Nazir - Daf 26
- Unspecified money for bird obligations and multiple obligations
On Daf 25, Rebbe Yochanan explained that a halachah leMoshe MiSinai by nazir taught that unspecified funds for his korbanos go to communal nedavos. Here, the Gemara proves that the same applies to funds designated for bird korbanos (which include a chatas and olah), such as those of a metzora or zav. His statement is therefore emended to be that the halachah was taught by nazir as well as obligations of bird korbanos, which similarly require multiple korbanos for a single cause. Rebbe Yochanan specified nazir to exclude the following case: מי שהיה מחוייב חטאת ואמר הרי עלי עולה – Someone who was obligated in a chatas, and said, “It is upon me to additionally bring a voluntary olah,” והפריש מעות ואמר הרי אלו לחובתי – and he designated money and said, “These are for my obligations,” the funds are an indeterminate mixture of the two, since they are unrelated obligations. Therefore, the Baraisa teaches, he cannot use them for either an olah or a chatas. It concludes: מת והיו לו מעות סתומים ילכו לים המלח – If he died and had unspecified funds, they go to the Dead Sea, and not to communal nedavos.
- נפלה דמי חטאת מביניהן הרי הן כמפורשין
Rava said that although unspecified nazir funds are used for communal nedavos, אם נפלה דמי חטאת מביניהן – if the chatas money was removed from them, הרי הן כמפורשין – [the remaining money] is considered specified for the olah and shelamim and is not used for communal nedavos if the nazir dies. A Baraisa is brought in his support: אלו לחטאתי והשאר לשאר נזירותי – A nazir who said, “These are for my chatas, and the rest is for the rest of my [korbanos of] nezirus,” דמי חטאת ילכו לים המלח – the chatas money goes into the Dead Sea, והשאר יביא חציו לעולה וחציו לשלמים – and of the remainder, half is used for the olah, and half is used for the shelamim, and it does not go to nedavos. The Baraisa continues that if he said, “These are for my olah, and the rest for the rest of my korbanos,” then the olah money is used for the olah, and the rest goes to communal nedavos, since it includes unspecified chatas money.
- Which items are equal to money to be considered unspecified
Rav Yehudah said in the name of Rav: לא שנו אלא מעות – The halachah that unspecified money is used for nedavos was only taught regarding money, אבל בהמה הרי היא כמפורשת – but an animal (which is itself not valid for his korban) which was designated for his korbanos (through its sale), is like it is specified, and the animal is left to die instead of being sold for korbanos (if the nazir dies). Rav Nachman says that this is only true for an unblemished animal, אבל בעלת מום - הרי היא כסתומה – but a blemished animal is considered unspecified. The Rosh explains that only money, or goods that are easily converted to cash and thus equal to money, have the halachah that their superfluous funds go to nedavos. An unblemished animal designated for a korban, even one for which it is not valid, cannot be redeemed until it develops a blemish, and is therefore not regarded as money. A blemished animal, which can be immediately redeemed, is like money in this regard. The Gemara records a machlokes if a bar of gold would be considered like money, since it was generally used to purchase animals and not sold for cash (being of uncertain value). All agree, however, that a stack of beams for building would not be considered like money, because they are only sold to someone in need of them.
