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Zevahim 106: Outside of the Temple
Chapter 13! On offering sacrifices in locations that are not specified, and therefore also prohibited for sacrifices. The new mishnah raises the cases of…
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Zevahim 105: A New Kind of Impurity
When the bulls and he-goats are taken out to get burned and they render the people who handle them impure, what happens if the carcasses need to be brought…
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Zevahim 104: Disqualifications and the Ash Heap
More on the hides that would go to the kohanim, unless disqualification gets in the way -- but that really depends on when the disqualification takes place…
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Zevahim 103: Sacrificial Hides
Two mishnayot: Mishnah 1 - When the burnt offering is disqualified, the kohanim won't get the hide of the offering, depending on when the disqualification took…
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Zevahim 102: Was Moses King?
On kings and whether Moses was one - with the argument that he was not king, and also that he was, but without being the progenitor of a dynasty of kingship…
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Zevahim 101: Moshe, Aharon, and Inaugurating the Mishkan
The Gemara addresses the acute mourning of Aharon (Aaron) in the Torah when Nadav and Avihu die on the altar, when they bring the "strange fire" - and, among…
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Zevahim 100: When a Kohen Mourns
Rabbi Shimon's position of the acute mourner and the Pesach offering - and ways of resolving the apparent contradictions in his respective positions…
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Zevahim 99: Kohanim Are People Too
On kohanim who weren't eligible to eat from the sacrificial meats - beginning with a t'vul yom, one who has immersed in the mikveh for purity, but the sun has…
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Zevahim 98: Ending on a "Teku"
Additional consideration of the rules about absorption and how they apply to the meal offering - and also the sin-offering, both of which are specified, when…
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Zevhaim 97: Is a Mishnah Missing Words?
A new mishnah! (on the bottom of 96) - with Rabbi Tarfon's perspective, perhaps especially nuanced because he himself was a kohen. See his disagreement with…
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Zevahim 96: Garments and Vessels
More on how absorbed flavors are to be removed from earthenware - now recognizing that smashing the earthenware would be a problem in Jerusalem. That is, the…
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Zevahim 95: The Art of Kashrut: Just One Oven
A new mishnah (from the bottom of 94) - a garment with blood that was sprayed from a sin-offering and that was later moved out of the Temple courtyard - should…
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Zevahim 94: Impurity, Water, and Leather
Starting with an investigation into the word "beged," or garment, that would become impure and perhaps need laundering. With a discussion of that which is…
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Zevahim 93: Not Enough Blood to Require Laundering?
What if the garment that the blood from a sin-offering sprayed onto was an impure garment? With the phrasing of the question giving away the premise of the…
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Zevahim 92: Laundry Time
Chapter 11! With a new mishnah - on the absorption of the blood of a sin-offering into the kohen's garments, upon which it has sprayed, and the fact that it…
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Zevahim 91: Wine on the Fire
More on the order of the sacrifices, when there's a conflict - this time, in the context of what should be eaten first. With "frequency" and…
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Zevahim 90: It's for the Birds
Bird offerings precede grain offerings, when you have to choose. Even though there are communal grain offerings. They are, after all, living creatures. And…
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Zevahim 89: Halakhic Conflicts -- and Fun Gemara Games
Chapter 10! With a focus on mitzvot that conflict in their timing. A new mishnah... on establishing the order of offerings, given this kind of conflict. That…
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Zevahim 88: New Clothes, Blood, and No Dry Cleaning
Items are sanctified when they are put in holy vessels, but not all substances in all materials of vessels. So too, the priestly garments also atone. Note that…
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Zevahim 87: Sanctified Air Space
More on how the altar, the ramp, and the vessels sanctify that which reaches each of them respectively - including the sources for this sanctification…
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Zevahim 86: Before Midnight, Before Sunrise
A new mishnah! What items would be taken off the altar if they were brought there, even if by accident? Plus, what parts of an animal that was brought for an…
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Zevahim 85: Yes, the Gemara Considers Any and Every Case
Given the clear categorization and classification of all of the various factors for the sacrifices, Ullah addresses cases of "kodshim kalim" - when the parts…
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Zevahim 84: The Ups and Downs (But Mainly Ups) of the Altar
On the debate over what items can be taken down from the altar, and which must remain here - and then, against the backdrop of the several tannaitic views, the…
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Zevahim 83: The Altar Itself Sanctifies
Finishing chapter 8: If the kohen brought the blood of the offering into the Sanctuary unintentionally, the offering remains valid - implying that if he had…
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Zevahim 82: Metaphysics in the Sacrifices
An outer offering is invalid when its blood is brought into the Sanctuary - which seems to be the sin-offering. With Rabbi Akiva's exegesis. Also, a new…
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Zevahim 81: Like the Sin-Offering, So Too the Guilt-Offering
More on the question of blood that was mixed together - this time, if blood that should have been above the red line with that which should have been below the…
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Zevahim 80: Neither Add Nor Subtract from the Mitzvah
A long mishnah that begins on daf 79b: More on mixtures of blood - first, that of an animal with no blemish with that of an animal with a blemish. Which…
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Zevahim 79: Two Liquids and Impurity
Even a mixture of liquid may depend on majority, though the appearance of the mixture may make the difference -- for example, if the color of the liquid is…
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Zevahim 78: Mixed Blood
A new mishnah! If the blood of an offering were mixed with blood... it is still acceptable as an offering. What if it were mixed with wine? Or if the bloods…
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Zevahim 77: Mixed-up Limbs
Two new mishnayot for today's episode (and one for tomorrow's): 1. What happens if the limbs of already slaughtered animals for different offerings are mixed…
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Zevahim 76: Allowing Terumah - Maybe
