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Zevahim 12: Designate Your Offerings (+ an example of rabbinic unanimity)

09.26.2025 | ד׳ בתשרי תשפ״ו

More on the timing of the slaughtering of the Korban Pesach – whether it needs to be done in the afternoon of the 14th of Nisan or whether the morning of the 14th works too. Also, a newborn animal and how it can’t be offered and also can’t be given as a tithe. Plus, the case of one who does wrong (eating forbidden fat), designates his sin-offering, becomes a heretic (so his designation is negated and the offering is disqualified), and then comes back to faith — is the offering reinstated? What about someone who loses his cognitive abilities (at the same point where the first one became a heretic), and then he was healed – is the offering reinstated? Both cases are necessary, as the Gemara explains. What if the court rules that the fat isn’t actually forbidden? And then retracts the ruling that it was permitted – is that offering disqualified or no? Plus, the time that all the sages agreed.

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Anne Gordon is the deputy editor of Ops & Blogs at The Times of Israel. She is a veteran educator, having taught in high school and post-high school institutions in Israel and America for several decades. Yardaena Osband is a pediatrician and teaches in her community and online. They both hail from Boston, proud alumna of Maimonides School, where they first learned Gemara. Talking Talmud is their conversation (via podcast) on the daf yomi. They say: “Learning the daf? We have something for you to think about. Not learning the daf? We have something for you to think about! (Along with a taste of the daf…) Join the conversation with us!”

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