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Meilah 1:3-4

Meilah 1:3

If limbs from an offering of lesser sanctity were taken outside before the blood was sprinkled, Rabbi Eliezer says that the laws of misappropriation no longer apply, nor do those of piggul, nosar and ritual impurity. Rabbi Akiva says that the laws of misappropriation still apply, as do those of piggul, nosar and ritual impurity.

Meilah 1:4

Sprinkling the blood from offerings of greater sanctity can lead to both a leniency and a stringency but sprinkling the blood from offerings of lesser sanctity can only lead to a stringency, as follows: before sprinkling the blood from offerings of greater sanctity, the laws of misappropriation apply to the parts (to be offered) and the flesh (to be eaten) but after, misappropriation applies only to the parts and not to the flesh; the laws of piggul, nosar and ritual impurity apply to both. Regarding offerings of lesser sanctity, it leads only to a stringency, as follows: before sprinkling the blood, the laws of misappropriation do not apply to the parts or the flesh but after, misappropriation applies to the parts, though not the flesh; the laws of piggul, nosar and ritual impurity apply to both. Therefore, sprinkling the blood from offerings of greater sanctity leads to both a leniency and a stringency and sprinkling the blood from offerings of lesser sanctity only leads to a stringency.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz