Commentary for Yoma 107:11

אמר רב קטינא בשעה שהיו ישראל עולין לרגל מגללין להם את הפרוכת ומראין להם את הכרובים שהיו מעורים זה בזה ואומרים להן ראו חבתכם לפני המקום כחבת זכר ונקבה

The school of R'Ishmael taught: Two priests, afflicted with a blemish, were sorting the woods when the axe of one of them slipped from his hand and fell on that place, whereupon a flame burst forth and consumed him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' or 'it.'');">¹⁵</span> R'Judah contrasted the following passages: And the ends of the staves were seen<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings VIII, 8.');">¹⁶</span> and it is written but they could not be seen without<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings VIII, 8.');">¹⁶</span>

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