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Pesachim 32: Rav Kook’s “Kemach”

jyungar December 23, 2020

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The Mishna (31b) teaches that if the teruma was hametz (i.e. it had been baked into bread), and it was accidentally eaten on Pesaḥ, the person who ate it needs to pay its value together with the penalty – even though hametz on Pesaḥ is ordinarily considered to have no value.

Steinzaltz (OBM) writes that our daf’s argument between Abba Shaul and the chachamim can be explained by a Yerushalmi where the Tanna Kamma understands giving the “holy thing” to the kohen as commanding that a minimum amount (a ka-zayit) must be given to the kohen; only then will the penalty be in place. Abba Shaul understands that the “holy thing” given is the penalty for misusing the teruma itself.

Bezalel Naor, my friend has made significant contributions to the scholarship of Hassidut, and the brilliant insight Rav Kook brought to explain our sugya from the Yerushalmi (cited by Steinzaltz (OBM) above, led us to discuss a recent publication...Pinkesei haRa’ayah.

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