecrates his field during the Jubilee Year itself, it returns to him without redemption.


###### Arakhin 24a:18
[Arakhin 24a:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Arakhin/r/24a:18)

שְׁמוּאֵל כְּרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן סְבִירָא לֵיהּ, דְּאָמַר: ״נִכְנָסִין וְלֹא נוֹתְנִין״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara answers: **Shmuel holds in accordance with** the opinion of **Rabbi Shimon, who says** that the priests **enter** into the field, **but they do not give** its redemption value to the Temple treasury. According to this opinion, a field consecrated before the Jubilee Year leaves the possession of the Temple treasury without redemption during the Jubilee Year, and therefore by *a fortiori* inference, if it was consecrated during the Jubilee Year, it does not require redemption.