Once an animal is permitted for personal use, it is not required to meet the laws pertaining to me'ila. On today's Gemara, Rabbi Yehoshua summarizes this law:
"Rabbi Yehoshua set the general rule: Whatever has once been permitted to the priests
is not subject to the laws of sacrifice, and anything that has not been permitted to be
used by the priests is subject to the laws of sacrifice. What does it mean to say that
something has had a period of fitness for the priests? That which stayed overnight or
became defiled or was taken out of the Temple courtyard What does it mean to say that
something did not have a period of fitness for the priests? That which was slaughtered
after its proper time or outside its proper place, or the blood that was received and
sprinkled by an unfit priest."
Bar Kappara discussed the notion of "being permitted to the priests" with his nephew, bar Pedat. Bar Kappa asked whether this referred to the slaughter of the animal, the sprinkling of blood, or actually being permitted to eat the animal.
After the slaughter, the animal is permitted to the priests because the Temple service is only for them at this time. After the sprinkling of the blood, the animal will be shared by the priests. Is receiving the blood enough to consider the meat to be possessed by the priests, or is it necessary to wait until the sprinkling for the transfer of possession to take place?
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