פסחים 98:2 — Soncino English Talmud

But he brings sacrifices to the place of unfitness? -R. Simeon is consistent with his view, for he maintains: One may bring sacrifices to the place of unfitness. For we learned: If a guilt-offering was mixed up with a peace-offering, — R. Simeon said: They must be slaughtered at the north [side of the altar] and eaten in accordance with [the laws of] the more stringent of them. Said they to him: One may not bring sacrifices to the place of unfitness. Now according to the Rabbis, what do we do? -Said Raba: We wait until they receive a blemish. Then he brings a choice animal and declares: ‘Wherever the Passover-offering may be, let it[s sanctity] be transferred to this one,’ and he eats them In accordance with the laws of a blemished firstling. M I S H N A H. IF A COMPANY LOST THEIR PASCHAL SACRIFICE AND INSTRUCTED ONE [OF THEIR NUMBER], ‘GO AND SEEK IT, AND SLAUGHTER IT ON OUR BEHALF’; AND HE WENT, FOUND, AND SLAUGHTERED IT, WHILE THEY [Also] TOOK AN ANIMAL AND SLAUGHTERED [IT]: IF HIS WAS SLAUGHTERED FIRST, HE EATS OF HIS AND THEY EAT WITH HIM. WHILE IF THEIRS WAS FIRST SLAUGHTERED, THEY EAT OF THEIRS, WHILE HE EATS OF HIS. BUT IF IT IS UNKNOWN WHICH OF THEM WAS FIRST SLAUGHTERED, OR IF THEY KILLED BOTH OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME, HE EATS OF HIS, BUT THEY MAY NOT EAT WITH HIM; WHILE THEIRS GOES FORTH TO THE PLACE OF BURNING, AND THEY ARE EXEMPT FROM KEEPING THE SECOND PASSOVER. IF HE SAID TO THEM, IF I DELAY, GO FORTH AND SLAUGHTER ON MY BEHALF,’ [AND] THEN HE WENT AND FOUND AND SLAUGHTERED [IT], WHILE THEY TOOK [ANOTHER] AND SLAUGHTERED [IT], IF THEIRS WAS SLAUGHTERED FIRST, THEY EAT OF THEIRS WHILE HE EATS WITH THEM. WHILE IF HIS WAS SLAUGHTERED FIRST, HE EATS OF HIS AND THEY EAT OF THEIRS. But IF IT IS UNKNOWN WHICH OF THEM WAS SLAUGHTERED FIRST, OR IF THEY SLAUGHTERED BOTH OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME, THEY EAT OF THEIRS, BUT HE MAY NOT EAT WITH THEM, WHILE HIS OWN GOES FORTH TO THE PLACE OF BURNING, AND HE IS EXEMPT FROM KEEPING THE SECOND PASSOVER. IF HE INSTRUCTED THEM, AND THEY INSTRUCTED HIM, THEY MUST ALL EAT OF THE FIRST [TO BE SLAUGHTERED], AND IF IT IS UNKNOWN WHICH OF THEM WAS SLAUGHTERED FIRST, BOTH GO FORTH TO THE PLACE OF BURNING. IF HE DID NOT INSTRUCT THEM AND THEY DID NOT INSTRUCT HIM, THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH OTHER. IF THE PASCHAL SACRIFICES OF TWO COMPANIES BECOME MIXED UP, THESE TAKE POSSESSION OF ONE [ANIMAL] AND THOSE TAKE POSSESSION OF ONE. ONE MEMBER OF THESE JOINS THOSE, AND ONE MEMBER OF THOSE JOINS THESE, AND THEY DECLARE THUS: IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS OURS, YOUR HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR OWN AND YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR OURS; WHILE IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS YOURS, OUR HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM OURS AND WE ARE REGISTERED FOR YOURS. SIMILARLY, IF THERE ARE FIVE COMPANIES CONSISTING OF FIVE MEMBERS EACH OR OF TEN EACH, THEY DRAW ONE FROM EACH COMPANY TO THEMSELVES AND MAKE THE FOREGOING DECLARATION. IF THE PASCHAL SACRIFICES BELONGING TO TWO [SINGLE INDIVIDUALS] BECOME MIXED UP, EACH TAKES POSSESSION OF ONE [ANIMAL]; THIS ONE REGISTERS A STRANGER WITH HIMSELF AND THAT ONE REGISTERS A STRANGER WITH HIMSELF. THE FORMER GOES OVER TO THE LATTER SACRIFICE AND THE LATTER GOES OVER TO THE FORMER SACRIFICE, AND THEY [I.E., EACH OWNER] DECLARE THUS: IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS MINE, YOUR HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR OWN AND YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR MINE; WHILE IF THIS PASCHAL SACRIFICE IS YOURS, MY HANDS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM MINE AND I AM REGISTERED FOR YOURS.’ G E M A R A. Our Rabbis taught: if he instructed them and they instructed him, they must [all] eat of the first. If he did not instruct them and they did not instruct him, they are not responsible for each other.33^ᵃ^ᵇ^ᶜ^ᵈ^ᵉ^ᶠ^ᵍ^ʰ^ⁱ^ʲ^ᵏ^ˡ^ᵐ^ⁿ^ᵒ^ᵖ^ᵠ^ʳ^ˢ^ᵗ^ᵘ^ᵛ^ʷ^ˣ^ʸ^ᶻ^ᵃᵃ^ᵃᵇ^ᵃᶜ^ᵃᵈ^ᵃᵉ^ᵃᶠ^ᵃᵍ

^ᵃnote:This difficulty arises on R. Simeon's ruling. A firstling may be eaten two days and the night in between, whereas the Passover-offering may be eaten only on the first night. Thus if it is not eaten by morning he must burn it as nothar (v. Glos.), whereas it is actually still fit.
