Commentary for Pesachim 126:3

מאי חוץ לחומה רבי יוחנן אמר חוץ לחומת בית פאגי אבל חוץ לחומת העזרה קדיש ולא בעינן על בסמוך רבי שמעון בן לקיש אמר אפילו חוץ לחומת עזרה לא קדיש אלמא בעינן על בסמוך

For we learned: If a man slaughters the thanksoffering within [the Temple Court], while its bread is without the wall, the bread is not sanctified.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The thanksoffering was accompanied by forty loaves. These were verbally sanctified before the sacrifice was actually slaughtered, whereupon they acquired a monetary consecration, which means that they might not henceforth be eaten or put to use until the offering is sacrificed; while if they became defiled, they were redeemed and reverted to hullin. The slaughtering of the sacrifice conferred intrinsic ('bodily') kg sanctity upon them; they were more readily disqualified then, and if defiled they had to be burnt. In this connection too 'with' () is written: kg then he shall offer with the sacrifice of the thanksoffering unleavened cakes . . with () cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering');">⁴</span> What does 'without the wall' mean? R'Johanan said, Without the wall of Beth Pagi;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A fortified suburb of Jerusalem (Jast.) , which is the uttermost boundary of the town (Rashi) . Its exact spot has not been identified, v. Neubauer, Geographie, pp. 247ff.');">⁵</span>

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