Commentary for Yoma 9:13

מאי טעמא דמ"ד כל הכתוב בהן מעכב אמר רבי יצחק בר ביסנא אמר קרא (שמות כט, לה) ועשית לאהרן ולבניו ככה ככה עיכובא הוא תינח כל

Whence would I know that if he had put on the larger number of garments for but one day, and had been anointed on each of the seven days; or, if he had been anointed but one day, but has put on the larger number of garments for seven days, [he would also be permitted]? To convey that teaching, Scripture says, 'Who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated', that means anointed and consecrated in whatever way.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As long as he has been consecrated, even if some detail of the ceremony has been omitted.');">¹⁷</span> We have now found evidence that the larger number of garments is necessary in the first instance for the seven days. Whence do we know that anointment on each of the seven days is in the first instance required? You may infer that either from the fact that a special statement of the Torah was necessary to exclude it; or, if you wish, from the scriptural text itself, And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIX, 29.');">¹⁸</span> In this passage the anointing and the donning of the larger number of garments are put on the same level. Hence, just as the donning of the larger number of garments is required for the seven days, so is the anointing obligatory for the seven days. What is the reason of the man who holds that the forms prescribed for the ceremonies are indispensable? - R'Isaac B'Bisna said: Scripture reads And kaka [thus] shalt thou do to Aaron and his sons, - 'thus means indispensableness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The emphatic expression 'thus' intimates the indispensableness of the prescribed forms, 'thus' and 'not otherwise'.');">¹⁹</span> You may be right with regard to any

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