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And on the Festival itself he would ask only how the incident occurred, meaning that he would investigate the cause of the blemish, as in that case where a certain man who was a priest brought a firstborn before Rava, close to nightfall on a Festival eve. Rava was sitting and washing the hair on h
When he came back on the following day, Rava said to him: How did the incident that caused the blemish occur? The owner said to Rava: Barley grains were scattered on one side of a fence of thorns, while the firstborn was standing on the other side. When it wanted to eat, it stuck its head through
The Talmud comments: And from where do you say that causing a blemish to an offering is prohibited? As it is taught in a baraita: It is written with regard to offerings: “There must not be any blemish in it” (Leviticus 22:21). I have only an explicit prohibition that it may not have a blemish; from
Mishnah: With regard to an animal that died, one may not move it from its place on a Festival. And such an incident once occurred and they asked R' Tarfon about it. And on that same occasion they also asked him about ḥalla that had been separated from dough and then became ritually impure on a Fest
Talmud: The Talmud suggests: Let us say that we learned the unattributed Mishnah not in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon. As we learned in a Mishnah (Shabbat 156b) that R' Shimon says: One may cut up gourds for an animal on Shabbat so that it can eat them more easily, and similarly, one may