Bekhorot 32 – בכורות ל״ב | Daf Yomi with Rashi, Tosafot, the Rambam and halacha
What Bekhorot 32 teaches
- Young orphans may sell blemished animal-tithe meat normally, whereas adults may only bundle its value into hide, sinew, or bones.
- The Torah's phrase 'it shall not be redeemed' forbids selling live animal tithes and entirely prohibits redemption.
- Beit Shammai restrict a blemished firstborn to priests, but Beit Hillel allow non-priests and even gentiles to eat it.
The sugyot
- The Gemara limits the rabbinic ban on selling tithes to primary meat sales, exempts orphans, and identifies the biblical source permitting post-slaughter sale.
- The Gemara permits absorbing blemished animal-tithe meat into the sale of its bones only where bones have commercial value for crafting utensils.
- The Gemara derives why animal tithe cannot be sold while a firstborn can, using verbal analogies between tithe, dedications, and firstborns.
- Rava derives the prohibition against selling animal tithe from a superfluous prohibition written concerning dedications.
- The Gemara proves that the prohibition "it shall not be redeemed" for animal tithe forbids commercial sale while alive, as well as any redemption.
- Beit Shammai forbid non-priests from eating a blemished firstborn, while Beit Hillel permit even a gentile to partake of it.
- The Gemara identifies the Mishnah permitting gentiles to eat a blemished firstborn as Rabbi Akiva's view, and details Beit Shammai's scriptural restriction to priests.
Halachot from the daf
- Absorbing animal tithe meat value into the price of its bones
- Prohibition against selling or redeeming an animal tithe offering
- Permissibility of selling a firstborn animal offering
- Legal status of priestly dedications before and after delivery
- Prohibitions against selling and redeeming animal tithe
- Legal efficacy of selling an animal tithe
- Feeding or sharing a blemished firstborn with Israelites or gentiles
- Permitting non-priests and gentiles to eat a blemished firstborn
Gems from the Daf
- Iyun of the day: Status of a Blemished Firstborn Post-Slaughter
- Daf prep: Before you learn Bekhorot 32
- 3 to remember: Bekhorot 32: three things to remember
- The Passuk: Why Animal Tithes Can Never Be Sold
- Halachot: Disposing of Sanctified Meat and Priestly Holdings
- The Rambam’s view: The Rambam on Bekhorot 32
- Tosafot: Redemptions, Tithes, and Firstborns on Bekhorot 32
- Machloket: Selling Tithes and Sharing the Blemished Firstborn
- Words to know: Bekhorot 32: words to know
- Masechet so far: The masechet so far, chapter by chapter
- Elsewhere in Shas: Bekhorot 32 elsewhere in Shas
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