and statutory offerings for which there is a fixed time. What is R. Meir's reason? — Because Scripture saith, Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, [every man whatsoever is right in his eyes]: (1) Moses spoke thus to Israel: When ye enter the [Promised] Land,’ ye shall offer votive sacrifices, but ye shall not offer obligatory offerings; (2) [and] meal-offerings and [sacrifices of] Naziriteship were votive sacrifices. And the Rabbis? (3) — There were no meal-offering[s] at the Bamah [at all]; (4) [and the sacrifices of] Naziriteship were obligatory. (5) Samuel said: They disagree about the sin-offering and the guilt-offering; (6) but all agree that the burnt-offerings and peace-offerings [of a Nazirite] are votive sacrifices. Rabbah raised an objection: [The law of] the breast and thigh and the separation of the loaves of the thank-offering (7) operated at the great [public] Bamah, but did not operate at a minor [private] Bamah; but he [the Tanna] omits the sodden shoulder. (8) If you say that they disagree about the burnt-offering and the peace-offering, it is well: this agrees with the Rabbis. But if you maintain that they disagree [only] about the sin-offering and the guiltoffering, who is the author of this? Rather, if stated, it was thus stated: Samuel said: They disagree about the burnt-offering and the peace-offering; but all agree that the sin-offering and the guilt-offering are obligatory, and [so] they were not offered. The master said: ‘But the Sages maintain: Whatever the community offered in the Tent, etc.’ What is the reason of the Rabbis? — Scripture saith, Every man whatsoever is right in his eyes: (9) only a man may offer voluntary sacrifices and not obligatory ones; but a community can offer obligatory [sacrifices] too.

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(1). ↑ Deut. XII, 8.
(2). ↑ V. supra 114a.
(3). ↑ How do they refute this argument?
(4). ↑ For only animal sacrifices were permitted there.
(5). ↑ Since the vow of Naziriteship merely meant abstention from wine, grapes, defilement, and cutting the hair. The sacrifices were then imposed upon the vower.
(6). ↑ Which a Nazirite brought on the completion of his Naziriteship.
(7). ↑ The breast and thigh of peace-offerings, and four loaves out of the forty which accompanied a thanks-offering, belonged to the priest.
(8). ↑ Of the Nazirite’s peace-offering ram, which likewise was a priestly due, Num. VI, 14, 19. This implies that this was not offered at a private Bamah at all.
(9). ↑ Deut. XII, 8. This is the marginal emendation. The text quotes Judg. XVII, 6.