Eduyot

Now, I just wanted to point out, we're in the middle of a machloket with a Akaviah ben Mahalalel and the rabbis.

And it's very famous because there's a Mishnah in Masechet Eduyot that says, "Akaviah ben Mahalalel heid arba'at devarim," he testified concerning four things.

And one of the four is our topic, okay? Which you think of all the things, this is what he's talking about, but the hair of this animal that's a firstborn that fell off in between the time it got blemished, which again, if you remember, Rish Lakish said, well, not really blemished, but determined it was a blemish by a Chacham.

And then you slaughter the animal and, or maybe the animal dies.

Now we're going to move on, although it's still within this topic of who do we hold like? What do we really think the Machloket between Akavia Ben Mahlala and the rabbis was? So, Amrav Nachman Halacha Ki Rabbi Yehuda.

How does he know the Halachas of Rabbi Yehuda? Ho'il Utsnam BeBachirta Kavate.

Okay, we started today with quoting a Mishnah in Eduyot.

Eduyot is a Masechet that's also called Bachirta.

Lot 118, Masechet Bava Metzia.

Lot 119, Masechet Bava Batra, Eduyot, Zarah.

Lot 120, Masechet Sanhedrin.

And by the way, the, the leading bid on these are all $200.

... a Zhytomyr Shas.

But a lot of people have partial collections, and they can, uh, fill out their collection with, with the volumes in here.

I mean, you see here, lot 121, which, Masechet Shabbat, Zevachim, Eduyot, Zarah.

Lot 122, Masechet Makkot, Chulin, Ediyot.

So we interpreted the b'nai ta as a three-way machloket, without having to say that it has anything to do with resh l'kish.

Rabbi Nachman says halacha is going to follow the biyoda because in Masechet Eduyot, which is the choice of all the Mishnayot, those are traditions that are remembered on a special day, and so halacha follows that.

And here's the Mishnah in the Eduyot.

If you have hair, of a b'chor, that has a blemish, that fell out, and one put it away on the windowsill, and then you did shechitah on the animal.

Akavah ben Mahalel says it's permitted, and Chachamim say it's not allowed.

And the issue between these three opinions is whether the machloket is in both, or only in meit or only in shochit.

Amar Rav Nachman, "Halacha Rabbi Yehuda hu omd nan bechirta kavatai." Bechirta is a nikrei meher from Masechet Eduyot, and anything that was taught in Masechet Eduyot, which according to tradition was all taught and approved on the famous day that Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah became the head of the Sanhedrin, uh, look at Brachot taf-kaf-chet, that anything taught in there is halacha, in fa- is the final ruling.

Uh, so therefore, he says the halacha does follow Rabbi Yehuda because the Mishnah in Eduyot supports his position.

Let's see.

"De nan," this Mishnah, "in Eduyot se'ar bechor ba'al mum shenashar." If you have the hair, the wool of a bechor ba'al mum, and it fell out, "Ve nichar bechalon", again, you put it in the window, it did not stay next to the animal.

"Ve'acharchach shichta," and it did shchita, "Ve'nachon amatin vechacham meosrim," which is exactly the Rabbi Yehuda's position.

"Rav Yehuda ma'ititz lamideika", I could prove it to you from our Mishnah also.