Commentary for Menachot 175:21

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> יתיב רבי וקא קשיא ליה רביעית למה נמשחה אי מצורע

R'ELIEZER SON OF R'ZADOK SAYS, THERE WERE MARKINGS IN THE HIN MEASURE. Does he not then accept the tradition of seven liquid-measures? - He does not. Alternatively I can say, By seven measures he understood seven measurings.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., seven markings in the hin measure.');">¹⁴</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>FOR WHAT PURPOSE DID THE QUARTER-LOG SERVE? [TO MEASURE] A QUARTER-LOG OF WATER FOR THE LEPER<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Lev. XIV, 5. One of the birds used in the purification rites of the leper was to be killed over running water in an earthen vessel. The quantity of water was determined by the Rabbis at one quarter-log, for in this quantity the blood of the bird would still be recognizable. V. Sot. 16b.');">¹⁵</span> AND A QUARTER-LOG OF OIL FOR THE NAZIRITE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For his cakes and wafers; v. Num. VI, 15.');">¹⁶</span> FOR WHAT PURPOSE DID THE HALF-LOG SERVE? [TO MEASURE] A HALF-LOG OF WATER FOR THE SUSPECTED WOMAN<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the preparation of the bitter waters; cf. ibid. V, 17 and Sot. 15b.');">¹⁷</span> AND A HALF-LOG OF OIL FOR THE THANK-OFFERING. WITH THE LOG ONE MEASURED [THE OIL] FOR ALL THE MEAL-OFFERINGS. EVEN A MEAL-OFFERING OF SIXTY TENTHS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This was the maximum quantity of flour that might be brought as a meal-offering in a single vessel. Infra 103b.');">¹⁸</span> REQUIRED SIXTY LOGS [OF OIL]. R'ELIEZER B. JACOB SAYS, EVEN A MEAL-OFFERING OF SIXTY TENTHS REQUIRED ONLY ONE LOG [OF OIL], FOR IT IS WRITTEN, FOR A MEAL-OFFERING, AND A LOG OF OIL.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIV, 21. Thus no matter how large the meal-offering was only one log of oil was necessary.');">¹⁹</span> SIX [LOGS]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of oil and of wine, measured by the half-hin measure. The hin comprised twelve logs.');">²⁰</span> WERE REQUIRED FOR A BULLOCK. FOUR<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Measured by the third-hin measure.');">²¹</span> FOR A RAM, AND THREE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Measured by the quarter-hin measure.');">²²</span> FOR A LAMB; THREE LOGS AND A HALF FOR THE CANDLESTICK, A HALF-LOG FOR EACH LAMP. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Rabbi was sitting and raised this difficulty: Wherefore was the quarter-log measure anointed?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All the Temple measures were anointed with the anointing oil and thereby consecrated, so that they could hallow whatever was put in them.');">²³</span> If [it was in order to hallow the quarter-log of water] of the leper,

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