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Bartenura on Mishnah Meilah Chapter 2

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חַטַּאת הָעוֹף. הֻכְשְׁרָה לִפָּסֵל. כְּלוֹמַר מִשֶׁנִּמְלְקָה נִתּוֹסְפָה בָּהּ קְדֻשָּׁה, שֶׁהִיא נִפְסֶלֶת אִם נָגַע בָּהּ טְבוּל יוֹם אוֹ מְחֻסַּר כִּפּוּרִים. וְדַוְקָא נִפְסֶלֶת בִּטְבוּל יוֹם, אֲבָל לֹא מִטַּמְּאָה לְטַמֵּא אֲחֵרִים, שֶׁכְּשֵׁם שֶׁטְּבוּל יוֹם פּוֹסֵל אֶת הַתְּרוּמָה כָּךְ הוּא פוֹסֵל אֶת הַקֹּדֶשׁ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

חטאת העוף. הוכשרה ליפסל – that is to say, from when the bird is killed by pinching its neck with a finger nail, holiness is added to it, and it becomes disqualified if a טבול יום /a Kohen who has immersed himself that day, but is awaiting sunset, had come in contact with it or someone lacking atonement/מחוסר כפורים (i.e., like a woman after childbirth, a male or woman with a flux, a healed leper who have to bring a sacrifice to complete their purification). But especially if It was disqualified by a Tevul Yom. But it does not become unclean to make others unclean, for just as the Tevul Yom disqualifies the heave-offering/Terumah, so it also disqualifies that which is holy.

הֻזָּה דָמָהּ חַיָּבִין עָלֶיהָ מִשּׁוּם פִּגּוּל. דְּהַזָּאָה שֶׁל חַטַּאת הָעוֹף בִּמְקוֹם זְרִיקָה דִבְהֵמָה קָאֵי, דְּהַזָּאָה קֹבַעַת פִּגּוּל כְּשֶׁחָשַׁב בּוֹ קֹדֶם לָכֵן כְּמוֹ זְרִיקַת דָּם בִּבְהֵמָה, וְשׁוּב יֶשׁ בּוֹ אִסּוּר נוֹתָר וְטָמֵא:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

הוזה דמה חייבין עליה משום פגול – for it refers to the sprinkling of the sin offering of a bird in the place of sprinkling of an animal/cattle, for sprinkling [of the blood] establishes disqualification of an offering of inappropriate intention when he thought about it prior to this like the sprinkling of the blood of cattle and furthermore, there is the prohibition of remnant and impurity.

וְאֵין בָּהּ מְעִילָה. דְּכֵיוָן דְּהֻזָּה דָמָהּ יֶשׁ [בָּהּ] הֶתֵּר לַכֹּהֲנִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואין בה מעילה – for since its blood had been sprinkled there is [in it] a moment of availability for the Kohanim.

מִצָּה דָמָהּ. מִצּוּי דְעוֹלַת הָעוֹף קָאֵי בִמְקוֹם זְרִיקַת הַבְּהֵמָה וְהַזָּאָה דְחַטַּאת הָעוֹף. דִּבְעוֹלַת הָעוֹף כְּתִיב וְנִמְצָה דָמוֹ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

מיצה דמה (the wringing/squeezing out of the blood) – the squeezing/wringing out of the burnt offering of the bird refers to the place of the sprinkling of the [blood] of the animal and the sprinkling of the sin-offering of the bird, for concerning the burnt-offering of the bird it is written (Leviticus 1:15 – also see Tractate Zevakhin 6:5): “and its blood shall be drained out [against the side of the altar].”

