Commentary for Yoma 94:13

בעי

R'Papa inquired: How about the middle [portions] 'in between' connection with the [two] hands full?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. of incense offered on the Day of Atonement.');">¹⁵</span> - What is he inquiring about? If he derives [the meaning of the word] 'full' from 'full' [occurring] there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in connection with the fistful; just as with the fistful any heaping is not burnt up as offering, the same would apply to heapings of the two hands full. The analogy based on the use of the word 'full' in both Lev. II, 2, which refers to the first, as in ibid. XVI, 12, which deals with the two hands full.');">¹⁶</span> it is the same [as the first question].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Asked supra, whether a measure may be macle for the hands full.');">¹⁷</span> - This is what R'Papa asks: [Should we say that] we require that 'he shall bring it his hands full',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'his hands full... and he shall bring' v. Lev. XVI, 12.');">¹⁸</span> which is the case here, or is it required that he take. bring in, which is not the case here?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For he has not placed it between his fingers, it having entered there by itself, hence the required personal effort-and he shall take it-was absent.');">¹⁹</span> - The question remains unanswered. R'Papa said: It is obvious to me that 'his fistful' means: In the manner in which people usually take a fistful, but R'Papa asked: If he had taken the 'fistful' with his finger-tips, what is the law then, or [if he it] from below upward, or from the sides, what then? - The questions remain unanswered. R'Papa said: It is obvious to me that the 'handfuls' are to be taken as men usually take them, but he asked: If he took the 'handfuls' with his finger-tips, what then? or from below upward, or from the side; or if he swept it with one hand and with the other and then brought the hands together? - The questions remain unanswered.

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