Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 17:24

אלא תלתא קראי כתיבי

To this R'Abin B'Hiyya-others say, R'Abin B'Kahana-demurred: Everywhere else you say that 'of' is a limitation, yet here 'of' is an extension?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If you interpret of the flock as intimating that all animals included in the term 'flock' are meant,');">¹⁸</span> - Said R'Mani: Here too 'of' is a limitation, [teaching] that it cannot be two years old nor a female.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By relating the verse to a Passover-offering remainder you exclude a two years old animal and a female. (V. Ex. XII, 5) .');">¹⁹</span> R'Hana of Baghdad demurred: Can you say that this text is written in reference to the Passover-remainder; surely since it states, If [he bring] a lamb [for his offering]. And if [his offering be] a goat,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. III, 7, 12.');">²⁰</span> it follows that it does not refer to a Passover remainder?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This verse must simply refer to an ordinary peace-offering; for if it referred to a Passover remainder, it is obviously a lamb or a goat (V. Ex. XII, 5) , and it need not be stated.');">²¹</span> - That is required for what was taught: '[If he bring] a lamb': this is to include the Passover-offering, in respect of its fat tail.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The fat tail of all other sacrifices is explicitly counted in the emurim (q.v. Glos) which are burnt on the altar (V. Lev. III, 9, VII, 3) . The burning of the emurim is not mentioned at all in connection with the Passover, however, but deduced from elsewhere; consequently a verse is required to teach that the fat tail too is included.');">²²</span> When it is stated, 'If [he bring] a lamb', it to include a Passover-offering more than a year old,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., dedicated as a Passover-offering, and consequently unfit for its purpose (V. Ex. XII, 5) .');">²³</span> and a peace-offering which comes in virtue of a Passover-offering<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., the substitute of a Passover-offering; or where the owner of a Passover-offering registered for a different animal, so that the first is a Passover remainder: both are sacrificed as peace-offerings.');">²⁴</span> in respect of all the regulations of peace-offerings, [viz. ,] that they require laying on [ the hands],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. III, 2.');">²⁵</span> drink-offerings, and the waving of the breast and shoulder. [Again,] when it states, 'and if [his offering be] a goat',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid, 12.');">²⁶</span> it breaks across the subject [and] teaches that a goat does not require [the burning of the] fat tail [on the altar].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'And if' is regarded as a disjunctive, teaching that the provisions that apply to a lamb do not apply to a goat, unless expressly stated. The fat tail is mentioned in connection with the former (V. 9) but not the latter,');">²⁷</span> But is that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. that a Passover-offering more than a year old, which is therefore a Passover remainder, is sacrificed as a peace-offering.');">²⁸</span> deduced from this? Surely it is deduced from [the verse quoted by] Samuel's father? For Samuel's father said: And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the Lord be of the flock<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. Ill, 6.');">²⁹</span> [teaches that] whatever comes of the flock must be for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 8b, q.v.');">³⁰</span> - But still, this is deduced from [the verse quoted by] R'Nahman in the name of Rabbah B'Abbuhah. For R'Nahman said in Rabbah B'Abbuha's name: How do we know that a Passover remainder is brought as a peace-offering? Because it says, And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover-offering unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and of the herd.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XVI, 2.');">³¹</span> Yet surely the Passover-offering comes only from lambs or from goats? From this [we learn] that the Passover-remainder must be [utilised] for something which comes from the flock and from the herd; and what is it? A peace-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 7b. Hence if you object that the law under discussion is deducted in accordance with the teaching of Samuel's father, it can be counter-objected that it follows from the verse last quoted.');">³²</span> In fact, however, three texts are written:

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