Commentary for Menachot 179:18

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We have learnt elsewhere:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shek. IV, 4; Keth. 106b. .he');">²⁰</span> The surplus of the drink-offerings was used for the altar's 'dessert'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'summer fruit'; cf. II. Sam. XVI, 1, 2. These were the burnt-offerings offered after all the public and private offerings of that day had been offered so that the altar should not remain idle. V. Shebu., Sonc. ed., p. 50 n. 3.');">²¹</span>

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