עַד שֶׁתֵּצֵא לְבֵית הַדָּשֶׁן. דְּכֵיוָן דְּכֻלָּהּ כָּלִיל וְלֵית בָּהּ שְׁעַת הֶתֵּר לְבַסּוֹף, לְעוֹלָם מוֹעֲלִין בָּהּ עַד שֶׁתִּשָּׂרֵף כֻּלָּהּ וְתִנָּטֵל מֵעֲפָרָהּ תְּרוּמַת הַדֶּשֶׁן, כְּדִכְתִיב (ויקרא ו) וְהֵרִים אֶת הַדֶּשֶׁן אֲשֶׁר תֹּאכַל הָאֵשׁ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

עד שתצא לבית הדשן – for since all of it is burnt entirely, and there is no moment of availability [for use by the priests] at the end, one always commits religious sacrilege with it until it is burned entirely, and one takes from its ashes in the removal of the ashes from the altar, as it is written (Leviticus 6:3) “and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt- offering on the altar [and place them beside the altar].”

פָּרִים הַנִּשְׂרָפִים. אֵין בָּהֶן לַכֹּהֲנִים הֶתֵּר כְּלָל:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

פרים הנשרפים – for the Kohanim do not have a moment of availability [for use] at all.

הֻזָּה דָמָן כוּ'. הַזָּאַת דָּמָן קוֹבַעְתָּן לַפִּגּוּל לַעֲנֹשׁ כָּרֵת הָאוֹכֵל מֵהֶן אִם חָשַׁב עֲלֵיהֶם בִּשְׁעַת שְׁחִיטָה לְהַקְטִיר אֵמוּרֵיהֶן חוּץ לִזְמַנָּן, וְכֵיוָן דְּלֵית בְּהוּ הֶתֵּר לַכֹּהֲנִים, מוֹעֲלִין בָּהֶן בְּבֵית הַדֶּשֶׁן חוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה הֵיכָא דְנִשְׂרְפוּ אִם נֶהֱנָה מֵהֶן:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

הוזה דמן כו' – the sprinkling of their blood establishes them for inappropriate intention to be punishable by extirpation for a person who eats of them, if he had in mind an undue intention [in the performance of a sacrificial ceremony] at the time of the ritual slaughter to offer their portions of the sacrifices offered on the altar outside of their appropriate time, for since there is no moment of availability [for use] by the Kohanim, they commit religious sacrilege with them in the house of the ashes outside of the camp where they were burned if he benefited from them.

עַד שֶׁיֻּתַּךְ הַבָּשָׂר. כְּלוֹמַר שֶׁיִּהְיֶה נִשְׂרָף וְנַעֲשֶׂה פֶחָמִים. אֲבָל לְאַחַר שֶׁנִּתַּךְ, שׁוּב אֵין בּוֹ מְעִילָה, שֶׁאֵין לְךָ דָּבָר שֶׁנַּעֲשֵׂית מִצְוָתוֹ וּמוֹעֲלִים בּוֹ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

עד שיתך הבשר (until the flesh is charred in small lumps) – that is to say, that it will be burned and become charcoal/used for kindling. But after it is charred into small lumps, furthermore, there is no sacrilege, for there is nothing where its command is performed where one commits religious sacrilege.

וְאֵין מוֹעֲלִין בְּעוֹרָהּ. דְּלַכֹּהֲנִים הִיא, כְּדִכְתִיב (שם ז) עוֹר הָעוֹלָה אֲשֶׁר הִקְרִיב לַכֹּהֵן לוֹ יִהְיֶה:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואין מועלין בעורה – because it belongs to the Kohanim, as it is written (Leviticus 7:8): “the priest [who offers a man’s burnt offering] shall keep the skin of the burnt offering that he offered.”

אֲבָל מוֹעֲלִין בַּבָּשָׂר. כָּל זְמַן שֶׁהוּא נִשְׂרָף עַל גַּבֵּי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ. דְּכָלִיל הוּא:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

אבל מועלין בבשר – all the time that is burnet on the altar, it is burnt entirely.

עַד שֶׁתֵּצֵא לְבֵית הַדֶּשֶׁן. שֶׁמְּרִימִים כָּל הָאֵפֶר מֵעַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ וּמַשְׁלִיכִים אוֹתוֹ לְבֵית הַדֶּשֶׁן. וְשׁוּב אֵין בָּהּ מְעִילָה, שֶׁכְּבָר נַעֲשֵׂית מִצְוָתָהּ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

עד שתצא לבית הדשן – when they lift all the ashes from top of the altar and cast them in the ash heap. And furthermore, there is no sacrilege, for its command had already been done/fulfilled.

