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The Mishna (126b) teaches that as long as he says that what he is doing is a gift it will work, even if he also says that he means it to be an inheritance. The Gemara on our daf explains that this will work in all cases where the statements are made tokh ke-dei dibbur – when they are said “in the same breath.”
We approach the letter vs the law “FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE”: from two perspectives that of Pauline Theology and that of Kabbalah.