## Tosefta Parah Chapter 2

###### Tosefta Parah 2:1
[Tosefta Parah 2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Tosefta%20Parah/r/2:1)

רבי אליעזר אומר אינה נקחת מן העובדי כוכבים אמרו לו מעשה ולקחוה מבין העובדי כוכבים בצידן ודומא שמו רבי יהודה אומר משמרין אותה שלא לעבוד בה כל עבודה. אמרו לו אם כן אין לדבר סוף הרי היא בחזקתה כשרה רבי מאיר אומר פרה שגלגלי עיניה שחורין אם אין פרה אחרת כיוצא בה פסולה. ניטלו קרני' וטלפיים והזכר עמהן פסולה יוצא דופן פסולה ור' שמעון מכשיר אתנן ומחיר פסולה ורבי אליעזר מכשיר שנאמר (דברים כב) לא תביא אתנן זונה ומחיר כלב בית ה' אלהיך אין זו באה לבית.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
Rabbi Eliezer says, [the red heifer] may not be purchased from idolaters. They said to him, it so happened that they did purchase one from among the idolaters in Sidon, and Doma was his name. Rabbi Yehuda says, we watch over her so that no one performs any work with her. They said to him, if so, there is no end to the matter -- behold, she is presumed to be fit. Rabbi Meir says, a heifer whose eyeball is black -- if there is no other heifer similar to her, she is disqualified. If they removed the horns and the hooves, and the marrow was [removed] with them, she is disqualified. If she was born via Caesarean section, she is disqualified, and Rabbi Shimon deems her fit. If she was [purchased] for the hire [of a whore] or the price [of a dog], she is disqualified, and Rabbi Eliezer deems her fit, as it is said (Deut. 23:19), "Do not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the House of the Lord your God," and this (the red heifer) is not brought into the House.


###### Tosefta Parah 2:2
[Tosefta Parah 2:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Tosefta%20Parah/r/2:2)

כל עבודות שחייבין עליהן במוקדשין פסולה בפרה. נכנסה לרבקה ודשה עם אמה ועול פוסל לעבודה שלא לעבודה נפדית על כל פסול מתה תפדה שחטה תפדה מצא אחרת נאה הימנה תפדה שחטה על גבי מערכתה אינה נפדית עולמית אם מתרומת הלשכה היתה באה דמיה נופלין לתרומת הלשכה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
All work that render them liable as to consecrated animals [cause] the heifer to be disqualified. If he brought her into (i.e., roped her with) the team [of cattle], and she threshed with her mother, or she is yoked, then she is disqualified [whether the intention was] for work or not for work. She is redeemed for any disqualification. If she died, she must be redeemed. If she was slaughtered, she must be redeemed. If he found another more suitable than her, she must be redeemed. [But once] she has been slaughtered upon her wood pile, she can no longer be redeemed. If she was [originally purchased using] appropriation funds from the treasury, the [redemption] money goes back into the appropriation funds of the treasury.


###### Tosefta Parah 2:3
[Tosefta Parah 2:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Tosefta%20Parah/r/2:3)

חומר בפרה שאין במוקדשין ובמוקדשים שאין בעגלה שהעגלה שנים פוסלת בה ועבודה פוסלת בה מה שאין כן במוקדשין.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
There is a stringency with the heifer that there is not with consecrated animals, and with consecrated animals that there is not with the *eglah* (i.e., the calf whose neck is broken), that the *eglah* is disqualified with years (i.e., if she is over a year old), and work disqualifies her, which is not the case with consecrated animals.*. The GR"A provides the following emendation: "There is a stringency with the heifer that there is not with consecrated animals, and with consecrated animals that there is not with the heifer. The stringency with the heifer is that black hairs disqualify the heifer, and labor disqualifies her, which is not the case with consecrated animals. The stringency with consecrated animals is that consecrated animals may not be redeemed [etc. (see Tos. Parah 2:4)], and one who does so receives forty lashes, which is not the case with the heifer. There is a stringency with the *eglah* that there is not with consecrated animals, and with consecrated animals that there is not with the the *eglah*. The stringency with the *eglah* is that she is disqualified by years."


###### Tosefta Parah 2:4
[Tosefta Parah 2:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Tosefta%20Parah/r/2:4)

חומר במוקדשין שהמוקדשין אינן נפדין אלא על מום קבוע ואין יוצאין לגוז ולעבוד והגוזז והעובד בהן הרי הוא לוקה את הארבעים מה שאין כן בעגלה. חומר בפרה שאין בעגלה ובעגלה שאין בפרה שהפרה אינה כשרה אלא אדומה ומומין פוסלים בה ושעשה עמה מלאכה פסולה מה שאין כן בעגלה חומר בעגלה שהעגלה שנים פוסלת [בה] מה שאין כן בפרה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
The stringency with consecrated animals is that only consecrated animals with a blemish that prevents them [from being offered up] may be redeemed, and they may not be brought out to be sheared or to work, and one who sheers them or performs work with them, behold, he receives forty lashes, which is not the case with the *eglah*. There is a stringency with the heifer that there is not with the *eglah*, and with the *eglah* that there is not with the heifer. [The stringency with the heifer is] that the heifer is only fit if she is red, and blemishes disqualify her, and that if work was done with her she is disqualified, which is not the case with the *eglah*. The stringency with the *eglah* is that the *eglah* is disqualified by years, which is not the case with the heifer.


###### Tosefta Parah 2:5
[Tosefta Parah 2:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Tosefta%20Parah/r/2:5)

היו בה שתי שערות שחורות או לבנות בתוך גומא אחת פסולה בתוך שתי גומות כשרה רבי יהודה אומר אפילו השחי' רבי יוסי בן המשולם אומר המספר את העליון ואינו חושש משום גוזז.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
If she had two black or white hairs within a single follicle, she is disqualified. Inside two follicles, she is fit. Rabbi Yehuda says, even [if they are] within two follicles adjacent to one another, she is disqualified.* Rabbi Yosei ben HaMeshullam, one cuts off the tip*, and need not be concerned on account of [the prohibition against] shearing.