Tearing by the Wings and Directing the Heart to Heaven

"And he shall tear it apart" -- a fit one and not an unfit one. "It" by tearing, but an animal burnt-offering is not done by tearing. Is this not logical? If the bird burnt-offering, which does not require dismembering, requires tearing, then the animal burnt-offering, which requires dismembering, should all the more require tearing; Scripture teaches "it" -- it by tearing, but an animal burnt-offering is not done by tearing. "By its wings" -- to declare the skin fit. Is this not logical? If in the place where it declared the place of the dung fit it disqualified the skin, then in the place where it disqualified the place of the dung should it not disqualify the skin? Scripture teaches "by its wings" -- to declare the skin fit. "He shall not divide" -- one might think that if he divided it, it is unfit; Scripture teaches "and he shall turn into smoke." One might think this even if he pinched it with a knife; Scripture teaches "it." And what did you see, to declare fit in the case of dividing and to disqualify in the case of pinching? After Scripture expanded and limited, why do I declare fit in dividing, which is after the offering is accepted, and disqualify in pinching, which is before the offering is accepted? "A burnt-offering" -- even though he drained the blood of the body and did not drain the blood of the head. One might think even though he drained the blood of the head and did not drain the blood of the body; Scripture teaches "it." What is the proof? Rava said: most of the blood is found in the body. "A burnt-offering" (olah) -- for the sake of a burnt-offering. "A fire-offering" -- for the sake of a fire-offering. "An odor" -- for the sake of an odor. "Pleasing" -- for the sake of spiritual satisfaction. "To the LORD" -- for the sake of the One who made the world. It is stated of the animal burnt-offering (above, verses 9-13) "a fire-offering, a pleasing odor," and of the bird burnt-offering "a fire-offering, a pleasing odor," and of the meal-offering (Leviticus 2:2) "a fire-offering, a pleasing odor," to teach that it is the same whether one offers much or one offers little, provided he directs his heart to Heaven. "And he shall tear" -- there is no tearing except by hand, and so it says, "and he tore it as one tears a kid, with nothing in his hand." Rav Huna said: One may write tefillin upon the skin of a clean bird. Rav Yosef said: What does this teach us? That it has a skin? We have already learned, one who wounds them is liable, which shows it has a skin. Abbaye said to him: It teaches us much, for from the Mishnah I might have said that since it is full of holes it is not fit; he teaches us, as they say in the West, any hole over which the ink passes is not a hole. They raised an objection: Rabbi Zeira taught "by its wings" to include the skin; and if it should enter your mind that it is skin, how does the verse include it? Abbaye said to him: it is skin, and the verse included it. Some report: Rabbi Zeira said, We too have learned, "by its wings" to include the skin. Granted if you say it is skin, that is why the verse needed to include it; but if you say it is not skin, how does the verse include it? Abbaye said to him: I will ever tell you it is not skin, and it was needed, for it might enter your mind that since it is full of holes it is repulsive; he teaches us otherwise.