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Zevachim 13:3-4

Zevachim 13:3

In some way, the laws of slaughtering outside are more stringent than those of offering outside, while in other ways the laws of offering outside are more stringent than those of slaughtering outside. Slaughtering outside is more stringent in that one who slaughters for a secular purpose is liable, while one who offers for a secular purpose is not. Offering outside is more stringent in that if two people held the knife while slaughtering, they would not be liable, but if two people held an animal’s limb while offering, they would be liable. If a person offered one part of an animal, then another, then another, Rabbi Shimon says that he is liable for each act of offering. Rabbi Yosi says that he is only liable once and he is not liable unless he offers it on the top of an altar. Rabbi Shimon says that one is liable even for offering on top of a rock.

Zevachim 13:4

Regarding both fit sacrifices and sacrifices that were rendered unfit in the Temple, one is liable for offering them outside. One is liable for offering an olive-sized portion of a burnt offering and its fats combined outside. One is liable for offering outside an olive-sized portion of: the handful of a flour offering; the frankincense; the incense; the flour offering of kohanim; the flour offering of the Kohein Gadol; the flour offering of libations. Rabbi Elazar says that one is exempt unless he offers one of these things in its entirety. If a person offered any of these things inside the Temple courtyard (where it belongs) but he left over an olive-sized portion of it, which he offered outside, he is liable. If any of these things became incomplete (such as if some of it got lost) and a person offered what was left outside, he is exempt.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz