Today's Mishnah Yomi
Kerisos 1:2 - 1:3
The Mishnah Yomi for Sunday, February 15, 2026 is Kerisos 1:2 - 1:3
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Kerisos Perek 1 Mishnah 2
כריתות פרק א׳ משנה ב׳
Bartenura
ועל שגגתן חטאת. שגגה שחייבים עליה חטאת היא, כגון הבא על אחת מן העריות כסבור שהיא אשתו, והעובד עבודה זרה שמשתחוה לה כסבור זיבוח וקיטור וניסוך אסרה תורה ולא השתחויה, והמחלל את השבת כסבור חול הוא, וכן כל כיוצא בזה שיודע בעיקר האיסור אלא שנעלם ממנו זה המעשה שעושה. אבל האומר מותר לגמרי, דעוקר כל הגוף, כגון האומר אין שבת בתורה, אין עבודה זרה בתורה, לא שוגג הוא זה אלא אנוס גמור הוא ופטור:
לא הודע. כגון שני זיתים אחד של חלב ואחד של שומן, אכל אחד מהם ואינו יודע איזה מהן אכל. אשתו ואחותו עמו במטה, בא על אחת מהן ואינו יודע על איזו מהן בא:
אשם תלוי. לפי שבא על הספק קרוי אשם תלוי, שתולה ומגין עליו מן היסורים, ואינו מכפר, שאם נודע אליו אח״כ בבירור שחטא, מביא חטאת קבועה:
המטמא מקדש וקדשיו. שנכנס למקדש כשהוא טמא, או אכל קדשים בטומאה:
מפני שהוא בעולה ויורד. ואין אשם תלוי בא אלא על דבר שזדונו כרת ושגגתו חטאת קבועה, והאי הואיל ושגגתו בעולה ויורד, אין בלא הודע שלו אשם תלוי:
אף המגדף. אין מביאין על שגגתו חטאת, ועל לא הודע שלו נמי אין חייבים אשם תלוי. דרחמנא אמר גבי חטאת, לעושה בשגגה, פרט למגדף שאין בו מעשה. והלכה כחכמים:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Kerisos Perek 1 Mishnah 3
כריתות פרק א׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
כמין בהמה חיה ועוף – since it was stated about them – a creation like mankind. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.
סנדל (a flat fish-shaped abortion -see Tractate Niddah, Chapter 3, Mishnah 4) – it is offspring but its form is hollowed out/reduce in size. And the language/word סנדל – it is hated and thin/sparse. Such is what I found. But my teachers/Rabbis explained that it is a piece of meat/flesh that is made like the form of a sandal and regularly comes with offspring.
שליא (after-birth/placenta) – for there is no afterbirth without the offspring.
שפיר מרוקם (and if the fetus was articulated – see Tractate Niddah, Chapter 3, Mishnah 3a – to form the limbs of the embryo) – the hide that the offspring is articulated in, that has within it the form of small limbs. For since it was made like the egg-shell, it is called שפיר .
וכן שפחה שהפילה – for you might think I would say, that when we say that all commandments that a woman is obligated for [to perform], a slave is obligated for it [as well], these words [refer to] commandments that are equivalent for a man and a woman, but there is among women those who give birth [to offspring] but they are not found among men, I could say that a maidservant is not liable, therefore, it was taught, “and similarly, a maidservant who aborts [brings an offering and it is eaten].”
כמין בהמה חיה ועוף. הואיל ונאמרה בהן יצירה כאדם. ואין הלכה כר׳ מאיר:
סנדל. ולד הוא, אלא שנפחתה צורתו. ולשון סנדל, שנאוי ודל. כך מצאתי. ורבותי פירשו שהיא חתיכת בשר עשויה כצורות סנדל ורגילה לבוא עם ולד:
שליא. שאין שליא בלא ולד:
שפיר מרוקם. עור שהולד מרוקם בו שיש בתוכו צורת אברים קטנים. ולפי שעשוי כשפופרת של ביצה קרוי שפיר:
וכן שפחה שהפילה. דסלקא דעתך אמינא כי קאמרינן כל מצות שהאשה חייבת בה עבד חייב בה, הני מילי מצוות השוות באיש ובאשה, אבל יולדת דבנשים איתא ובאנשים ליתא אימר לא תחייב שפחה, להכי תני וכן שפחה שהפילה:
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ועל שגגתן חטאת – an inadvertent [act] that we are liable for it a sin-offering, as, for example, a person who comes upon one of those forbidden on account of consanguinity thinking that she is his wife, and/or the person who practices idol worship by prostrating to it, thinking that the Torah forbad [only] slaughtering of a sacrifice, offering incense and the act of libation, but not prostration, and/or a person who violates the Sabbath thinking that it was a weekday, and similarly, anything similar to this that he knows the essence of the prohibition but that this act that he was doing was hidden from him [that it is forbidden]. But the person who says that it is completely permitted, that uproots the body, as for example, who states that there is no Shabbat in the Torah, that idolatry is not forbidden in the Torah, this one is not acting inadvertently, but rather he is the victim of an accident/is the victim of an unavoidable accident and he is exempt [from a sin offering].
לא הודע (it is not made known, conscious) – as, for example, two olives, one of forbidden fat and one of permitted fat, he ate one of them and does not know which of them he ate; [and/or] his wife and his his sister are with him in bed and he has comes upon one of them [for sexual relations] and he doesn’t know upon which of them he came.
אשם תלוי (uncertain guilt offering) – because he comes on a doubt, which is called, an uncertain guilt offering, that suspends and protects him from the suffering/trials, and does not atone, but if became known to him afterwards with certainty that he had sinned, he brings the regular sin-offering.
המטמא מקדש וקדשיו – that he enters into the Temple when he is [ritually] impure or [as a Kohen] eats Holy Things while in a state of impurity.
מפני שהוא בעולה ויורד (sliding-scale offering – for entering the Temple or partaking of sacrifices while ritually impure) – but the guilt offering does not come other than a matter where its willful violation is [punishable] by extirpation and its inadvertent [sin] is through a fixed sin-offering, but this, since his inadvertent act is with a sliding scale offering (i.e., the rich bring a a sacrifice from the sheep and the poor brings either two doves or two pigeons – see Leviticus 5:2-11), there isn’t through his lack of awareness a guilt offering.
אף המגדף – we don’t bring on his inadvertent sin a sin offering, and on his not being aware, also, he is not liable for a guilt offering, for the Merciful stated regarding a sin-offering (Numbers 15:29): “[You shall have one law for him] that does anything unwittingly,” except for one who blasphemes, which does not have an action. And the Halakah is according to the Sages.