Kinnim 22

Kinnim is a term used to refer to pairs of birds that were brought as sacrifices in the temple. Sometime they were brought as obligitory offering and something as voluntary. The obligatory offering are for a woman after childbirth and a leper who couldn’t afford an animal, would bring a pair of birds, a zav and zavah, nazir who became impure, and one who is obligated to bring a sliding scale offering and is poor, but not terribly poor. One is brought as a sin offering and one as a birth offering. For the voluntary offering, the pair is sacrificed both as burnt offerings. Laws regarding the sacrificing of sin and burnt offerings are different. The mishna dicusses cases where a burnt offering got mixed up with an obligatory or the reverse or pairs of birds of one woman that got mixed up with another woman’s.

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