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It is unfit because it is a mitzva that comes to be fulfilled by means of a transgression, which renders the mitzva unfulfilled, as it is stated: “And you have brought that which was stolen and the lame, and the sick; that is how you bring the offering; should I accept this of your hand? says YHWH
The Talmud elaborates: Granted, before the despair of the owner, the robber may not sacrifice the animal because the animal does not belong to him. God says: “When a person sacrifices from yours an offering” (Leviticus 1:2). The term “from yours” indicates that the animal must belong to the one sacr
And R' Yoḥanan said in the name of R' Shimon ben Yoḥai: What is the meaning of that which is written: “For I YHWH love justice, I hate robbery in a burnt-offering” (Isaiah 61:8)? The Talmud cites a parable of a flesh-and-blood king who was passing by a customs house. He said to his servants: Pay the
It was also stated: R' Ami said: A dry lulav is unfit because it does not meet the criterion of beauty, and a stolen lulav is unfit because it is a mitzva that comes by means of a transgression.
The Talmud notes: And R' Ami disagrees with the opinion of R' Yitzḥak, as R' Yitzhak bar Naḥmani said that Shmuel said: The rabbis taught that the halakha that a stolen lulav is unfit applies only with regard to the 1st day of the festival of Sukkot. However, beginning on the 2nd day of the Festiv