Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 99:16

ת"ש דבעי ר' (אליעזר)

then they must all be left to die; similarly, if t he-goats [offered in expiation] for idolatry had been lost and others had been set aside in their stead,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When they are found again, they are deprived of food until they die.');">²²</span> they must all be left to die; this is the view of R'Judah. R'Eleazar and R'Simeon hold: They should be left to go to pasture until they become unfit for sacrifice,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because of a blemish or their repulsive appearance.');">²³</span> whereupon they should be sold and the money realized should go to the fund for [providing] freewill-offerings. because 'a community-sacrifice is not left to die'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence we see that these Tannaim consider the bullock of the Day of Atonement a community-offering, in clear contradiction of the statement above.');">²⁴</span> Bullock here refers to the bullock offered up for an error of the community. - But the text reads 'of the Day of Atonement'? - This refers to the he-goat. But it was stated: If the bullock of the Day of Atonement and the he-goat of the Day of Atonement had been lost and others were set aside in their stead,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When they are found again, they are deprived of food until they die.');">²²</span> they must all be left to die, this is the view of R'Judah. R'Eleazar and R'Simeon hold: They should be left to go to pasture until they become unfit for sacrifice, whereupon they should be sold and the money realized for them should go to the fund for providing freewill-offerings. because a community-offering is not left to die'? - Do not read:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the cited Baraithas.');">²⁵</span> 'For a community-sacrifice is not left to die', read rather, for 'a sacrifice belonging to partn is not left to die'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The bullock brought by the high priest on the Day of Atonement being considered a sacrifice belonging to partners because all the priests share in the atonement effected by it.');">²⁶</span> What is the practical difference?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since in either case the animal is not left to die, whether we call it a community sacrifice or one belonging to partners?');">²⁷</span> - That the priests will not have to bring a sacrifice fo an error in a legal decision.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the Beth din by error had wrongly advised the priests, such error would not be considered 'error of the community', as when a whole tribe by mistake transgresses the law, but would be considered a sacrifice of partners, which is not left to die. Herein lies the practical difference, hence the justification of the distinction.');">²⁸</span> - Come and hear: For R'Eleazar asked:

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