Pisqa’ 701
1
“Be careful lest you offer up your Holocaust-offering” (Dt.12:13)—
Be careful constitutes a proscription.
Lest also constitutes a proscription.
“You offer up your Holocaust-offering” (Dt.12:13)—
and not the Holocaust-offering of a gentile,
[which had been slaughtered outside the Chosen Abode]:2
words of R. Shimon.
Rabbi Judah says:
And not the Holocaust-offering of a gentile
which had been consecrated beyond the Land.
“In any place you see” (Dt.12:13)—
rather, offer it up in any place that a prophet instructs you,
in the same way that Elijah
offered them up on Mt. Carmel.
2
“Rather, in the place which HASHEM will choose, from one of your tribes” (Dt.12:14).
One verse states:
“From one of your tribes” (Dt.12:14),
while another verse states:
“From all your tribes” (Dt.12:5).
This is as R. Judah teaches:
the funding must come
from all your tribes,
but the land for the Chosen Abode
will come from one tribe.3
“There shall you offer up your Holocaust-offerings” (Dt.12:14)—
I might infer only that a Holocaust-offering
must be offered up in the Chosen Abode.
How do I know that this restriction
applies as well to other offerings?
The Teaching states:
“And there shall you perform all that I am commanding you” (Dt.12:14)—
[all extends the rule to other offerings].
But still I can claim that
a Holocaust-offering is subject to a prescription (Dt.12:14) and a proscription (Dt.12:13),
while other Holy offerings are subject only to a prescription!
The Teaching states:
“There shall you offer up your Holocaust-offerings” (Dt.12:14).
This suggests that the Holocaust-offering is in the same class as other offerings.
Then why is it singled out for special mention?
To draw it into comparison:
Just as a Holocaust-offering is distinctive,
in being the subject of both a prescription and a proscription,
so, too, everything that is subject to a prescription
[to be offered in the Chosen Abode],
is indeed subject to a proscription
[against being offered elsewhere]!