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Zevachim 95b

זבחים צ״ה ע״ב

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Topic

Laundering a חטאת stain, which vessels need מריקה ושטיפה, and when fire can clean absorbed taste from ovens, pots and tiles

Overview

The גמרא finishes explaining how urine is used when laundering a garment stained with חטאת blood. The urine is blended into tasteless saliva, which goes along with every one of the seven cleaning substances. A new משנה then teaches that a vessel needs מריקה ושטיפה whether holy meat was cooked in it or poured into it boiling. רבי שמעון exempts קדשים קלים. A ברייתא learns the 'poured in boiling' case from the full פסוק. רמי בר חמא asks whether cooking without absorption, such as meat hanging inside an earthenware oven, requires breaking the oven. Two proofs are offered and both are pushed off. Next, רַבָּה בַּר אֲהִילַיי's ruling that bread from a fat-smeared oven is forbidden forever is refuted by a ברייתא, which says firing up the oven is enough. This leads רבינא to ask why רב requires pots to be broken for פסח. The גמרא gives two answers: metal versus earthenware, or heat from inside versus heat from outside. It ends by ruling that a clay baking tile heated from outside stays forbidden.

Opening lines

וְכִי תֵּימָא דְּמַבְלַע לְהוּ

And if you would say that it is absorbed

בַּהֲדֵי שִׁבְעָה סַמְמָנִין,

together with the seven substances,

וּמְעַבַּר לְהוּ לְכוּלְּהוּ כְּחַד;

and he applies all of them as one;

וְהָתְנַן:

but didn't we learn:

The steps (20)

  1. RejectionMixing the urine in with all seven substances at once is rejected
  2. RejectionMixing the urine in with just one substance is also rejected
  3. ResolutionThe urine is blended into tasteless saliva
  4. Statementמשנה: which vessels need scouring and rinsing
  5. Questionברייתא: where do we learn the 'poured in boiling' case?
  6. ResponseThe fuller verse covers the poured-in case
  7. QuestionMeat roasted hanging inside an earthenware oven
  8. ProofProof from the משנה about pouring
  9. RejectionThat proof covers the wrong case
  10. ProofProof from the metal oven of the מקדש
  11. RejectionThe oven was metal because of baked meal offerings
  12. Statementרַבָּה בַּר אֲהִילַיי forbids bread from a fat-smeared oven forever
  13. ChallengeA ברייתא says firing the oven makes the bread permitted again
  14. Conclusionרַבָּה בַּר אֲהִילַיי is refuted
  15. ChallengeWhy then must pots be broken for פסח?
  16. ResolutionThe ברייתא is talking about a metal oven
  17. ResolutionA second answer: heat from inside versus heat from outside
  18. ChallengeWhy not heat the pots from inside?
  19. ResolutionPeople worry the pots will crack
  20. ConclusionA clay baking tile stays forbidden