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Eat your left overs soon! We have been learning about what to do when animals designated for sacrifice mix and you no longer know which is which. On our daf today, we get a situation where the animals that mix are both designated for a sacrifice and the method of slaughter/sacrifice is so similar thatContinue reading “Zevachim 75”

It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the States. That means a lot of people are surrounded by family that they don’t necessarily see on a regular basis. While this is a wonderful thing, it’s also pretty common that tensions will rise, people will be hurt and offended and people will be “thankful” they don’t have toContinue reading “Zevachim 74”

Today’s daf is a little lesson in statistics. We are faced with the situation where one forbidden animal is mixed up with permitted animals. We learned in the Mishnah back on Zevachim 70 that all of those animals are prohibited. Today’s daf tries to change that . . . The Gemara raises a difficulty withContinue reading “Zevachim 73”

We learned in earlier tractates that when permitted and forbidden items become mixed together, depending on circumstances, the forbidden items can nullified when the majority of the items are permitted. Like a drop of forbidden in a soup of permitted – it’x usually when the forbidden could no longer be tasted – about 60x moreContinue reading “Zevachim 72”

Today’s daf gives a new picture of what the Temple looked like. It discusses what to do when animals brought to the get mixed up. A few pages ago we read about what to do if two women brought bird sacrifices and the priest was not sure which birds for which woman. This made meContinue reading “Zevachim 71”

Today’s gem is a one liner that just reminds us the importance of those in leadership positions to set a good example and only teach what they really know. Rava said to him (Rav Ya’akov bar Abba): How many elders have you caused to err in the interpretation of this baraita? What if every leader,Continue reading “Zevchim 70”

There are many terms that the Talmud uses to derive laws, one is a “kal vachomer” which means “light to heavy” and is usually translated as “a fortiori.” They express that if something is true in one situation then it should also be true in another situation where that second example has more weight. So,Continue reading “Zevachim 69”

Today’s gem is what was apparently an old colloquialism that I find fantastic! The mishna concludes: Rabbi Yehoshua said that there is a parable that explains this situation: This is what people say about a sheep: When it is alive it makes one sound, and when it is dead it makes seven sounds. What doesContinue reading “Zevachim 68”

On our daf, we continue to learn about the bird offerings. So, I wanted to share this beautiful explanation from the Ramban about which birds we can offer and why only those. Ramban: God chose grown up turtledoves because they abstain from pairing with strangers, and attach themselves only to their mates, and once they loseContinue reading “Zevachim 67”

This is the first time I have read a Mishna and said “Duh” out loud reading it. MISHNA: If the priest sacrificed a bird sin offering in its designated place below the red line, and he sacrificed it according to the procedure of a sin offering with pinching, i.e., cutting from the nape with aContinue reading “Zevachim 66”