Today's Mishnah Yomi
Zevachim 8:8 - 8:9
The Mishnah Yomi for Sunday, August 10, 2025 is Zevachim 8:8 - 8:9
Mishnah 1
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זבחים פרק ח׳ משנה ח׳
Bartenura
דם תמימים שנתערב בדם בעלי מומין ישפך לאמה. ובהא לא פליג ר׳ אליעזר, דעבר בזריקתן משום לא תקריבו:
נתערב כוס בכוסות. כוס דם של בעל מום בכוסות של דם כשר, ואין ידוע איזהו כוס של דם בעל מום:
ר׳ אליעזר אומר אם קרב אחד מהם כו׳. כדרך שנחלקו באברים ואברי בעלי מומין, כך נחלקו בכוסות, וכדפרישנא לעיל. וצריכא לאפלוגי בתרווייהו, דאי אשמועינן באברים, בהא קאמר רבי אליעזר יקרבו משום דאתעבידא כפרתן בהכשר, דהיינו זריקת דמן שהיא עיקר כפרה, אבל גבי כוס בכוסות דעיקר כפרה בקלקול, אימא לא, צריכא:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Zevachim Perek 8 Mishnah 9
זבחים פרק ח׳ משנה ט׳
Bartenura
הנתנין למטה – from the red line. As, for example, blood of the burnt-offering and the guilt-offering and the peace-offering and the firstling and the Passover offering and the tithe [which are offered below the red line], that were mixed up with the blood of the sin-offering which was sprinkled above [the red line].
רבי אליעזר אומר יתן למעלה – gifts of sin-offerings. But even though that the blood of the lower sacrifices (i.e., sprinkled below the red line) ae mixed with it. For since he doesn’t intend to place/sprinkle the lower ones above, I see them as if they are water. And because it is a Mitzvah to advance the upper ones over the lower ones, for all of the sin-offerings precede the burnt-offerings, therefore, he sprinkles above first and afterward the lower ones, and in sprinkling the lower ones, it will count for him the spilling of the residue of the sin-offering and beginning of the gifts of the burnt-offering.
ישפכו לאמה – they don’t accept “seeing” (i.e., as in viewing the blood from the sacrifices sprinkled below the red line as water).
ואם לא נמלך ונתן כשר – for he sprinkled from it above. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.
הנתנין למטה. מחוט הסקרא. כגון דם עולה ואשם ושלמים ובכור ופסח ומעשר, שנתערבו בדם חטאת שהוא ניתן למעלה:
ר׳ אליעזר אומר יתן למעלה. מתנות חטאת. ואע״פ שדם התחתונים מעורב בו. הואיל ואינו מתכוין לתת התחתונים למעלה רואה אני אותם כאילו הם מים. ומפני שמצוה להקדים עליונים לתחתונים, שכל החטאות קודמות לעולות, הלכך נותן למעלה תחלה ואח״כ למטה, ונתינת מטה תעלה לו לשפיכת שיריים של חטאת ולהתחלת מתנות עולה:
ישפכו לאמה. דלית להו רואים:
ואם לא נמלך ונתן כשר. דהא ניתן ממנו למעלה. ואין הלכה כר׳ אליעזר:
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דם תמימים שנתערב בדם בעלי מומין ישפך לאמה – and in this, Rabbi Eliezer does not dispute, for he transgressed through their sprinkling because of (Leviticus 22:20): “You shall not offer any that has a defect.”
נתער בכוס שבכוסות – a cup of blood of an animal with a blemish with cups of kosher blood, and it is not known which cup of blood is that of a blemished animal.
ר' אליעזר אומר אם קרב אחד מהם כו' – in the manner that they disputed with the limbs [of kosher animals] and the limbs of animals with blemishes (see Mishnah 5 of this chapter), so they also disputed with regard to cups, as it is explained above. And it is necessary to dispute on both of them, for if we were to teach [only] regarding limbs, it is in this that Rabbi Eliezer states that they should be offered because their expiation is effected with the kosher [blood], that is, with the sprinkling of their blood which is the essence of the atonement, but regarding a cup [of one kind of blood] that was mixed with cups [of another kind of blood], that the essence of expiation is through deterioration, I would say, no. so both are necessary.