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Movement IV · The Kisvei Atzeres and Technical Laws

Kedushah Timeline: Lambs

40 · מְעִילָה ב:ה · Meilah 2:5 — The Lambs
חַטָּאת וְאָשָׁם וְזִבְחֵי שַׁלְמֵי צִבּוּר — מוֹעֲלִין בָּהֶן מִשֶּׁהֻקְדְּשׁוּ. נִשְׁחֲטוּ, הֻכְשְׁרוּ לְהִפָּסֵל בִּטְבוּל יוֹם וּבִמְחֻסַּר כִּפּוּרִים וּבְלִינָה. נִזְרַק דָּמָן, חַיָּבִין עֲלֵיהֶם מִשּׁוּם פִּגּוּל, נוֹתָר וְטָמֵא. אֵין מוֹעֲלִין בַּבָּשָׂר, אֲבָל מוֹעֲלִין בָּאֵמוּרִים עַד שֶׁיֵּצְאוּ לְבֵית הַדָּשֶׁן.
Sin offering, guilt offering, and communal peace offerings [Kisvei Atzeres]: Meilah applies from consecration. Once slaughtered: susceptible to disqualification through tevul yom, mechusar kippurim, and linah. Once blood sprinkled: liable for pigul, notar, tamei. No longer Meilah for the flesh — but Meilah continues for the sacrificial portions until they reach the ash-heap.
Green — Meilah applies
Fuchsia — Disqualification / liability begins
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Three-stage kedushah timeline for the Kisvei Atzeres
Stage 1
מִשֶּׁהֻקְדְּשׁוּ
Consecration
Meilah applies — misuse of the animal's value triggers karet
Pigul/Notar/Tamei do NOT yet apply
Disqualifications (tevul yom etc.) do NOT yet apply
Stage 2
נִשְׁחֲטוּ
Slaughter
Susceptible to disqualification: tevul yom (immersed-that-day person touches it)
Susceptible: mechusar kippurim (incomplete atonement)
Susceptible: linah (left overnight before blood is sprinkled)
Meilah still applies
Stage 3
נִזְרַק דָּמָן
Blood sprinkled
Pigul begins — improper intent during blood-sprinkling creates pigul liability
Notar — eating after the time window creates notar liability
Tamei — eating while impure creates tumah liability
Meilah ENDS for the flesh (it is now permitted for Kohanim to eat)
Meilah CONTINUES for the sacrificial portions (emurim) until they reach the ash-heap
The key insight — linah for the lambs is a normal disqualification
If the Kisvei Atzeres' blood is not sprinkled before nightfall (linah — "spending the night"), the sacrifice is disqualified. This is a real risk — the lambs must be slaughtered and their blood sprinkled on the same day as the Shtei HaLechem is brought. Contrast this with the bread's linah (mishnah 41): for the bread, spending the night from baking until Shavuos is built into the mitzva's design — it cannot be a disqualification. The lambs' linah is a hazard; the bread's linah is the normal schedule.
Position in the Omer to Shavuos arc — 43 mishnayos
Preceding · Mishnah 39
Menachos 4:3
The permitting factor — lambs permit themselves, bread needs the lambs
Current · Mishnah 40
Meilah 2:5 — Kedushah Timeline: Lambs
Movement IV
After establishing the conceptual relationship between lambs and bread (M39), the series traces how each develops its kedushah over time. This mishnah covers the lambs — three thresholds: consecration, slaughter, blood-sprinkling. The next mishnah does the same for the bread — with one crucial difference at Stage 2 (karmu instead of slaughter).
Following · Mishnah 41
Meilah 2:6
Three-stage kedushah for the bread — karmu is the critical threshold
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