Comentario sobre Zevahim 5:4
הָעוֹלָה, קָדְשֵׁי קָדָשִׁים, שְׁחִיטָתָהּ בַּצָּפוֹן, וְקִבּוּל דָּמָהּ בִּכְלִי שָׁרֵת בַּצָּפוֹן, וְדָמָהּ טָעוּן שְׁתֵּי מַתָּנוֹת שֶׁהֵן אַרְבַּע, וּטְעוּנָה הֶפְשֵׁט וְנִתּוּחַ וְכָלִיל לָאִשִּׁים:
El Olah [una ofrenda que se quema por completo], [que está dentro de la categoría de] Kodshai Kodashim , se sacrifica en el norte [lado del altar] y su sangre se recoge en un recipiente consagrado en el norte [lado del altar ] Su sangre requiere dos aplicaciones que [suman] cuatro [cuando la sangre se aplica a una esquina toca dos lados del altar simultáneamente]. [El Olah ] debe ser desollado, desmembrado y completamente [quemado] en los incendios [del altar].
Bartenura on Mishnah Zevachim
העולה קדשי קדשים – [The burnt offering] is the Most Holy Things, and becomes disqualified if it leaves [outside of the Temple courtyard] and with a person wo immersed himself on that day (but if he is a priest, is remains prohibited for that day to eat Terumah/heave offering until nightfall), and someone lacking atonement (i.e., such as a person with a flux, a healed leper, who must bring an offering to complete their purification process) and those who commit an act of sacrilege, but because it is not written in Scripture that it is the Most Holy Things like with regard to the sin-offering and the guilt offering. The Tanna/teacher comes to teach us here that this is also of the Most Holy Things like the sin-offering and the guilt offering, for it is equivalent to them in the place of their slaughter and the recption of their blood.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zevachim
The olah is a most holy sacrifice.
It is slaughtered in the north, and its blood is received in a ministering vessel in the north; and its blood requires two applications, which are four.
It had to be flayed, dismembered, and completely consumed by the fire.
Today’s mishnah discusses the olah, the second of the three “most holy sacrifices.”
Section two: The olah, like the hatat and the asham, the other two most holy sacrifices, must be slaughtered on the north side of the altar. Its blood must be received in a ministering vessel. The priest then takes the blood and while standing on the floor of the Temple (and not on the walkway) he applies two blood applications. Both are on the lower part of the altar, the first on the northeastern corner and the other on the southwestern corner, thus causing the blood to spread in all four directions (see Leviticus 1:5). This is how two applications of blood can be considered four.
Section three: After the blood has been applied to the altar, the animal is flayed, dismembered and then all of its parts are burnt completely on the altar (see Leviticus 1:6-9). In English this is called the “wholly burned sacrifice.”
It is slaughtered in the north, and its blood is received in a ministering vessel in the north; and its blood requires two applications, which are four.
It had to be flayed, dismembered, and completely consumed by the fire.
Today’s mishnah discusses the olah, the second of the three “most holy sacrifices.”
Section two: The olah, like the hatat and the asham, the other two most holy sacrifices, must be slaughtered on the north side of the altar. Its blood must be received in a ministering vessel. The priest then takes the blood and while standing on the floor of the Temple (and not on the walkway) he applies two blood applications. Both are on the lower part of the altar, the first on the northeastern corner and the other on the southwestern corner, thus causing the blood to spread in all four directions (see Leviticus 1:5). This is how two applications of blood can be considered four.
Section three: After the blood has been applied to the altar, the animal is flayed, dismembered and then all of its parts are burnt completely on the altar (see Leviticus 1:6-9). In English this is called the “wholly burned sacrifice.”
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zevachim
שתי מתנות – in the northeastern corner/horn, and in the southwestern corner/horn which opposite forms a diagonal line/diameter, and the reason is because om the southeastern corner/horn, there was no base of the altar because it was not in the portion of Benjamin when Jacob prophesied about him (Genesis 49:27): “[Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;] In the morning he consumes the foe, [And in the evening he divides the spoil],” in his inheritance the Temple will be built, the thing that is sanctified for blood will not be other than in the portion of Benjamin, and that corner/horn, was not in his portion, for the Altar was taking effect in the portion of Judah, one cubit towards the east and one cubit in the south, all the length of the east and the south in the thickness of a cubit, but there wasn’t a cubit in the east throughout all of the east, for when it would reach the north eastern corner/horn, it would end within a cubit of the corner/horn. And similarly, regarding the ending of the southern cubit, it did not go throughout all of the south, for when it would reach the southwestern corner/horn, it would end a cubit, near the corner. It is found that the base of the altar exists for three corners/horns. Therefore, he would begin at the northeastern corner/horn, for since the southwestern corner/horn lacks a base to the altar because it was not in the portion of the prey which Jacob prophesied about. But the burnt offering requires at first the giving of the blood corresponding to the base of the altar. Therefore, it requires these two as we have stated. We require two gifts which are four, in order that the giving of the blood is on the four directions of the Altar, as it is written (Leviticus 1:5): “dashing the blood against all sides of the altar,” for if he sprinkled it, he could sprinkle it in one casting, the inference teaching us, “all sides/all around,” and it is impossible to surround it with one casting. And if it is all around, it is possible to float it like a string, the inference teaching us, “dashing/casting” and there is no dashing/casting, other than from afar, and like a string, it is impossible to surround it other than with a finger. How so? He gives two acts of placing which are [divided at the corners into] four.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zevachim
וטעונה הפשט ונתוח – as it is written (Leviticus 1:6): “The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into sections.”
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zevachim
וכליל לאשים – all of it is burnt on the fire.
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