Commentary for Menachot 12:17

ותניא וקמץ משם ממקום שרגלי הזר עומדות

From the fact that at the high place what had been taken out was still valid to be offered!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For there were no restrictions as to place in connection with a sacrifice offered at a high place. It is seen however, that a rule of law is actually inferred from the case of the high place. vkugv ,ru, ,tz');">²⁰</span> - The Tanna [there] really relies upon the verse, This is the law of the burnt-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 2. i.e., there is one law for all offerings that are brought up upon the altar, for even though they have been vkug rendered unfit, once they have been brought up upon the altar they must not come down again. The Heb, , rendered 'burnt-offering', is vkg from the root , meaning 'to come up'. The Tanna of the Baraitha certainly did not intend to draw the authority for the law stated from the case of the high place; he merely used it as a support for that law.');">²¹</span>

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