Bava Kamma 110 - February 20, 11 Adar 1

Study Guide Bava Kamma 110 Today's daf is sponsored by Mona Fishbane in loving memory of her beloved daughter-in-law, Leah Levitz Fishbane, Leah Gavriella bat Yaakov v'Etta Beya. "Leah was a beautiful neshama. May her memory be a blessing." A kohen can choose to bring a sacrifice (guilt or sin offering) when it is not his week to be on duty (mishmar) and the meat and hide will be for him, and not given to the kohanim working in the Temple that week. However, does a kohen have the right to choose that a particular kohen will do the sacrificing and receive the meat and hide or does it automatically get given to the kohanim on duty that week? On what does it depend? If one steals from a convert, and the convert dies, the thief returns the item to the kohanim working in the Temple that week when the thief brings the guilt offering. The money needs to be given before the guilt offering. What if the thief died before giving the money or after giving the money but before bringing the sacrifice, what happens to the money - does it go to the kohanim or is it given back to the heirs of the thief? Since the returning of the item (the principal) to the kohen is called by the Torah "an asham," a word that is also used in general to mean the guilt offering, there are various halachot that treat this payment with the same rules as the guilt offering. For example, it can't be paid at night just as sacrifices cannot be brought at night. Rava asks various questions about this comparison. Rava asks if the payment to the kohanim is viewed as an inheritance (as they are in place of the convert's inheritors) or as a gift? What are the ramifications of this question? They conclude that it is viewed as a gift.