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Zevachim 100b

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Topic

Can an אונן eat the קרבן פסח at night? Why eating the פסח is essential, and how long אנינות lasts on the day of burial and the night after it.

Overview

Earlier, the גמרא found two ברייתות of רבי שמעון that seem to clash about whether an אונן may eat the קרבן פסח. רבא settles them by timing. If the death came before the פסח was slaughtered and its blood thrown, it is not brought for him. If the death came after, he eats at night, because eating the פסח is מעכב. The גמרא brings a ברייתא about יום שמועה as the source for this, and finds that the ברייתא seems to contradict itself. רב חסדא says its two parts follow different תנאים. רבה בר רב הונא splits it by sunset, which proves that eating the פסח is essential. רב אשי's reading is rejected as a mistake. The גמרא then looks for the argument between תנאים about how long אנינות lasts on the day of burial, and after several rereadings settles that רבי holds the burial day includes its night. רבא concludes from this that the day of death includes its night by Torah law. A ברייתא shows that רבי holds night אנינות is only rabbinic, and the גמרא begins its answer, which continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

רָבָא אָמַר: אִידֵּי וְאִידֵּי אַחַר חֲצוֹת,

Rava said: Both this and that are after midday,

וְלָא קַשְׁיָא;

and it is not difficult;

כָּאן קוֹדֶם שֶׁשָּׁחֲטוּ וְזָרְקוּ עָלָיו,

here, it was before they slaughtered and sprinkled on his behalf,

כָּאן לְאַחַר שֶׁשָּׁחֲטוּ וְזָרְקוּ עָלָיו.

there, it was after they slaughtered and sprinkled on his behalf.

The steps (25)

  1. Resolutionרבא's new answer: timing of the slaughter decides
  2. ChallengeRav Adda asks: what was, was
  3. Resolutionרבינא: eating the Pesach is essential
  4. Conclusionרבא agrees with רבינא
  5. QuestionWhat is רבה bar רב הונא's teaching?
  6. ResponseThe baraita about the day of hearing news
  7. ChallengeThe baraita seems to contradict itself
  8. Resolutionרב חסדא: It Is a Dispute Between Tannaim
  9. Resolutionרבה bar רב הונא: Before Sunset Versus After Sunset
  10. ChallengeAfter Sunset: What Happened, Happened
  11. ConclusionConclusion: Eating the Pesach Is Essential
  12. Resolutionרב אשי: 'Both' Means Hearing and Gathering
  13. Rejectionרב אשי's reading is rejected as a mistake
  14. QuestionWho are the תנאים רב חסדא meant?
  15. ResponseThe ברייתא about how long one is an אונן
  16. ChallengeThis ברייתא cannot be about the day of death
  17. ChallengeA second problem: רבי's view on the day of death
  18. ResolutionThe argument is about the day of burial
  19. ChallengeA ברייתא shows the night after burial still counts
  20. Resolutionרב יוסף rereads the argument
  21. Challengeרבי ירמיה: רבי is the strict one, not the lenient one
  22. ResolutionFinal reading: once buried, the day takes its night
  23. Statementרבא infers that the day of death takes hold of its night by Torah law
  24. ChallengeA ברייתא shows רבי holds night אנינות is only rabbinic
  25. ResolutionThe answer begins: night אנינות really is rabbinic