Pesachim

And how do we know it of the burnt-offering itself? — Scripture saith, at the base of the altar of the burnt-offering:1 this proves that the burnt-offering requires [sprinkling at] the base. 2 THE FIRST DIVISION WENT OUT etc. A Tanna taught: It [the third division] was called the slothful division.3 But It was impossible otherwise? What should they have done! — Even so, they should have hurried themselves, as it was taught: Rabbi said: The world cannot exist without a perfume maker and without a tanner: happy is he whose craft is [that of] a perfume maker, [and] woe to him whose craft is [that of] a tanner. Nor can the world exist without males and females: happy is he whose children are males, [and] woe to him whose children are females.4 AS HE DID ON WEEK-DAYS etc. Without whose consent?5 — Said R. Hisda, Without the consent of R. Eliezer; for if [the ruling of] the Rabbis [is regarded], surely they maintain that it is a shebuth,6 and a shebuth is not [interdicted] in the Temple. What is this [allusion]? — For it was taught: Whether he milks, sets milk [for curdling],7 or makes cheese, [the standard for culpability is] as much as a dried fig. He who sweeps [the floor], lays [the dust by sprinkling water], and removes loaves of honey, [if he does this] unwittingly on the Sabbath, he is liable to a sin-offering; if he does it deliberately on a Festival, he is flagellated with forty [lashes]: this is R. Eliezer's view. But the Sages maintain: In both cases it is [forbidden] only as a shebuth.8 R. Ashi said: You may even say, [it means] without the consent of the Sages, this agreeing with R. Nathan. For it was taught, R. Nathan said: A shebuth that is necessary they permitted [in the Temple]; [but] a shebuth which is not necessary they did not permit. R. JUDAH SAID: HE USED TO FILL A GOBLET etc. It was taught, R. Judah said: He used to fill goblet with the mingled blood,9 so that should the blood of one of them be spilled, it is found that this renders it fit. Said they to R. Judah, But surely it [this mingled blood] had not been received in a basin? How do they know?10 Rather, they said thus to him: Perhaps it was not caught in a vessel?11 I too, he answered them, spoke only of that which was received in a vessel. How does he know?12 The priests are careful. If they are careful, why was it spilled? — Because of the speed with which they work,13 it is spilled. But the draining blood14 is mixed with it?15 — R. Judah is consistent with his view, for he maintained, The draining blood is [considered] proper blood. For it was taught: The draining blood is subject to a ‘warning’;16 R. Judah said: It is subject to kareth.17 But surely R. Eleazar said, R. Judah agrees in respect to atonement, that it does not make atonement, because it is said, for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of life:18 sin-offering. Hence the verse must mean, at the base of the altar, as is done with the burnt-offering. daughters; v. Sanh. 100b, (Sonc. ed.) p. p. 681). sprinkling, if already performed, is efficacious, but such blood must not be taken up to the altar in the first place. how can it be remedied with blood about which there is a doubt? stream. kareth, as does the consuming of the life-blood (v. Lev. XVII, 10f).