Study Yoma folio 62B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Talmud: A baraita states: It states: “He shall take two goats” (Leviticus 16:5). The minimum number indicated by a plural term, as the word goats is here, is two. If so, what is the meaning when the verse states: Two? It teaches that the two should be identical. And from where do we derive that
The Talmud asks: The reason is specifically because God in the Torah amplified and thereby indicated that the goats are valid even if they are not identical. Doesn’t this indicate that if God did not amplify, I would have said the goats are disqualified? From where do we derive that the goats are pr
The Talmud answers: It could enter your mind to say that since the word two, two, two, is written 3 times in the relevant passage, the repetition indicates that the goats are disqualified if they are not identical. Therefore, the Torah had to indicate that the goats are valid even if they are not id
The Talmud asks: And now that God has amplified by repeating the word goat, goat, why do I need the threefold repetition of two, two, two? The Talmud answers that it teaches how the mitzva should be performed ab initio: One of the terms indicates that the goats should be identical in appearance, on
The Talmud comments that this was also taught in a baraita with regard to the lambs brought by a metzora, based upon the verse: “He shall take two lambs” (Leviticus 14:10). The minimum number of lambs, which is a plural term, is two. If so, what is the meaning when the verse states “two”? It tea