Related%20passage for Yoma 13:4

מיתיבי היה מקריב מנחת פרים ואילים וכבשים ונטמאת בידו אומר ומביאין אחרת תחתיה ואם אין שם אלא היא אומרין לו הוי פקח ושתוק

Another objection was raised: If he was offering up the meal-offering of the bullocks or rams or sheep, and it became unclean in his hand, he should say so and one brings another one in its place; but if there be none [available] but the first, one tells him, 'Be wise and keep quiet'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This text is apparently taken from the Tosef. Men. II, yet in that text the word for 'rams' is omitted.');">⁹</span> Does this not refer to the bullocks, rams and sheep offered up on the feast [of Sukkoth]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Num. XXIX, 12ff. These are community sacrifices, with a definite time appointed for them, yet the law of impurity is only suspended, for 'one brings another one in its place'.');">¹⁰</span> - R'Nahman win answer you: No, the word 'bullock' refers to the bullock offered up in expiation of idolatry,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The passage in Num. XV, 22f: And when ye shall err and not observe all these commandments, then it shall be, if done in error by the congregation . . that all the congregation shall offer up one bullock for a burnt-offering, is assumed to refer to the main and most potent error: idolatry.');">¹¹</span>

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