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Bechoros 4:10 - 5:1

The Mishnah Yomi for Friday, December 12, 2025 is Bechoros 4:10 - 5:1

Mishnah 1

Mishnayos Bechoros Perek 4 Mishnah 10

בכורות פרק ד׳ משנה י׳

10
One who is suspect with regard to the Sabbatical Year is not suspect with regard to tithes; and likewise, one who is suspect with regard to tithes is not suspect with regard to the Sabbatical Year. One who is suspect with regard to this, the Sabbatical Year, or with regard to that, tithes, is suspect with regard to selling ritually impure foods as though they were ritually pure items. But there are those who are suspect with regard to ritually pure items who are not suspect with regard to this, the Sabbatical Year, nor with regard to that, tithes. This is the principle with regard to these matters: Anyone who is suspect with regard to a specific matter may neither adjudicate cases nor testify in cases involving that matter.
הֶחָשׁוּד עַל הַשְּׁבִיעִית, אֵינוֹ חָשׁוּד עַל הַמַּעַשְׂרוֹת. הֶחָשׁוּד עַל הַמַּעַשְׂרוֹת, אֵינוֹ חָשׁוּד עַל הַשְּׁבִיעִית. הֶחָשׁוּד עַל זֶה וְעַל זֶה, חָשׁוּד עַל הַטָּהֳרוֹת. וְיֵשׁ שֶׁהוּא חָשׁוּד עַל הַטָּהֳרוֹת, וְאֵינוֹ חָשׁוּד לֹא עַל זֶה וְלֹא עַל זֶה. זֶה הַכְּלָל, כָּל הֶחָשׁוּד עַל הַדָּבָר, לֹא דָנוֹ וְלֹא מְעִידוֹ:
י׳

אינו חשוד על המעשרות – and they purchase from him grain in the rest of the years of the Seven Year cycle, but they don’t tithe from them as definitively [tithed] but as a doubtfully tithed. And the reason is that he who is suspected [of violating] the Sabbatical Year is not suspected on account of tithes, and one who is suspected on account of tithes is not suspected on account of the Seventh Year [produce], because there is is in each of hen material that is not part of its partner; Seventh Year produce does not have be consumed inside the walls of Jerusalem, but Second Tithe is not consumed other than within/inside the wall [of Jerusalem]. Therefore, there is a more stringent punishment regarding [Second] Tithe than from the punishment of [not consuming] the Sabbatical Year produce. For the [Second] Tithe has redemption, but since the Seventh Year [produce] is forbidden, it does not have redemption, therefore, the Seventh Year is more stringent than from the [Second] Tithe.

החשוד על זה ועל זה – since he is suspected [of violating] a Torah prohibition all the more so, that he is suspect [of violating] on the purities, for they are from the Rabbis, that a person eats his unconsecrated produce in ritual purity.

ויש שחשוד על הטהרות – that are of the Rabbis, but is not suspected on account of Seventh Year produce and [Second] Tithe. For one that is suspected on a Rabbinic [legislation] is not suspected [of violation] of a Torah prohibition.

אינו חשוד על המעשרות. ולוקחים ממנו תבואה בשאר שני השבוע, ואין מעשרין מהן ודאי אלא דמאי. וטעמא דחשוד על השביעית אין חשוד על המעשרות וחשוד על המעשרות אין חשוד על השביעית, לפי שיש בכל אחד מהן חומר שאינו בחברו, שביעית אינה צריכה להאכל לפנים מחומת ירושלים, ומעשר שני אינו נאכל אלא לפנים מן החומה, הלכך איכא דחמיר ליה עונש מעשר מעונש שביעית. ומעשר אית ליה פדיון, ושביעית כיון שנאסרה אין לה פדיון, הלכך איכא דחמיר עליה שביעית ממעשר:

החשוד על זה ועל זה. כיון דחשוד אדאורייתא כל שכן דחשוד על הטהרות, דמדרבנן הוא שיהא אדם אוכל חולין בטהרה:

ויש שחשוד על הטהרות. דרבנן, ואינו חשוד לשביעית ומעשרות. דמאן דחשוד אדרבנן לא חשוד אדאורייתא:

