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מעילה 10:2
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
GEMARA. Whence do we know this? — For our Rabbis taught: I might have thought that only for things that have that which renders them permissible is one culpable for [transgressing] the Law of Defilement; for this would be the logical deduction: Since piggul, which requires only one awareness of transgression, whose sacrifice of atonement is fixed and allows of no exception for the congregation, yet it applies to things only that have that which renders them permissible, the much more so must uncleanness, which requires a twofold awareness of transgression, whose sacrifice of atonement can be of a higher or lesser value and allows of an exception for the congregation, apply only to things that have that which renders them permissible. The text therefore states: Say unto them: Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approaches [unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before Me]. Scripture deals with all kinds of holy things. But I might have thought that [in the case of things that have other things that render them permissible, the Law of Defilement] would apply at once; therefore It states: ‘Who approaches’ [which is to be expounded after the way of] R. Eliezer [who] said: Is it possible that one is liable [to the Law of Defilement] merely by touching [the flesh]? You must then understand it in the following manner: Whatsoever has that which renders it permissible is not subject [to the laws of piggul, nothar and defilement] until that which renders it permissible has been performed; and whatsoever has not that which renders it permissible is liable [to those laws] only when they have become sacred by being put in the vessel [of ministry]. MISHNAH. THE YOUNG OF A SIN-OFFERING, THE SUBSTITUTE OF A SIN-OFFERING AND A SIN-OFFERING WHOSE OWNER HAS Dled ARE LEFT TO DIE. THAT WHICH PASSED [THE AGE-LIMIT OF] ONE YEAR OR WAS LOST AND THEN FOUND WITH A BLEMISH, IF AFTER THE OWNER HAS BEEN ATONED, IT IS LEFT TO DIE; IT CANNOT EFFECT A SUBSTITUTE AND THOUGH ONE MAY NOT DERIVE ANY BENEFIT FROM IT, IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF SACRILEGE;20
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