Derasha on Bo 12:9 — Torah Temimah note 12

Parashas Bo · Shemos 12:9 · TT note 12

The Complete Passuk

אַל־תֹּאכְל֤וּ מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ נָ֔א וּבָשֵׁ֥ל מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל בַּמָּ֑יִם כִּ֣י אִם־צְלִי־אֵ֔שׁ רֹאשׁ֥וֹ עַל־כְּרָעָ֖יו וְעַל־קִרְבּֽוֹ׃

Source Citation

Torah Temimah on Shemos 12:9, note 12 (on כִּי אִם צְלִי אֵשׁ) points to Pesachim 41b.

Sefaria — Exodus 12:9
Sefaria — Torah Temimah on Exodus 12:9
Sefaria — Pesachim 41b
E-Daf — Pesachim 41b

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Pesachim 41b (via Torah Temimah)
מַה תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר ״כִּי אִם״? לוֹמַר לְךָ: בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁיֶּשְׁנוֹ בְּקוּם אֱכוֹל צְלִי — יֶשְׁנוֹ בְּבַל תֹּאכַל נָא; וּבְשָׁעָה שֶׁאֵינוֹ בְּקוּם אֱכוֹל צְלִי — אֵינוֹ בְּבַל תֹּאכַל נָא.

English: Why does it say “but”? To tell you: at the time when one is under the positive command “arise and eat roast,” one is under the prohibition “do not eat underdone”; and when one is not under the positive command, one is not under that prohibition.

Type of Learning

Linkage of lav to positive mitzvah: the ban on na applies only when the mitzvah of eating roast is in force.

What Is Learned

If one ate an olive’s bulk of na outside the time of the eating mitzvah, the specific lav of na does not apply.