אֵין מוֹעֲלִין בַּבָּשָׂר. דְּהָא יֶשׁ בּוֹ הֶתֵּר לַכֹּהֲנִים, דִּבְשַׂר חַטָּאת וְאָשָׁם וְזִבְחֵי שַׁלְמֵי צִבּוּר נֶאֱכָל לַכֹּהֲנִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

אין מועלין בבשר – for there is a period of availability for the Kohanim, for the meat of the sin-offering and guilt-offering and communal sacrifices of peace-offerings, are consumed by the Kohanim.

אֲבָל מוֹעֲלִין בָּאֵמוּרִים. שֶׁאֵין בָּהֶן הֶתֵּר לַכֹּהֲנִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

אבל מועלין באימורים – for there is no period of availability for the Kohanim.

שְׁתֵּי הַלֶּחֶם. שֶׁמְּבִיאִין בַּעֲצֶרֶת:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

שתי הלחם – that we bring on Shavuot/Atzeret.

קָרְמוּ פְנֵי הַלֶּחֶם בַּתַּנּוּר. הַיְנוּ תְחִלַּת תִּקּוּנָן, וְהַהִיא קְרִימָה בַתַּנּוּר חֲשִׁיבָא הֶכְשֵׁר לִפָּסֵל בִּטְבוּל יוֹם וּמְחֻסַּר כִּפּוּרִים כִּשְׁחִיטָה דְקָדְשֵׁי קָדָשִׁים. וְהָכָא לֹא גָרְסִינַן וּבְלִינָה, מִשּׁוּם דִּשְׁתֵּי הַלֶּחֶם נֶאֱפוֹת מֵעֶרֶב יוֹם טוֹב, שֶׁאֵין אֲפִיָּתָן דּוֹחָה אֶת הַיּוֹם טוֹב, וְנֶאֱכָלוֹת לְמָחָר בְּיוֹם טוֹב. וְהֻכְשְׁרוּ לִשְׁחֹט עֲלֵיהֶן אֶת הַזֶּבַח, דְּכֵיוָן דְּקָרְמוּ פָנֶיהָ קְרוּיָה לֶחֶם:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

קרמו פני הלחם בתנור (when they have formed a crust in the oven) – which is the beginning of their establishment, but this formation of a light crust on the dough is considered rendering fit to be made invalid by a Tevul Yom/one who immersed himself that day [but had to wait until sunset to be pure] and those lacking atonement [through bringing a sacrifice], like the ritual slaughtering of something of the Holy of Holies. But here, we don’t have the reading, "ובלינה" /being left overnight (which is found in the earlier Mishnayot of this chapter), because the “two loaves” are baked from the eve of the Festival [of Shavuot] and their baking does not supersede the festival and are eaten on the morrow on the Festival. But they are rendered fit to slaughter upon them the sacrifice, for since they have formed a light crust on their face, they are called, “bread.”

וְאֵין בָּהֶן מְעִילָה. שֶׁיֶּשׁ בָּהֶן שְׁעַת הֶתֵּר לַכֹּהֲנִים וּכְבָר נַעֲשֵׂית מִצְוָתָן:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואין בהם מעילה – for there is no period of availability for the Kohanim, and their commandment has already been fulfilled.

לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים. הָכָא נַמִּי לֹא גָרְסִינַן בֵּיהּ לִפָּסֵל בְּלִינָה, שֶׁהֲרֵי נֶאֱפָה בְּעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת וְאֵינוֹ נֶאֱכָל עַד לַשַּׁבָּת הָאַחֶרֶת:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

לחם הפנים – here also we don’t have the reading "ובלינה"/being left overnight, because it is baked on Friday (i.e., the Eve of the Sabbath) and is not consumed until the following Sabbath.

