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Week 143 - Shabbat - 24 August 2002

ZEVAHIM: CHAPTER 8: MISHNAH 2

Sacrifices with sacrifices of the same kind - this is offered on behalf of whoever it is and that is offered on behalf of whoever it is. Sacrifices with sacrifices of different kinds - they must graze until they suffer a blemish, and must be sold, and one must bring for the value of the best of them of the same kind, and for the value of the best of them of that kind, and he bears the loss of the excess out of his own property. If they became mixed up with a firstling or tithe - they must graze until they suffer a blemish and must be eaten in the manner of the firstling or of the tithe. All are liable to become mixed up, except the sin-offering and the guilt-offering.

Kehati

This mishnah deals with various sacrifices that intermingled.

Sacrifices of different persons became mixed up with sacrifices of the same kind, e.g., a sin-offering with a sin-offering or a burnt-offering with a burnt-offering, and the animals are unidentifiable - this is offered on behalf of whoever it is and that is offered on behalf of whoever it is - each sacrifice is offered unspecified, or they are offered for the sake of their respective owners but without mentioning their names, as explained at the end of the preceding mishnah. According to the Gemara, this mishnah refers to women's sacrifices, which do not require semikhah, whereas with the men's sacrifices, where this is indispensable, there is no alternative but to let them graze until they suffer a blemish.

If sacrifices became mixed up with sacrifices of different kinds e.g., a sin-offering and a burnt-offering which cannot be offered up since they differ in regard to the blood sprinkling or the burning of the eimurim or in their consumption- they must graze until they suffer a blemish, and must thereupon be sold and one must bring for the value of the best of them, of the same kind, and for the value of the best of them of that kind, he must bring each sacrifice for the value of the best of them, e.g., if he sold one for two selas and the other for one sela he must buy two animals, each worth two selas , since we cannot determine which of the offerings he sold for two selas, and he bears the loss of the excess - of the one sela which he must add - out of his own property.

If they -the offerings - became mixed up with a firstling or animal tithe which can be neither redeemed nor sold but are consumed blemished - the firstlings by the priests and the tithe by the owners - they must all graze until they suffer a blemish and the offerings are redeemed for the value of the best of them, for which must be offered sacrifices of the kind that became mixed up and all the mixed up anima]s may then be eaten, but they must be eaten in the manner. of the blemished firstling or of the tithe which may not be sold commercially or in weighed portions.

All offerings are liable to become mixed up, and remain indistinguishable except the sin-offering and the guilt-offering, since the latter requires either a ram or a (male) sheep, and the former must be a female animal or (when offered by a ruler) a he-goat.

ZEVAHIM : CHAPTER 8: MISHNAH 3

If a guilt-offering became mixed up with a peace-offering -they must graze until they suffer a blemish. R. Shimon says, Both must be slaughtered at the north side and eaten in the manner of the more stringent. They said to him. One does not cause the consecrated to become invalid. If several pieces became mixed up - most holy with lesser holy, those which are eaten one day with those eaten two days, - they must be eaten in accordance with the more stringent of them

Kehati

This mishnah continues to deal with the mixture of diverse kinds of sacrifices.

If a guilt-offering became mixed up with a peace-offering - whose sprinkling procedures are identical - "two applications which are four", however, whereas the peace-offering is slaughtered anywhere in the Temple Court and may be eaten throughout Jerusalem by anyone within two days and a night, the guilt-offering is slaughtered in the north and must be eaten in the Temple Court by male priests within one day and a night -they must graze until they suffer a blemish when they are sold and a guilt-offering and a peace-offering, each for the value of the best of them, must be brought, as taught in the preceding mishnah concerning a mixture of different kinds of sacrifices. Some versions omit "they must graze until they suffer a blemish" (see Tosefot Yom Tov ad loc.).

R. Shimon says, Both must be slaughtered at the north side as is a guilt-offering, whereas a peace-offering is slaughtered in any part - and eaten in the manner of the more stringent -within the Temple Court, by male priests within a day and a night, as with the guilt-offering.

They- the Sages -said to him to R. Shimon: One does not cause the consecrated to become invalid - if it is to be eaten. as a guilt-offering then you reduce both the eligible consumers, who must be priests, and the time limit by restricting it to a day and a night and thus render the flesh prematurely notar.

If several pieces of two kinds of sacrifices became mixed up - most holy with lesser holy sacrifices, e.g., parts of sin-offering or guilt-offering with those of a thank-offering, all of which may be eaten a day and a night, but whereas the sin and guilt-offerings must be eaten within the Temple Court by male priests alone, the thank-offering is eaten throughout Jerusalem by anyone, or if those sacrifices which are eaten one day - e.g., a thank-offering intermingled with those eaten two days - e.g., a peace-offering -

They must be eaten in accordance with the one to which the more stringent rule of them applies. In this case the Sages agree with R. Shimon, since there is no alternative.

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