Temurah 11b

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Topic

Consecrating only part of an animal: whether the holiness spreads to the whole animal, and what the partial holiness means in practice.

Overview

A ברייתא discusses someone who says, 'The leg of this animal is an עולה.' According to רבי מאיר and רבי יהודה, only the leg becomes holy. The animal is sold to someone who needs an עולה, and only the money for the leg is holy. רבא explains that the buyer is someone who vowed an 'עולה בחייה', so the missing leg does not hurt his vow. According to רבי יוסי and רבי שמעון, the whole animal becomes an עולה. רב חסדא, רבא and רב ששת each say that רבי יהודה agrees when the limb is vital, but they define 'vital' differently. A statement of רבי seems to refute all three, and the גמרא answers by filling in missing words. רבא then asks whether the rule applies to a bird and to a limb consecrated only for its value; both questions end with תיקו. Finally, the גמרא asks about shearing or working an animal that is only partly holy, and the amud ends with a question about slaughtering a holy mother whose fetus is not holy.

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The steps (29)

1. StatementConsecrating a leg does not make the whole animal an עולה
2. StatementThe consecrated leg still does not become ordinary
3. StatementThe practical solution: sell the animal to someone who needs an עולה
4. StatementThe other view: consecrating a leg makes the whole animal an עולה
5. ChallengeChallenge: the buyer would be bringing an animal missing a limb
6. ResolutionAnswer: the sale is to someone who vowed an 'עולה בחייה'
7. StatementThree views on when רבי יהודה agrees the whole animal becomes holy
8. QuestionWhat is the difference between רב חסדא and רבא?
9. ResponseThey disagree whether a טרפה can survive
10. QuestionWhat is the difference between רבא and רב ששת?
11. ResponseThey disagree about רבי אלעזר's rule on a removed thigh
12. ChallengeA challenge from רבי: רבי יהודה never admitted
13. ChallengeThe inference from רבי's words seems to refute all three אמוראים
14. ResolutionThe teaching is missing words: רבי יהודה agrees about a vital limb
15. QuestionDoes the rule apply to a bird? Unresolved
16. QuestionA limb consecrated only for its value: does the whole animal become holy?
17. ProofTrying to answer רבא's question from his own ruling
18. RejectionRejecting the proof: one step versus two
19. Questionאביי asks about shearing an animal with one consecrated limb
20. Responseרבא answers from a co-owned בכור
21. RejectionRejection: the co-owned בכור has no holiness at all
22. RejectionAnother version of the rejection: power to consecrate
23. QuestionIf only the skin is consecrated, may the animal be worked?
24. ResponseA ברייתא: a holy fetus forbids work but not shearing
25. RejectionThat ban is only rabbinic
26. ChallengeThen shearing should be banned too
27. ResolutionWork weakens the animal, shearing does not
28. QuestionA שלמים with a non-holy fetus, slaughtered in the עזרה
29. QuestionOffspring that only become holy at birth