Mesorat%20hashas for Shevuot 23:12

אמר רבא אף אנן נמי תנינא והשני ירעה עד שיסתאב וימכר ויפלו דמיו לנדבה

pastures till it becomes unfit [for sacrifice] when it is sold, and the money goes as a donation [to the Temple treasury].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Yoma 62a: 'Because a congregational sin-offering does not die.' It is R. Simeon who is known to hold this view; and yet he says that the goat is not itself offered up as dessert for the altar, but is sold, after it becomes blemished, and a burnt-offering bought from the proceeds.');">¹⁶</span> Now, why [should it pasture till it becomes blemished and then be sold]?

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