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Zevachim 12:1-2

Zevachim 12:1

[A t’vul yom is a person who immersed in a mikvah but who must wait until sundown to be purified; a mechusar kapara must bring a sacrifice on the next day.]

A t’vul yom and a mechusar kapara (who are kohanim) do not share in the sacrifices that are to be eaten in the evening. An onen (i.e., one with an unburied relative) may handle the sacrifices but he doesn’t offer them, nor does he receive a share to be eaten in the evening. Kohanim who have a blemish, either permanent or temporary, receive a share and may eat but they do not offer. Any other kohein who is not fit to perform the service doesn’t share in the sacrificial meat; those who have no share in the meat also have no share in the hide. Even one who was ritually unclean when the blood was sprinkled and ritually clean when the fats were burned doesn’t have a share in the meat as per Leviticus 7:33, “One of Aharon’s descendants who offers the blood of the peace offering and the fats receives the right thigh as a portion.”

Zevachim 12:2

If the meat of a sacrifice was never fit for the altar, the kohanim do not acquire rights to its hide as per Leviticus 7:8, “a person's burnt offering,” i.e., one that was offered for a person. If a burnt offering was slaughtered under the wrong name, even though it doesn’t count for its owner, its hide nevertheless belongs to the kohanim. Whether a burnt offering was for a man or a woman, its hide belongs to the kohanim. (This is specified because the word "ish" - "translated here as "person" - literally means a man.)

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz