Derasha 7 on Vayikra 4:22

Parashas Vayikra · Aliyah 5 · Passuk 22 · Unit 7 of 8

The Complete Passuk

אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָשִׂ֖יא יֶחֱטָ֑א וְעָשָׂ֡ה אַחַ֣ת מִכׇּל־מִצְוֺת֩ יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹהָ֜יו אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹא־תֵעָשֶׂ֛ינָה בִּשְׁגָגָ֖ה וְאָשֵֽׁם׃

Chabad.org — English translation + Rashi

Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Horayos 8a (unit 7; single primary locus per emergency Core plan).

E-Daf.com — Horayos 8a
HebrewBooks / Shas PDF

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Horayos 8a
כְּתִיב הָכָא ״וְעָשָׂה אַחַת מִכׇּל מִצְוֺת ה׳״ וּכְתִיב בְּצִבּוּר ״וְעָשׂוּ אַחַת מִכׇּל מִצְוֺת ה׳״ — מַה לְּהַלָּן דָּבָר שֶׁזְּדוֹנוֹ כָּרֵת וְשִׁגְגָתוֹ חַטָּאת אַף כָּאן.

English: Here it is written “and does one of all the commandments of Hashem,” and of the community the same — just as there it is a matter whose intentional violation is kares and whose inadvertent is chatas, so here.

In the sugya: The identical phrasing used for the nasi and for the community is taken as a gezeirah shavah that limits both offerings to kares-level prohibitions.

Type of Learning

Kares/chatas threshold for nasi — the nasi’s chatas, like the communal, applies only to kares-level prohibitions.

What Is Learned

The nasi brings his special chatas only for those prohibitions whose intentional violation incurs kares and whose inadvertent violation incurs a private chatas. The parallel language with the communal offering transfers the same limitation to the nasi’s case.