Meilah

MISHNAH. FIVE THINGS IN A BURNT-OFFERING CAN COMBINE WITH ONE ANOTHER: THE FLESH, THE FAT,1 THE FINE FLOUR, THE WINE AND THE OIL;2 AND SIX IN A THANKOFFERING: THE FLESH, THE FAT, THE FINE FLOUR, THE WINE, THE OIL AND THE BREAD. GEMARA. R. Huna recited to Raba: ‘Five things in the world3 can combine with one another’. Said the latter: Did you say ‘in the world’? Does not the Mishnah teach of a thank-offering: AND SIX IN A THANK-OFFERING: THE FLESH, THE FAT, THE FINE FLOUR, THE WINE, THE OIL AND THE BREAD? — The other replied: Read ‘in a burnt-offering’.4 We have thus learnt here what our Rabbis have taught: ‘[The flesh of] a burnt-offering and the sacrificial portions thereof5 can combine to make up [the requisite size of] an olive [to render one liable] for offering them outside [the Temple Court] and to render one culpable for [transgressing the laws of] piggul, nothar and defilement’. It speaks of a burnt-offering and does apparently not apply to a peace-offering. This is right as far as offering outside the Temple Court is concerned, for with a burnt-offering which is wholly offered the emurim6 can be combined;7 but with [the flesh of] a peace-offering8 it can rightly not be combined. But with regard to [the transgression of the laws of] piggul nothar and defilement, why should one not be guilty in the case of a peace-offering?9 Have we not learnt: ‘All kinds of piggul con combine with one another and all kinds of nothar can combine with one another’?10 — Read, therefore: The flesh of a burnt-offering and the emurim thereof can combine with one another to make up an olive-size so that the blood can be sprinkled on account of them;11 and it represents the opinion of R. Joshua. For we have learnt:12 R. Joshua said, With all other sacrifices of the Torah the blood can be sprinkled only if an olive-size of flesh or an olive-size of fat was left; if half an olive-size of flesh and half an olive-size of fat were left the blood cannot be sprinkled. With a burnt-offering, however, the blood can be sprinkled even if half an olive-size of flesh and half an olive size of fat were left, because it is all offered upon the altar. And with a meal-offering, even if it has wholly been preserved. the blood cannot be sprinkled. How does the meal-offering come in?13 — Said R. Papa: [It refers to] a meal-offering which accompanies a beast sacrifice.14 MISHNAH. TERUMAH,15 TERUMAH OF THE TITHE,16 TERUMAH OF THE TITHE SEPARATED FROM DEM'AI,17 HALLAH18 AND FIRST-FRUITS CAN COMBINE WITH ONE ANOTHER TO MAKE UP THE SIZE REQUIRED TO RENDER OTHER THINGS19 FORBIDDEN AND TO BE LIABLE TO THE PAYMENT OF A Fifth.20 ALL KINDS OF PIGGUL CAN COMBINE WITH ONE ANOTHER AND ALL KINDS OF NOTHAR CAN COMBINE WITH ONE ANOTHER. GEMARA. What is the reason that hallah and first-fruits can combine? — All these are called by the term ‘terumah’. Of hallah it reads, of the first of your dough you shall set apart terumah.21 The first-fruits are also called terumah, for we have learnt: The expression, and the terumah of thy hand22 refers to first fruits.23 While the other instances24 of the Mishnah need no proof. MISHNAH. ALL KINDS OF NEBELAH25 CAN COMBINE WITH ONE ANOTHER,26 AND ALL KINDS OF REPTILES CAN COMBINE WITH ONE ANOTHER.26 GEMARA. Said Rab: offered outside the Temple. guilty . . . and whose view is this? If the flesh of a burnt-offering is lost, the blood can be sprinkled only if an olive-size of the offering is left. Now, this olive-size may be composed of flesh and emurim. Num. XV, 5f. I might have thought that the blood of the offering can be sprinkled if nothing but the accompanying meal-offering is preserved, hence we are told that it is not so. of each of them), they are wholly forbidden to a non priest. Ter. I, 1.