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Yoma 29b

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Topic

When do כלי שרת make things holy at the wrong time? The cases are the night קמיצה and the late לחם הפנים. The amud then turns to washing hands after urinating in the מקדש.

Overview

The גמרא asks why a מנחה whose קומץ was taken at night must be burned, instead of putting the handful back and redoing it by day. אבוה דרבי אבין explains that כלי שרת make their contents holy even at the wrong time. A ברייתא seems to contradict this, but the גמרא answers that wrong-time קדושה is enough to make the item פסול, though not enough to let it be offered. רבי זירא then challenges from the לחם הפנים: bread placed on the שולחן after שבת is simply left until the next שבת, so why doesn't it become holy and פסול? רבא answers that placing something the night before is not 'too early', but placing it a full day or more before is, so the Sunday bread never becomes holy. When the גמרא asks why the bread doesn't become holy once Friday night arrives, רבינא says it was removed before nightfall. מר זוטרא says an improper arrangement is like one done by a monkey. Finally, the גמרא turns to the next line of the משנה and asks why someone who urinates must wash his hands. רבי אבא begins an answer that continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

נַהְדְּרֵהּ וְנֶהְדַּר

Let us return it, and then again

וְנִקְמְצַהּ בִּימָמָא?

take a handful from it by day?

הוּא תָּנֵי לַהּ

He taught it (the ruling)

וְהוּא אָמַר לַהּ:

and he himself stated its reason:

The steps (14)

  1. ChallengeWhy not return the handful and redo it by day?
  2. ResolutionService vessels sanctify even at the wrong time
  3. ChallengeChallenge: daytime offerings become holy only by day
  4. ResolutionHoly enough to be disqualified, not to be offered
  5. Challengeרבי זירא cites the case of the late לחם הפנים
  6. StatementThe fix: leave the bread until next שבת
  7. ChallengeWhy doesn't the bread become holy and disqualified?
  8. Resolutionרבא: Night is not too early, but a day earlier is
  9. ChallengeShouldn't the bread become holy when Friday night comes?
  10. Resolutionרבינא: He removed the bread before nightfall
  11. Resolutionמר זוטרא: An improper arrangement is like a monkey's
  12. StatementQuoting the משנה: This was the rule in the Temple
  13. QuestionWhy must the hands be washed after urinating?
  14. Responseרבי אבא begins: This teaches us