Temura 33: What is Buried and What is Burned

Today's daf contains the final Mishna of Massechet Terumah.  It examines what must be buried and what must be burned according to Jewish law.  

What must be buried:

• If a sacrificial animal miscarries, the fetus is buried
• If a sacrificial animal miscarries a placenta, the placenta is buried
• an ox that will be stoned (Shemot 21-28)
• a heifer whose neck is broken (Devarim 21:4-8)
• birds brought to the Temple as part of the purification of a leper
• the hair of a nazarite who becomes ritually impure (Bamidbar 6:5)
• a donkey's firstborn (Shemot 13:13)
• a mixture of meat cooked in milk (Shemot 23:19; 34:26; Devarim 14:21)
• non-sacred animals slaughtered in the Temple/courtyard

What must be Burned:

• Chametz on Pesach
• Teruma that has become ritually defiled
• Orla, fruit grown in the first three years after planting (Vayikra 19:23)
• mixed seeds in a vineyard (Devarim 22:9)

All consecrated animals that are piggul, slaughtered with the intention of being eaten after their allotted time are to be burned along with those being eaten beyond their allotted place.

Today's Mishna ends with a caveat: we may burn the bread and oil oil of ritually defiled teruma.  Teruma is given to kohanim as a gift and the priests can derive benefit from it even after defilement.  The example given is that something that cannot be eaten is permitted to be used as fuel.  Other than this, items must be burned and no benefit can be derived from them.