Money from the sale of shevi'it produce cannot be used to purchase terumah produce, lest the permissible time to eat the produce be too limited. But Rabbi…
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Zevahim 75: Any Offering Can Be Confused with Another
When there's a mix-up of sacrifices and it's not clear who brought which offering, then the question of semihah - the laying on of hands on the animal - comes…
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Zevahim 74: Mediterranean and Dead Seas: How to Lose a Minority Item
More on mix-ups of prohibited animals together with permitted animals... with a tour back to Tractate Avodah Zarah, with a ring of idolatry that was…
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Zevahim 73: The Case of the Dried Figs
The principle that is learned from the details surrounding the dried figs, a specific example: when things are sold by number, they can't be nullified in a…
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Zevahim 72: Counting One by One
More on the mixtures, and the unidentifiable element that was prohibited from benefit. With a strong question as to why the rule of negating the prohibited…
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Zevahim 71: Destroying the Many because of the Few
Chapter 8! And a new mishnah. On mixtures, when something that is prohibited for benefit is mixed with "regular" items (or, in these cases, animals) of the…
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Zevahim 70: Geese, Chickens, and the Broken Neck of a Goat
A complicated daf.... with a textual comparison of biblical verses, focusing on the words "neveilah" and "treyfah" - both of which are now defined. With many…
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Zevahim 69: When "Dead" Doesn't Mean Impure
More on the pinching of the bird - melikah. If done in ways that were considered inappropriate or incongruous (like, at night), then the melikah would be…
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Zevahim 68: The Red Heifer and the Birds
A new mishnah: When the bird is killed improperly in the context of sacrifices, it does not necessarily constitute a carcass, in terms of conveying impurity…
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Zevahim 67: Mixed-up Post-Childbirth Bird Offerings
Bringing a burnt-offering from a bird can switch to be a sin-offering, if the procedure that is done is the sin-offering practice, instead of the…
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Zevahim 66: Procedure, Intent, and Consecration - for Bird Offerings
Chapter 7! Opening, of course, with a new mishnah: Still, with regard to bird offerings, with all the proper details of a sin-offering for the offering to be…
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Zevahim 65: Invalid Bird Offerings
When the kohen burns the bird on the altar, in its removed separate body parts, from crop to gizzard. Plus, the examples of when the intent was wrong or the…
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Zevahim 64: Bird Offerings - Not for the Faint of Heart
3 things were done on the altar above the red line - including libations of water and wine, and certain details of the bird olah (burnt-offering), and on the…
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Zevahim 63: A Fistful of Flour
Two new mishnayot! 1 - What is the proper place of the fistful of grain of the grain-offering? Defining "kimtzah" -- scooping up the meal. That kimtzah was…
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Zevahim 62: The Ashes of Isaac, or Where to Build the Second Temple's Altar
Building the Second Temple's altar - at which point, they already knew the outline of the building itself, but they weren't quite sure about the altar. How did…
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Zevahim 61: The Fire Never Left the Altar - Unless It Did?
When the Tabernacle was in Shilo, the altar seems to have been made of stones, and not the copper that Moshe made. But if that's the case, how was there…
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Zevahim 60: The Bloody Courtyard
Using a textual comparison to connect the outer altar of Moses with that of Ezekiel - or alternatively interpreted to connect the outer altar of Moses with…
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Zevahim 59: Damage, Rejection, and Saving Face in the Temple Courtyard
If the altar is damaged, the offerings that were slaughtered there - where the damaged altar is - are invalid. Of course, the question then arises, what about…
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Zevahim 58: Go North!
Chapter 6! With a new mishnah - Is the status of the altar as if it's fully in the north, or only on the northerly portion of the altar itself? Keep in mind…
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Zevahim 57: Who Eats What and When?
Starting with the last mishnah (on the bottom of 56:) - the offerings of the first-born, the tithes, Passover sacrifice, and more... in terms of what is eaten…
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Zevahim 56: Sunset Comes Too Soon for an Offering
The dimensions of the courtyard are key for determining where a person becomes liable for being impure in the courtyard. Plus, the impact on where the…
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Zevahim 55: All Sacrifices Are Holy, But Not to the Same Degree
We have 3 mishnayot today - with one at the very bottom of the previous daf. 1. The guilt-offerings (ashamot) together with the peace-offerings, but with a…
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Zevahim 54: The Place for the Beit HaMikdash
The southeast corner of the altar didn't have a base - but what does that mean? Was there no physical base or does it mean that the base there couldn't be used…
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Zevahim 53: The Temple's Tribal Lands
2 mishnayot! On sin-offerings - the procedure of how the slaughter, blood, altar, and eating the portions of the offering were all handled. This itemization…
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Zevahim 52: Blood on the Base of the Altar
More on the pouring the remaining blood after sprinkling on the base of the altar.... And the way to conclude the requirements regarding this blood - via…
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Zevahim 51: Binyan Av
Exegetical prowess: "binyan av" - learning the narrow case from a more general case. This category is added to the others: gezerah shavah, kal va-chomer, and…
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Zevahim 50: Analogies, Comparisons, and Inferences
More on rabbinic interpretation of the biblical text and the rules about how that works - by means of gezarah shavah, kal va-chomer, hekesh. What happens when…
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Zevahim 49: Exegetical Teachings
Shifting focus to the guilt-offering (the "asham"), and the fact that it too is to be slaughtered in the northern part of the Temple courtyard - along with the…
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Zevahim 48: Offerings in the Northern Courtyard
The sin-offerings and others needs to be slaughtered in the northern part of the Temple courtyard -- as derived by biblical verses. Plus, the collecting of the…
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Zevahim 47: Holy Intentions
Finishing the 4th chapter, with a new mishnah: A sacrifice is slaughtered for the sake of 6 things -- all of which are far less tangible than the animal…