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Zevahim 46: Excluding Blood and Being Cut Off - 3 Lessons and 3 Verses
How is sacrificial blood excluded from the prohibition against "notar" and impurity? As derived from verses, that is. Likewise, how is blood not subject to…
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Zevahim 45: An Idolator's Offerings
Two mishnayot! When an idolator brings an offering in the Temple... yes, that turns out to be something that could happen. Jewish people can't get benefit from…
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Zevahim 44: Pigul, Clarified
Anything that has permitting factors - specifically, in this case, for the consumption of the consecrated offerings - will, depending, avoid the complicating…
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Zevahim 43: Flour and Frankinscense
A new mishnah! With a list of cases that would not make a person liable for pigul. The flour of the minchah offering won't become pigul. Likewise, the…
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Zevahim 42: Again, Bloodwork
Following the dispute about pigul for a meal-offering, the Gemara investigates all the permitting factors for an offering to be accepted, before there are any…
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Zevahim 41: God Loves the Jewish People
"With the bull" - looking at the comparison between the goats that would be brought for unwitting communal idolatry and the unwitting sin in other fields. Via…
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Zevahim 40: The Curtains and the Incense
In light of the placement of blood on the inner altar - either one or two placements - preserving the atonement capacity of the offering, even without blood…
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Zevahim 39: Blood on the Inner Altar
What happens to the clothing that is sprayed by the blood that is being sprinkled on the altar? With implications regarding laundering the garments worn by the…
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Zevahim 38: When Beit Hillel Turns Stringent and Beit Shammai Lenient
More on Beit Hillel's understanding that one placement of blood on the altar is sufficient - as derived from the "atonement" as stated in each verse about the…
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Zevahim 37: Different Interpretations: Meaning and Reading
A new mishnah - starting chapter 4! A dispute between Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel: How many placements of blood on the altar are required for atonement? Beit…
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Zevahim 36: Invalid Offerings
A new mishnah! If one slaughters an offering with intent to leave part of it for the next day - whether blood or parts of the animal - or to remove them from…
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Zevahim 35: A Fetus, Eggs, and the Separation of Animals
A new mishnah! One who has intent to handle the food of an offering to be eaten at the wrong time or wrong location - or parts of the animal that are not…
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Zevahim 34: Pouring and Disposing of the Dregs
More on the debates between Resh Lakish and R. Yochanan: One who has eaten meat from the sacrifices before the blood has been sprinkled... Resh Lakish says…
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Zevahim 33: The Heavy Laying on of Hands
More on Ulla's opinion (based on Resh Lakish) that partial entry is akin to a complete entry - when it comes to an impure person and the Temple. In the context…
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Zevahim 32: The Surprising Leniencies and Leeway of Sacrifices
A new chapter (3)! With a new mishnah. Which continues the topics of chapter 2. If those who are disqualified from doing the Temple service do the slaughter of…
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Zevahim 31: It's a Measure of Time: Half a Loaf of Bread
What happens if the olive's measure of the offering was eaten in combination by 2 people? Is the concern that an olive's measure is eaten, or that the given…
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Zevahim 30: An Olive's Measure of Intent
More on improper intent for time and improper intent for place - pigul is the issue with time, and one can get karet for it, while improper intent for place is…
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Zevahim 29: More Ways to Offer Offerings Right
NOTE: Current events on the day of today's daf were uplifting and moving and miraculous and poignant (and sad) in many way - today is the day that the 20…
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Zevahim 28: Beyond Place, Beyond Time
A new mishnah! (on the bottom of the previous daf). When there's intent to sprinkle from the blood outside the Temple, or to burn the sacrifical parts of the…
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Zevahim 27: Hindrances to Atonement
3 interpretations of the most recent mishnah: Shmuel maintains that the atonement kicks in when the blood is appropriately on the altar. Resh Lakish, however…
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Zevahim 26: When a Father Corrects His Rabbi-Son
What happens if the animal to be slaughtered is partly outside of where it needs to be for the slaughtering in the courtyard - Shmuel's father answers Shmuel…
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Zevahim 25: Knife Technique and Troubleshooting
A new mishnah! If the blood from the animal spills on the floor instead of being collected, and only then it's collected, that offering is invalid. The Gemara…
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Zevahim 24: Between the Floor and the Foot
The kohen needs to stand on the floor when he's doing the Temple service. When is a stone on the floor part of the floor, and when is it on top of the floor…
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Zevahim 23: The Kohen's Frontpiece (Tzitz)
The Torah teaches that Aaron will bear the sin committed with the sacred items - but what is that sin?? We know about the concern of pigul, so what is added…
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Zevahim 22: Talmudic Science (again); Also, the Elders of the South
Liquid that can complete the volume of 40 se'ah of water needed for a mikveh also would work to fill the basin in the Temple. The question then is which…
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Zevahim 21: The Basin
What if the kohen dunks his hands and feet into the basin instead of running the water from the basin over his hands and feet? Does that work? The Gemara…
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Zevahim 20: Sanctifying the Kohen's Hands and Feet
Halakhot brought from the land of Israel to the scholars of Babylonia - Rav Dimi quoting R. Yochanan, on the dilemma raised by Ilfa: If water is left…
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Zevahim 19: Yom Kippur Purifications
On the garments of the kohen - and how he can bandage a finger with a reed, for example, while he is serving in the Temple, but not if he weren't part of the…
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Zevahim 18: Holy Garments
A kohen who isn't wearing all of the priestly garments cannot do the service. And he has to wear them well - but if they are too long or too short or too worn…
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Zevahim 17: Levels of Impurity
The mishnah identified the person handling the offering with the status of a "tevul yom" -- one who is waiting until nightfall for the purity effected by…
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Zevahim 16: The People Who Invalidate Offerings
Chapter 2 - with 2 new forms of disqualification: the wrong person or a person with the wrong status bringing the offering -- or bringing it at the wrong time…
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Zevahim 15: When Is Conveying Not Walking?
