[Avodah] Treifot question

[JRich at Sibson.com]

Targum Yehonatan ben Uziel expands on the pasuk (B'midbar 19:3) "Veshachat ota l'fanav"  "Ubadikna btamni sari treifan", that the para aduma was checked for all 18 treifot. However, this is on the face of it against an explicit gemara (Chullin 11a), which says that the para aduma could not possibly be checked for treifot, since it was burnt whole. There is a midrash (cited by the Tosafot in Shabbat) that the ananei hakavod in the midbar had x-ray-like properties, and using them one could look into solid objects. Thus the para adumah described in the Torah could indeed be checked for treifot by means of the ananei kavod, a--------------------4


seems a bit strange unless the annanei hakavod were bderech hateva, why not jsut have navi say this is it?

Ktjoel rich

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