Sanhedrin 83B

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פרט לזו שמחוללת ועומדת.

to the exclusion of teruma that is impure and already desecrated.

וזר שאכל את התרומה, אמר רב: זר שאכל את התרומה לוקה. אמרי ליה רב כהנא ורב אסי לרב: לימא מר במיתה, דכתיב ״וכל זר לא יאכל קדש״?

§ The Talmud continues in its analysis of the baraita: A non-priest who partook of teruma is liable to receive death at the hand of Heaven. Rav says: A non-priest who partook of teruma is flogged. Rav Kahana and Rav Asi said to Rav: Let the Master say that he is punished with death at the hand of Heaven, as it is written: “And they should keep my charge lest they bear a sin for it and die therein if they desecrate it: I am YHWH Who sanctifies them. No non-priest should eat of the sacred, a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, should not eat of the sacred” (Leviticus 22:9–10). Based on the juxtaposition between them, one should say that just as an impure priest who partakes of teruma is punished with death at the hand of Heaven, so too a non-priest who partakes of teruma is punished with death at the hand of Heaven.

״אני ה׳ מקדשם״⁠ – הפסיק הענין. מיתיבי: ואלו הן שבמיתה ⁠– זר האוכל את התרומה. מתניתא אדרב קא רמית? רב תנא הוא ופליג!

Rav responded: The phrase “I am YHWH Who sanctifies them” ends the matter of death, so the matter of a non-priest who partakes of teruma is not juxtaposed to it. The Talmud raises an objection to the opinion of Rav from the baraita: And these are they who are liable to receive death at the hand of Heaven: A non-priest who partakes of teruma. The Talmud explains: Are you raising a contradiction from a baraita to the opinion of Rav? Rav is a tanna, and as such has the authority to dispute the determination of the baraita.

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