## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 99

###### Sifrei Devarim 99:1
[Sifrei Devarim 99:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/99:1)

(דברים יד ג) **לֹא תֹאכַל כָּל תּוֹעֵבָה**, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: מִנַּיִן לְצוֹרֵם אֹזֶן הַבְּכוֹר וְאוֹכֵל מִמֶּנָּה, שֶׁעוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **לֹא תֹאכַל כָּל תּוֹעֵבָה**.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 99**²¹⁹
1. **“You may not eat anything that is *abominable”* (Dt. 14:3).**
**R. Eliezer says:**
**On what basis do we know that**
**one who tears the ear of a Firstling,**
**and then eats of it**
**transgresses the proscription**
**[against eating what is abominable]?**²²⁰
**The Teaching states:**
**“You may not eat anything that is *abominable*” (Dt. 14:3).**

footnotes:
²¹⁹ H:146;JN1:256.
²²⁰ The assumed rule is that one who intentionally maims a Firstling is prohibited all benefit from the animal until that animal suffers a second, unintended, maiming. It may then be slaughtered for food or any other purpose.


###### Sifrei Devarim 99:2
[Sifrei Devarim 99:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/99:2)

אֲחֵרִים אוֹמְרִים: בִּפְסוּלֵי הַמֻּקְדָּשִׁים הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר; נֶאֱמַר כָּאן **תּוֹעֵבָה** וְנֶאֱמַר לְהַלָּן (דברים יז א) ״לֹא תִזְבַּח לַה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ שׁוֹר וָשֶׂה וְגוֹ׳ כִּי תוֹעֲבַת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ הוּא״; מַה תּוֹעֵבָה הָאֲמוּרָה לְהַלָּן בִּפְסוּלֵי הַמֻּקְדָּשִׁים הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר, אַף תּוֹעֵבָה הָאֲמוּרָה כָּאן בִּפְסוּלֵי הַמֻּקְדָּשִׁין הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Others say:**
**the verse refers [specifically] to**
**consecrated [cattle] that are disqualified**
**[due to an accidental blemish].** ²²¹
2. The term *abominable* is stated here (Dt. 14:3),
and the term *abominable* is stated elsewhere:
“Do not slaughter . . . an ox or a sheep which has . . . *any sort* of blemish,
for it is *abominable* to HASHEM your God” (Dt. 17:1).
Just as *abominable*, appearing elsewhere (Dt. 17:1),
refers to consecrated [cattle] that are disqualified
[due to any sort of disfiguring blemish],
so, too, *abominable* appearing here (Dt. 14:3),
refers to consecrated [cattle] that are disqualified
[due to any sort of disfiguring blemish].

footnotes:
²²¹ Cf. M. Bech. 5:3