Zevachim 25b

זבחים כ״ה ע״ב

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Topic

A vessel's airspace in collecting blood and water, blemishes and age during the blood service, and an animal half outside the עזרה

Overview

The amud opens with רבי יוחנן's rule that the animal's veins must be over the vessel's airspace when the blood is collected. רבי אסי asks what happens if the bowl's bottom broke, so the blood passed through its airspace but could never rest there. רבי יוחנן answers from a ברייתא about a barrel under a water pipe. The גמרא pushes back, then explains that רבי אסי really asked two questions. It also brings other versions of the exchange from רב כהנא and רבה. Next comes a משנה about water for the פרה אדומה that flows into a barrel over a hand or leaves. From it רבי יוחנן proves that a vessel's airspace counts as the vessel, and he traces the משנה back to רבי צדוק's testimony. Then רבי rules that slitting the bull's ear before קבלה disqualifies it, and רבא brings a ברייתא extending the rule to קדשים קלים. After אביי's challenge, that ברייתא is limited to the age rule, which shows that age in קדשים is counted to the hour. The amud ends with רבי אלעזר's case of an animal inside the עזרה whose legs are outside.

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The steps (23)

1. ProofSupport for bringing the veins into the vessel
2. QuestionBlood passing through a broken bowl
3. ResponseThe barrel under the water pipe
4. RejectionThe barrel case does not answer the question
5. Resolutionרבי אסי actually asked two questions
6. Statementרב יוסף's version and רב כהנא's version
7. Statementרבה's version: proving it from the bowl
8. StatementA משנה: water passing through objects into the barrel
9. QuestionWhere does this rule come from?
10. ResponseThe source: a gathering of water must come about through purity
11. StatementThe airspace of a vessel counts as the vessel
12. ChallengeMaybe the water just trickles straight in
13. ResolutionThe wording of the משנה shows the water passes through the air
14. StatementThe barrel משנה comes from רבי צדוק's testimony
15. Proofרבי צדוק's testimony about water channeled through nut leaves
16. StatementSlitting the bull's ear before collecting the blood disqualifies it
17. QuestionWhere do we learn this for offerings of lesser sanctity?
18. ResponseThe פסח must stay unblemished through every blood service
19. Challengeאביי objects: only a כזית needs to be left to sprinkle the blood
20. ResolutionThe verse only teaches the rule of being in its first year
21. ChallengeHow can an animal age a year between שחיטה and זריקה?
22. ResolutionAge is counted by the hour
23. StatementAnimal inside, legs outside: cutting the legs before slaughter