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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 27:11/אבן עזרא על במדבר כ״ז:י״א

אלשארו הקרוב אליו. מכל המשפחה:

1UNTO HIS KINSMAN THAT IS NEXT TO HIM. From all of his family.⁸

בוירש אותה. הנחלה וכבר פירשתי דרך חז"ל בפסוק לעם נכרי. ולדעת הנחלו' אם יירש האב או האם את הבן ומה שתירש אשתו צריכים אנחנו לקבלה:

2AND HE SHALL POSSESS IT. The inheritance. I have already explained the approach of the rabbis in my comments on unto a foreign people (Ex. 21:8).⁹. The rabbis render this, and he (the husband) shall inherit her (otah). According to the rabbis our verse teaches that a man inherits his wife’s property but a woman does not inherit her husband’s property. See Baba Batra 111b and I.E.’s short commentary on Ex. 21:8. We need rabbinic tradition to know the laws of inheritance with regard to whether a father or a mother inherits a son’s property or what a woman inherits.