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Rabbi Joseph Dana

Torah Lecture

Mishnah Sanhedrin 10-6

Lectured by Rabbi Joseph Dana

Published
January 20, 2025
Duration
4:26
Lecture code
RJD-MSAN-10-6

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We will continue to read and learn about an Ir HaNidachat (a corrupted town), where most of the people worshipped. Says that all of the property has to be gathered within the town square. If there is no square in the town, if there is no open area, we have to make it so a town can be an Ir HaNidachat, even if there is no square; they have to build one in order to go through with the process. The square was outside the city; they bring it inside. In other words, if there was a wall separating the city from the town square, they knock down that wall and rebuild around the square to make sure it is included in the city. They build the city and the town square, and they should completely burn the town and all of its property with fire for Hashem. So we understand that this means the property of the town has to be burned, but not the property of heaven, not the property owned by Hashem.

So what are we talking about? Based on this, if there are items that were dedicated to the Bet HaMikdash (Temple), they should be redeemed, and the money sent to the Bet HaMikdash, not burned, because they are the property of Hashem and no longer the property of the townspeople. If there is a portion separated for a Kohen (priest), and it was already given to a Kohen, then it should be left to rot. We cannot burn it; it is too sacred to be burned. If there is a portion of produce that has been separated, it has to be eaten. All writings that have holiness attached to them should be buried. They are also too sacred to burn, too holy to be burned.

We also learn another thing, another idea, from the Pasuk (verse): it should be completely burned in fire in the town, and all of its property has to be burned. Rabbi Shimon said that we learn from here that if you carry out the judgment, Hashem is going to consider it like you brought a Korban Olah (burnt offering), which is also Kalil (fully burned). It is fully burned before Hashem. They are both fully burned, so if a person goes through with it, he is sanctifying God's name, and it is as if he is bringing a Korban.

It should be a tel olam (a tel olam). It should be a tel olam. It should be a heap, with all the property over here, and it should never be rebuilt. We learn from here that you cannot even make a garden or an orchard in this spot—not only a building, but anything. Rabbi Akiva says that the Pasuk says it should not be built again. Rabbi Akiva says this means it cannot be rebuilt as it was before, as houses, but it could be rebuilt into gardens and orchards. So Rabbi Akiva disagrees with Rabbi Yose HaGelili.

The Pasuk continues: no part of the forbidden property is allowed to stay with you. You cannot really steal it, or Hashem is going to turn away from you. The Pasuk says that Hashem will turn away from you in His burning anger. So Rabbi Akiva disagrees. We learn from here that as long as wicked people who take the property are in this world, Hashem's anger is also in the world. If these wicked people perish, if they die off, then Hashem's anger is also removed from the world.