Today's Mishnah Yomi
Zevachim 12:1 - 12:2
The Mishnah Yomi for Sunday, August 24, 2025 is Zevachim 12:1 - 12:2
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Zevachim Perek 12 Mishnah 1
זבחים פרק י"ב משנה א׳
Bartenura
טבול יום. שטבל ועלה ולא העריב שמשו:
ומחוסר כפורים. כגון זב ומצורע ויולדת שטבלו והעריב שמשן ולא הביאו כפרתן:
אינן חולקים בקדשים. הואיל ואין ראויין לאכילה אין חולקים לאכול לערב כשיטהרו, דכתיב (ויקרא ו׳:י״ט) הכהן המחטא אותה יאכלנה, כהן הראוי לחטוי חולק, שאינו ראוי לחטוי אינו חולק. ואי אפשר לומר כהן שאינו ראוי לחטוי בשעת הקרבה אינו אוכל, דהא איכא קטן דאינו ראוי לחטוי ואוכל, אלא על כרחך יאכלנה דאמר קרא יחלוק בה כדי לאכול ממנה קאמר, ומדאפקה קרא לחלוקה בלשון אכילה, שמע מינה דכהן הראוי לאכילה חולק, שאין ראוי לאכילה אינו חולק. הלכך בעלי מומין חולקין, שאע״פ שאין ראויין לחטוי, ראויין הן לאכילה, כדכתיב (שם כ״א) ומן הקדשים יאכל:
אונן נוגע. והוא שטבל ולא הסיח דעתו מן הטבילה כל זמן שהוא אונן. שאם הסיח דעתו ונגע, אפילו לאחר שטבל פסל:
וכל שאינו ראוי לעבודה אינו חולק בבשר. חוץ מבעלי מומין שאע״פ שאינן ראויין לעבודה חולקים בבשר, דרבינהו קרא בהדיא, דכתיב (שם) לחם אלהיו מקדשי הקדשים וגו׳, וכתיב (שם ו׳) כל זכר בבני אהרן יאכלנה, לרבות בעלי מומין למחלוקת, אי לאכילה הרי כבר אמור ומן הקדשים יאכל:
וטהור בשעת הקטר חלבים. שהוא כל הלילה. כגון שטבל וטהר בהערב שמש:
אינו חולק. שאין הכהן חולק בקדשים עד שיהא טהור משעת זריקת דמים עד שעת הקטר חלבים, ואם נטמא בין כך ובין כך אינו חולק:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Zevachim Perek 12 Mishnah 2
זבחים פרק י"ב משנה ב׳
Bartenura
כל של זכה המזבח בבשרה – such as that something making it (i.e., the meat) invalid occurred before sprinkling/tossing [of the blood], that there wasn’t a period of permissibility for the altar.
עורה לכהנים – for since the altar acquired its meat, for it was kosher/fit (see Chapter 1, Mishnah 1).
ואחד עולת אשה – as is it written (Leviticus 7:8): “So, too, the priest who offers a man’s burnt offering [shall keep the skin of the burnt offering that is offered],” I don’t have anything other than "עולת איש"/a man’s offering, from where do I learn about the burnt offering of a woman and/or that of slaves? The inference teaches us: "עולת עור"/the skin of the burnt offering: to use the additional word for the purpose of intimating something not otherwise included/widening the scope of a law. If so, why is it stated [in the Biblical verse]: "עולת איש"/a man’s offering? Excluding a person who decides by drawing lots to devote his burnt offering for the maintenance of the Temple that the hide is holy.
כל שלא זכה המזבח בבשרה. כגון שאירע בה פסול קודם זריקה, דלא היתה לה שעת היתר למזבח:
עורה לכהנים. הואיל וזכה המזבח בבשרה שהרי כשרה היא:
ואחד עולת אשה. דכתיב והכהן המקריב את עולת איש, אין לי אלא עולת איש, עולת נשים ועבדים מנין, ת״ל עור העולה, ריבה. אם כן למה נאמר עולת איש, פרט למתפיס עולתו לבדק הבית שהעור קדוש:
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טבול יום – he (i.e., a Kohen) who has immersed [in a ritual bath] and came out but his sunset has yet occurred (i.e., see the rationale provided by the Bartenura commentary in Tractate Berakhot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 1 for defining when the Shema is recited in the evening).
ומחוסר כפורים – such as person with a flux or a leper or a woman who gave birth who immersed [in a ritual bath] and their [respective] sunsets had arrived but they had not brought their atonement [sacrifices].
אינן חולקין בקדשים – since it is not appropriate for them to be eating [until they bring their sacrifices on the morrow], they do not divide [the food] for the evening when they become pure, as it is written (Leviticus 6:19): “The priest who offers it as a sin offering shall eat of it,” the Kohen that is appropriate for purification shares it, he who is not appropriate for purification does not share it. But it is impossible to state that a Kohen who is not appropriate for purification at the time of the offering does not eat, for there is a minor that is not appropriate for purification who consumes it, but by force, he should eat it, as the Biblical verse states, he should divide it in order to be able to eat from it, it is stated, for the Biblical verse excludes it from division in the language of seating, we learn from it that a Kohen who is appropriate for eating can divide it, but one who is not qualified for eating does not divide it. Therefore, those with blemishes divide it, even though they are not appropriate for purification, they are appropriate for eating, as it is written (Leviticus 21:22): “He may eat of the food of his God, of the most holy as well as the holy” (though as we learn in the previous verse, if the Kohen has a defect, he shall not be qualified to offer up the food of his God).
אונן נוגע – and he who immersed [in a ritual bath] but he whose mind was not diverted from his immersion all the while that he is a mourning a kinsman prior to burial. For if he diverted his mind and then touched it, even after he immersed [in a ritual bath], he has invalidated it.
וכל שאינו ראוי לעבודה אינו חולק בבשר – except for those who have blemishes for even though that they are not qualified for Temple service, they divide/share the meat, for we extend the scope of he Biblical verse explicitly, as it is written (Leviticus 21:22): “He may eat of the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy,” and it is written (Leviticus 6:11): “Only the males among Aaron’s descendants may eat of it,” to include those with defects for the sharing of the food, if for eating, it is already stated, “he may eat….as well as of the holy.”
וטהור בשעת הקטר חלבים – which is all night long (see the end of Tractate Berakhot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 1). As for example, that he immersed and was purified with the setting of the sun.
אינו חולק – for a Kohen does not share in the Holy Things until he is pure from the time of the sprinkling of the blood until the time of the burning of the fat, but if he became ritually impure between one and the other, he does not share in the Holy Things.