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Does a gift given on condition to return it count as valid acquisition? The Gemara (גמרא) on Kiddushin 6b distinguishes between conditions placed on the transfer itself versus conditions on the resulting legal status (kiddushin, sale, pidyon haben). The Rambam (רמב"ם)'s seemingly contradictory position is resolved by showing that when the condition affects only the status (not the transfer), the recipient owns the object but owes its value—yet for kiddushin this still fails because a woman won't exchange herself for something yielding no benefit.
This shiur analyzes a fundamental Gemara (גמרא) on Kiddushin 6b dealing with matana al manas lehachzir (a gift given on condition to return it) and its application to kiddushin, mekach umemkar (sales), pidyon haben (redemption of the firstborn), and terumah. The Gemara presents four cases: the first three (kiddushin, sales, pidyon haben) are invalid (lo yotza), while terumah is valid (yotza). The Gemara questions this distinction: if you hold matana al manas lehachzir shmo matana (it is a valid gift), all four should work; if lo shmo matana (it is not a valid gift), none should work. Rabbi Zweig identifies a fundamental difficulty with the Gemara's comparison. In the first three cases, the issue is whether the monetary transfer creates sufficient ownership to obligate the recipient to transfer something back (the woman to be mekadesh herself, the seller to transfer land, the kohen to redeem the child). In terumah, the only question is whether the recipient owns the terumah itself—there is no reciprocal obligation involved. These are fundamentally different questions, making the Gemara's parallel problematic.
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Kiddushin 6b
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