תלמוד על כריתות 5:10
Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim
There, we have stated224Mishnah Keritut 5:1.: “Rebbi Jehudah declares liable for squeezed blood225If an animal is slaughtered by having its throat cut, the blood pumped out from the carotid arteries by the heart is called “life blood”; all other blood is “squeezed out” blood unfit for sacrificial use. For the majority, all blood is prohibited (Lev. 7:23) but only life blood is forbidden on penalty of extirpation (Lev. 17:10). R. Jehudah disagrees since life blood is mentioned only in v. 17:11..” Rebbi Joḥanan said, Rebbi Jehudah added it only for extirpation226He agrees that only life blood is qualified for the altar.. There came Rebbi Ḥizqiah, Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Rebbi Jehudah added it only for extirpation. There227Tosephta 4:12; Babli 65a, Zevaḥim34b, 60a., they are saying in the name of Rav Ḥisda: a baraita227Tosephta 4:12; Babli 65a, Zevaḥim34b, 60a. says so: “They said to him, is that not squeezed blood? And squeezed blood is disqualified on the altar228As explained at the end of the paragraph.. And also from the following, most of it was not received in a vessel, and blood not received in a vessel is disqualified on the altar229Mishnah Zevaḥim 2:1..” Does Rebbi Jehudah hold that blood invalidates blood230In Mishnah Zevaḥim 8:6, R. Jehudah is quoted as saying that no blood invalidates blood. Therefore if only a small portion of the blood collected in the cup was qualified, the remainder is disregarded and the entire contents can be poured on the altar.? Since he did not reply, it follows that he accepted their position231A possible interpretation of the Mishnah here.. Since in the other case he does not hold so but did not respond, so here he does not hold so but did not respond232Since we know that R. Jehudah holds that no blood invalidates blood and he is not reported to have answered the argument in the Tosephta, nothing can be inferred from his silence in the Mishnah.. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun in the name of Rav Ḥisda: a baraita223The priests stood on elevated benches above the accumulated blood. Since the priestly garments are enumerated in Ex. 28 and shoes are not mentioned there, the priests had to officiate barefoot, their feet touching the floor of the courtyard. Therefore one has to assume that the benches were rows of stones connected to the floor and counted as floor. Babli 65b. says so: “Not only life blood for sancta, matter appropriate for atonement, from where life blood for profane animals and squeezed blood for both sancta and profane animals? The verse says blood and all blood. When it is about life it mentions atonement, for squeezed blood it does not mention atonement234This is R. Jehudah’s argument. In Lev.17:10 all blood is prohibited under penalty of extirpation. In Lev. 17:11 blood is the carrier of life, showing that life blood used for atonement is less than all blood. Babli 65a..
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