Mishnah 2

Mishnayos Bechoros Perek 5 Mishnah 1

בכורות פרק ה׳ משנה א׳

1
With regard to all disqualified consecrated animals that were disqualified for sacrifice due to blemishes and were redeemed, all benefit accrued from their sale belongs to the Temple treasury. In order to ensure that the Temple treasury will not suffer a loss, these animals are sold in the butchers’ market [ba’itliz] and slaughtered in the butchers’ market, where the demand is great and the price is consequently higher. And their meat is weighed and sold by the litra, in the manner that non-sacred meat is sold. This is the halakha with regard to all consecrated animals except for the firstborn offering and an animal tithe offering. When these become blemished and their slaughter is permitted, they are sold and slaughtered only in the owner’s house and are not weighed; rather, they are sold by estimate. The reason is that all benefit accrued from their sale belongs to the owner, i.e., the priest in the case of the firstborn and the owner in the case of the animal tithe offering. It is not permitted to treat disqualified consecrated animals as one treats non-sacred animals merely to guarantee that the owner will receive the optimal price. This is in contrast to disqualified consecrated animals, where all benefit accrued from their sale belongs to the Temple treasury, and therefore the animal is sold in the market to ensure that the optimal price is received. And although the meat of the firstborn is not weighed and sold by the litra, nevertheless, if one has non-sacred meat weighing one hundred dinars, one may weigh one portion of non-sacred meat against one portion of the meat of the firstborn, because that is unlike the manner in which non-sacred meat is weighed.
כָּל פְּסוּלֵי הַמֻּקְדָּשִׁין (הֲנָאָתָן לַהֶקְדֵּשׁ), נִמְכָּרִין בָּאִטְלִיז (וְנִשְׁחָטִין בָּאִטְלִיז) וְנִשְׁקָלִין בְּלִטְרָא, חוּץ מִן הַבְּכוֹר וּמִן הַמַּעֲשֵׂר, שֶׁהֲנָיָתָן לַבְּעָלִים. פְּסוּלֵי הַמֻּקְדָּשִׁין הֲנָיָתָן לַהֶקְדֵּשׁ. וְשׁוֹקְלִין מָנֶה כְנֶגֶד מָנֶה בַּבְּכוֹר:
א׳

כל פסולי המוקדשין (all consecrated animals that are disqualified) – Holy Things that had a blemish befall them, if we sell them at a high price, it is a benefit of discretion to Temple property. Therefore, they are sold in the bazaar/shop, that is the marketplace where they sell in the rest of the unconsecrated meat and there it is sold at a high price.

ונשקלין בליטרא – to be sold in the manner that the butchers sell unconsecrated meat, for since they are able to sell it at a high price, they add to its worth when they redeem them from Temple property.

חוץ מן הבכור ומן המעשר – that if they are sold at a high price their benefit is to owners. The firstling, its benefit is to the Kohen, for the meat of a firstling is consumed by everyone, but the Kohen sells it and takes its monetary worth, for the Kohen is called the owners of the firstling. But because of the benefit of the regular individual/commoner, we do not treat lightly Holy Things to treat them with the custom of unconsecrated things to sell them in a bazaar/shop, but rather in his house, and even though people will not cut the meat so much. But they are not measured with a litra but rather by estimation, and if he loses [a bit], it does not matter.

ושוקלין מנה כנגד מנה – that if he has a piece of unconsecrated meat that is weighted in the litra, he can weigh the meat of a firstling against it. But tithes we don’t weigh a Maneh against a Maneh, for at it appears as if he sells it, and the tithe of cattle it is prohibited to sell it at all because it is not written regarding it (see Numbers 18:17): “[But the firstlings of cattle, sheep, or goats] may not be redeemed,” in the manner that it is written regarding a firstling but rather (Leviticus 27:33): “[If he does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy:] it cannot be redeemed/לא יגאל,” and we taught in Sifrei [B’midbar] that regarding a firstling where it states “it cannot be ransomed,” tithes, where it states concerning it, “it shall not be redeemed”, is no sold, neither living nor slaughtered, and not pure and not with a blemish.

כל פסולי המוקדשין. קדשים שנפל בהם מום, אם מוכרין אותן ביוקר טובת הנאה להקדש הוא. הלכך נמכרים באטליז, דהיינו שוק שמוכרים בו שאר בשר חולין ושם נמכר ביוקר:

ונשקלין בליטרא. להמכר כדרך שהקצבים מוכרים בשר חולין. דמתוך שיכולים למכור ביוקר מוסיפים בדמים כשפודים אותם מן ההקדש:

חוץ מן הבכור ומן המעשר. שאם נמכרים ביוקר הנאתן לבעלים. בכור הנאתו לכהן, דבשר בכור נאכל לכל אדם והכהן מוכרו ונוטל דמיו, ולכהן קרי בעלים של בכור. ומשום הנאת הדיוט לא מזלזלינן בקדשים לנהוג בהן מנהג חולין למכרן באטליז, אלא בביתו, ואע״פ שלא יקפצו עליהם בני אדם כל כך. ואין נשקלים בליטרא אלא באומד, ואם יפסיד לית לן בה:

ושוקלין מנה כנגד מנה בבכור. שאם יש לו חתיכת בשר חולין שנשקלה בליטרא יכול לשקול בשר בכור כנגדה. אבל מעשר אין שוקלים מנה כנגד מנה, דמיחזי כאילו מוכרו, ובהמת מעשר אסור למכרה כלל משום דלא כתיב בה לא יפדה כדרך שכתוב בבכור אלא לא יגאל, ושנינו בספרי בכור שנאמר בו לא יפדה, הוא נמכר, מעשר שנאמר בו לא יגאל אינו נמכר לא חי ולא שחוט ולא תמים ולא בעל מום:

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