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Yoma 48a

יומא מ״ח ע״א

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Topic

Placing the קומץ in a כלי, the measure of מלא חפניו, spilled blood, and questions about the קטורת

Overview

This amud is mostly a series of questions (בעיות) about how the קומץ, the blood, and the קטורת are handled. First, two questions ask whether a קומץ stuck to the side of a כלי, or to the bottom of an upside-down כלי, counts as placed in the vessel; both end in תיקו. Next, רב פפא asks how full 'מלא חפניו' must be, and a ברייתא answers: not level and not heaped, but comfortably full (טפופות). The גמרא then quotes a משנה from זבחים: blood that spilled straight onto the floor and was gathered is invalid, but blood that spilled from the כלי and was gathered is valid. A ברייתא gives the source, reading ״מדם הפר״ as 'blood from the bull', meaning it must be received directly from the animal. The גמרא backs this reading with רב יהודה's rule that all the blood must be received. רב פפא then asks whether scattered קטורת is like blood falling from the neck or from a כלי, and this ends in תיקו. Finally, he asks whether a wrong מחשבה while scooping the קטורת disqualifies it. רב שימי בר אשי answers from רבי עקיבא's grouping of קטורת with the קומץ, using the chain טבול יום → לינה → מחשבה. A new question by רב פפא begins at the end and continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

רַב פָּפָּא:

Rav Pappa (asked):

דַּבְּקֵיהּ לְקוֹמֶץ בְּדוּפְנֵיהּ דְּמָנָא, מַאי?

If he stuck the handful onto the side of the vessel, what is the law?

תּוֹךְ כְּלִי בָּעֵינַן — וְהָא אִיכָּא,

Do we need it inside the vessel, and that is the case here?

אוֹ דִילְמָא: הַנָּחָה בְּתוֹכוֹ כְּתִקְנוֹ בָּעֵינַן —

Or perhaps we need it placed inside in its proper way,

The steps (19)

  1. QuestionA handful stuck to the side wall of the vessel
  2. ConclusionThe side-wall question stays unresolved
  3. QuestionA handful stuck to the underside of an upside-down vessel
  4. ConclusionThe upside-down question also stays unresolved
  5. QuestionAre the handfuls level or heaped?
  6. ResponseA ברייתא: neither level nor heaped, but naturally full
  7. Statementמשנה in זבחים: blood spilled on the floor
  8. QuestionWhere does this rule come from?
  9. ResponseThe ברייתא: only the blood of the main flow
  10. ResponseReading the words as 'blood from the bull'
  11. ProofWhy ״מדם״ cannot mean 'some of the blood'
  12. ConclusionConclusion: receive the blood straight from the bull
  13. StatementThe method used: moving letters between words
  14. Questionרב פפא: what if the incense scattered from his handfuls?
  15. ConclusionThe question stays unresolved
  16. QuestionDoes a wrong intention while scooping the incense disqualify it?
  17. ProofA ברייתא groups incense together with the קומץ
  18. ProofThe chain from טבול יום to לינה to מחשבה
  19. Questionרב פפא opens another question