Commentary for Yoma 58:7

זה הכלל היה במקדש בשלמא רגלים משום ניצוצות אלא ידים מאי טעמא אמר רבי אבא זאת אומרת

time, the day however is so considered. But when the night of Sabbath approaches, let it then become at once sanctified and invalidated?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the night is not considered as 'wanting time', whereas everything that is due during the day and was placed into the sacred vessels in the preceding night, becomes sanctified and invalidated, then, when the eve of second Sabbath comes, let the table sanctify the bread and invalidate it?');">¹⁰</span> - Rabina said: We assume that he removed it before then. Mar Zutra, or as some say, R'Ashi said: You may set the case even if he had not removed it before [Sabbath eve], since, however, he had put it in order at variance with the regulation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When it was wanting time.');">¹¹</span> it is as if a monkey had laid it there.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without any intention, hence the table does not sanctify it, for we consider that since it was placed there without intention, it was technically not placed there at all, hence it becomes neither sanctified nor invalidated.');">¹²</span> THIS WAS THE RULE IN THE TEMPLE etc. : It is quite right that the feet must be washed because of squirtings,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of urine.');">¹³</span> but why must the hands be washed? - R'Abba said: This teaches us that it is

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