Pesahim 62

A.

Rav Ashi - Intention for uncircumcised

Rabbah – valid because not eligible

Rav Hisda – invalid because potentially eligible

Cooking Yom Tov for weekday

Rabbah – no lashes because potential guests

Rav Hisda – liable because potential doesn’t count

B.

Part is more lenient that whole

uncircumcised // impure people - Mishnah has both?

Impure meat

Doesn’t apply to all offerings - Uncircumcised // impurity?

Impure people

Impure meat

Has no exceptions – uncircumcised // piggul

Impure people

Impure meat

C.

Miscategorized sacrifice not on 14 Nisan

potential like actual? Exodus 12:27

Rabbi Simlai Story

Does intent for wrong owner validate a Pesah offering not on 14 Nisan?

Rav Papa – Yes

Rava No

Mishnah

Invalid eaters

Timing of Pesah

Intends at slaughter that uncircumcised should receive atonement during sprinkling?

Rav Hisda – invalid

Rabbah – valid

Proof for Rabbah:

Some uncircumcised??

“This” limits. Already derived from “all” that valid

Therefore, all uncircumcised during sprinkling -valid

Rav Hisda – “This” even some uncircumcised during sprinkling is invalid

Rav Ashi – rejects both

Mishnah

4 activities

For Pesah and for peace-offering

For peace-offering and for Pesah

Rav Papa asks – Within one activity, Pesah – Peace offering?

Attempted Proofs that within one activity

Proof 1 – Mishnah p. 1

Proof 2 – Mishnah p. 2

Proof 3 – Next Mishnah p. 1

Proof 4 – Next Mishnah p. 2

Does Mixed intention not on 14 Nisan validate a sacrifice?

Rav Dimi – invalid – mirror image

Rav Yirmiah – valid – unique and so weaker

Rava – valid – default with intention, same if expressed

Rav Ada – invalid – comparison to next Mishnah p. 2

Pesahim 59 - Order of the Evening:

Baraita 1

Tamid (ben haarbaim)

Pesah (ben haarbaim + erev)

Ketoret (with Menorah)

Menorah (from evening until morning)

Baraita 2

Tamid

Ketoret

Menorah (from evening until morning)

Pesah (ben haarbaim + erev)

Baraita 3

Morning - First Ketoret (morning morning)

Afternoon – Tamid, Ketoret, Menorah, Pesah

And also atonement sacrifices on erev pesah

R. Yishmael    - all year round

Why does atonement override tamid last?

Rav Hisda – birds that aren’t burned

Rav Papa – animal left on side of altar

Challenge to Rav Hisda

2 Challenges to Rav Papa

Rav Kahana’s contradictory verses

Rav Safra’s contradictory verses

Pesahim 58 – Schedules for the Daily Afternoon Offering

Mishnah:

Regular weekday 8½ (& 9½ = 2:30 & 3:30PM)

Erev Pesah Weekday or Shabbat - 7½

Erev Pesah Friday - 6½

Gemara:

A. 2 derivations for this schedule

B. Baraita of R. Ishmael and R. Akiva

Abaye – arguing about Shabbat Erev Pesah 7½ or 6½

Rava – arguing about Shabbat Erev Pesah 8½ or 7½

Rabbah bar Ula – regular Shabbat 8½ or 7½

Challenge to Rava

Challenge to Abaye

C. Derivation that tamid offerings are first and last

Pesahim 56 – Six practices in Jericho

Rabbis did not protest:

[1] pollinating trees

[2] sandwiched Shema

[3] reaped and piled before omer

Rabbis protested:

[4] used consecrated branches

[5] ate fallen fruit

[6] gave peah on veges (skipped maaser)

6 actions of Hezekiah

Rabbis did not protest:

[1] pollinating trees

Pouring concotion

Inserting trees

[2] sandwiching Shema

Not pausing

Not punctuating

Skipping barukh shem

[3] reaped and piled before omer

Erase “reaped”

Rabbis protested:

[4] used consecrated branches

Jericho thought just the trunk is consecrated

[5] ate fallen fruit

Only a problem with fruit falled on upper branches

Not mukseh because ravens could eat them

[6] gave peah on veges (skipped maaser)

Dispute about turnips since they can be pickled

Pesahim 55

A. Don’t be Presumptuous

Comparing working on 9 Av

And reciting Shema on wedding night

B. Working on Erev Pesah

R. Meir – Custom

R. Yehuda - Law

C. Limits on permitted activity on Erev Pesah

R. Meir – May not begin a new project

What if you need them for the holiday?

Attempted Proof 1 - prohibited

Attempted Proof 2 – prohibited

Proof 3 – prohibited

Sages – 3 craftsmen may begin projects

D. Comparing Erev Pesah to Hol ha-Mo`ed

Chicken on the Egg

Sweeping the Barn

Delivering to/from the craftsmen

Pesahim 54 – Before Creation

A. Did R. Yohanan require fire for Yom Kippur Havdalah?

R. Abba – no

Ula and R. Binyamin – yes

Challenge from Baraita

Yom Kippur only pre-existing fire

B. When was fire created?

a) 10 creation during twilight

Saturday night – our fire

Friday twilight – fire of Gehinom

b) 7 creations before day one

Monday – fire of Gehinom

Friday twilight – potential to make fire

Saturday night – our fire

c) 2 potential creations during twilight

Who made the first mule? Adah

d) 10+ creations during twilight

e) 7 unknowns

f) 3+ thoughtful phenomenon

C. Mishnah – working on 9 Av

May one eat during twilight of 9 Av?

Shmuel - yes

R. Yohanan – no

May one wash a finger on 9 Av?

Pesahim 53

A. Last fruits remaining for Sheviit

B. What grows best in various areas

C. Mishnah – selling animals to non-Jews

D. Roasting meat on Passover post-destruction

1. Rav - Don’t say “this is for Pesah”

2. Author of Theodorus story

(& prohibition to say “Pesah”)

R. Shimon – improper formulation is null

R. Yose – all clauses must be valid

3. Was Theodorus a sage or a thug?

E. Yom Kipur Lights

No fire for Yom Kippur Havdalah – Shmuel

No fire for Yom Kippur Friday night – R. Yohanan