Derasha 1 on Vayikra 1:6

Parashas Vayikra · Aliyah 1 · Passuk 6

The Complete Passuk

וְהִפְשִׁ֖יט אֶת־הָעֹלָ֑ה וְנִתַּ֥ח אֹתָ֖הּ לִנְתָחֶֽיהָ׃

Chabad.org — English translation + Rashi

Source Citation

Torah Temima points to Zevachim 85a and Chullin 11a (verified; dismember only a valid offering; cut limb by limb, not pieces into pieces).

E-Daf — Zevachim 85a · E-Daf — Chullin 11a

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Zevachim 85a / Chullin 11a
וְנִתַּח אֹתָהּ — אֹתָהּ כְּשֵׁרָה וְלֹא פְּסוּלָה.

וְנִתַּח אֹתָהּ לִנְתָחֶיהָ — אוֹתָהּ לִנְתָחֶיהָ, וְלֹא נְתָחֶיהָ לִנְתָחִים.

English: “And he shall cut it into its pieces” — “it,” a valid [offering], and not an invalid one. “It into its pieces” — it into its pieces, and not its pieces into [further] pieces.

Type of Learning

R’ Eliezer #2 (מיעוט) — exclusion from the pronoun “it” (only a valid olah is dismembered this way) and from “its pieces” (limbs are not further subdivided).

What Is Learned

Only a valid olah is flayed and cut into limbs in the prescribed order. An invalid offering is not treated that way. The cutting is limb by limb; the limbs themselves are not chopped into smaller pieces.