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If the agent subtracted 10 from the denominator and separated 1/40th or added 10 to the denominator and separated 1/60th, thereby giving more or less than the owner intended, his teruma is teruma. From where do we derive that one can appoint an agent to separate teruma? And if you would say that it
The Talmud asks: And let God write in the passage concerning teruma that one can appoint an agent, and the halakha that one can appoint an agent to act on his behalf in these other matters, i.e., divorce and betrothal, can come and be derived from it. The Talmud answers: Agency in these matters can
The Talmud further clarifies the source for agency: Generally, the Paschal offering was brought by a group of people together. But there is that which we learned in a Mishnah (Pesaḥim 98b): In the case of a group whose Paschal offering was lost before it was sacrificed, and they said to one member o
From where do we derive this halakha, that one can appoint an agent to slaughter an offering? And if you would say that it is derived from these other instances of agency, i.e., divorce and teruma, one could refute this derivation by saying: What is unique about these is that they are considered non
The Talmud answers: He derives it from that which R' Yehoshua ben Korḥa says, as R' Yehoshua ben Korḥa says: From where is it derived that the legal status of a person’s agent is like that of himself? As it is stated with regard to the Paschal offering: “And the whole assembly of the congregation of