## Mishnah Zevachim Chapter 12

###### Mishnah Zevachim 12:1
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טְבוּל יוֹם וּמְחֻסַּר כִּפּוּרִים, אֵינָן חוֹלְקִים בַּקֳּדָשִׁים לֶאֱכֹל לָעָרֶב. אוֹנֵן, נוֹגֵעַ וְאֵינוֹ מַקְרִיב, וְאֵינוֹ חוֹלֵק לֶאֱכֹל לָעָרֶב. בַּעֲלֵי מוּמִין, בֵּין בַּעֲלֵי מוּמִין קְבוּעִין, בֵּין בַּעֲלֵי מוּמִין עוֹבְרִין, חוֹלְקִין וְאוֹכְלִין, אֲבָל לֹא מַקְרִיבִין. וְכֹל שֶׁאֵינוֹ רָאוּי לָעֲבוֹדָה, אֵינוֹ חוֹלֵק בַּבָּשָׂר. וְכֹל שֶׁאֵין לוֹ בַּבָּשָׂר, אֵין לוֹ בָעוֹרוֹת. אֲפִלּוּ טָמֵא בִשְׁעַת זְרִיקַת דָּמִים וְטָהוֹר בִּשְׁעַת הֶקְטֵר חֲלָבִים, אֵינוֹ חוֹלֵק בַּבָּשָׂר, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ויקרא ז), הַמַּקְרִיב אֶת דַּם הַשְּׁלָמִים וְאֶת הַחֵלֶב מִבְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן לוֹ תִהְיֶה שׁוֹק הַיָּמִין לְמָנָה:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
A priest who was ritually impure **who immersed that day** and is waiting for nightfall for the purification process to be completed, **and** a priest **who has not yet** brought **an atonement** offering to complete the purification process, e.g., a *zav* and a leper who did not bring their requisite atonement offerings, who are not yet permitted to partake of sacrificial meat, **do not receive a share of sacrificial** meat along with the other members of the patrilineal priestly family serving in the Temple that day, in order **to partake** of it **in the evening** after the offerings were sacrificed, even though after nightfall he would be permitted to partake of the offerings. A priest who is **an acute mourner,** i.e., if one of his relatives for whom he is obligated to mourn died that day, is permitted to **touch** sacrificial meat, as he is not ritually impure. **But he may not sacrifice** offerings, **and he does not receive a share** of sacrificial meat in order **to partake** of it **in the evening.** **Blemished** priests, **whether** they are **temporarily blemished** or **whether** they are **permanently blemished, receive a share and partake** of the offerings with their priestly brethren, **but do not sacrifice** the offerings. The principle is: **Any** priest **who is unfit for the service** that specific day **does not receive a share of the** sacrificial **meat, and anyone who has no** share **of the meat has no** share **in the hides** of the animals, to which the priests are entitled as well. **Even** if the priest was **ritually impure** only **at the time of the sprinkling of the blood** of the offering **and** he was **pure at the time of the burning of** the **fats** of that offering, he still **does not receive a share of the meat, as it is stated: “He that sacrifices the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, from among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right thigh for a portion”** (Leviticus 7:33). One who cannot sprinkle the blood does not receive a share in the meat.


###### Mishnah Zevachim 12:2
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כֹּל שֶׁלֹּא זָכָה הַמִּזְבֵּחַ בִּבְשָׂרָהּ, לֹא זָכוּ הַכֹּהֲנִים בְּעוֹרָהּ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שם), עֹלַת אִישׁ, עוֹלָה שֶׁעָלְתָה לְאִישׁ. עוֹלָה שֶׁנִּשְׁחֲטָה שֶׁלֹּא לִשְׁמָהּ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁלֹּא עָלְתָה לַבְּעָלִים, עוֹרָהּ לַכֹּהֲנִים. אֶחָד עוֹלַת הָאִישׁ וְאֶחָד עוֹלַת הָאִשָּׁה, עוֹרוֹתֵיהֶן לַכֹּהֲנִים:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
In the case of **any** burnt offering **for which the altar did not acquire its flesh,** e.g., if it was disqualified prior to the sprinkling of its blood, the **priests did not acquire its hide, as it is stated** with regard to the burnt offering: “And the priest that sacrifices **a man’s burnt offering,** the priest shall have to himself the hide of the burnt offering that he has sacrificed” (Leviticus 7:8), indicating that the priest acquires only the hide of **a burnt offering that satisfied** the obligation **of a man.** Nevertheless, in a case of **a burnt offering that was slaughtered not for its sake** but for the sake of another offering, **although it did not satisfy** the obligation **of the owner, its hide** goes **to the priests.** In addition, although the verse states: “A man’s burnt offering,” in the case of **both the burnt offering of a man and the burnt offering of a woman, their hides** go **to the priests.**


###### Mishnah Zevachim 12:3
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עוֹרוֹת קָדָשִׁים קַלִּים לַבְּעָלִים, וְעוֹרוֹת קָדְשֵׁי קָדָשִׁים לַכֹּהֲנִים. קַל וָחֹמֶר, מָה אִם עוֹלָה, שֶׁלֹּא זָכוּ בִבְשָׂרָהּ, זָכוּ בְעוֹרָהּ, קָדְשֵׁי קָדָשִׁים, שֶׁזָּכוּ בִבְשָׂרָהּ, אֵינוֹ דִין שֶׁיִּזְכּוּ בְעוֹרָהּ. אֵין מִזְבֵּחַ יוֹכִיחַ, שֶׁאֵין לוֹ עוֹר מִכָּל מָקוֹם:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**The hides of offerings of lesser sanctity** belong **to the owners; the hides of offerings of the most sacred order** belong **to the priests.** The right of priests to hides of offerings of the most sacred order is derived via **an *a fortiori*** inference: **If** for **a burnt offering, for which** the priests **do not acquire its flesh,** as it is burned in its entirety, **they acquire its hide,** then for other **offerings of the most sacred order, for which** the priests **acquire its flesh, is it not right that they should acquire its hide?** And **there is no** room to contend that the **altar will prove** that this is not a valid inference, as it acquires the flesh of a burnt offering but not its hide, **since it does not have** the right to the **hide** of an offering **in any place.**


