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Chapter 2, Mishna 1

May we benefit from a prohibited thing if we didn’t put ourselves in that situation on purpose? Interestingly, the cases under consideration include the smell of incense burned for idolatry – prohibited because such practices are akin to murder for a Jew – and the smell of incense burned in the Holy Temple – prohibited because we may not appropriate the holy property of the Temple for our own benefit.