Pesachim 76b

פסחים ע״ו ע״ב

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Topic

Does smell (ריחא) make food forbidden? The dispute between רב and לוי, and the new משנה on offerings brought in טומאה.

Overview

This amud asks whether smell (ריחא) can make food forbidden. One view (רב) says fatty kosher meat roasted beside lean נבילה becomes אסור, because the meats flavor each other. לוי disagrees: smell is nothing (ריחא לאו מילתא), and he ruled this way in practice at the house of the ריש גלותא. A ברייתא forbidding roasting two קרבנות פסח together is first read as being about the animals getting switched. After רבי ירמיה's answer, the גמרא rereads it so that it also forbids flavor-mixing, which fits רב. רב מרי links the dispute to תנאים arguing about hot bread placed on a barrel of תרומה wine. The גמרא shows that רב can say all the תנאים agree smell matters. Practical rulings follow: bread or fish roasted with meat may not be eaten with dairy, and fish roasted with meat should not be eaten at all because of danger. Then a new משנה lists five communal offerings that may be brought in טומאה but not eaten in טומאה, unlike the פסח. The גמרא explains that the count of five excludes the חגיגה of ט"ו ניסן, and it begins answering a question about the ראש חודש goats, which continues on the next amud.

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The steps (29)

1. StatementFatty kosher meat roasted with lean non-kosher meat is forbidden
2. Statementלוי rules that smell alone does not forbid food
3. Statementלוי ruled this way in practice at the house of the ריש גלותא
4. ChallengeChallenge from the rule against roasting two Pesach offerings together
5. ResolutionThe concern is mixing up the bodies, not the flavors
6. ProofProof from 'even a kid and a lamb' that the concern is mixing up bodies
7. ChallengeIf only switching animals is the worry, mixed flavors must be allowed, which refutes רב
8. Resolutionרבי ירמיה: the ברייתא speaks of roasting in two separate pots
9. ChallengeA קרבן פסח cannot be made in a pot
10. ResolutionCorrection: roasted in a way that is like two pots
11. ResolutionRereading the ברייתא so it fits רב
12. Statementרב מרי: this matches a dispute among תנאים about hot bread on a barrel of תרומה wine
13. QuestionSuggesting that the תנאים argue about whether smell matters
14. QuestionFor לוי it is clearly a dispute among תנאים; must רב also say so?
15. Responseרב says everyone agrees smell matters
16. ConclusionTwo roasted פסחים are like the strongest case
17. StatementBread baked with roasting meat may not be eaten with dairy
18. StatementFish roasted with meat may not be eaten with dairy
19. StatementEven with salt it is forbidden, because of danger
20. StatementFive offerings brought in impurity but not eaten in impurity
21. StatementThe פסח brought in impurity is eaten in impurity
22. QuestionWhat does the number five exclude?
23. ResponseIt excludes the חגיגה of the fifteenth
24. ResponseWhy we might have thought the חגיגה overrides טומאה
25. ResponseMake-up days mean no overriding שבת, so no overriding טומאה
26. ChallengeWhy not also list the festival goats?
27. ResolutionThe festival goats are already included
28. ChallengeThen why list the ראש חודש goats separately?
29. ResolutionThe גמרא begins its answer