Daily Talk
A guilt offering that will not be brought if you are unsure. An offering that changes its animal depending on what is in your purse. And a sin you are liable for only if you knew, then forgot, then knew again. Why should the same God ask a sheep from one man, two doves from his neighbor, and a fistful of flour from the man standing behind them?
The Gap Where the Knowing Went Missing
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About This Talk
Chapter 9 sets out the five sins carrying a definitive guilt offering, the asham vadai, so called because it is never brought on a doubt, and rules that a doubt about causing misappropriation exempts a person entirely. Chapter 10 turns to the offering that rises and falls with a person's means, a ewe or two birds or a tenth of an ephah of flour, and follows the money down and up again, counting a man poor until the inheritance is actually in his hands. Chapter 11 then shows that impurity in the Temple obliges an offering only where knowledge was present, lost, and recovered, and that here alone partial knowledge is treated as complete knowledge.