Pesachim 3A

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from a Mishnah that deals with the offering of a woman who miscarries on or of the 81st day after her previous childbirth: The Torah obligates a woman to bring an offering after childbirth, including a miscarriage. However, one offering suffices for any births or miscarriages that occur within 80 da

Beit Hillel said to Beit Shammai: What is different between or of the 81st and the day of the 81st? If they are equal with regard to the halakhot of ritual impurity, i.e., the blood of this woman is no longer ritually pure and all of the standard strictures of ritual impurity apply to her, will the

The Talmud raises an objection with regard to the meaning of the word or from a baraita: One might have thought that a peace-offering, which may be eaten for two days, may also be eaten on or of the third day. And it is a logical derivation that leads to that conclusion. How so? Other offerings, e.

Therefore, the verse states: “And when you sacrifice a peace-offering to God, you shall sacrifice it of your own will. It shall be eaten the same day you sacrifice it, and on the next day; and if any remains until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire” (Leviticus 19:5–6). This verse means tha

The baraita continues: If a peace-offering may not be eaten beyond the 2nd day, one might have thought that it should be burned immediately after the conclusion of the 2nd day, and this too is the conclusion of a logical derivation: Other offerings are eaten for one day and night, and peace-offerin