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Yevamos 40

The Gemara says that an Acilah Gasa (stuffing oneself until he's beyond full) is not considered as eating and if done on Yom Kippur he's exempt from Kareis. 

Tosfos asks: the Gemara in Nazir seems to say the opposite. If someone did an Achila Gasa to the Korbon Pesach, granted he didn't do the Mitzvah in the best way, but he did do the Mizvah of eating the Pesach, So Achila Gasa is classified as eating.

Tosfos answers: there are two definitions of Achila Gasa. Here the definition is stuffing oneself until he's beyond full. That is not considered eating since he has no pleasure at that point. However, in Nazir they're defining Achila Gasa to mean a glutenous eating. Though it might be a little distasteful, it's still considered eating.

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Yevamos 39

In the Get Chalitza it says that she spat on the floor.

Tosfos says this couldn't  be the correct Girsa. The spit doesn't need to land on the floor. We see this from a Gemara in  Perek Hacholetz. If the woman was taller than the Yavam and the spit was carried away by the wind before if fell to his height, you're not Yoitza. But if it did fall to his height before it was blown away, then we consider as it was spat before him and she was Yoitze her spitting. (If she was shorter, as soon as the spit comes out of her mouth is considered  before the Yavam and even if the wind blows it away immediately, she's Yoitze.)

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Yevamos 38

A Yavum and the Sufaik kid are coming to inherit the grandfather. We say the Yavam collects the whole thing since he's definitely inheriting while the kid is only a Safeik (because if he's the Yuvam's kid he doesn't get an inheritance from the grandfather.

Rashi seems to learn that since the Yavum gets at least half, so that's why he's considered a definite heir. 

Tosfos asks from many places that just because someone has half does not mean that he's entitled to all. One such place is the first Mishna in Bava Metzia. If two jointly hold onto a cloak. One claims he found it first and is completely his while the other claims they found it together and he has half. The Halacha is that the second half that is in dispute gets divided. We do not say just because he definitely is entitled to half the cloak he's a definite owner and is entitled for the whole thing.

Rather, Tosfos explains that since the Yuvam is a definite heir of the grandfather while the kid is only a Safeik whether he is a heir, so we cannot take away from a definite heir to split it with someone who hasn't established himself as a heir.

Rabbi Chaim Smulowitz 

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