Zevachim 51

Chapter 51

א שחט ואחר כך חתך פסולה
1 if he slaughtered and then cut off [the legs], it is unfit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because immediately it is slaughtered the blood of the legs is unfit (v. preceding note) . and this is naturally mingled with the rest of the blood.');"><sup>1</sup></span> 'If he cut off [the legs] and then slaughtered [it], i fit'?
ב חתך ואח"כ שחט כשרה בעל מום קא מקריב אלא אימא [חתך ואח"כ קיבל כשרה] קיבל ואח"כ חתך פסולה
2 Surely he offers a blemished animal! - Say rather: if he cut off [the legs] and then received [the blood], is fit; if he received [the blood] and then cut off [the legs] it is unfit.' If he cut off [the legs] and then r [the blood] it is fit'?
ג חתך ואח"כ קיבל כשרה והא א"ר זירא הצורם אזן בבכור ואח"כ קיבל דמו פסול שנאמר ולקח מדם הפר פר שהיה כבר
3 Surely R'Zera said: if one slits the ear of a firstling<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which was offered as a sacrifice. On ');"><sup>2</sup></span> and then receives its blood, it is unfit, because it says.'
ד א"ר חסדא אמר אבימי חותך באבר עד שמגיע לעצם
4 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock', [implying,] the bullock as it was originally! - Said R'Hisda in Abimi's name: He cuts the limb as far as the bone.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This does not constitute a blemish, and at the same time the cut prevents the blood below it, which is without the Temple court, from ascending and mingling with the blood above, which is within.');"><sup>3</sup></span> 'If he received [the blood] and then cut, it is unfit': from this you may infer that the blood which is absorbed in the limbs is blood?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that kareth (q.v. Glos.) is incurred for its consumption. For if it did not rank as blood whilst absorbed in the limb (cf. Hul. 113a) , it could not disqualify the other blood which is received and sprinkled.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
ה קיבל ואח"כ חתך פסולה שמעת מינה דם המובלע באברים דם הוא
5 - [No:] perhaps [the unfitness is] on account of the fattiness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is absorbed in the blood. This fattiness counts as flesh, and it ascends and mingles with the blood which pours out from the neck and thus disqualifies it.');"><sup>5</sup></span> Then you may infer from this that if the flesh of sacrifices of lower sanctity passes out [from the Temple court] before the sprinkling of the blood, it is unfit?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though it would certainly be carried out after the sprinkling, since it may be eaten anywhere in Jerusalem.');"><sup>6</sup></span>
ו דלמא משום שמנונית
6 - [No:] perhaps [R'Ammi in R'Eleazar's name] referred to sacrifices of higher sanctity. Our Rabbis taught: Sacrifices of higher sanctity are slaughtered on the north [side of the Temple court], and their blood is received on the north in service vessels.
ז שמעת מינה בשר קדשים קלים שיצא לפני זריקת דם פסול
7 If he stood in the south, stretched out his hand to the north and slaughtered, his slaughtering is valid; if he [thus] received [the blood], his reception is invali If he projected his head and the greater part of his body [into the north side].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He was standing almost in the middle of the court, on its south side, but so near to the line dividing north and south that he could easily stretch over to the other side.');"><sup>7</sup></span> it is as though he had entered [the north] entirely.
ח דלמא בקדשי קדשים
8 If [the animal] struggled and passed over into the south<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After being slaughtered.');"><sup>8</sup></span> and then returned, it is fit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the disqualification of going out applies only to going out of the Temple.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
ט ת"ר קדשי קדשים שחיטתן בצפון וקבול דמן בכלי שרת בצפון עמד בדרום והושיט ידו לצפון ושחט שחיטתו כשרה קיבל קבלתו פסולה הכניס ראשו ורובו כאילו נכנס כולו פרכסה ויצתה לדרום וחזרה כשרה
9 Sacrifices of lower sanctity are slaughtered [anywhere] within [the Temple court], and their blood is received in a service vessel within. If he stood without and stretched his hand within and slaughtered, his slaughtering is valid; if he received [the blood thus], his reception is invalid.
י קדשים קלים שחיטתן בפנים וקיבול דמן בכלי שרת בפנים עמד בחוץ והכניס ידו לפנים ושחט שחיטתו כשרה קיבל קבלתו פסולה הכניס ראשו ורובו כאילו לא נכנס פרכסה ויצתה לחוץ וחזרה פסולה שמע מינה בשר קדשים קלים שיצא לפני זריקת דמים פסולים
10 If he projected his head and t greater part of his body within, he is not regarded as having entered. If it struggled<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After being slaughtered.');"><sup>8</sup></span>
יא דילמא באליה ויותרת הכבד ושתי כליות
11 and went without and returned, it is unfit. This proves that sacrifices of lower sanctity whose flesh went without before the sprinkling of the blood are unfit! - [No:] perhaps this refers to the fat-tail, the lobe above the liver, and th two kidneys.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These were burnt on the altar, and therefore although part of sacrifices of lower sanctity they ranked as sacrifices of higher sanctity.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
יב בעא מיניה אבוה דשמואל משמואל היא בפנים ורגליה בחוץ מהו
12 Samuel's father asked Samuel: What if it [the animal] is within, while its feet are without?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' May it be slaughtered thus at the outset?');"><sup>11</sup></span> - It is written, Even that they may bring them unto the Lord,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVII, 5.');"><sup>12</sup></span>
יג א"ל כתיב (ויקרא יז, ה) והביאום לה' עד שתהא כולה לפנים
13 he replied, [which intimates] that the whole of it must be within. What if one suspended<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the air-space of the Temple court.');"><sup>13</sup></span>
יד תלה ושחט מהו א"ל כשרה א"ל אישתבשת בעינן שחיטה על ירך וליכא
14 [the animal] and slaughtered it? It is valid, he replied.
