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During the time periods when a bamat yaḥid – a private altar – was permitted (see above daf 112) even as the Tabernacle was operating, how were sacrifices brought?
Were the rules and regulations associated with sacrifice the same in private settings as they were in the bama gedola – the great altar – in Gilgal, Nov or Givon? This is the question on which our daf – the closing page in Massekhet Zevaḥim – chooses to focus.
Some laws are clear. For example, the Gemara quotes a baraita that teaches that the time limitations regarding sacrifices that must be eaten on the day of sacrifice or, at most, on the day following sacrifice, apply to a bamat yaḥid just as they apply to the bama gedola. This law is derived from the passage in Lev (7:11) that equates the laws of all sacrifices to each other.
We explore the passage regarding King Saul as a typology for what was permissible and how the Rabbis used narrative as a basis for subsequent law.