Commentary for Zevachim 125:7

סלקא דעתך אמינא הואיל ועולה קדשי קדשים ומנחה קדשי קדשים מה עולה טעונה צפון אף מנחה טעונה צפון

I might argue: Since a burnt-offering is a most holy sacrifice, and a meal-offering is most holy: as burnt-offering requires the north, so does a meal-offering require the north. [Therefore the text informs us otherwise.] As for a burnt-offering, the reason is because it is altogether burnt?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But a meal-offering is not, and so there is no reason for supposing that it requires the north. What then is the need for a text to teach that it does not?');">¹⁰</span>

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