Zevachim 29A

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לא יערב בו מחשבות אחרות.

indicates that to render an offering piggul, the priest does not mix other improper intentions [maḥashavot] with intent of piggul. If he has more than one type of improper intent, the offering is disqualified, but it is not rendered piggul.

״פגול״⁠ – זה חוץ למקומו.

When the verse states: “Piggul,” this is referring to an offering that one had intent to consume outside its designated area.

״יהיה״⁠ – מלמד שמצטרפין זה עם זה.

And since the verse states: “It should be,” and not: They should be, this teaches that intent to consume half an olive-bulk beyond its designated time and intent to consume half an olive-bulk outside its designated area join together with one another to constitute the minimum measure required to disqualify the offering.

״והנפש האכלת ממנו״⁠ – אחד ולא שנים; ואיזה? זה חוץ לזמנו ⁠– דגמר ״עון״–״עון״ מנותר, דדמי ליה בז״ב.

Finally, when the verse states: “And the soul that eats of it should bear his iniquity,” the term “of it” indicates that only one of the above disqualifications carries the penalty of karet, but not two of them. And which is this? It is intent to consume the offering beyond its designated time, as one derives by way of verbal analogy between “iniquity” and “iniquity” from notar (Leviticus 19:8), that “bear his iniquity” means that one is liable to receive karet. The comparison is apt since notar is similar to intent to consume the offering beyond its designated time in that both prohibitions share the features mentioned above that form the acronym: Zayin, beit.

אמר ליה רב פפא לרבא: לדידך, ״שלישי״ דפרשת ״קדשים תהיו״⁠ – מאי דרשת ביה? ההוא מיבעי ליה למקום שיהא משולש בדם, בבשר ובאימורין.

Rav Pappa said to Rava: According to your opinion, in what way do you interpret the reference to the 3rd day (Leviticus 19:7) in the Torah portion that begins: “You should be holy”? Rava responded: That verse is necessary to teach that a given location is considered to be outside the offering’s designated area only if it is so in 3 ways, i.e., outside the permitted limits of the blood, of the meat, and of the sacrificial portions.

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