Parshas Vayigash 5786
- Torah Tavlin
- Dec 25, 2025
- 3 min read
זבחים דף קד. "רוב צריך ידיעה"
Although the עור of קדשים go to the כהנים, if a פסול occurred in the קרבן before it was skinned (הפשט), the hide does not go to the כהן but is burned with the rest of the קרבןפסול. ר' חנינא סגן הכהנים says he never saw a skinned hide go to the בית השריפה. He never saw עור that was already removed get burned because a פסול was subsequently discovered. ר' עקיבא says from this we learn that if a קרבן is skinned and then found to be a טריפה, the כהנים still receive the עור. The חכמים disagree: if a קרבן is found to be a טריפה, even if the hide has already been removed, it does not go to the כהן, because apparently this קרבן was a טריפה before the הפשט we just happened to find out now.
The Gemara asks: if a קרבן is found to have a טריפה in its internal organs (בני מעיים), since it’s after the זריקה and we know this פסול was there before הפשט, the hide should be burned since we now know that this קרבן was a טריפה from the outset. So how can ר' חנינא הסגן testify that he never saw a hide that was already removed get burned? The Gemara answers: ר' חנינא holds that since the פסול was only discovered after the hide was removed (according to רבי) and after זריקה (like ר' אלעזר) had been done, although we now know it was a טריפה from the beginning, we didn’t know about it at the time, so the זריקה is מרצה and it doesn’t get burned. The [חולין פ"ז ס' לז] רא"ש paskens regarding ביטול בתערובות איסור is בטל בשישים only if one was aware when the איסור fell into the תערובות. For example, if 1 piece of איסור falls into 60 pieces of היתר and he had a ידיעה when it fell in, it is בטל and the whole mixture is now כשר. So, if now another issur falls in, it will also become בטל בשישים. However, if 1 issur falls into 60, but I don’t know about it yet & then another issur falls into this same pile and later I found out about both, we view it as a 2 issur to 60 heter ratio & the mixture is not כשר, since I was lacking the ידיעה after the first piece fell in. He brings a ראיה from our Gemara that ידיעה plays a role in היתר andאיסור. Just like if there is a ידיעה before הפשט then the עור is נשרף, but if there was no ידיעה until later, than the עור isמותר.
The רא"ש brings a ראיה from a Mishnah [ירושלמי תרומות פ"ה,הל' ב']: If a סאה of תרומה falls into 100 סאה של חולין it is בטל & the pile is חולין. One must still separate 1 סאה from this pile and give to a כהן before he may eat from this pile. If 1 סאה of תרומה falls in and I know about it but didn’t have a chance to separate the סאה for a כהן before a second סאה of תרומה falls in, ר' שמעון says it’s still considered a 1-100 ratio and it’s all בטל. Since I knew it fell in it’s עומד to be separated and thus viewed as already separated. Similar to כל העומד לזרוק כזרוק דמי. The רבנן argue: True he had the ידיעה but the 1 סאה must be actually given to the כהן before the pile is כשר. The רא"ש says, only in this case due to the technicality of separating the 1 סאה is there an issue. Otherwise, the ידיעה alone is required for ביטול to work.