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And R' Yehuda holds that the Rabbis and R' Eliezer disagree only in those cases, where one’s intention is to drink the blood or burn the meat of the offering. In those cases, the Rabbis deem the offering fit, since the improper intention involves making use of the item in an unusual manner. But if o
As it is taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda said to the Rabbis: Do you not concede to me that if he left the blood until the next day without presenting it, that the offering is unfit? Therefore, if he intended to leave the blood until the next day, it is also unfit.
And R' Elazar comes to say that even in this case R' Eliezer deems the offering unfit and the Rabbis deem it fit, as there is no distinction between a case where one intended to drink of the blood on the next day and where one intended to merely leave the blood until the next day.
The Talmud asks: And does R' Yehuda in fact hold that if one’s intention is to leave some of the blood until the next day, everyone agrees that the offering is unfit? But isn’t it taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda HaNasi said: When I went to R' Elazar ben Shammua to clarify my knowledge, and some say t
R' Elazar ben Shammua said to him: The offering is fit. Yosef the Babylonian repeated this question that evening, and R' Elazar ben Shammua said to him that the offering is fit. He asked again the following morning, and R' Elazar ben Shammua said to him that the offering is fit. Once again, he