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And R' Shimon ben Lakish says in explanation of R' Shimon’s statement: R' Shimon would say that the red heifer can be redeemed with money even once it has been slaughtered and placed upon its pyre in preparation for being burned. Therefore, R' Shimon states that there could be a time when the heifer
The Talmud asks: And is the slaughter of the heifer whose neck was to have been broken not considered an act of slaughter that is fit? But didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (Sota 47a): If a heifer was set aside to have its neck broken to atone for the murder of an individual whose murderer was not known,
The Talmud asks: And does R' Yannai actually say so? But doesn’t R' Yannai say: I heard the boundary, i.e., stage, beyond which the heifer is forbidden, but I have forgotten what it is; but the group of scholars were inclined to say that the heifer’s descent to a hard valley, where its neck is bro
And if it is so, let him resolve the contradiction by saying: Here, where deriving benefit from the heifer is permitted, and its slaughterer is liable for transgressing the prohibition of: Itself and its offspring, it is referring to an act of slaughtering that is fit and is performed before the he
Rav Pineḥas, son of Rav Ami, said: We taught the statement in the name of R' Shimon ben Lakish himself, not as a quote from R' Yannai: The statement with regard to the heifer whose neck is broken is not considered part of the Mishnah. Rav Ashi said: When we were studying in the study hall of Rav Pap