Beth Shammai dice: [festival] le offerte di pace possono essere portate (su yom tov) perché sono destinate al consumo umano; ma s'michah (la collocazione delle mani sulla testa dell'offerta) non può essere eseguito. [Ma s'michah viene eseguito alla vigilia della festa, Beth Shammai non richiede: "E metterà ... e macellerà" (Levitico 1: 4-5), che la macellazione seguirà immediatamente la collocazione.] [Individuale] bruciato -offerte, tuttavia, non sono (da portare su yom tov), [anche l'olocausto di "vedere"; poiché può essere offerto negli altri giorni del festival, essendo scritto (Numeri 29:39): "Deve esserci un'assemblea solenne per te"— per te, ma non per l'Altissimo.] E Beth Hillel dice: È permesso portare offerte di pace e olocausti [di "vedere"] e di eseguire s'michah su di loro, [scritto (Deuteronomio 16 : 8): "un'assemblea solenne per la L" —tutto ciò che è per la L. Ma tutti concordano sul fatto che le offerte di voto e le offerte di regali, siano esse bruciate o offerte di pace, non vengano sacrificate su Yom Tass.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Chagigah
מביאין שלמים – Festival peace-offerings, because there was a need through them for food for the commoner.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chagigah
Introduction
In this mishnah Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel debate which sacrifices may be brought on Yom Tov and whether it is permitted to lay hands on them. The second of these debates is the same as the debate in yesterday’s mishnah.
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ואין סומכין עליהם – but he presses hands [on the head of the sacrifice, to demonstrate ownership] while it is still daylight. For we do not require “and he laid hands and slaughtered, that immediately following laying of the hands is the slaughtering.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Chagigah
Bet Shammai say: They may bring thanksgiving offerings [on Yom Tov] but they may not lay their hands on them, and [they may not bring] wholly burnt-offerings. And Bet Hillel say: They may bring thanksgiving offerings and wholly burnt-offerings and lay their hands on them. The debate here is over two subjects. 1) Can wholly burnt-offerings be brought on Yom Tov? 2) When a sacrifice is brought on Yom Tov, do they lay their hands on the sacrifice as is usually mandated with sacrifices? Bet Shammai states that wholly burnt-offerings cannot be brought on Yom Tov at all since they are not eaten. The Torah permits preparing food on Yom Tov (see Tractate Betzah) but since wholly-burnt offerings are not food, they may not be prepared on Yom Tov. The wholly burnt offering which must be brought on account of the festival (re’eyah) should be sacrificed during the festival week. Bet Hillel allows the bringing of wholly burnt offerings because they hold that any work that is permitted when it is done in the preparation of food is also permitted when it is done for other reasons. Bet Shammai rules as did their eponymous leader in the previous mishnah, that it is forbidden to lay hands on the sacrificial animal on Yom Tov because that is considered to be making the animal work. Bet Hillel allows this, reasoning that if the sacrifice is allowed, all of the acts that accompany the sacrifice are also allowed.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Chagigah
אבל לא עולות – the individual burnt-offering, and even the burnt-offering of appearance [in the Temple], for he is able to offer it on the rest of the days of the festival, as the Biblical verse says, (Numbers 29:35): “[On the eighth day] you shall hold a solemn gathering; [you shall not work at your occupations],” for yourselves but not for “On-High” (i.e., God).
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Bartenura on Mishnah Chagigah
ובית הלל אומרים מביאין – Festival peace-offerings and burnt offerings of appearance [in the Temple], as it is written (Deuteronomy 16:8): “[After eating unleavened bread six days,] you shall hold a solemn gathering for the LORD [you God on the seventh day: you shall do no work],” everything is for God, but vows and free-will donations, whether [they are] burnt-offerings or peace offerings, it is the words of all [Sages] that they are not offered on the Festivals.
