Bekhorot 54

Chapter 54

א וכי הזאה יש לנו אמר ליה רמי בר חמא לא ליחוש ליה לסבא אדהכי אתא רב עמרם אמר להו הכי אמר רב טמא מת טובל ואוכל בתרומת חוצה לארץ
1 And have we [in these days] sprinkling [on the unclean]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As there is no sprinkling there is no need for awaiting sunset.');"><sup>1</sup></span> Rami B'Hama replied to him: 'Should we not take into consideration the views of the Elder'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Amram. It is not proper to give a decision in his absence.');"><sup>2</sup></span> While this was going on, R'Amram arrived. He said to them: This is what Rab said: One made unclean through a corpse, bathes and eats of the terumah from abroad.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And he does not need to wait for sunset in order to complete his purification.');"><sup>3</sup></span> The law however is not in accordance with his view.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which required him to bathe but even bathing is not necessary, since it is terumah from abroad (Tosaf.) According to Rashi, however, it appears that the law is that one made unclean through a corpse may not eat terumah from abroad and Rabbenu Gershom says explicitly that this is the case.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
ב ולית הלכתא כוותיה דאמר מר זוטרא משמיה דרב ששת טמא שרץ טובל ואוכל בתרומת חוצה לארץ ולית הלכתא כוותיה:
2 Mar Zutra<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Sh. Mek,. Cur. edd. 'For Mar Zutra'.');"><sup>5</sup></span> reported in the name of R'Shesheth: One made unclean through a reptile bathes and eats the terumah from abroad. The law however is not in accordance with his view.
ג בכור נאכל שנה בשנה כו': מדקאמר נולד בו מום בתוך שנתו למימרא דלשנה דידיה מנינן מנא הני מילי
3 A FIRSTLING IS EATEN YEAR BY YEAR etc. Since [the Mishnah] says: IF A BLEMISH APPEARED ON IT DURING ITS FIRST YEAR, we infer that we count according to its own year.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that if it was born in Nisan, he may keep it until the following Nisan, and we have not to consider that a new year commences in Tishri in this connection.');"><sup>6</sup></span> Whence is this proved: As Rab Judah reported in the name of Rab: Scripture says: Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God, year by year.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XV, 20.');"><sup>7</sup></span> Now, what year is it which enters into another?
ד דאמר רב יהודה אמר רב דאמר קרא (דברים טו, כ) לפני ה' אלהיך תאכלנו שנה בשנה איזוהי שנה שנכנסת בחברתה הוי אומר שנה של בכור
4 One must say it is the year of a firstling.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For such a year enters into the new year commencing in Tishri.');"><sup>8</sup></span> The school of Rabbi,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Sh. Mek. Cur. edd. Rab.');"><sup>9</sup></span> however, taught: The text 'year by year' denotes one day in this year and one day in the next year, and teaches that a firstling may be eaten for two days and a night.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he slaughters it on the last day of its first year he may continue eating it on the first day of the second.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
ה דבי רב תנא שנה בשנה יום אחד בשנה זו ויום אחד בשנה זו לימד על הבכור שנאכל לשני ימים ולילה אחד
5 And according to the school of Rabbi, whence do they derive this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the firstling's year is counted from its birth.');"><sup>11</sup></span> - They infer it from dedicated sacrifices.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From other dedicated sacrifices, which are offered up a year old counting from their birth.');"><sup>12</sup></span>
ו דבי רב מנא להו ילפי מקדשים וקדשים גופייהו מנלן אמר רב אחא בר יעקב אמר קרא (ויקרא יב, ו) כבש בן שנתו שנתו שלו ולא שנה של מנין עולם
6 And as regards to dedicated sacrifices themselves, whence do we deduce this? - Said R'Aha the son of Jacob, Scripture says: A lamb of the first year,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XII, 6. Lit., 'of its first year'.');"><sup>13</sup></span> implying the year of the lamb, but not the year counted according to the Creation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., commencing in Tishri.');"><sup>14</sup></span> And whence does Rab derive that a firstling may be eaten for two days and a night? - He derives it from the text: And the flesh of them shall be thine as the wave-breast and as the right thigh:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XVIII, 18. The text refers to a firstling.');"><sup>15</sup></span> Scripture compares it to the wave-breast and the right thigh of peace-offerings. Just as there they may be eaten for two days and a night, so here it may be eaten for two days and a night.
ז ורב נאכל לשני ימים ולילה אחד מנא ליה נפקא ליה (במדבר יח, יח) מובשרם יהיה לך כחזה התנופה וכשוק הימין הקישו הכתוב לחזה ושוק של שלמים מה להלן שני ימים ולילה אחד אף כאן שני ימים ולילה אחד
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