Bechoros 26

Remember, what's the issue? The issue is you cannot shear the wool of a Bechorah whether it's got a blemish or not.

And the concern is if hair falls off the Bechorah while it's alive.

Now, if the hair falls off, midorita, it's not prohibited in benefit.

The issue is you're not allowed to shear it.

But if you do, the wool is actually fine with it or if it falls off.

It's fine.

Just midorabanan, they said, you know, not a benefit from it while the animal's alive because they didn't want to create an incentive for you to keep the animal alive and for as much of this wool to fall off because out of a concern that you're going to end up doing it very accidentally or intentionally, like you're going to end up just shearing it yourself, which is asomidoraita.

And therefore, while the animal is alive, you definitely cannot benefit from the wool.

The question is, once the animal is dead already, when there's no real concern that you're going to keep it alive to generate more wool, can you now benefit from that wool that fell off when it was alive, that was prohibited mid-Rabbanan when it was alive? Does that prohibition go away? And that's the makhlukat Kavib and Mahalalal and Chachamim.

And the makhlukat Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Yoisi about how to understand the makhlukat of Kavib and Mahalalal and Chachamim.

Let's go through the opinions.

Rabbi Huldah says, the machlokah is in a case where the hare fell off while it was alive and then you sheltered the animal, okay? And it's going to blemish, right? So HaKadosh Baruch Huldah says it's okay now because the animal's dead.

Chachamim says it's still prohibited.

But everybody would agree if you if the hair fell off and an animal died naturally, not through shchita, it would be prohibited to benefit from this hair that's fallen off because when a bechor dies naturally, you have a mitzvah to bury it out of respect for the bechor, and it's not so intuitive to say, oh, the hair that fell off previously is going to be okay.

That's Rabbi Yehuda.

Rabbi Yosef says the opposite.

He says the makhlukah is daft in the case that when the hair falls off and then the animal dies naturally, that their akavya b'malalach says it's okay because still the animal's dead.

It doesn't matter how the animal died.

If it died naturally or through shchita, the concern that you're going to keep the animal around in order to shave off more hair no longer applies because the animal's dead already and therefore it's okay.

but everybody would agree that if the hair fell off and then you shechted it, where now, when you shechted b'chor, you're allowed a benefit from it because you shechted it, everybody would agree that the hair that fell off is definitely okay.

That's the machol, okay? So now, with that context, the question is, we're discussing a b'chor with a blemish, right? Because that's why you're shechting it at home.

The question is, when did it get the status of a b'chor with a blemish? What's the big difference? If it's unblemished, you have to bring it as a korban.

If it's blemished, the Kohen can shecht it in his backyard.

There's a huge difference halachically with the two.

So I'm going to be asking Rish Lakish.