Sunday 15 July 2018

Zevachim 92: Laundry in the Temple

We begin with a new Mishna:  A garment requires laundering when it has been sprayed with the blood of a sin offering (Leviticus 6:20). Although this applies to sin offerings that are eaten, those that are wholly burned and not eaten whose blood is presented on the inner altar are also laundered.  Regarding sin offerings fit for sacrifice, there is one law.  

Disqualified sin offerings might have a period of fitness for presentation.  These include those left overnight, those that become ritually impure, and those who emerged from the Temple courtyard.  Some disqualified offerings do not have a period of fitness.  These include those slaughtered with the intent to eat it or present its blood after the designated time or outside its designated area or it is only whose blood was collected by those disqualified for Temple service and they sprinkled its bird.

The rabbis argue about the specific circumstances of the sin offerings that are eaten.  They agree that garments that could absorb the sacrificial blood should be slaughtered.  

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