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    Five Cases of Chatas That Are Allowed To Die

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    This document discusses five cases where a chatas (sin offering animal) is allowed to die rather than be offered as a sacrifice: 1) offspring of a female chatas, 2) an animal consecrated as a substitute for an existing chatas, 3) a chatas whose owner died before it could be offered, 4) a chatas whose owner attained atonement through another offering while the original was missing, 5) a chatas whose first year passed. The document then provides a story connecting these five cases of chatas that are allowed to die to the biblical figure of Timna.

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    This document discusses five cases where a chatas (sin offering animal) is allowed to die rather than be offered as a sacrifice: 1) offspring of a female chatas, 2) an animal consecrated as a substitute for an existing chatas, 3) a chatas whose owner died before it could be offered, 4) a chatas whose owner attained atonement through another offering while the original was missing, 5) a chatas whose first year passed. The document then provides a story connecting these five cases of chatas that are allowed to die to the biblical figure of Timna.

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    This document discusses five cases where a chatas (sin offering animal) is allowed to die rather than be offered as a sacrifice: 1) offspring of a female chatas, 2) an animal consecrated as a substitute for an existing chatas, 3) a chatas whose owner died before it could be offered, 4) a chatas whose owner attained atonement through another offering while the original was missing, 5) a chatas whose first year passed. The document then provides a story connecting these five cases of chatas that are allowed to die to the biblical figure of Timna.

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    Five Cases of Chatas That Are Allowed To Die

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    This document discusses five cases where a chatas (sin offering animal) is allowed to die rather than be offered as a sacrifice: 1) offspring of a female chatas, 2) an animal consecrated as a substitute for an existing chatas, 3) a chatas whose owner died before it could be offered, 4) a chatas whose owner attained atonement through another offering while the original was missing, 5) a chatas whose first year passed. The document then provides a story connecting these five cases of chatas that are allowed to die to the biblical figure of Timna.

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    FIVE CASES OF CHATAS THAT ARE ALLOWED TO DIE
    (They are no longer fitting to be offered as a korban and they are not allowed to be used as chullin)

    Offspring of a female Chatas ‫ולד חטאת‬ ‫ו‬


    Animal consecrated as the
    temurah of an existing Chattas ‫תמורת חטאת‬ ‫ת‬
    A chatas that its owner died
    prior to being offered ‫מתו בעליה‬ ‫מ‬
    A chatas whose owner atoned
    with another offering while ‫נתכפרו בעליה באחרת‬ ‫נ‬
    original offering was missing

    A chatas whose first year


    passed ‫עברה שנתה‬ ‫ע‬
    This law is a halacha from Moshe at Sinai (Temurah 15a)
    An allusion “and Timna” from the following verse (‫)מעשי תורה פרק י"א‬
    ‫יב‬:‫)ותמנע היתה פילגש )בראשית לו‬
    Why did Timna merit to have her name used as a mnemonic for the five "chato'os
    ha'meisos?" The five chato'os are all cases of an animal having the sanctity of a sacrifice
    capable of providing atonement which was not used, where instead another chatos was used
    or another manner of atonement was achieved. The Hadar Z'keinim mentioned the story of
    Timna's dissuading Amolek from attempting to kill Yaakov by advising him that if he would
    be successful, the burden of suffering for many generations as slaves in Egypt would fall
    onto his family. She saved Yaakov from possibly being killed. Golus Mitzrayim is an
    atonement for a shortcoming of Avrohom as mentioned in the gemara N'dorim 32b. There
    was the possibility of the atonement being achieved by either Yaakov's or Eisov's
    descendants. Timna, in her saving Yaakov's life, said to Amolek that his family should not be
    the one to bring about the atonement, but rather that Yaakov's should. It is therefore most
    befitting that she has a place in our Torah study by the subject of atonement not being
    achieved with chato'os ha'meisos, where the sinner receives his atonement through another
    means. These five chato'os are instead put to death. Correspondingly, may the ze'rah Amolek
    have a "kein yovdu kol oi'vecho Hashem" (novi Shoftim 5:31). (Sedrah Selections Zivi

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