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Zevachim 35b

זבחים ל״ה ע״ב

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Topic

Whether parts of an offering like the fetus and placenta become פיגול along with the offering; רבי עקיבא on blemished animals and a female עולה; the start of a new משנה on wrong plans during שחיטה

Overview

The גמרא keeps testing רבי אלעזר's view that the flesh of an offering can be pulled into פיגול. First it rejects a proof from a משנה in מעילה about burned bulls and goats, saying its mention of לינה may mean only the אימורים. Then רבה challenges the view from a ברייתא that lists parts like the fetus and placenta as things that do not become פיגול. The גמרא answers that the ברייתא only means a wrong intention about those parts themselves does nothing. רבא then proves from our משנה that the fetus and placenta do become פיגול along with the offering. Next the גמרא turns to רבי עקיבא, who lets blemished animals stay on the מזבח. רבי יוחנן limits this to small eye blemishes that came after consecration, and רבי חייא בר אבא adds that a female עולה must come down. רבי זירא challenges this from the same ברייתא, and the גמרא answers by reading it as talking about אימורים. Finally a new משנה begins: a plan to leave the blood or אימורים overnight or take them out, and a list of plans to put the blood in the wrong place on the מזבח, which continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

הָא חִישֵּׁב בָּאֵימוּרִין –

But if he had an intention regarding the sacrificial portions –

נִתְפַּגְּלוּ אֵימוּרִין עַצְמָן.

the sacrificial portions themselves become piggul.

תָּא שְׁמַע:

Come and hear:

פָּרִים הַנִּשְׂרָפִים וּשְׂעִירִים הַנִּשְׂרָפִים –

Bulls that are burned and goats that are burned –

The steps (25)

  1. RejectionWrong intention about the portions affects only the portions
  2. ProofA משנה about burned bulls and goats
  3. ProofOvernight must mean the flesh, so the flesh can become פיגול
  4. RejectionNo, it means the portions left overnight
  5. ChallengeThe end of the משנה talks about flesh
  6. ResolutionEach part of the משנה can be about something different
  7. Challengeרבה quotes a list of animal parts that never become פיגול
  8. Challengeרבה reads the list as never פיגול, even because of the offering
  9. ResolutionNo, they just cannot become פיגול through an intention about themselves
  10. ChallengeThen why does the end of the list repeat itself?
  11. ResolutionYour logic would make another line extra too
  12. ResolutionThe repeated line comes along with the rule about offering outside
  13. Proofרבא quotes the first part of our משנה
  14. ProofThe משנה leaves out fetus and placenta, so one is liable for them
  15. ConclusionConclusion: Through the offering yes, through themselves no
  16. StatementA משנה elsewhere: רבי עקיבא allows blemished animals
  17. Statementרבי יוחנן limits רבי עקיבא to small eye blemishes
  18. Statementרבי עקיבא agrees about a female עולה
  19. Challengeרבי זירא quotes a ברייתא about offering the mother outside
  20. ChallengeWhich תנא could hold this ברייתא?
  21. ResolutionRead the ברייתא as the mother's אימורים
  22. Challenge'From these' must match 'their mother'
  23. ResolutionRead both halves as אימורים
  24. StatementSlaughtering with a plan to leave the blood overnight or take it outside
  25. StatementStart of a list of plans to put the blood in the wrong spot on the altar