Il rabbino Chanina ben Antignos dice: se ha una verruca negli occhi, o se la sua zampa anteriore o posteriore era mancante di un pezzo o se l'osso nella sua bocca [cioè la mascella] è diviso, se un occhio è più grande dell'altro o se un orecchio è più grande dell'altro - [come giudicato] dall'aspetto ma non [se deve] essere misurato. Il rabbino Yehuda dice che se uno dei suoi testicoli è due volte più grande dell'altro [è un difetto] ma i saggi non sono d'accordo.
Bartenura on Mishnah Bekhorot
יבלת (wart) – POROSH in the foreign language. And even if its is the white of he eye, and it has hair, it is a blemish.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Bekhorot
Rabbi Hanina ben Antigonus says: if [a first born] has a wart in its eye or if a bone of its fore-leg or hind-leg is defective, or if the bone of the mouth split, or one eye is large and the other small, or one ear is large and the other small, being visibly so and not merely in measurement [all of these are blemishes]. Rabbi Judah says: if one testicle is as large as two of the other [this is a blemish]. But the sages didn’t agree with him. In the first section of this mishnah, Rabbi Hanina ben Antigonus adds several more defects to the list. In the second section, Rabbi Judah adds another defect, but the other sages disagree with him. Since the mishnah is quite clear on its own, there is no commentary below.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bekhorot
ושנפגם עצם ידו- that the blemish is known. And above, we are speaking about when it is broken.
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ושנפסק עצמו שבפיו – that the teeth are set in it. It (i.e., the Mishnah) is speaking of above the sinews. For if it is the sinews themselves, which are the teeth themselves that are in the middle of the mouth, but it is taught above (see Tractate Bekhorot, Chapter 7, Mishnah 4): “if the incisors are damaged or worn down, it is a blemish.”
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עינו אחת גדולה – like that of a calf.
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ואחת קטנה – like that of a goose.
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במראה – that it appears to all that this one is larger than the other one.
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אבל לא במדה – that it is not recognized other than by measurement, it is not a blemish.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Bekhorot
ולא הודו לא חכמים – with Rabbi Yehuda. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.
