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What does the Gemara (גמרא) mean when it says "kol omer tenou k'omer sechu domi"? The shiur develops the machlokes between Rabbeinu Tam and the Rambam (רמב"ם): Rabbeinu Tam holds tenou implicitly means sechu whenever the intent is clear, but the Rambam rejects this in hilchos gerushin because gerushin requires a specific ma'aseh mesina. By halva, however, tenou k'sechu works only as zakei, creating a direct kinyan rather than merely an irrevocable chazer right, to avoid the problem of chav l'acheirim.
This shiur on Gittin 11b examines the sugya of tofes l'ba'al chov and the critical Gemara (גמרא) statement "kol omer tenou k'omer sechu domi." Rabbi Zweig begins by raising fundamental questions on the Rif and Rambam (רמב"ם): where do they derive the halacha (הלכה) that tofes l'ba'al chov b'makom she'ein chav l'acher koneh? The Rav Maggid claims the source is from our Gemara, but the Gemara itself discusses a Mishna that speaks only of "ein yachol achzo bo," not that he is koneh. Furthermore, the Rif appears to bring the rayah from the Gemara's maskana rather than from Rabbi Yochanan's original statement, which is problematic. The shiur then turns to the Rambam's formulation in Hilchos Malveh V'Loveh, where the Rambam paskens that if the loveh says "zakei" to one of the ba'alei chovos, that ba'al chov acquires the object. The Rav Maggid says the source for this is our Gemara, but this raises serious difficulties. The Gemara says "tenou k'sechu," not "zakei." Moreover, the Rambam himself in Hilchos Sheluchin explicitly distinguishes between tenou and sechu, stating they have different halachic consequences. How then can the Rambam pasken davka zakei when the Gemara says tenou?
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Gittin 11b
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