Wednesday 22 August 2018

Menachot 12: Inappropriate Thoughts at Specific Times Will Invalidate Offerings

  • the Mishna continues:
    • meal offerings of a sinner: jealousy due to a sota where the handful has been removed not for its own sake 
    • a handful that was offered at an inappropriate time
    • performing these rites with intent to partake of an olive-bulk or more outside of the designated area
    • consuming that olive bulk at different times outside of the designated 
    • these are invalid but not punishable by karet, death at the hand of heaven
    • Rabbi Yehuda announces the principle:
      • if the intent regarding time preceded the intent regarding the area, the offering is piggul and one is liable to receive karet
      • if the intent regarding the area preceded the intent regarding time, the offering is until because there is no liability for karet
      • the rabbis say the in both of these cases, the offering is unfit but there is no liability for karet
  • A second Mishna discusses limitations regarding small measures in unfit places
  • Inappropriate thoughts at particular times during preparation of a sacrifice can invalidate the sacrifice
  • Notar, left over thoughts about where the sacrifice might be eaten/sacrificed make the sacrifice piggul, unfit, and punishable by karet
  • Each of those moments in time are similar to key moments in animal sacrifice
  • The following thoughts of notar/piggul affect the validity of meal offerings:
    • kemitza is like shechita
    • placing the kometz in the Temple is like collecting the blood in the Temple vessel
    • carrying the kometz to the altar parallels carrying the blood to the altar
    • burning the kometz on the altar is like sprinkling the blood on the altar


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