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and there is a principle that anything fixed is considered as though it was half and half, i.e., equally balanced, and it remains a case of uncertainty. The Talmud clarifies its suggestion: Rather, let us push the intermingled animals so that they all move from their places, which negates the fixed
Rava says: Now that the rabbis have said that we do not sacrifice any of them, this is evidently a rabbinic decree, lest 10 priests come simultaneously and sacrifice all the animals in the mixture together, not one at a time. Therefore, the fact that there could be a method to permit the animals is
One of the rabbis said to Rava: If that is so, do you hold that the large basin [megisa] on which the sacrificial portions of the animal are placed is prohibited? In other words, is it possible that these animals, which were slaughtered when they were initially declared permitted after being separ
Rava responded that he did not mean there is a concern that 10 priests would sacrifice their sacrificial portions simultaneously. Rather, the decree is due to the concern lest when the animals move, 10 priests will come simultaneously and take them from the mixture. As all or most of the animals wer
§ Rava said: Now that the rabbis say in the Mishnah that we do not sacrifice any of the animals, if we did sacrifice one of them, the offering does not effect acceptance for the owner. Rav Huna bar Yehuda raised an objection to Rava from a Mishnah (Kinnim 22b): With regard to a bird sin offering tha