Temurah 34A

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With regard to a provisional guilt offering brought by one who is uncertain as to whether he committed a sin that renders him liable to bring a sin offering, if he discovers that he did not sin, the offering shall be burned, as its legal status is like that of an unfit offering. R' Yehuda says: It

The principle is: All items that are buried shall not be burned, and all items that are burned shall not be buried. R' Yehuda says: If one wished to impose a stringency upon himself by burning items that are to be buried, he is permitted to burn them. The Rabbis said to R' Yehuda: One is not permit

Talmud: Among the items from which benefit is prohibited, the Mishnah states that the hair of a nazirite shall be buried. With regard to this halakha, Tavi raised a contradiction before Rav Naḥman: We learned in the Mishnah that the hair of a nazirite shall be buried; but one can raise a contradic

Rav Naḥman said to Tavi: There is no contradiction. Here, the ruling of the Mishnah that teaches that the hair of a nazirite is buried, is stated with regard to a nazirite who became ritually impure, and who must therefore shave his head and begin a new naziriteship. And there, the ruling of the

Tavi said to Rav Naḥman: You have answered the contradiction with regard to a nazirite and a nazirite. But the contradiction with regard to a firstborn donkey and a firstborn donkey still poses a difficulty, as the Mishnah here states that the animal and its hair are buried, whereas the Mishnah in