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A High Priest whose mistake costs him a bull, unless he happened to make it in company. A woman who loses three pregnancies across most of a year and owes exactly one set of birds. And a man who may or may not be impure because of something that happened at twilight. What does a legal system do with a question it has already admitted it cannot answer?
Brought, and Never Eaten
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Shegagot 15 closes the treatise by sorting the same inadvertent sin by rank, giving the king a he-goat and the anointed priest a bull, and then narrowing the priest's bull so severely that ruling together with the High Court exempts him entirely. Mechusrei Kapparah 1 opens a new treatise on four people who are already pure, already immersed, and still described as lacking, and works through a long series of doubtful births in which the offering is brought and the sin offering burned rather than eaten. Chapter 2 turns to the zav, checking him against seven ordinary causes before it will call him impure, counting discharges by the time it takes to immerse and dry rather than by volume, and ending at twilight, where a single moment may count as one event or as two.