מעילה 8:1 — Soncino English Talmud

in regard to eating it does not effect permission. MISHNAH. THE LAW OF SACRILEGE APPLIES TO THE SIN-OFFERING OF A BIRD FROM THE MOMENT OF ITS DEDICATION. WITH THE PINCHING OF ITS NECK IT BECOMES SUSCEPTIBLE FOR UNFITNESS THROUGH CONTACT WITH A TEBUL YOM OR ONE WHO STILL REQUIRES ATONEMENT’, OR BY REMAINING OVERNIGHT. ONCE ITS BLOOD HAS BEEN SPRINKLED IT IS SUBJECT TO [THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAWS OF] PIGGUL, NOTHAR AND DEFILEMENT, BUT THE LAW OF SACRILEGE NO LONGER APPLIES TO IT. GEMARA. It is stated: IT BECOMES SUSCEPTIBLE FOR UNFITNESS THROUGH CONTACT WITH A TEBUL YOM OR ‘ONE WHO STILL REQUIRES ATONEMENT’, OR BY REMAINING OVERNIGHT. [That is, it becomes] ‘susceptible for unfitness’ but not for defilement. With whom then will our Mishnah agree? — With the Sages, for it has been taught: ‘Abba Saul says. A tebul yom [^ᵃ^ᵇ^ᶜ^ᵈ^ᵉ^ᶠ^ᵍ

^ᵃnote:This is the prescribed form of slaughter, v. Lev. I, 25.
^ᵇnote:The immersion of an unclean person does not effect _immediate purification. In order to be able to partake of a sacred meal he has to wait until sunset. A tebul yom, lit., ‘a person immersed by day’. is one who took his immersion in day-time and is waiting for sunset.
^ᶜnote:In four instances of uncleanness an offering is required in addition to immersion, v. Ker. 8b. As long as this ‘ceremony of atonement is not performed one is not permitted to partake of a sacred meal.
^ᵈnote:V. supra p. 17, n. 9.
^ᵉnote:For it has become the possession of the priests.
^ᶠnote:The term ‘unfit’ kuxp through contact with an unclean person or thing denotes that the uncleanness contracted is not of such a degree as to be transmitted to another object. ‘Defiled’ or ‘unclean’ tny, on the other hand, denotes the capacity of transmitting further the uncleanness contracted.
^ᵍnote:Tosef. Toh. I, 3. There is a scale of degrees of uncleanness: the ‘source of sources’; the ‘source’ of uncleanness; the first, second, third and fourth degree of uncleanness. The degree of uncleanness of the defiled object is (in general) one degree lower than that of the object from which it derived its defilement. The susceptibility to uncleanness is not uniform. The holier a thing the more susceptible it is to uncleanness. Holy things ohase , e.g. are susceptible to ‘uncleanness’ in the third degree and to ‘unfitness’ in the fourth, and terumah to ‘uncleanness’ in the second degree and to ‘unfitness’ in the third.