More on whether the conveyance of the blood from the place of slaughter to the altar needs to be via walking. Plus, how to handle a bird, whose slaughtering is…
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Zevahim 14: Location, Location, Location
Where is the sin-offering slaughtered? And what happens if the offering is slaughtered elsewhere? [What's What: The footprint of the Temple, and which areas…
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Zevahim 13: Pigul
A new mishnah! If a Korban Pesach and a sin-offering were slaughtered, but not for their own sakes correctly, then they won't be fit for those specific…
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Zevahim 12: Designate Your Offerings (+ an example of rabbinic unanimity)
More on the timing of the slaughtering of the Korban Pesach - whether it needs to be done in the afternoon of the 14th of Nisan or whether the morning of the…
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Zevahim 11: Jumping the Gun for Pesach
More on the parallels and comparsions between various offerings, and the way intent for the particular offering does (or does not) invalidate a meal-offering…
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Zevahim 10: A Thin Red Line
A beraita quoting a dispute between between R. Eliezer and R. Yehoshua. A comparison between the sin-offering and the guilt-offering, distinguishing between…
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Zevahim 9: Switching Korbanot
Can one switch a Korban Pesach to be a different offering? Or any offerings to be other offerings? How similar or dissimilar would the two different offerings…
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Zevahim 8: Specifically Purposeful Offerings
The Gemara uses the Torah's verses to prove which offerings need to be offered specifically in the name of its purpose and for the owner. With a distinction…
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Zevahim 7: The Korban Pesach Is Different
Now, the peace-offerings that are brought on occasions of thanksgiving - what if one were slaughtered in the name of a different person's thanksgiving? Is the…
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Zevahim 6: The Question of Whether the Offering Atones
More questions on sacrifices that were brought with incorrect intent. Do these incorrect sacrifices that are kosher as sacrifices function to atone for those…
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Zevahim 5: Atoning with Another's Offering
A sacrifice brought for a different reason than the original intent is a kosher/valid sacrifice, but it doesn't remove the obligation for whatever sacrifice…
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Zevahim 4: Sources of Blood
[Apologies for this late release. Unfortunately, we are beholden to the app we use for publication of each episode, and we were delayed, apparently, by the app…
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Zevahim 3: No Changes, No Transfers
If an offering is brought in the name of a different purpose from its originally intended purpose, it may or may not be fit as an offering. With comparisons to…
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Zevahim 2: An Introduction to Sacrifices
An introduction to Seder Kodashim... with its focus on Temple ritual and the distance of those practices from how we practice Judaism today (and, for that…
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Horayot 14: Teiku - There's Always More to Learn
Where not attributing a sage's opinions to him by name is a punishment - specifically, here, in the case of Rabbi Meir, in follow-up to the previous daf's…
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Horayot 13: Hierarchies
Still and again, new mishnayot! 1 - An order of hierarchy when one has limited resources, where sometimes the man takes precedence and sometimes the woman…
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Horayot 12: Good Omens
On the anointing of kings... and the anointed kohen - how was the anointing done? A crown and a letter X (in Greek, however). Also, good omens, including…
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Horayot 11: Cherry-picking Torah and the Anointing Oil
The sages derive halakhah from a brief phrase in a verse from Leviticus - on an "am ha-aretz," a commoner, or more specifically from a halakhic sense, a person…
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Horayot 10: Ashrei - Fortunate Are Those with Good Intent
Chapter 3 - with a new mishnah! (on the bottom of the previous daf) - the anointed kohen who sins unwittingly because of his own erroneous ruling, and then he…
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Horayot 9: A King's Wealth
More on Rabbi Yossi HaGelili's opinion and the king's exemptions from having to bring atonement offerings. Note the privilege and, alternatively, the…
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Horayot 8: Aspirational Halakhah
More on the anointed kohen, in comparison with the court - specifically, the bringing of a sin-offering for a violation that would receive "karet" if done…
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Horayot 7: When the Anointed Kohen Errs
A new chapter! With several mishnayot. 1 - (from the previous daf) - If/when the anointed kohen who makes an erroneous ruling, which he then does unwittingly -…
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Horayot 6: There's No Death for a Congregation and No Swapping Out a Sin-offering
When people returned to the land of Israel from Babylonia after that exile, they brought an offering on behalf of the people from the era of Tzedkiyahu. But…
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Horayot 5: A Tribal Error
A new mishnah! (beginning on 4b) - Who actually brings the offering to atone for the erroneous ruling? What about when the sin is per tribe? Or if the majority…
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Horayot 4: Only a Child Could Make Such an Error (with all due respect to children!)
An indictment of the Sadducees in the context of a court that issues an erroneous ruling that agrees with their understanding of the Torah. With a further…
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Horayot 3: When a Majority Means Jews in the Land of Israel
Given that if the majority of Jewish people sin in following an erroneous ruling and they need to bring an offering to atone - who counts as that majority? It…
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Horayot 2: Fit to Deliver a Halakhic Ruling
A new tractate! On rulings that the court issues in error, and people then follow those ruling - are they held accountable, and if so, how? Sources are in…
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Avodah Zarah 76: Closing the Relationship between Jew and Non-Jew
A question from a mishnah in Zevachim that contradicts the text here - because of the purging, preparation of the vessels here. Specifically on how that which…
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Avodah Zarah 75: After Non-Jewish Handling: A Process
How do we purify different kinds of vessels or utensils? Boiling water should do the trick. Or maybe "olive water." Plus time - whatever that may mean, given…