Commentary for Menachot 157:20

אפילו תימא ר' אלעזר בר' שמעון הכא במאי עסקינן כגון שקיבל דמן בכוס ונשפך

only by the slaughtering of the animal-offering. Why is this? Because the verse says, Animal-offerings and drink-offerings.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXIII, 37. The drink-offerings are thus dependent upon and are hallowed by the animal-offering.');">¹⁹</span> We have learnt: IF THE DRINK-OFFERINGS HAD ALREADY BEEN HALLOWED IN A VESSEL WHEN THE ANIMAL-OFFERING WAS FOUND TO BE INVALID, IF THERE IS ANOTHER ANIMAL-OFFERING, THEY MAY BE OFFERED WITH IT; BUT IF NOT, THEY ARE LEFT TO BECOME INVALID BY REMAINING OVERNIGHT, Now presumably it became invalid in the act of slaughtering?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nevertheless the drink-offerings are hallowed, for the Mishnah states that in the absence of another animal-offering they must be kept overnight to be rendered invalid. Now since in this case the slaughtering of the animal-offering was invalid it obviously could not have hallowed the drink-offerings, but they must have been hallowed before the slaughtering, thus contrary to Ze'iri.');">²⁰</span> - No, it became invalid in the act of sprinkling.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the drink-offerings were hallowed by the slaughtering.');">²¹</span> With whom [would this agree]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., the view expressed that the slaughtering alone hallows the drink-offerings.');">²²</span> [Shall I say only] with Rabbi, who ruled that where there are two acts<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Here the slaughtering and the sprinkling.');">²³</span> which [jointly] render the offering permissible, one can promote [to sanctity] even without the other? - You may even say that it agrees with R'Eleazar son of R'Simeon,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who maintains that both acts are essential for the hallowing of the drink-offerings;');">²⁴</span> for we are dealing here with the case where the blood had been received in a bowl and was spilt.

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