Temurah 2:3-3:1

Temurah 2:3

In some ways sacrifices are more stringent than temurah and in some ways temurah is more stringent than sacrifices. Animals designated as sacrifices can create temurah; temurah cannot. The public and joint owners can sanctify an animal for a sacrifice but they can’t make temurah. Limbs and fetuses can be sanctified but they can’t make temurah. Temurah is more stringent than sacrifices in that the sanctity remains with permanently-blemished animals; they cannot be returned to secular status to be shorn or worked. Rabbi Yosi bar Rabbi Yehuda said that the laws apply equally to intentional and accidental consecration of temurah but not to sanctifying animals as sacrifices (in that an animal sanctified by accident isn’t sanctified). Rabbi Elazar says that a crossbred animal, a mortally-wounded animal, an animal born via c-section, an animal of indeterminate gender and an animal that’s a hemaphrodite cannot be sanctified as sacrifices or temurah and they cannot sanctify other animals as temurah.

Temurah 3:1

The offspring and temurah of the following sanctified animals are offered like the animals themselves: the offspring and temurah of peace offerings, plus their offspring and their offspring’s offspring ad infinitum, are all considered peace offerings. Therefore, they require laying the hands, libations, waving, and giving the kohein the breast and shoulder. Rabbi Eliezer says that a peace offering’s offspring is not offered as a peace offering; the Sages say that it is. Rabbi Shimon said that they agree about the offspring of a peace offering’s offspring and the offspring of a temurah’s offspring; they only disagreed about the offspring itself, Rabbi Eliezer maintaining that it’s not offered and the Sages maintaining that it is. Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Papyas testified that a peace offering’s offspring is offered as a peace offering. Rabbi Papyas testified that he once had a peace offering cow that they ate on Passover and they ate its offspring as a peace offering on Succos.