Temurah 19B

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R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, said: And R' Elazar concedes to the opinion of the Rabbis with regard to a case where one designates a female animal for a guilt offering, which is only brought from a male animal, that its offspring is not sacrificed as a guilt offering. The Talmud asks: Isn’t that obv

The Talmud answers that this statement is nevertheless necessary, for if R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, had not informed us of this halakha, I would say that the reason for the ruling of R' Elazar, that one who designates a female animal for a burnt offering may sacrifice the offspring as a burnt offe

The Talmud objects: If so, that R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina’s ruling is necessary to exclude the possibility that R' Elazar’s reason is that the offspring is suitable as an offering, then say the following: Rather than teach us that the offspring of a female designated as a guilt offering is not sac

The Talmud explains: If he would teach us that according to R' Elazar the offspring is not sacrificed as a burnt offering, I would say that it is only as a burnt offering that the offspring is not sacrificed, because he did not consecrate the mother with the same type of sanctity for the sake of whi

Mishnah: In the case of one who designates a female animal for a guilt offering, which may be brought only from males, it is left to graze until it becomes blemished and then it is sold, and he brings a guilt offering with the money received for its sale. And if in the interim, he designated a mal