One Law for All Offerings That Ascend the Altar

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 436:2

Rabbi Yehudah says: the words "this," "it," "the burnt offering" are all limiting terms — excluding an offering slaughtered at night, one whose blood was spilled, and one whose blood went outside the courtyard hangings, such that if it went up onto the altar it must come down. Rabbi Shimon says: "burnt offering" — I know only a valid burnt offering. From where do I include one slaughtered at night, one whose blood was spilled, one whose blood went outside the hangings, one left overnight, one taken outside, one rendered impure, leftover meat, one slaughtered beyond its proper time or place, one whose blood was received or sprinkled by those unfit, one whose blood was meant to be placed above and was placed below or meant below and placed above, meant within and placed outside or meant outside and placed within, and the Passover offering and the sin offering slaughtered not for their own sake? Scripture says "the law of the burnt offering" — one law for all that ascend, that if they have gone up they shall not come down. One might think I should also include the beast used for bestiality or as its object, one set aside for idolatry or already worshiped, the harlot's fee and the price of a dog, the mixed breed, the mortally wounded, and the caesarean-born. Scripture says "this." And what made you include these and exclude those? After Scripture included and excluded, I include those whose disqualification arose within the realm of the sacred, and I exclude those whose disqualification did not arise within the sacred. But is this derived from here — it is derived from there: "from the animal" excludes the beast of bestiality, "from the herd" excludes the worshiped one. And further, is the mixed breed derived from here — it is derived from there: "an ox or a sheep" (Leviticus 22:27) excludes a mixed breed, "or a goat" excludes a hybrid offspring; two verses are needed, one for the unconsecrated animal and one for the consecrated.

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