תמורה ו׳:א׳ - ו׳:ב׳

כל האסורים לגבי מזבח (all [animals] which are prohibited for the altar – that they are invalid for offering as a sacrifice. And you consider them and further.

אסורין בכל שהן (prohibit in any number at all [animals among which they are confused]) – and even if they were combined one in one-thousand, all of them are forbidden to the altar, if it was not known. And all of them are found that they are not known, except for the torn animal which is not found and is not known other that, as for example, the lion or the wolf attacked that are mixed with the vital organ perforated by a thorn.

הרובע והנרבע והמוקצה והנעבד – they are ineligible for the altar. As it states in Scripture (Leviticus 22:25): “for they are mutilated, they have a defect,” and it is taught in a Baraitha, every place where it states, “they are mutilated,” is none other than unchastity and idolatry. Unchastity, as it is written (Genesis 6:12): “for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth.” Idolatry, as it is written (Deuteronomy 4:16): “not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image [in any likeness whatever: the form of a man or a woman].” The one (i.e., animal) that has sexual relations with a human being and the one (i.e., animal) with whom a human being has sexual relations that is taught in our Mishnah, as for example that he had sex or has sexual relations with an animal with one witness or by the owners, and is not stoned in this, but they are disqualified from being a sacrifice.

מוקצה – an animal that was set aside for idolatry. And it is not disqualified for being offed up until they should do with it an act for the purposes of idolatry, as for example, that the [non-Jewish] priests served it if it was a bull or sheared it if it was a sheep.

ונעבד – it is not prohibited to derive benefit even though he worshipped it, for living creatures are not prohibited to derive benefit when we serve them, but they are disqualified to the altar.

ואתנן ומחיר (and the harlot’s hire and the price of a dog) – Scripture specifically disqualifies them (Deuteronomy 23:19): “You shall not bring the fee of a whore or the pay of a dog [into the house of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both are abhorrent to the LORD your God].”

וכלאים – a he-goat that comes upon a ewe.

והטריפה – as it is written regarding tithes (Leviticus 27:32): “[All tithes of the herd or the flock] – of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff,” excluding the torn animal that does not pass [under the shepherd’s staff] and the sacrifice of the altar is derived from the tithe of cattle.

ויוצא דופן – that its mother was torn and they removed the fetus through the caesarian section, and we exclude it from Scripture as it is written (Leviticus 22:27): “[When an ox or a sheep or a goat] is born”, excluding through caesarian section.

הוא אסור – for the altar.

ומה שעליו מותר – for that is not worshipped.

הוא ומה שעליו אסור – it is prohibited for the altar, but is permitted even for eating, as it will be mentioned nearby. But what is upon it, the jewelry that is upon it are prohibited from deriving benefit for they were worshipped and they have on them the grasp of a human hand.

האומר לזונה – whether she is a heathen woman or an Israelite woman, and it shall be one of those liable for violating a negative commandment and one doesn’t have to say from one who is liable for extirpation and death by the Jewish court. But the hire of a harlot of a free woman, and she is an Israelite, is not disqualified for the Altar, for this is not the hire of a harlot, for she is not forbidden from marrying into the priesthood with this sexual act. And similarly, the hire [of a harlot] that was given as wife to a man is not disqualified, but a male hire, is disqualified.

אפילו מאה כולן אסורים – he made a condition with her to give her one lamb as her hire and sent her even one-hundred, we don’t say that one that I will give with her will be a hire [for harlot] and these others are all a gift, but all of them are considered hire for harlot and prohibited [as an offering].

ותלין שפחתך אצל עבדי – we are speaking of my Hebrew slave who does not have a wife and children, for his master does not have permission to provides to him a Canaanite maid servant to beget from her slaves because he didn’t have a wife from the outset. Therefore, her being a hire for harlotry is prohibited according to the words of the Sages. But Rabbi [Judah the Prince] who stated that it is not the hire of a harlot, he doesn’t hold this reasoning, for certainly even if he lacks a wife and children, his master provides for him a Canaanite maid servant. Alternatively, even if he holds this reasoning, he holds that since a Hebrew slave was permitted from its general rule with a Canaanite maid servant, it is not considered a hire of a harlot. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi [Judah the Prince].