Study Avodah Zarah folio 63A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
the prohibition with regard to payment to a prostitute should apply to the payment retroactively. R' Eliezer says: The baraita is referring to a situation when she sacrificed the payment in the Temple first, before the sex took place.
The Talmud asks: What are the circumstances of such a situation? If the circumstances are that he said to her: Acquire this payment from now, it is obvious that it is permitted to sacrifice it, as it is not extant as payment at the time of the sex, and it is merely a gift that he gave her. It woul
And if the circumstances are that he did not say to her: Acquire this payment from now, how can she be allowed to sacrifice it? God states in the Torah: “And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to YHWH” (Leviticus 27:14), from which it is derived that just as one’s house is in his possess
Rather, the baraita is referring to a situation where he said to her: Let the animal be with you until the time of sex, and if you need it in the meantime, acquire it from now. The baraita teaches that in this situation she may sacrifice her payment as an offering.
Rav Hoshaya raises a dilemma: If she consecrated it first, before the sex, what is the halakha? Since the Master said that declaration to the Most High is equivalent to transfer to an ordinary person, i.e., a spoken consecration of an item to the Temple is deemed, in terms of acquisition, like the