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The Talmud challenges: But even if the Mishnah is dealing with birds consecrated for Temple maintenance, let one redeem them after they were slaughtered and then cover their blood. The Talmud responds: This is not feasible, because in order to redeem a consecrated animal we require setting and valua
The Talmud asks: But if the Mishnah is dealing with birds consecrated for Temple maintenance, in accordance with whose opinion is the Mishnah? If one suggests the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, who says: Everything, i.e., animals consecrated both for the altar and for Temple
The Talmud continues: And if one suggests the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, who says: Slaughter that is not fit to render the meat permitted is not considered a halakhic act of slaughter and therefore the bird would require redemption in order to cover its blood, this canno
Rav Yosef said in reconciliation of this dilemma: The Mishnah’s ruling is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda HaNasi, and he formulates the Mishnah in accordance with the opinions of different tanna’im: With regard to the status of an act of slaughter that is not fit to render the meat permi
And if you wish, say instead that the entire Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, who holds that birds consecrated for Temple maintenance may be redeemed even after their slaughter. And although it would seem that their slaughter is fit to render the meat permitted and that one s