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The Talmud asks: And R' Shimon and R' Meir, from where do they derive the fact that the ruling is dependent on the court and the action is dependent on the congregation? Abaye said that they derive it from a verse, as the verse states in the passive form: “Then it shall be, if it was performed unwit
The Talmud notes: And both of the verses are necessary. As, had God written only: “Then it shall be, if it was performed unwittingly, hidden from the eyes of the congregation” (Number 15:24), I would say: There is liability to bring an offering even if only a minority of the congregation sinned. Th
The Talmud challenges: But when these verses are written, they are written with regard to an erroneous ruling involving idol worship, not concerning erroneous rulings involving other transgressions. The Talmud explains: We derive it by means of a verbal analogy between “from the eyes of the congreg
§ The Mishnah teaches: If the court of one of the tribes issued a ruling, and the majority of that tribe performed a transgression on the basis of its ruling, that tribe is liable to bring an offering and the rest of all the tribes are exempt; this is the statement of R' Yehuda. A dilemma was raise
The Talmud suggests: Come and hear resolution of this dilemma from a baraita, which teaches: What do they bring? They bring one bull; R' Shimon says: Two bulls. The Talmud elaborates: What are we dealing with in this baraita? If we say the reference is to a case where 7 tribes sinned, R' Shimon re