A Stolen Animal Can Never Become a Valid Offering

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 436:7

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Ulla said: from where that despair of recovery does not transfer ownership? As it says, "and you have brought the stolen, and the lame, and the sick" (Malachi 1:13) — the stolen is compared to the lame: just as the lame has no remedy at all, so the stolen has no remedy at all. Rava said: it is derived from here — "his offering," and not the stolen one. When? If you say before the owner despaired of recovery, why is a verse needed? Rather it must be after the owner despaired of recovery. Learn from this.

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