Zevachim 47A

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From where is it derived with regard to one who acts unawares in the case of consecrated items, i.e., if one slaughtered an offering without intending to perform the act of slaughter at all, but rather like one occupied with other matters, that the offering is disqualified? Rav Huna said to Shmuel:

Shmuel said to Rav Huna: We have this as an established halakha already, that it is a mitzva to slaughter the offering for the sake of a bull, but from where is it derived that this requirement is indispensable? Rav Huna said to him that the verse states: “With your will you shall slaughter it” (Le

§ The Mishnah teaches: Because the intent follows only the one performing the sacrificial rite. The Talmud comments: The Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of this tanna, as it is taught in a baraita that R' Elazar, son of R' Yosei, says: I heard that even the owner of an offering can re

Abaye says: R' Elazar, son of R' Yosei, and R' Eliezer, and R' Shimon ben Elazar all hold that even in a case involving two people, where this one has intention and that one performs the service, it is the intention that is relevant, i.e., it is as though the one performing the service had the inten

The statement of R' Eliezer is as we learned in a Mishnah (Ḥullin 38b): With regard to one who slaughters an animal on behalf of a non-Jew, his slaughter is valid and a Jew may eat the meat of this animal. But R' Eliezer deems it unfit, as the intention of the non-Jew, which is presumably to use th