Bekhorot

And have we [in these days] sprinkling [on the unclean]?1 Rami b. Hama replied to him: ‘Should we not take into consideration the views of the Elder’?2 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.3 The law however is not in accordance with his view.4 Mar Zutra5 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. 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.6 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.7 Now, what year is it which enters into another? One must say it is the year of a firstling.8 The school of Rabbi,9 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.10 And according to the school of Rabbi, whence do they derive this?11 — They infer it from dedicated sacrifices.12 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,13 implying the year of the lamb, but not the year counted according to the Creation.14 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:15 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. 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. commences in Tishri in this connection.