מְעִילָה

מְעִילָהf. (מָעַל; b. h. מַעַל) false dealing, bad faith. Sifré Num. 7 (ref. to Num. 5:12, sq.) הרי מ׳ על דבר ערוה this (context) proves that maʿal refers to marital faithlessness (not to pecuniary defalcation). Ib. אין מ׳ … אלא שיקור mʿilah everywhere (in the Scripture) has the meaning of false dealing; Num. R. s. 8. B. Bath.88b זה הקדים חטא למ׳וכ׳ this one (who robbed a man) makes sin precede faithlessness (ref. to Lev. 5:21), whereas that one (who robbed the Temple) makes faithlessness precede sin (ib. 15); a. fr.Pl. מְעִילוֹת. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Num. 5:12) שתי מ׳ הללווכ׳ why this repetition of the stem מעל?Esp. mʿilah, the law concerning the unlawful use of sacred property (Lev. 5:15 sq). Tosef.Meïl. I, 5 הציל … מן המ׳ protects the flesh of the other animal from being subject to the law of m., i. e. no use made of it is considered sacrilege. Ib. 8 יצא ידי מ׳ is no longer amenable to the law ; Meil.2a. Tosef. ib. III, 2 להיכן מ׳ זו נופלת to what fund does this fine for mal-appropriation go? Meïl. 12a אית ביה מ׳, איכא מ׳ the law of m. applies to it; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Zeb.V, 5 אשם מ׳ the guilt-offering for mal-appropriations of sacred property; a. fr.M‘ilah, name of a treatise of the Mishnab, Tosefta and Talmud Babli of the Order of Kodashim.