Me’ilah 11a

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Meilah 11a

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Topic

Conditional חטאות, a נזיר's set-aside money, and מעילה with blood and נסכים

Overview

The amud opens with the end of a משנה about חטאות. When the owner has not yet gotten his כפרה, the animal grazes until it gets a מום and is sold, and it still makes a תמורה and has מעילה. The גמרא explains why the משנה splits only the last cases: their rule depends on the owner's כפרה. It also explains why the same משנה appears both in מסכת תמורה and here. A new משנה teaches that money a נזיר set aside for his offerings without dividing it up may not be used, but has no מעילה, because every coin could go to the שלמים. It also rules on what happens to his money if he dies. ריש לקיש asks why the משנה did not teach the same rule for bird-offering money, and רבא answers that the Torah never calls for unfit birds. A third משנה, from רבי שמעון, teaches that blood is lenient at first and strict at the end, while נסכים are the opposite. The גמרא brings a dispute about מעילה with blood and gives sources for the view that it has none. It then challenges רבי יוחנן's source, and the discussion continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

The steps (21)

1. StatementThe owner has not yet achieved atonement: the animal grazes, is sold, and keeps its holiness
2. QuestionWhy does the משנה split only the last cases?
3. ResponseThe first cases have one fixed rule; the last ones depend on the situation
4. ChallengeThis was already taught in מסכת תמורה
5. ResolutionThere it is about תמורה; here it is about מעילה
6. StatementUnassigned money for a נזיר's offerings has no מעילה
7. StatementThe נזיר died: unassigned money and חטאת money
8. StatementThe נזיר died: עולה money and שלמים money
9. Challengeריש לקיש asks why bird offerings were not taught too
10. ChallengeBird-offering money could be bought for unfit birds
11. ResolutionThe Torah never says to bring unfit birds
12. StatementBlood and libations work in opposite directions
13. StatementWhen exactly blood and libations have misuse
14. StatementA ברייתא: a dispute over מעילה with blood
15. QuestionWhat is the source for saying blood has no מעילה?
16. Responseעולא: the blood was given "to you"
17. ResponseThe school of רבי ישמעאל: given for atonement, not for מעילה
18. Responseרבי יוחנן: blood is the same before and after atonement
19. ChallengeWhy not compare the other way?
20. ResolutionOnce the מצוה is done, there is no more מעילה
21. ChallengeWhy not? Questioning the rule