Commentary for Zevachim 169:5

א"ר זירא אף אנן נמי תנינא שנשפך דמה ושיצא דמה חוץ לקלעים ומה התם דאם בא לזרוק אין לו לזרוק אמרת אם עלו לא ירדו הכא דאם בא לזרוק זורק לא כל שכן

how much more so here, seeing that if he comes to sprinkle, he has what to sprinkle! - [No:] relate this to a most sacred sacrifice.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah may refer to most sacred sacrifices only, whose emurim are intrinsically holy even before the blood is sprinkled. Possibly, however, the same does not apply to lesser sacrifices, whose emurim are sacred only in virtue of the sprinkling of the blood.');">⁴</span> But there is the Passover-offering, which is a lesser sacrifice?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah enumerates this too, and it is now assumed that this law applies even where its blood is spilt.');">⁵</span>

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