Zevachim 112b

זבחים קי״ב ע״ב

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Topic

Offering outside the proper place: unfit animals, non-final acts, the history of בָּמוֹת, and the penalties in each era

Overview

This amud is all משנה, and it moves through several topics about bringing קרבנות outside the proper place. First it lists animals and birds that are not fit to be offered right now, such as בעלי מומין, birds of the wrong age, אותו ואת בנו and מחוסר זמן. The תנא קמא says one who offers them outside is פטור. רבי שמעון says that if the animal will become fit later, there is a לא תעשה but no כרת. The חכמים answer that wherever there is no כרת, there is no לא תעשה either. Next the משנה lists eaten portions and preparation steps of the service that bring no punishment when done outside. Then it gives a timeline of when private בָּמוֹת were allowed or forbidden: the desert, גלגל, שילה, נוב and גבעון, and finally ירושלים. It ends with the penalties for offering outside in each kind of era, which offerings still had to go to the מִשְׁכָּן, and the start of a list of differences between a private בָּמָה and the public one. That list continues on the next amud.

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The steps (18)

1. StatementTemporarily blemished animals offered outside
2. StatementYoung doves and older pigeons offered outside
3. Statementרבי שמעון's general rule: it will be fit later, so a לא תעשה without כרת
4. StatementThe חכמים's counter-rule: no כרת means no לא תעשה
5. StatementDefining מחוסר זמן: in the animal or in the owner
6. StatementWhen the owner is not yet ready
7. StatementEaten portions and preparation acts outside are exempt
8. StatementNo liability for a זר, a טמא, or missing בגדים either
9. StatementBefore and after the מִשְׁכָּן was set up
10. StatementIn גלגל private altars were allowed again
11. StatementIn שילה private altars were forbidden, and שילה was the מנוחה
12. StatementIn נוב and גבעון private altars were allowed again
13. StatementIn ירושלים private altars were forbidden forever
14. StatementConsecrated and offered outside while בָּמוֹת were forbidden
15. StatementConsecrated while allowed, offered while forbidden
16. StatementConsecrated while forbidden, offered while allowed
17. StatementWhich offerings went only to the מִשְׁכָּן
18. StatementStarting the list of differences between a private and a public בָּמָה