Derasha 43 on Vayikra 12:6

TT #43 · Parshas Tazria · Aliyah 1 · Passuk 6

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וּבִמְלֹ֣את ׀ יְמֵ֣י טׇהֳרָ֗הּ לְבֵן֮ א֣וֹ לְבַת֒ תָּבִ֞יא כֶּ֤בֶשׂ בֶּן־שְׁנָתוֹ֙ לְעֹלָ֔ה וּבֶן־יוֹנָ֥ה אוֹ־תֹ֖ר לְחַטָּ֑את אֶל־פֶּ֥תַח אֹֽהֶל־מוֹעֵ֖ד אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

English: On the completion of her period of purification, for either son or daughter, she shall bring to the priest, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, a lamb in its first year for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a purgation offering.

Chabad.org — Chumash, English translation + Rashi for Vayikra 12:6

Source Citation

Torah Temimah cites Nazir 64b; this clause introduces a possible inference about two childbirth offerings that the baraita then rejects.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Nazir 64b
יָכוֹל לֹא תָּבִיא עַל לֵידָה שֶׁלִּפְנֵי מְלֹאת, אֲבָל תָּבִיא עַל לֵידָה שֶׁלְּאַחַר מְלֹאת, וְתִיפָּטֵר מִשְּׁתֵּיהֶן —

English: This is the baraita’s rejected possibility, not its final ruling: one might think a later birth, occurring after the first purification period but within the period following a subsequent birth, would allow one offering to discharge both obligations. The next unit brings the verse that limits that inference.

Type of Learning

Rejected inference

What Is Learned

The baraita raises but rejects the possibility that one offering could discharge both obligations when births fall on opposite sides of the purification-period boundary; the following unit supplies the verse that limits the inference.