Commentary for Menachot 36:3
מידי איריא הא כדאיתא והא כדאיתא לא יצק לא יצק כהן אלא זר לא בלל לא בלל כלל:
R'Zera answered, Wherever proper mingling is possible the mingling is not indispensable, but wherever proper mingling is not possible the mingling is indispensable?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is evident, therefore, that according to R. Zera our Mishnah teaches that the mingling can be dispensed with entirely, provided it were possible to do so if desired. Similarly the first case of our Mishnah would mean that no oil at all was poured in.');"><sup>3</sup></span> - Is this an argument? Surely this has its own meaning and that has its own meaning.
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