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אמר ליה: מי קרינא ביה ״כי ירחק ממך המקום... וזבחת״?
Rav Yosef said to Abaye: Slaughtering a pregnant peace offering containing a non-sacred fetus is not subject to the prohibition against slaughtering non-sacred animals in the Temple courtyard. Do we read the verse: “If the place which YHWH your God should choose to put His name there be too far from you, then you should slaughter of your herd and of your flock” (Deuteronomy 12:21), as applying to such a case? This verse prohibits the slaughter of non-sacred animals in the Temple, but only those that could be slaughtered elsewhere. But here, he had no choice but to slaughter the pregnant mother in the Temple, since it was a peace offering.
בעי מיניה אביי מרב יוסף: היא חולין וולדה שלמים, ושחטה בחוץ — מהו? מי מחייב עליה משום שחוטי חוץ, או לא?
Abaye posed the opposite dilemma to Rav Yosef: According to the opinion of R' Yoḥanan that fetuses can be consecrated, if one consecrated the fetus, but not its mother, as a peace offering, such that it, the mother, is non-sacred, and its offspring is a peace offering, and he slaughtered it outside the Temple courtyard as a non-sacred animal, what is the halakha? Is one liable for it due to the prohibition against slaughtering offerings outside the Temple courtyard, or not?
אמר ליה: מי קרינא ביה ״והביאם לה׳״?
Rav Yosef said to Abaye: Do we read the verse: “That they may bring them to YHWH” (Leviticus 17:5), as applying to this case? The full passage reads: “Any man of the house of Israel who should slaughter a bull, or a lamb, or a goat…and has not brought it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting…that man should be cut off from among his people. To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them to YHWH, to the door of the Tent of Meeting” (Leviticus 17:3–5). The passage indicates that the prohibition against slaughtering offerings outside the Temple applies only to those offerings that are fit to be slaughtered inside. But this fetus is not fit to be slaughtered at all until it is born.