Commentary for Ketubot 48:15

אמר להם הרי אתם בחזקתכם במה הייתם אוכלים בגולה בקדשי הגבול אף כאן בקדשי הגבול ואי סלקא דעתך מעלין מנשיאות כפים ליוחסין הני כיון דפרסי ידייהו אתי לאסוקינהו

He said to them: You remain in your presumptive state; what have you eaten in exile? The holy things eaten outside of Jerusalem. So too here also [you may eat] the holy things eaten outside of Jerusalem. Now if we were to assume [that] one raises [a person] from “lifting up the hands” to the state of full priesthood, since these spread out their hands, they might come to raise them?

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