[Avodah] Par He'elem Davar - Poetic Justics

[Micha Berger]

Sitting in on a Daf Yomi Shiur (Zevachim 41a) Shabbos afternoon it hit me:

The Par He'elem Davar was brought when the public followed a mistaken
ruling on a matter that deOraisa is not spelled out black-and-white
in the Torah. (If the Sanhedrin erred on an obvious point, they
shouldn't have been listened to. What this says about "al yemin shehu
semol" is left as an exercise for the reader. VeDo"Q)

There is poetic justice in the fact that the verse describing it boils
down to "ditto", leaving all the laws to be derived from other qorbanos.

"He shall do with this bull just as is done with the [kohein gadol's]
bull of a [qorban] chatas; he shall do the same with it; kohein shall
thus make a kapparah for them, and they shall be forgiven."
		- Vayiqra 4:20, translation mine


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger                 Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of
http://www.aishdas.org/asp   greater vanity in others; it makes us vain,
Author: Widen Your Tent      in fact, of our modesty.
- https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF            -Louis Kronenberger, writer (1904-1980)