קָרְבוּ הַבְּזִיכִין. הַיְנוּ מַכְשִׁירָיו, שֶׁבְּשַׁבָּת בִּשְׁעַת סִלּוּק הַלֶּחֶם הָיוּ מַקְרִיבִין הַבְּזִיכִין שֶׁל לְבוֹנָה:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

קרבו הבזיכין (when dishes of incense have been offered) – that is, its preliminary acts, that on Shabbat at the time of the removal of the bread, they would offer dishes of incense of frankincense.

וְאֵין בּוֹ מְעִילָה. שֶׁהֻתַּר לַכֹּהֲנִים וְנַעֲשֵׂית מִצְוָתוֹ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואין בו מעילה – for it was permitted to the Kohanim and its command had been performed.

הַמְּנָחוֹת מוֹעֲלִין בָּהֶן מִשֶּׁהֻקְדְּשׁוּ. בִּקְדֻשַּׁת פֶּה:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

המנחות מועלין בהן משהוקדשו – through the sanctification of the mouth [enunciating it].

וְאֵין מוֹעֲלִין בַּשְּׁיָרִים. שֶׁיֶּשׁ בָּהֶן הֶתֵּר לַכֹּהֲנִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ואין מועלין בשיריים – because there is a period of availability to the Kohanim.

אֲבָל מוֹעֲלִין בַּקֹּמֶץ. עַד שֶׁיִּשָּׂרֵף כֻּלּוֹ וְיֵצֵא לְבֵית הַדֶּשֶׁן כְּדִין אֵמוּרֵי חַטָּאת וְאָשָׁם. וּלְאַחַר כֵּן אֵין מוֹעֲלִין בּוֹ, דְּהָא נַעֲשֵׂית מִצְוָתוֹ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

אבל מועלין בקומץ (with the handful of the meal offering the priest takes to be put on the altar) = until it is burned completely and it leaves to the ash heap according to the law of the parts of the sin-offering and guilt-offering burned on the altar. And after that, there is no sacrilege with it, for its commandment had been performed.

וּמִנְחַת נְסָכִים. מִנְחָה הַבָּאָה עִם הַזֶּבַח שֶׁאֵין בָּהּ שְׁיָרִים. וְכָל הָנֵי כָלִיל נִינְהוּ:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ומנחת נסכים – the meal offering that comes with the sacrifice where there are no remnants, and all of these are burned entirely.

מִשֶּׁהֻקְדְּשׁוּ. קְדֻשַּׁת פֶּה בְעָלְמָא:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

משהוקדשו – mere sanctification by mouth.

וּפִגּוּל אֵין בָּהֶן. לְפִי שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם מַתִּירִין, וְאֵין פִּגּוּל נוֹהֵג אֶלָּא בְדָבָר שֶׁקָּרְבוּ מַתִּירָיו כְּדִלְקַמָּן:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

ופגול אין בהן – because they don’t have permitting factors

כֹּל שֶׁיֶּשׁ לוֹ מַתִּירִין. כְּגוֹן שְׁלָמִים וְחַטָּאוֹת וַאֲשָׁמוֹת, דְּדָמָן מַתִּיר אֵמוּרִים לַמִּזְבֵּחַ וְהַבָּשָׂר לַכֹּהֲנִים, אוֹ דָבָר שֶׁיֶּשׁ לוֹ מַתִּירִין לַמִּזְבֵּחַ בִּלְבַד, כְּגוֹן עוֹלַת הָעוֹף וּפָרִים הַנִּשְׂרָפִים, שֶׁדָּמָן מַתִּירָן לַמִּזְבֵּחַ בִּלְבַד, וּכְגוֹן שְׁתֵּי הַלֶּחֶם דְּדָמָן שֶׁל כְּבָשִׂים הָווּ מַתִּירֵיהֶן, וְלֶחֶם הַפָּנִים דִּבְזִיכִים הָווּ מַתִּירֵיהֶן, וּכְגוֹן מְנָחוֹת דְּיֶשׁ לָהֶן הֶתֵּר בְּקֹמֶץ, כָּל הָנֵי אֵין חַיָּבִים עֲלֵיהֶם מִשּׁוּם פִּגּוּל וְנוֹתָר וְטָמֵא עַד שֶׁיִּקְרְבוּ מַתִּירֵיהֶן. דְּהָכִי כְתִיב גַּבֵּי פִגּוּל, לֹא יֵרָצֶה, וְאָמְרִינַן כְּהַרְצָאַת כָּשֵׁר כָּךְ הַרְצָאַת פָּסוּל. וְנוֹתָר וְטָמֵא יָלֵיף מִפִּגּוּל בְּמַסֶּכֶת זְבָחִים בְּפֶרֶק כָּל הַזְּבָחִים:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

