לשארו הקרוב אליו. מכל המשפחה: UNTO HIS KINSMAN THAT IS NEXT TO HIM. From all of his family.8That is closest to the deceased.
וירש 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: AND 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).9Our verse reads, ve-yarash otah. 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.