Me’ilah 7a

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Meilah 7a

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Topic

When sprinkling the blood (זריקה) still works for parts of an offering that are gone or left the courtyard, according to רבי עקיבא, and the limits on his rule.

Overview

The amud opens with רב אסי's proof that, according to רבי עקיבא, sprinkling the blood still works even when the parts of the offering are gone. His proof is a ברייתא saying a wrong intention can make an offering פיגול even about fats that were already lost or burned. The גמרא challenges him from his own teaching about אלל, as רבי זירא used it to answer a question רב אסי asked רבי יוחנן. That teaching implies that blood headed for loss counts as not there, so an intention about it does nothing. רבא solves the problem by rereading the ברייתא as talking about parts that are about to be lost or burned but still exist. Next, רב פפא limits רבי עקיבא's rule to a case where the meat left the courtyard, not the blood, and a ברייתא supports him. רבי אלעזר says רבי עקיבא's comparison case works only when both animals were slaughtered at the same time. Finally, a ברייתא tells how רבי שמעון's colleagues objected that sprinkling cannot help something פסול. רבי עקיבא begins answering with the case of a lost חטאת that was replaced and then found, and his answer continues on the next amud.

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The steps (13)

1. ProofIntention counts even for lost or burned parts
2. ProofExplaining why the teaching is a proof
3. ChallengeDid רב אסי really say this?
4. Responseרבי זירא answers using meat residue (אלל)
5. ResponseBlood that will be poured out counts as already lost
6. ChallengeBut the teaching spoke of parts already lost and burned
7. ResolutionRead it as about to be lost or about to be burned
8. StatementSprinkling helps only when the meat left, not the blood
9. ProofA teaching supports רב פפא
10. Proofרבי עקיבא brings a comparison
11. Statementרבי אלעזר limits the comparison to slaughtering at the same time
12. Challengeרבי שמעון's colleagues object: how can sprinkling help something unfit?
13. Resolutionרבי עקיבא answers with the lost חטאת case