Yoma 67b

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Topic

The שעיר המשתלח (its remains, the meaning of עזאזל, and when the sender becomes טמא) and the burned פר and שעיר

Overview

This amud joins a מחלוקת already in progress: may one benefit from the remains of the שעיר המשתלח? The permitting view learns from "במדבר" and the forbidding view learns from "גזירה". Each side then explains what it learns from the other side's word. רבא rules that the remains are permitted, because the תורה would not command "send" in a way that sets a trap. Several ברייתות then explain the name עזאזל: a hard, rough cliff in the wilderness, the hardest mountain, or atonement for the deeds of עוזא and עזאל. Another ברייתא contrasts משפטים, laws reason would demand, with חוקים such as the שעיר המשתלח, which ה׳ decreed and we may not dismiss. The גמרא then brings the views of רבי יהודה, רבי יוסי, and רבי שמעון on when the sender's clothes become טמא. A new משנה describes the burned פר and שעיר: their אימורים are removed, the bodies are braided together and carried out, and the משנה gives a dispute about when the carriers' clothes become טמא. The גמרא corrects the משנה's wording, explains "קלען", and begins רבי's גזירה שוה for leaving the skin on, which continues on the next amud.

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The steps (25)

1. ProofVerse sources for permitting and forbidding the goat's limbs
2. QuestionWhat does the forbidding view do with the word wilderness?
3. ResponseWilderness includes the other places of the משכן and the בית המקדש
4. QuestionWhat does the permitting view do with the word גזירה?
5. Responseגזירה means a jagged place, or a goat that breaks apart
6. Responseגזירה teaches that this is God's decree, not to be questioned
7. Conclusionרבא sides with the view that the goat's remains are permitted
8. Statementעזאזל means a hard, rough cliff in the wilderness
9. StatementAnother reading: עזאזל is the hardest of the mountains
10. Statementעזאזל atones for the sin of עוזא and עזאל
11. Statement"My ordinances" are laws that logic alone would require
12. StatementStatutes that the Satan challenges, and why we must not doubt them
13. StatementOnly the sender himself becomes impure, not his escorts
14. Statementרבי יהודה: impurity begins once he leaves the wall of ירושלים
15. Statementרבי יוסי: impurity begins when he reaches the cliff
16. Statementרבי שמעון: impurity begins only when he pushes the goat off
17. StatementThe כהן גדול removes the altar parts from the burned bull and goat
18. StatementThe bull and goat are braided together and carried out to be burned
19. StatementWhen the carriers' clothes become טמא: dispute of תנא קמא and רבי שמעון
20. ChallengeCould the משנה really mean he burned the fats right away?
21. ResolutionCorrect the wording: he set them aside to burn later
22. Statementרבי יוחנן explains 'קלען': like a braid
23. StatementThey were cut up with the skin still on
24. QuestionWhat is the source for leaving the skin on?
25. Responseרבי begins a גזירה שוה: 'skin, flesh, and dung' appears in both places