Bekhorot 27 – בכורות כ״ז | Daf Yomi with Rashi, Tosafot, the Rambam and halacha
What Bekhorot 27 teaches
- An Israelite may accept money to give terumah to a specific priest, but a priest cannot pay to receive gifts.
- Diaspora terumah may be intentionally nullified by a simple majority, eaten after separating, and touched by an impure priest.
- A firstborn animal's sacrificial year spans twelve months from its birth, permitting its sacrifice across two calendar years.
The sugyot
- An owner may receive payment from an Israelite to direct teruma to a specific kohen, but kohanim cannot pay for gifts.
- The Gemara outlines extensive leniencies for diaspora terumah, permitting ab initio majority nullification, direct handling during impurity, and eating without purifying from contact impurity.
- The Gemara examines the source that a firstborn's year is reckoned from its birth and debates how eating laws are derived.
Halachot from the daf
- Accepting payment to direct priestly gifts to a specific priest
- Giving terumat chutz la'aretz to a kohen assisting at the threshing floor
- Nullifying terumat chutz la'aretz in a simple majority
- Eating produce outside the Land before separating teruma or challah
- Permissibility of terumat chutz la'aretz to impure kohanim
- Calculating the year for eating or offering a firstborn animal
- Timeframe for eating an unblemished firstborn offering
Gems from the Daf
- Iyun of the day: Nullifying Diaspora Terumah Ab Initio
- Daf prep: Before you learn Bekhorot 27
- 3 to remember: Bekhorot 27: three things to remember
- Halachot: Priestly Gifts and Offerings Outside the Land
- The Rambam’s view: Discretionary Payments for Priestly Gifts in the Rambam
- Tosafot: Priestly Royal Meals and Diaspora Teruma Nullification
- Machloket: Selling the Right to Bestow Priestly Gifts
- The inner dimension: The Independent Sanctity of Setting Challah Aside
- Words to know: Bekhorot 27: words to know
- Masechet so far: The masechet so far, chapter by chapter
- Elsewhere in Shas: Bekhorot 27 elsewhere in Shas
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