——耶路撒冷不献打折颈项的牛犊。缘由是:打折颈项之牛犊那一条 哈拉哈 ,只行在分给以色列某一支派的地上。惟独耶路撒冷不曾分给各支派,乃是全民同有的。再者,经上论打折颈项的牛犊写着:那是在「不知道是谁杀的」时候献的;而这里被刺的祭司那一件,杀他的人是众所共见的。既如此,只可断定:拉比撒督 提打折颈项之牛犊那一条 哈拉哈 ,并不是因这一件果在其例,乃是要激起众人的伤痛,叫哭声更大。
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——耶路撒冷不献打折颈项的牛犊。
Jerusalem does not bring a heifer whose neck is broken.
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缘由是:打折颈项之牛犊那一条 哈拉哈 ,只行在分给以色列某一支派的地上。
The reason for this is that the halakha of the heifer whose neck is broken applies only to land that was apportioned to a specific tribe of the Jewish people.
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惟独耶路撒冷不曾分给各支派,乃是全民同有的。
Jerusalem alone was not divided among the tribes, but was shared equally by the entire nation.
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再者,经上论打折颈项的牛犊写着:那是在「不知道是谁杀的」时候献的;而这里被刺的祭司那一件,杀他的人是众所共见的。
And furthermore, it is written that the heifer whose neck is broken is brought when “it be not known who had smitten him,” and here, in the case of the slain priest, it was well known who had smitten him.
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既如此,只可断定:拉比撒督 提打折颈项之牛犊那一条 哈拉哈 ,并不是因这一件果在其例,乃是要激起众人的伤痛,叫哭声更大。
Rather, one must conclude that Rabbi Tzadok invoked the halakha of the heifer whose neck is broken not because it actually applied in this case but only in order to arouse the people’s grief and to increase weeping.