Study Zevachim folio 32B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
With regard to placing hands on the head of an offering as well, it is written: “Before YHWH.” The Talmud answers that it is possible, in a case where he inserts his hands into the Temple courtyard and places them on the head of the offering while he remains outside. The Talmud asks: But with rega
The Talmud answers: In accordance with whose opinion is this? It is in accordance with the opinion of Shimon HaTimni, who holds that the one who slaughters an offering must stand inside the Temple courtyard. This is as it is taught in a baraita, that when the verse states: “And he shall slaughter t
§ Apropos the question of whether partial entry into the Temple courtyard is considered entry, Ulla says that Reish Lakish says: A ritually impure individual who inserted his hand inside the Temple courtyard is flogged for transgressing the prohibition of entering the Temple while impure, as it is s
Rav Hoshaya raised an objection to Ulla from that which was taught in a baraita: There is the case of a metzora whose 8th day, on which he becomes ritually pure from his tzara'at and performs the final stages of his purification process, occurs on Passover eve, such that it would be possible to bri
The rabbis said: Although any other individual who was ritually impure who immersed that day and is waiting for nightfall for the purification process to be completed may not enter the Temple mount until nightfall, this one may enter. The reason is that it is better for a positive mitzva that has a