Zevachim 115B

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כדרב הונא אמר רב. דאמר רב הונא אמר רב: אשם שניתק לרעיה, ושחטו סתם ⁠– כשר לעולה.

This is in accordance with the statement that Rav Huna says that Rav says. As Rav Huna says that Rav says: With regard to a guilt offering whose owner died or achieved atonement through a different guilt offering and which was consigned to grazing in the field until it develops a blemish, and prior to its being consigned one slaughtered it without specification of its purpose, it is fit as a burnt offering.

המעלה מבשר חטאת [וכו׳]. תנו רבנן: מנין למעלה מבשר חטאת, ומבשר אשם, ומבשר קדשי קדשים, ומבשר קדשים קלים, וממותר העומר, ושתי הלחם, ולחם הפנים, ושירי מנחות ⁠– שפטור?

§ The Mishnah teaches: One who offers up outside the Temple courtyard a portion of the meat of a sin offering that is eaten, or who offers up a portion of several other items, is exempt. With regard to the reasoning behind this halakha, A baraita states: From where is it derived that one who offers up outside the Temple courtyard a portion of the meat of a sin offering, or a portion of the meat of a guilt offering, or a portion of the meat of offerings of the most sacred order, or a portion of the meat of offerings of lesser sanctity, or a portion of the surplus of the omer offering, or the two loaves, or the showbread, or the remainder of meal offerings is exempt, as all these are eaten by the priests and not sacrificed on the altar?

תלמוד לומר: ״עולה״⁠ – מה עולה שהיא ראויה להעלאה, אף כל שראויה להעלאה.

The verse states with regard to the prohibition against sacrificing outside the Temple courtyard: “Whatever man…that sacrifices a burnt offering or sacrifice, and brings it not to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to YHWH, that man should be cut off from his people” (Leviticus 17:8–9). The term “burnt offering” teaches: Just as a burnt offering is fit for offering up upon the altar, so too, anything that is fit for offering up is included in the prohibition. All of the offerings listed in the baraita are not sacrificed upon the altar but given to the priests.

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