Commentary for Menachot 199:19

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but also the burnt-offering of a bird whose head was nipped off at night and the meal-offering from which the handful was taken at night must be taken away to the place of burning. This is quite right with regard to the burnt-offering of a bird since [what is done] cannot be undone, but with regard to the meal-offering surely he can put back the handful in its place and take it again when it is day! - He learnt it and he himself also gave the reason for it, namely, that vessels of ministry hallow [what is put in them] even outside the proper time.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And once the handful has been taken and put into a vessel of ministry it may not be put back and mixed with the remainder of the meal-offering.');">²⁵</span> An objection was raised: Whatsoever is offered up by day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All animal-offerings.');">²⁶</span> is hallowed by day, and whatsoever is offered up by night<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g. drink-offerings.');">²⁷</span> is hallowed both by day and by night.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The text adopted here is in accord with Sh. Mek. and several MSS.; Cur. edd. insert 'and whatsoever is offered up during the night is hallowed by night, and whatsoever is offered up both by day and by night is hallowed both by day and by night'.');">²⁸</span> 'Whatsoever is offered up by day is hallowed by day', that is to say, by day only and not by night!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus proving that vessels of ministry hallow only in the proper time.');">²⁹</span> - It does not become hallowed [by night] so as to be permitted to be offered up, but it does become hallowed so that it can now become invalid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, e.g., it was touched by a person lacking the atonement offering for the completion of his purification, or it was taken out of the Temple precincts, or it was kept overnight. Accordingly it cannot be put back with the remainder of the meal-offering.');">³⁰</span> R'Zera raised an objection: IF HE SET THE BREAD AND THE DISHES [OF FRANKINCENSE] ON THE DAY AFTER THE SABBATH AND BURNT THE DISHES [OF FRANKINCENSE] ON THE [NEXT] SABBATH, IT IS NOT VALID. WHAT SHOULD HE DO? HE SHOULD LEAVE IT UNTIL THE FOLLOWING SABBATH, FOR EVEN IF IT REMAINS MANY DAYS ON THE TABLE THERE IS NO HARM. Now if you accept the view that vessels of ministry can hallow even outside the proper time, then it should become hallowed and also invalidated!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The bread and frankincense should be hallowed by the table even when set thereon on a Sunday, and therefore after a full week, i.e., after midnight of the next Sunday, they should become invalid. How then can it be suggested that it be left for thirteen days?');">³¹</span> - Rabbah said, He who raised the objection, raised a valid one, but the father of R'Abin was quoting a Baraitha;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that a way must he found to reconcile the present argument with it.');">³²</span> and we must say therefore that [the Tanna of that Baraitha] is of the opinion that the night is not considered 'out of time',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For with regard to holy things the night following the day is included in, and is part of, the day, accordingly vessels of ministry can hallow by night as well as by day, save that the offering up may not be performed by night.');">³³</span> whereas the day is considered 'out of time'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That which is a day too soon or a day too late is certainly out of time, and the vessel of ministry cannot hallow it. In our Mishnah, therefore, where the bread and frankincense are set on the table six days too soon, they certainly cannot be hallowed then by the table. Only when the Sabbath arrives do they become hallowed and so may be kept for a full week thereafter.');">³⁴</span> But after all

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