Zevachim 106b

זבחים ק״ו ע״ב

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Topic

The source for the לאו against slaughtering an offering outside the עזרה: the ברייתא on ויקרא 17, רבי אבין's rejected קל וחומר, and רבי יוחנן's גזירה שוה.

Overview

This amud finishes a ברייתא on ויקרא 17. Offerings consecrated and sacrificed after private altars (במות) were forbidden have both a punishment (כרת) and a warning (אזהרה). Offerings consecrated while במות were allowed but sacrificed outside after the ban get an עשה and a לא תעשה, but no כרת. Because the verse ולא יזבחו עוד is used for that special case, the גמרא needs another source for the general לאו against slaughtering outside. רבי אבין suggests a קל וחומר: if the lighter case is forbidden, surely the case with כרת is forbidden too. רבינא challenges this method from חלב, and רבא answers that every possible source for חלב has its own stringency, so the תורה had to write its לאו. רבא then raises a second challenge from פסח and מילה, which רב כהנא answers by pointing out that a missed פסח can be made up. Finally the גמרא rejects the method itself, since a warning can never be learned from a קל וחומר. It learns the warning instead from רבי יוחנן's גזירה שוה of 'bringing'–'bringing'.

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The steps (26)

1. ProofProof that the earlier verses cover offerings consecrated and sacrificed during the prohibition
2. StatementThe later verses deal with offerings consecrated when private altars were allowed
3. ProofProof from the verse, and the meaning of "upon the open field"
4. Statement"And they shall bring them to ה׳" is a positive commandment
5. QuestionWhere is the prohibition for this case?
6. ResponseThe prohibition comes from "and they shall not slaughter anymore"
7. StatementThe ברייתא Rules Out the כרת Punishment
8. Responseרבי אבין Derives the Prohibition Through a קל וחומר
9. Challengeרבינא Challenges the Method Using Forbidden Fat
10. Resolutionרבא Shows Why the Carcass Comparison Fails
11. ChallengeTry learning חלב from impure creeping animals
12. ResolutionImpure creeping animals make things impure even in a tiny amount
13. ChallengeTry learning חלב from pure creeping animals
14. ResolutionPure creeping animals are forbidden even in a tiny amount
15. ChallengeTry learning חלב from ערלה and כלאי הכרם
16. Resolutionערלה and כלאי הכרם are forbidden even for benefit
17. ChallengeTry learning חלב from שביעית produce
18. Resolutionשביעית passes its holiness onto the money paid for it
19. ChallengeSuggesting תרומה as the source
20. Resolutionתרומה has no permitted part
21. ConclusionThe same objection knocks out every source
22. Statementרבא brings up the משנה about פסח and מילה
23. ChallengeA קל וחומר from מותיר should give פסח a לאו
24. Resolutionרב כהנא: the קל וחומר from מותיר fails
25. ChallengeA warning cannot be learned from a קל וחומר
26. Resolutionרבי יוחנן's גזירה שוה from the word 'bringing'