Eruvin 31: Letting Yourself Off the Mitzvah Hook

Talking Talmud · Sep 9, 2020 · 23m

The case of an eruv for a kohen who can eat the terumah (which is pure), and he himself is pure, but the location for the eruv is on a grave (which is impure). Ah, but the terumah has to be prepared or readied to be eligible to be rendered impure. The Gemara gets into a number of details pertaining to the care the kohen must take - an example of the far-reaching permutations for the case, the kind that we have seen fewer of in Eruvin. Also, the Gemara makes the point that we do not do mitzvot for the sake of our personal benefit, but for the sake of doing a mitzvah. Note that this gets…