Pesachim 82a

פסחים פ״ב ע״א

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Topic

Burning disqualified קדשים: whose wood and where, the reasons of embarrassment and suspicion, and the sources for burning a פסח that went out or became טמא

Overview

This amud covers how and why disqualified קדשים are burned. It opens by resolving a contradiction about whether disqualified meat is burned at home with one's own wood or in front of the בירה with עצי המערכה. רב חמא בר עוקבא splits the cases into a visitor (אכסנאי) and a resident (בעל הבית). רב פפא says both cases are about a visitor and asks whether he has already set out on the road. רב זביד defends the first split: since a visitor has no wood of his own, the חכמים treated him like the ציקנין. A ברייתא then forbids mixing place and wood. רב יוסף explains the ban on bringing your own wood to the בירה as protecting the poor from embarrassment, and רבא explains it as preventing suspicion of theft. The same two אמוראים give the same two reasons for why impure כהנים stood at the eastern gate. A new משנה follows: a פסח that went out or became טמא is burned right away, but if its owners became טמא or died it waits for עיבור צורה, and רבי יוחנן בן ברוקה disagrees. The גמרא derives the burning of יוצא from משה's conversation with אהרן, then challenges whether that source reaches קדשים קלים like the פסח. It begins a second challenge about blood left overnight, which continues on the next amud.

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The steps (21)

1. ChallengeThe contradicting source: burn it before the Temple with altar wood
2. ResolutionVisitor versus resident
3. ResolutionBoth are visitors: has he set out on the road or not?
4. ResolutionBack to the first answer: a visitor is treated like the misers
5. ProofSource: the misers may burn it with altar wood
6. StatementA ברייתא forbids mixing location and wood
7. QuestionWhy can't private wood be used at the בירה?
8. ResponseTwo reasons: embarrassment or suspicion
9. ConclusionThe practical difference: reeds and palm branches
10. StatementA משנה in תמיד about impure priests at the eastern gate
11. QuestionWhy make them stand at the gate?
12. ResponseEmbarrassment or suspicion
13. QuestionWhat is the practical difference?
14. ResponsePampered people or rope-twisters
15. StatementNew משנה: when a פסח is burned right away and when it must wait
16. Statementרבי יוחנן בן ברוקה: the owners' case is also burned right away
17. QuestionWhere do we learn that meat that went out must be burned?
18. Responseמשה questions אהרן about the uneaten חטאת
19. ProofInference: meat that left its area must be burned
20. ChallengeThe source covers only most-holy offerings, not lesser ones
21. ChallengeA second challenge begins: blood left overnight