Oct 29, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
On today’s page, Bekhorot 41, the rabbis examine which blemishes disqualify a firstborn animal from sacrifice, focusing on three…
Liel LeibovitzHost
The discussion on today's staff, Bechorot 41, revolves around what conditions establish an animal as a ba'almum, or an animal with a blemish that cannot be sacrificed.
Some firstborn animals, we learn, can neither be brought as sacrifices nor be slaughtered as ordinary blemished animals can.
In other words, they are blemished, but their blemishes are not enough to free them entirely of the sanctity of acting basically as firstborn animals.
And these are the blemishes that one does not slaughter the firstborn due to them, neither in the temple nor the rest of the country.
from the eye that are not constant and internal gums that were damaged but that were not extracted and an animal with boils that are moist inside and out and an animal with warts and an animal with boils and an old or sick animal or one with a foul odor and one with which a transgression was performed Example, it copulated with a person or was the object of bestiality and wanted to kill the person.
In these latter two cases, the act of bestiality or killing became known on the basis of the testimony of one witness or on the basis of the owner.
The discussion on today's staff, Bechorot 41, revolves around what conditions establish an animal as a ba'almum, or an animal with a blemish that cannot be sacrificed.
Some firstborn animals, we learn, can neither be brought as sacrifices nor be slaughtered as ordinary blemished animals can.
In other words, they are blemished, but their blemishes are not enough to free them entirely of the sanctity of acting basically as firstborn animals.
And these are the blemishes that one does not slaughter the firstborn due to them, neither in the temple nor the rest of the country.
from the eye that are not constant and internal gums that were damaged but that were not extracted and an animal with boils that are moist inside and out and an animal with warts and an animal with boils and an old or sick animal or one with a foul odor and one with which a transgression was performed Example, it copulated with a person or was the object of bestiality and wanted to kill the person.
In these latter two cases, the act of bestiality or killing became known on the basis of the testimony of one witness or on the basis of the owner.
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