###### Mishnah Zevachim 12:4
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כָּל הַקֳּדָשִׁים שֶׁאֵרַע בָּהֶם פְּסוּל קֹדֶם לְהֶפְשֵׁטָן, אֵין עוֹרוֹתֵיהֶם לַכֹּהֲנִים. לְאַחַר הֶפְשֵׁטָן, עוֹרוֹתֵיהֶם לַכֹּהֲנִים. אָמַר רַבִּי חֲנִינָא סְגָן הַכֹּהֲנִים, מִיָּמַי לֹא רָאִיתִי עוֹר יוֹצֵא לְבֵית הַשְּׂרֵפָה. אָמַר רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, מִדְּבָרָיו לָמַדְנוּ, שֶׁהַמַּפְשִׁיט אֶת הַבְּכוֹר וְנִמְצָא טְרֵפָה, שֶׁיֵּאוֹתוּ הַכֹּהֲנִים בְּעוֹרוֹ. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵין לֹא רָאִינוּ רְאָיָה, אֶלָּא יוֹצֵא לְבֵית הַשְּׂרֵפָה:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
If **any offerings** of the most sacred order **were disqualified prior to their flaying, their hides do not** go **to the priests;** rather, they are burned together with the flesh in the place of burning. If they were disqualified **after their flaying, their hides** go **to the priests. Rabbi Ḥanina, the deputy High Priest, said: In** all **my days, I never saw a hide going out to the place of burning.** **Rabbi Akiva said: From the statement of** Rabbi Ḥanina, the deputy High Priest, **we learned that** in a case where **one flays the firstborn** offering, **and** the animal is later **discovered to have a wound that would have caused it to die within twelve months [*tereifa*],** the *halakha* is **that the priests may derive benefit [*sheye’otu*] from its hide. And the Rabbis say:** The claim: **We did not see, is no proof; rather,** if after flaying it is discovered that the animal was unfit before it was flayed, the hide **goes out to the place of burning.**


###### Mishnah Zevachim 12:5
[Mishnah Zevachim 12:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Mishnah%20Zevachim/r/12:5)

פָּרִים הַנִּשְׂרָפִים וּשְׂעִירִים הַנִּשְׂרָפִים, בִּזְמַן שֶׁהֵם נִשְׂרָפִין כְּמִצְוָתָן, נִשְׂרָפִין בְּבֵית הַדֶּשֶׁן וּמְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים. וְאִם אֵינָן נִשְׂרָפִין כְּמִצְוָתָן, נִשְׂרָפִין בְּבֵית הַבִּירָה וְאֵינָם מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
With regard to **bulls that are burned,** i.e., the bull of Yom Kippur, the bull of the anointed priest, and the bull brought for an unwitting communal sin, which are burned after their blood is sprinkled and their sacrificial portions burned on the altar, **and goats that are burned,** i.e., the goat of Yom Kippur and the goat brought for the unwitting communal transgression of the prohibition against idol worship, **when they are burned in accordance with their mitzva, they are burned in the place of the ashes** (see Leviticus 4:12) outside of Jerusalem, **and they render** the **garments** of the priests who tend to their burning **impure** (see Leviticus 4:25). **And if** these offerings **are not burned in accordance with their mitzva** because they were disqualified, and offerings that are disqualified are also burned, **they are burned in the place of** burning in **the *bira*, and they do not render** the **garments** of the priests who tend to their burning **impure.**


###### Mishnah Zevachim 12:6
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הָיוּ סוֹבְלִין אוֹתָם בְּמוֹטוֹת. יָצְאוּ הָרִאשׁוֹנִים חוּץ לְחוֹמַת הָעֲזָרָה וְהָאַחֲרוֹנִים לֹא יָצְאוּ, הָרִאשׁוֹנִים מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים, וְהָאַחֲרוֹנִים אֵינָן מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים, עַד שֶׁיֵּצֵאוּ. יָצְאוּ אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ, אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ אֵינָן מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים, עַד שֶׁיִּצַּת הָאוּר בְּרֻבָּן. נִתַּךְ הַבָּשָׂר, אֵין הַשּׂוֹרֵף מְטַמֵּא בְגָדִים:

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The priests **would carry** the bulls and the goats that are burned suspended **on poles.** When **the first** priests, carrying the front of the pole, **emerged outside the wall of the** Temple **courtyard and the latter** priests **did not** yet **emerge, the first** priests **render** their **garments impure, and the latter** priests **do not render** their **garments impure until they emerge.** When both **these and those** priests **emerged, they render** their **garments impure. Rabbi Shimon says: They do not render** their **garments impure,** as this *halakha* applies only to those who burn the offerings. And even then their garments do not become ritually impure **until the fire is ignited in the majority of** the offerings. Once **the flesh is** completely **scorched,** with no moisture remaining, **one who** then **burns** the remains **does not render** his **garments impure.**