Bechoros 34

Also here by the Trumah, the machloket is around the Pasuk.

The Pasuk says, by the Matnot Kohuna, the gifts given to Kohanim, Hashem says, behold, I have given you the safeguarding of my truma, i.e., what is really saying in basic English, Hashem says, you have to make sure to keep truma tahor.

So the question is, what does this mean? Rabbi Eliezer, who said in Reis 4, that you have to preserve this Truma that you're not sure if it's Tami or Tahor.

You have to preserve it like it's Tahor.

He says, we learn it from this passage.

This passage says, My Truma is in plural.

One referring to the regular case where the Truma is Tahor, and one referring to the case where we're not sure if the Truma is Tahor or Tami.

Okay, Rabbi Yeshua says, no, look at the Pasuk, how it's spelled.

There's no Vav there between the Mem and the Taf in the Torah, and therefore it's written in the singular, because there's no Nikud in the Torah, as though it's written, and therefore you only have this obligation to give it Tahor, in the case of regular Tahor Truma, in the case where it's a Tzafik, you don't have a Chiv.

And then we don't discuss Rebbe Gamliel, but at least let's focus on Rebbe Elias and Rebbe Yeshua.

Now, Sigourney says, okay, this whole suggestion here is, connects to this discussion we've seen in many different places, Sanhedrin, Daf Dalet, and other places, around yesh eim la mikra, or yesh eim la masoret.

What do we say is a primary way we should be darshening psukim, Yesh Eim Lamechra says, let's listen to how the word is read.

You close your eyes, you don't look at the letters, you listen to what the man is saying.

The Baal Korah reads that passage, it says, And therefore, that's Eim Lamechra.

But the Eim Lamechra is the exact opposite.

You don't listen to it.

You look at the Torah.

the way the words are written, and it's written in the singular.

So it sounds like what's going on, Rabbi Eliezer who says, you have to preserve it in Tahara, even if it's a Sufi, Tamei Sufi, Tahor, he's reading it, he's listening to how the Pasuk is read, and Rabbi Yeshua is saying, we look at how the Pasuk is written, But now we say that we can't say that.

Why can't we say that? Because this whole line of thought is saying we give more weight to how the passage is read or meaning.