Pesachim 24 - December 15, 29 Kislev

Study Guide Pesachim 24

Today’s daf is sponsored by Dan Ross in honor of the anniversary of my marriage to my chevruta for life, Rabbi Jade Sank Ross. "You are my best friend and I look forward to many more years of learning Torah together." And by Jenna Katz in honor of her sister and brother in law Andrea and Max on the birth of their first child, a beautiful baby girl. Mazel Tov also to grandparents Ben and Felice, and great grandma Esther. May she grow in Torah and Mitzvot and be surrounded by all the love in the world.

A students brings a drasha of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi to derive the fact that chametz on Pesach and an ox that killed a person are forbidden to benefit from besides that one cannot eat them. The drasha is from a verse regarding a sin offering whose blood is brought into the sanctuary (heichal). Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmani rejects his proof and the student brings another proof from a verse regarding meat leftover during the days of the miluim beyond the first day in which it was allowed to be eaten. That too is rejected. Abaye brings a third verse in an attempt to derive that chametz and the ox are forbidden also to benefit - from the same verse that Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi used but from different words. Rav Papa rejects his proof and brings another verse - from sacrificial meat that is impure. Ravina questions his proof but the question is resolved and rav Papa's proof stands. The gemara derives other things from the verses about eating impure sacrificial meat and about a person who is impure who eats sacrificial meat. There are two versions about what Rabbi Avahu said regarding what is and is not included in the prohibition to eat and benefit from items, i.e. if it is eaten or used in an atypical manner.