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Bava Batra 127: When Is a Male Not Male? When Is a First-born Not First-Born?
Season 23
Episode 127
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
Description
How the laws pertaining to a "Tumtum" affect his ability to inherit the double portion. This status has all kinds of implications to other areas of halakhah that pertain to males -- including the timing of brit milah, including the impurity that attaches to a mother after giving birth. Also, a question was sent to Shmuel: When a person has knowledge that he is the first-born, and his father says that someone else is the first-born -- does the father's statement hold sway or not? (it's a machloket)