Study Rosh Hashanah folio 7A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
That one, Abaye, who said that one counts from the time that the animal is born, is speaking about a blemished animal. Since it was already fit to be slaughtered from the day of its birth, if one does not give it to the priest within a year of that day he transgresses the prohibition against delayin
The Talmud asks: Can an animal with a blemish really be eaten immediately on the day that it is born? Isn’t there a requirement to wait 8 days before slaughtering it, in order to ascertain that the animal is viable and was not born prematurely? The Talmud answers: This is referring to a case where o
§ A baraita states a baraita that expands upon what was taught in the Mishnah: On the 1st of Nisan is the New Year for counting the months of the year, and for leap years, and for collection of the shekels that had been collected in Adar and used to purchase animals for communal offerings and other
From where do we derive that the 1st of Nisan is the New Year for months? As it is written: “This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the 1st month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the 10th day of this month they shall take to them every
The Talmud asks: But one could say that it is the month of Iyyar. The Talmud answers: A month of ripening is required, and in Iyyar there is no ripening, as the grain has already ripened. The Talmud asks further: But one could say that it is the month of Adar, the month in which some of the grain