(i.e., in animal sacrifices the blood is the permitting factor while in meal offerings it is the handful of flour; an offering whose permitting factor was not offered is not rendered unfit by improper intention), as for example, peace-offerings and sin-offerings and guilt-offerings, that their blood permits the portions of offerings consumed on the altar and the meat/flesh to the Kohanim, or something that has a permitting factor to the altar alone, such as the burnt-offering of birds and oxen that are burned, that their blood is a permitting factor to the altar alone, as for example, the two loaves (brought as a communal sacrifice on Shavuot) that the blood of the lambs is the permitting factor, and the shewbread (see Leviticus 24:5-9) that are in the dishes are a permitting factor, as for example, the meal offerings that have a permitting factor through a handful of the meal offering which the priest takes to put on the altar. All of these, there is no liability because of inappropriate intention and left-over and impure until the permitting factors are offered, for this is written regarding inappropriate intention (Leviticus 7:18): “[If any of the flesh of his sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day,] it shall not be acceptable; [it shall not count for him who offered it. It is an offensive thing],” and we stated the same ceremonies which are needed for the atoning efficacy of the legally performed offering, are required for making it an unfit offering (the eating of which is punishable by extirpation). But the remnant and impure we derive from פיגול /offerings disqualified by inappropriate intention in Tractate Zevakhim in chapter two “All of the Sacrifices” /כל הזבחים (Talmud Zevakhim 28b and 45b).

וְכָל דָּבָר שֶׁאֵין לוֹ מַתִּירִין. כִּי הָנֵי הַקֹּמֶץ וְהַלְּבוֹנָה דְּהֵן עַצְמָן מַתִּירִין הֵן וְאֵין מַתִּיר אוֹתָם שׁוּם דָּבָר אַחֵר:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

כל דבר שאין לו מתירין – like those of the handful of the meal offering which the priest takes to put on the altar and the frankincense which are themselves permitting factors themselves but they do not permit any other thing.

חַיָּב עָלֶיהָ מִשּׁוּם נוֹתָר וְטָמֵא. מִשּׁוּם טָמֵא מְרַבִּינַן לְהוּ, מִדִּכְתִיב (ויקרא כב) כָּל אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִקְרַב מִכָּל זַרְעֲכֶם אֶל הַקֳּדָשִׁים אֲשֶׁר יַקְדִּישׁוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לַה'‏ וְטֻמְאָתוֹ עָלָיו וְנִכְרְתָה, בְּכָל הַקֳּדָשִׁים הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר, לְחַיֵּב עָלֶיהָ מִשּׁוּם טָמֵא. וְנוֹתָר יָלֵיף מִטָּמֵא:

Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020

חייב משום עליה משום נותר וטמא – because impure things we include them, from what is written (Leviticus 22:3): “if any man among your offspring, while in a state of impurity , partakes of any sacred donation that the Israelite people may consecrate to the LORD, that person shall be cut off [from before Me,” the Biblical verse speaks of all of the Holy Things to make one liable because it is impure, and that which is remnant is derived from the impure (see Talmud Zevakhim 45b).

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