Commentary for Yoma 117:19

אלו ואלו מתערבין באמה ויוצאין וכו' תנו רבנן מועלין בדמים דברי ר' מאיר ור' שמעון וחכ"א אין מועלין בהן

e, the southern base. You say it is the southern base. But perhaps it is not so, but rathe the western base? I will tell you: Let his coming down from the ramp be inferred from his going out of the Sanctuary: Just as when he goes out of the Sanctuary [he pours out the remainder of the blood] at [the point] nearest to him, and which is it? - the western base, so when he comes down from the ramp [he pours out the remainder of the blood] at the point nearest to him, and which is it? - the southern base. It was taught: R'Ishmael said: Both times [blood was poured out] at the western base. - R'Simeon B'Yohai: No, [it was] at the southern base. - It is quite right, according to R'Ishmael: He holds that one may infer that concerning which no details are given from that which is thus described,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With regard to blood-offerings which are sprinkled on the inner altar there is the Biblical statement: Upon the base of the altar . . which is at the entrance to the tent of meeting (Lev. IV, 7 and 18) , this being the western base; there being no such statement concerning those offerings of which the blood is on the outer altar, the inference is legitimate.');">¹⁸</span> but what is the reason of R'Simeon B'Yohai? - R'Ashi said: He holds the entrance [to the Sanctuary] was at the south.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The whole of the outer altar being on the northern half of the court so that when the priest came out of the Sanctuary the first base he met was the southern, v. supra 16b.]');">¹⁹</span> The teaching of the school of R'Ishmael was taught in the school of R'Simeon B'Yohai:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [I.e., R. Ishmael had retracted his view so that the disciples of R. Simeon b. Yohai could report the teaching in the name of R. Ishmael');">²⁰</span> In both cases it was the southern base. As a mnemotechnic sign remember: The men won over the man.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'The men drew nigh', i.e., won over the man, viz., the disciples of R. Simeon prevailed upon R. Ishmael to agree with them.');">²¹</span> BOTH MINGLED IN THE CANAL AND FLOWED etc. : Our Rabbis taught: One transgresses the law of trespass with [sacrificial] blood. These are the words of R'Meir. R'Simeon and the Sages hold: One does not commit such trespass.

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