Commentary for Temurah 40:47

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But has not R'Hanania learnt [a teaching] in support of R'Joshua B'Levi?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the second generation is not offered and the young of the exchange is the second generation.');">³⁶</span> This remains a difficulty. R'Abin B'Hiyya asked R'Abin B'Kahana: If one set aside a female [animal] for a guilt-offering, may its young be offered as a burnt-offering? ( But why not solve this from the teaching of R'Joseph B'Hanina who said<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 19b.');">³⁷</span> that R'Eliezer agreed?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That where one set aside a guilt-offering, its young is not offered as a guilt-offering.');">³⁸</span> - He [R'Abin B'Hiyya] never heard this teaching).<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He never learnt the ruling (R. Gershom) . Sh. Mek. explains this phrase as meaning that he did not agree with the teaching.');">³⁹</span> What is the ruling? - He [R'Abin B'Kahana] replied to him: Its young is offered as a burnt-offering. But what answer is this? R'Eliezer only refers to the case of one who set aside a female for a burnt-offering, where the mother has the name of a burnt-offering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in connection with the burnt-offering of a bird.');">⁴⁰</span> but in the case of a guilt-offering, where the mother has not the name of a burnt-offering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a burnt-offering cannot be a female.');">⁴¹</span> even R'Eliezer agrees!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the young is not brought as a burnt-offering.');">⁴²</span> - He [R'Abin B'Kahana] replied to him: The reason of R'Eliezer<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why he holds that if one sets aside a female animal for a burnt-offering the male young is offered as a burnt-offering.');">⁴³</span> is not because its mother has the name of a burnt-offering but because it [the young] is fit for offering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore in the case of the young of the female burnt-offering, since the young is fit to be offered, it is used as a burnt-offering.');">⁴⁴</span> and here too [the young] is fit for offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The male young of a female burnt-offering is fit for a burnt-offering, since it is suitable to be offered.');">⁴⁵</span> He raised an objection: THEIR YOUNG AND THE YOUNG OF THEIR YOUNG UNTIL THE END OF TIME etc. [R'ELEAZAR SAYS:] LET HIM BRING A BURNT-OFFERING WITH THEIR MONEY. [Now, he brings a burnt-offering] with their money.

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