Commentary for Zevachim 170:18

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With regard to the bones, tendons, horns and hoofs, if they are attached [to the animal], they ascend [the altar]; if they are severed [from the animal] they do not ascend.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And if they did, they must be removed.');">¹⁹</span> Said 'Ulla: They learnt this only where the fire had not taken hold of them; but if the fire had taken hold of them, they ascend.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if taken down.');">²⁰</span> He who recites it in connection with the final clause [holds that it applies] all the more to the first clause.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the first clause deals with things that are normally burnt on the altar.');">²¹</span> He however who recites it in connection with the first clause [maintains]: but as for the final clause, those things are not normally burnt [on the altar].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore even if the fire had taken hold of them, they are taken down, since they have no connection with the altar at all.');">²²</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>THE FOLLOWING IF THEY ASCENDED GO DOWN:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because they do not belong to the altar at all.');">²³</span> THE FLESH OF MOST SACRED SACRIFICES AND THE FLESH OF LESSER SACRIFICES; THE RESIDUE OF THE 'OMER;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The 'omer (q.v. Glos.) after it was waved; v. Lev. XXIII, 20 seq.');">²⁴</span> THE TWO LOAVES;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. XXIII, 15 seq.');">²⁵</span> THE SHEWBREAD;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Ex. XXV, 30.');">²⁶</span> THE RESIDUE OF MEAL-OFFERINGS;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. II, 2 seq.');">²⁷</span> AND INCENSE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which must be burnt on the inner altar.');">²⁸</span> THE WOOL ON THE HEADS OF LAMBS, THE HAIR OF HE-GOATS BEARDS; THE BONES, TENDONS, HORNS AND HOOFS, IF THEY ARE ATTACHED, GO UP, BECAUSE IT IS SAID, AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE THE WHOLE SMOKE ON THE ALTAR;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev.I, 9.');">²⁹</span> IF THEY ARE SEVERED [FROM THE ANIMAL], THEY DO NOT GO UP, FOR IT IS SAID, AND THOU SHALT OFFER THY BURNT-OFFERINGS, THE FLESH AND THE BLOOD, [UPON THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THY GOD]].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XII, 27.');">³⁰</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Our Rabbis taught : And the priest shall make the whole smoke on the altar: this includes the bones, tendons, horns and hoofs. You might think, even if they were severed; therefore it states, 'And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood'. If [we had only the text] flesh and blood [to go by],

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