## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 70

###### Sifrei Devarim 70:1
[Sifrei Devarim 70:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:1)

(דברים יב יג) **הִשָּׁמֶר**, בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה. **פֶּן**, בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 70**⁷²
1. “*Be careful lest* you offer up your Holocaust-offering” (Dt. 12:13)—
*Be careful* constitutes a proscription.
*Lest* also constitutes a proscription.

footnotes:
⁷² H:122-123;JN1:203-204.


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:2
[Sifrei Devarim 70:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:2)

**פֶּן תַּעֲלֶה עֹלֹתֶיךָ**, וְלֹא עוֹלוֹת גּוֹיִם, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: וְלֹא עוֹלוֹת גּוֹיִם שֶׁהֻקְדְּשׁוּ בְּחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“You offer up *your* Holocaust-offering” (Dt. 12:13)—
**and not the Holocaust-offering of a gentile,**
**[which had been slaughtered outside the Chosen Abode]:**⁷³
words of R. Shimon.
Rabbi Judah says:
And not the Holocaust-offering of a gentile
which had been consecrated beyond the Land.

footnotes:
⁷³ Cf. M.Zev.4:5//T. Zev.5:6.


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:3
[Sifrei Devarim 70:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:3)

**בְּכָל מָקוֹם אֲשֶׁר תִּרְאֶה**, אֲבָל מַעֲלֶה אַתָּה בְּכָל מָקוֹם שֶׁיֹּאמַר לְךָ נָבִיא, כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁהֶעֱלָה אֵלִיָּהוּ בְּהַר הַכַּרְמֶל.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“In *any place* you see” (Dt. 12:13)—
rather, offer it up in *any place* that a prophet instructs you,
in the same way that Elijah
offered them up on Mt. Carmel.


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:4
[Sifrei Devarim 70:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:4)

(דברים יב יד) **כִּי אִם בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר ה׳ בְּאַחַד שְׁבָטֶיךָ**, כָּתוּב אֶחָד אוֹמֵר: **בְּאַחַד שְׁבָטֶיךָ**, וְכָתוּב אֶחָד אוֹמֵר (דברים יב ה): ״מִכָּל שִׁבְטֵיכֶם״! זוֹ הִיא שֶׁרַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: כֶּסֶף – מִכָּל שִׁבְטֵיכֶם; בֵּית הַבְּחִירָה – מִשֵּׁבֶט אֶחָד.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
2. “Rather, in the place which HASHEM will choose, from *one* of your tribes” (Dt. 12:14).
**One verse states:**
**“From *one* of your tribes” (Dt. 12:14),**
**while another verse states:**
**“From *all* your tribes” (Dt. 12:5).**
**This is as R. Judah teaches:**
**the funding must come**
**from all your tribes,**
**but the land for the Chosen Abode**
**will come from one tribe.**⁷⁴ 62.2.

footnotes:
⁷⁴ =ARNA:35. Cf. Pisqa’


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:5
[Sifrei Devarim 70:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:5)

**שָׁם תַּעֲלֶה עֹלֹתֶיךָ**, אֵין לִי אֶלָּא עוֹלָה. שְׁאָר קָרְבָּנוֹת מִנַּיִן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **וְשָׁם תַּעֲשֶׂה כֹּל אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּךָּ**.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“*There* shall you offer up *your Holocaust-offerings*” (Dt. 12:14)—
I might infer only that *a Holocaust-offering*
must be offered up in the Chosen Abode.
How do I know that this restriction
applies as well to *other* offerings?
The Teaching states:
“And *there* shall you perform *all* that I am commanding you” (Dt. 12:14)—
[*all* extends the rule to other offerings].


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:6
[Sifrei Devarim 70:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:6)

וַעֲדַיִן אֲנִי אוֹמֵר: עוֹלָה שֶׁהִיא בַּעֲשֵׂה וְלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה, שְׁאָר קָדָשִׁים לֹא יְהוּ אֶלָּא בַּעֲשֵׂה! תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **שָׁם תַּעֲלֶה עֹלֹתֶיךָ**; עוֹלָה בִּכְלָל הָיְתָה, וְלָמָּה יָצָאת? לְהַקִּישׁ אֵלֶיהָ: מָה עוֹלָה מְיֻחֶדֶת, שֶׁהִיא בַּעֲשֵׂה וְלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה – כָּךְ כָּל שֶׁהוּא בַּעֲשֵׂה הֲרֵי הוּא בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה!

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
But still I can claim that
a Holocaust-offering is subject to a prescription (Dt. 12:14) and a proscription (Dt. 12:13),
while other Holy offerings are subject only to a prescription!
The Teaching states:
“*There* shall you offer up your Holocaust-offerings” (Dt. 12:14).
This suggests that the Holocaust-offering is in the same class as other offerings.
Then why is it singled out for special mention?
To draw it into comparison:
Just as a Holocaust-offering is distinctive,
in being the subject of both a prescription and a proscription,
so, too, everything that is subject to a prescription
[to be offered in the Chosen Abode],
is indeed subject to a proscription
[against being offered elsewhere]!