Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
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From the Rebbe’s Father
Korach
But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy
18:17
Mishna Bchiorios Chp 4, M5
In the case of an individual who takes payment to be one who examines firstborn animals to determine whether they are blemished… unless he was an expert like Ila in Yavne, whom the Sages in Yavne permitted to take a wage of four issar for issuing a ruling concerning a small animal , and six issar for issuing a ruling concerning a large animal.
Questions
A) Why was the expert for first born called אילא?
B) Why the numbers 6 issar for large & 4 for small?
תורת לוי יצחק ע׳ שנז
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