Mesorat%20hashas for Temurah 56:58

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- These [texts] are required by him in order to exclude the following cases: A sick, old or evil-smelling animal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As being unfit for the altar.');">⁴⁵</span> Now the former Tanna [quoted above] who derives the cases of roba' and nirba' as unfit for the altar from those texts,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Of the cattle etc.'.');">⁴⁶</span> whence does he derive the cases of a sick, old and evil-smelling animal [as being forbidden for the altar]? - He derives these from [the texts]: 'And if of the flock, of the sheep, or the goats.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An entirely different verse, Lev. I, 20.');">⁴⁷</span> And what will the Tanna of the School of R'Ishmael do with these texts?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'And 1f of the flock, etc.' just quoted.');">⁴⁸</span> - It is the way of Scripture to speak in such a manner.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That no special interpretation is meant in the way of excluding any cases from being offered.');">⁴⁹</span> WHAT IS MEANT BY MUKZEH? THAT WHICH HAS BEEN SET ASIDE FOR IDOLATROUS USE ETC. Said Resh Lakish: Mukzeh is forbidden only if it had been set aside for seven years,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And after the conclusion of seven years the animal is to be offered to the idols.');">⁵⁰</span> since it says: And it came to pass that the Lord said unto him: Take thy father's young bullock even a second bullock of seven years old.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Judg. VI, 25. Having fattened it for seven years. We therefore see that this is the usual period for fattening before it is used for idolatrous purposes.');">⁵¹</span> But there [in the text], was it only a case of mukzeh? Was it not also a case of ne'ebad?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since Scripture says: And throw down the altar of Baal (Judg. VI, 25) which means the altar which was built for the bullock which was Baal');">⁵²</span> Said R'Aha son of R'Jacob: It was designated for idolatry but they did not actually use it [as an idol]. Raba says: One can still maintain that they actually used it [the bull, as an idol],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And yet you cannot derive any law from this particular incident.');">⁵³</span> but there it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The whole incident of Gideon here.');">⁵⁴</span> was an innovation, as R'Aba B'Kahana explained. For R'Aba B'Kahana said: Eight things were permitted that night [as follows]: [The killing of an animal] outside [the tabernacle, the killing] at night,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Scripture saying: He did it by night (Ibid. 27) .');">⁵⁵</span> [the officiating by] a non-priest,

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