^ᵇnote:In such a case, rather than let them graze until they receive a blemish, which is the only alternative.
^ᶜnote:The side prescribed for the slaughtering of a guilt-offering. Peace-offerings could be slaughtered on any side of the Temple Court.
^ᵈnote:I.e., as guilt-offerings, viz., during one day and a night only, within the Temple precincts, and by male priests.-A peace-offering is eaten two days and one night, anywhere in Jerusalem, and by Israelites as well as priests.
^ᵉnote:But they must be left to graze until blemished.
^ᶠnote:When a Passover-offering is mixed up with a firstling. When it is mixed up with a burnt-offering or guilt-offering, or when a peace-offering is mixed up with a guilt-offering, the expedient stated in the Mishnah is possible. But a firstling, even when blemished, can not be redeemed in the sense that it becomes hullin but must be eaten by a priest with its blemish; while on the other hand when a Passover-offering receives a blemish, it must be redeemed and may not be eaten otherwise.
^ᵍnote:I.e., whichever of these two animals is the Passover.
^ʰnote:Thus whichever is the Passover-offering is redeemed.
^ⁱnote:These are: it may not be slaughtered or sold in the ordinary abattoir, nor weighed with the ordinary weights. These restrictions do not apply to a redeemed Passover-offering, and would not apply here if he knew which it was.
^ʲnote:By instructing him to slaughter it on their behalf they become registered for his and cannot register for another after the first was slaughtered. Hence their own is unfit and must be burnt.
^ᵏnote:By slaughtering their own first they ipso facto cancelled their registration for the original, which is permissible, v. supra 89a.
^ˡnote:But not of theirs, since he had not registered with them.
^ᵐnote:Lest their own was slaughtered first, whereby they had cancelled their registration for his.
^ⁿnote:For his may have been killed first; v. n. 4.
^ᵒnote:Because they were certainly registered for one animal at the first Passover, while the eating is not indispensable.
^ᵖnote:But they did not instruct him to slaughter the lost animal on their behalf.
^ᵠnote:While his own must be burnt, for according to his instructions he was now registered for theirs; hence his is unfit, having none registered for it.
^ʳnote:Cf. p. 528, n. 5.
^ˢnote:For they were not registered for his, since they had not instructed him to slaughter it on their behalf.
^ᵗnote:Cf. p. 528, n. 9.
^ᵘnote:He instructed them to slaughter on his behalf if he delayed, and they instructed him to slaughter on their behalf if he found the lost animal.
^ᵛnote:For which they are all automatically registered now.
^ʷnote:Each must thus go forth lest it was slaughtered last and had none registered for it.
^ˣnote:To slaughter on each other's behalf.
^ʸnote:Each party eats of its own, whatever the order of their slaughtering.
^ᶻnote:Each company declares thus to the newcomer.
^ᵃᵃnote:I.e., it belongs to your first company.
^ᵃᵇnote:One of each company must join the other, for otherwise each company would have to withdraw en masse from their own, if it had been taken by the second, thus leaving it momentarily entirely without owners, and this is forbidden.
^ᵃᶜnote:Each company consists of four new members and one original member. The latter (or all the original members, where each company consisted of more than five) makes the foregoing declaration to each new member in turn.
^ᵃᵈnote:Lit., ‘a man from the street’.
^ᵃᵉnote:Thus there are now two registered persons for each sacrifice.
^ᵃᶠnote:The general reasoning is the same as in the previous cases.
^ᵃᵍnote:Thus in the first case one animal must be destroyed, whatever happens, while in the second both are eaten.