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SUMMARY
1. The Gemara discusses the various laws of a Tumtum who is found to be a male.
2. A Tumtum does not have a Bris on the eighth day if the eighth day falls on Shabbos.
3. There is a dispute about whether a father is believed to say that a different son is his firstborn.
4. The same dispute applies regarding a father who identifies his son as an invalid Kohen.
5. If a man says that this person is his [non-Jewish] slave, and then he says that the person in fact is his [Jewish] son, he is believed.
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A BIT MORE
1. A Tumtum is a person born with a flap of skin covering the genital area, so that it is not clear whether the person is male or female. The Gemara is discussing such a person who had a surgery removing the flap of skin, and he was found to be a male.
2. The Torah says, "And she gives birth to a male, and on the eighth day he should perform Milah," implying that Milah must be done on the eighth day -- even if it falls on Shabbos -- only when, at the time of birth, the baby was clearly male. Similarly, his mother is not deemed to be Tamei after giving birth, since a woman is only Tamei if she gives birth to a child that is clearly male or female at the time of birth (as implied by the verse).
3. Rebbi Yehudah: The verse, "Yakir," implies that not only should the father recognize his firstborn son by giving him a double portion, he has the authority to make others recognize the identity of his firstborn. Chachamim: The father is not believed to say that a different son is his firstborn (and not the one that is currently known to be his firstborn).
4. Rebbi Yehudah: A father is believed to say that his child is a Chalal, and that he divorced his mother and then remarried her before she conceived this child. Chachamim: He is not believed.
5. When he referred to his son as his slave, he meant that his son works hard for him like a slave.
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