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that we do not know what requirement does not disqualify the offering if not fulfilled. Therefore, God writes the verse: This is the law, juxtaposing all offerings with a peace offering, which must be performed for its own sake. And if God had written only the verse: This is the law, I would say th
§ Reish Lakish raised a difficulty while lying on his stomach in the study hall: If offerings that were sacrificed for the sake of the wrong type of offering or someone other than the owner are fit, let them propitiate God, i.e., let them satisfy the obligation of their owners; and if they do not pr
R' Elazar said to him: We have found a precedent for this in the case of offerings brought after the death of their owners, as they are fit, but they do not propitiate God, as they do not have owners requiring atonement. This is as we learned in a Mishnah (Kinnim 2:5): With regard to a woman after c
Reish Lakish said to him: I concede to you with regard to a burnt offering that it is sacrificed even if it does not satisfy its owner’s obligation, since it is brought even after its owner’s death in the case of the woman who died after bringing her sin offering. But from where do we derive that a
R' Elazar said to him: Your side of the dispute is written in the Mishnah next to the opinion that you find difficult. Following the opinion in the Mishnah (2a) that only a sin offering and a Paschal offering are disqualified if they are slaughtered for the sake of the wrong type of offering, the Mi