Commentary for Sotah 30:4
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> תנא פילי של חרס חדשה דברי רבי ישמעאל מאי טעמא דרבי ישמעאל גמר כלי כלי ממצורע מה להלן חרס חדשה אף כאן חרס חדשה
SO HE REDUCES THE QUANTITY OF WATER. [THE PRIEST] ENTERS THE TEMPLE AND TURNS RIGHT. THERE WAS A PLACE THERE A CUBIT SQUARE IN EXTENT WITH A MARBLE TABLET, TO WHICH A RING WAS ATTACHED. HE LIFTS THIS OUT, TAKES SOME DUST FROM BENEATH IT WHICH HE PUTS [INTO THE BOWL] JUST SUFFICIENT TO BE VISIBLE ABOVE THE WATER; AS IT IS SAID, AND OF THE DUST THAT IS ON THE FLOOR OF THE TABERNACLE THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE, AND PUT IT INTO THE WATER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. V, 17. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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