Intersecting realms of sanctification: the slaughter of animals for secular purposes in the context of sanctification in rabbinic Judaism: tractate Hullin in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli
Since the Halakhah, as far as sanctification is concerned, considers the altar and the table as a single entity, different only in that one is holier than the other, its task is to compare and then contrast the two realms of the holy when it comes to meat-preparation. That logical requirement (showi...
| Published in: | Annali di storia dell'esegesi |
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Ed. Dehoniane
2001
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Annali di storia dell'esegesi
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Slaughtering
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Victim Religion
B Halacha B Rabbinic literature |
| Summary: | Since the Halakhah, as far as sanctification is concerned, considers the altar and the table as a single entity, different only in that one is holier than the other, its task is to compare and then contrast the two realms of the holy when it comes to meat-preparation. That logical requirement (showing where and how two similar entities differ) accounts for the problematic of the Halakhah. Thus for example M. 5:2 sets up a grid: [1] unconsecrated versus consecrated beasts, [2] inside and outside the Temple courtyard, which yields a variety of results as the possible cases are systematically considered. Then, at M. 6:1, another distinction is introduced. The blood of a consecrated beast is to he tossed on to the altar, whereas that of a secular one is to be buried. So this difference, too, enters the complex. But the distinction underscores the main point of the Halakhah, which is to compare and contrast the two realms of sanctification in connection with the consumption of meat. The Halakhah' s program falls into two parts, according to subject. First, what pertains to the preparation of meat, the covering up the blood, the prohibition of the sciatic nerve, the separation of meat from dairy products ("cooking meat in milk"), and the cultic uncleanness of food. Second, what involves gifts of meat or animal by-products to the priests. Letting the dam go from the nest when taking the young is placed at the end, because it has no bearing on the altar at all ("to unconsecrated birds but not to consecrated ones"). That general uncleanness should enter the picture is not surprising; the Halakhah takes for granted that Israelites will eat their meat not only in line with the requirements of the Written Torah, such as are specified, but also according to the rules of cultic cleanness that obtain, to begin with, in the Temple itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1120-4001 |
| Contains: | In: Annali di storia dell'esegesi
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