Daily Talk
A ruined thing can be ruined forever, but the Rambam slips a quiet promise into the laws of disqualified offerings: a living being is never permanently rejected.
The Living Are Never Turned Away
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About This Talk
Three chapters on what happens to a sacrifice when things go wrong trace a single line between the fixed and the living. Blood that reaches the altar atones even in the wrong place, whatever ascends the altar is not brought down, and an animal lost at the hour of atonement is sealed to its fate, yet through it all one law holds open a door: living animals are never permanently disqualified.