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Shabbos 71b

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Shabbat 71b

Learn Shabbos 71b step by step: Aramaic beside English, every question, answer and proof colour-coded.

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Topic

רב הונא on awareness for half a שיעור; רבי יוחנן and ריש לקיש on when discoveries split one חטאת into two, and at what stage they argue

Overview

The amud opens by finishing a challenge on the משנה about eating two half-olive amounts: the רישא, one type in one dish, seems too obvious to teach. רב הונא answers that the person became aware of his sin in between the two halves. The משנה follows רבן גמליאל, who holds that awareness of half a שיעור means nothing, so the halves still combine. Then a new topic begins: someone ate two כזיתים of חלב in one lapse of awareness and found out about each one at a different time. רבי יוחנן says he brings two חטאות and ריש לקיש says one, and each brings a פסוק and explains away the other's פסוק. רבינא asks רב אשי whether they argue before הפרשה, after הפרשה, or in both cases. רב אשי says both, and proves it from how each side explained the other's פסוק. The גמרא rejects that proof, since those explanations may have been conditional 'if you say' answers. Finally עולא begins a new statement about אשם ודאי, which continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

מִכְּלָל דְּרֵישָׁא

by inference, the first clause

מִין אֶחָד וְתַמְחוּי אֶחָד.

is one type and one dish.

מִין אֶחָד וְתַמְחוּי אֶחָד

One type and one dish —

צְרִיכָא לְמֵימַר?!

does that need to be said?!

The steps (16)

  1. ChallengeThe first case of the משנה seems too obvious
  2. Resolutionרב הונא: there was awareness in between
  3. StatementDispute: two olive-amounts of forbidden fat, found out one at a time
  4. ProofEach אמורא's source verse
  5. ChallengeChallenge to ריש לקיש from רבי יוחנן's verse
  6. Resolutionריש לקיש: that verse is after atonement
  7. ChallengeChallenge to רבי יוחנן from ריש לקיש's verse
  8. Resolutionרבי יוחנן: the verse is about a leftover half that doesn't combine
  9. Questionרבינא's first option: they argue before designation
  10. Questionרבינא's second option: they argue after designation
  11. Questionרבינא's third option: they argue in both cases
  12. Responseרב אשי answers that they argue in both cases
  13. ProofProof that they also argue after designation
  14. ProofProof that they also argue before designation
  15. RejectionMaybe the explanations were only given as 'if you say'
  16. Statementעולא begins a statement about the definite guilt-offering