Zevachim 92b

זבחים צ״ב ע״ב

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Topic

Which חטאת blood requires כיבוס, and רבי אבין's and לוי's questions about the blood of a bird offering and of blood sprayed from garment to garment

Overview

The תורה says that if blood of a חטאת splashes on a garment, the garment must be washed (כיבוס). The גמרא first finishes showing that the inner sin offerings share many more features with the eaten animal חטאת than the bird offering does, so the bird חטאת is the one left out. רב יוסף gives another source: "יאכלנה" shows the excluded offering is an eaten one, and "זאת" shows there is an exclusion at all. רבה reads "אשר יזה" (sprinkling) to mean the passage is mainly about the inner offerings. "תורת" then adds the outer animal חטאת, and "זאת" leaves out the bird, because the animal offering is far more similar. רבי אבין then asks two questions about bird blood: is carrying a bird into the היכל with blood in its neck like bringing in a vessel, and is bird blood gathered from the floor valid? Proofs are suggested for each, and both are rejected. Finally לוי asks whether blood that sprays from one garment onto another still needs washing. רבי answers yes either way, relying on רבי עקיבא.

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The steps (29)

1. ResponseFinishing the list of shared features
2. ChallengeChallenge: the bird offering seems more similar
3. ResolutionAnswer: the inner offerings share more features
4. Statementרב יוסף: "יאכלנה" points the exclusion at an eaten offering
5. ChallengeThen why do we need "זאת"?
6. ResolutionBoth words are needed
7. Statementרבה: The verse speaks about sprinkled blood
8. ChallengeBut the משנה says the verse is about eaten offerings
9. ResolutionThe משנה means scouring pots, not washing clothes
10. ChallengeThen the משנה's word order is backwards
11. ResolutionSwitch the order in the משנה
12. ChallengeThen the bird sin offering should need washing too
13. ResolutionThe word זאת leaves out the bird offering
14. ChallengeThen the outer sin offering should be left out too
15. ResolutionThe word תורת adds the outer sin offering
16. QuestionWhy include one and exclude the other?
17. ResponseThe animal sin offering is much more similar
18. ChallengeBut the bird offering is also sprinkled
19. ResolutionMore shared features wins
20. QuestionA bird sin offering carried inside with blood in its neck
21. ProofProof from a bird that jerked inside
22. RejectionThe same inference would fail for animals moved to the south
23. ResolutionThe ברייתא was really contrasting with going outside the עזרה
24. Questionרבי אבין asks about bird blood that spilled and was gathered
25. QuestionThe two sides: no vessel needed, or a vessel ruled out
26. Proofרבא's proof from the word 'This'
27. RejectionThe case of a vessel pressed against the neck
28. QuestionLevi asks about blood spraying from one garment to another
29. ResponseEither way, the second garment must be laundered