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Zevahim 44: Pigul, Clarified

10.28.2025 | ו׳ בחשון תשפ״ו

Anything that has permitting factors – specifically, in this case, for the consumption of the consecrated offerings – will, depending, avoid the complicating factor of pigul. If pigul is established with regard to the peace-offering (shelamim), how can it apply to other offerings that aren’t quite parallel to the shelamim? The Gemara explains it all very clearly, and pigul indeed is extended even to the oil that the person recovering from tzara’at offers (including non-shelamim meat offerings, bird offerings, and grain offerings). Such a clear delineation of pigul! Also, how it is that kohanim can eat from bird offerings. Plus, the grain offerings and atonement coming from the less likely source of the grain and the birds. With verses to teach it all.

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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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