טו נתלה ושחט מהו אמר ליה פסולה אמר ליה אישתבשת שחיטה על ירך ולא שוחט על ירך
15 You have erred, he observed, for the slaughtering must be 'on the side' [of the altar],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. I, 11.');"><sup>14</sup></span> which provision is unfulfilled.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'On the side' implies on the ground.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
טז נתלה וקבל מהו אמר ליה כשרה אמר ליה אישתבשת אין דרך שירות בכך
16 What if [the slaughterer] was suspended and slaughtered [thus]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The animal being on the ground.');"><sup>16</sup></span> - It is invalid, he replied.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thinking that the two were analogous.');"><sup>17</sup></span>
יז תלה וקיבל מהו אמר ליה פסולה אמר ליה אישתבשת שחיטה על ירך ולא קבלה על ירך
17 You have erred, said he; the slaughtering must be 'on the side' but the slaughterer need not be 'on the side'. What if he suspended himself and received [the blood]?
יח אמר אביי בקדשי קדשים כולן פסולות בר מנתלה ושחט בקדשים קלים כולן כשרות בר מן נתלה וקיבל
18 It is valid, he replied.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Again thinking it analogous to the former.');"><sup>18</sup></span> You have erred, observed he, for such is not the way of service.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But slaughtering is not really part of the (priestly) service, since it may be performed by a zar.');"><sup>19</sup></span>
יט אמר רבא מאי שנא תלה וקיבל בקדשים קלים דכשרה דאויר פנים כפנים דמי בקדשי קדשים נמי אויר צפון כצפון דמי
19 What if he suspended [the sacrifice]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After having slaughtered it.');"><sup>20</sup></span> and received [the blood]? - It is invalid, he answered.
כ אלא אמר רבא בין בקדשי קדשים בין בקדשים קלים כשרות בר מן תלה ושחט בקדשי קדשים נתלה וקיבל בין בקדשי קדשים בין בקדשים קלים
20 You have erred, he retorted: slaughtering must be 'on the side', but receiving need not be 'on the side'. Abaye said: In the case of sacrifices of higher sanctity<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In connection with which 'on the side' is stated.');"><sup>21</sup></span>
כא בעא מיניה רבי ירמיה מרבי זירא הוא בפנים וציציתו בחוץ מהו אמר ליה לאו אמרת והביאום לה' עד שתבא כולה לפנים הכא נמי (שמות כח, מג) בבואם אל אהל מועד עד שיבא כולו לאהל מועד:
21 they are all invalid, except where he suspended himself and slaughtered.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because 'on the side' is written of the animal, but not of the slaughterer. Again, the blood must be received in the north, and he holds that the air-space of the north is not the north itself. Hence if he suspended himself and received the blood it is invalid.');"><sup>22</sup></span> In the case of sacrifices of lower sanctity, they are all valid, except where he suspended himself and received [the blood].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Here neither 'north' nor 'on the side' is mentioned. Therefore only the exception is invalid, because that is not the way of service.');"><sup>23</sup></span>
כב <big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> נתנו על גבי הכבש שלא כנגד היסוד נתן את הניתנין למטה למעלה ואת הניתנין למעלה למטה ואת הניתנין בפנים בחוץ ואת הניתנין בחוץ בפנים פסול ואין בו כרת:
22 Said Raba: Why do you say that if he suspended [the animal] and received the blood it is valid in the case of sacrifices of lower sanctity? [Presumably] because the air-space of within is as within! Then in the case of sacrifices of higher sanctity too, the air-space of the no is as the north? - Rather said Raba: In the case of sacrifices of both higher and lower sanctity they are [all] valid, except in the case of sacrifices of higher sanctity, where he suspended [the animal] and slaughtered it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the reason stated above.');"><sup>24</sup></span> and in the cases of sacrifices of both higher and lower sanctity, where he suspended himself and received [the blood]. R'Jeremiah asked R'Zera: What if he [the priest] is within and his locks [of hair] are without? - Said he him, Have you not said that 'even that they may bring them unto the Lord' intimates that the whole of it [the animal] must come within? So here too, when they go in unto the tent of meeting<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXVIII, 43.');"><sup>25</sup></span> intimates, that the whole of him must enter the tent of meeting. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>IF [THE PRIEST] APPLIED IT [THE BLOOD] ON THE ASCENT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Leading to the altar, instead of on the altar.');"><sup>26</sup></span> [OR ON THE ALTAR, BUT] NOT OVER AGAINST ITS BASE;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The blood was to be sprinkled over against the base of the altar, which means on a side provided with a foundation. This excludes the south-east corner, which had no base (infra 53a) .');"><sup>27</sup></span> IF HE APPLIED [THE BLOOD] WHICH SHOULD BE APPLIED BELOW [THE SCARLET LINE] ABOVE [IT]. OR THAT WHICH SHOULD BE APPLIED ABOVE, BELOW;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A scarlet line ran round the sides of the altar: some blood was to be applied above, and some below.');"><sup>28</sup></span> OR THAT WHICH SHOULD BE APPLIED WITHIN [HE APPLIED] WITHOUT, OR WHAT SHOULD BE APPLIED WITHOUT [HE APPLIED] WITHIN,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Within' means on the inner altar; 'without', on the outer altar.');"><sup>29</sup></span> IT IS UNFIT, BUT DOES NOT INVOLVE KARETH.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the eating of its flesh.');"><sup>30</sup></span>
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