Commentary for Zevachim 75:6

או כלך לדרך זו נאמרו דמים בפנים ונאמרו דמים בחוץ מה דמים האמורים בפנים חיסר אחת מן המתנות לא עשה ולא כלום אף דמים האמורין בחוץ חיסר אחת מן המתנות לא עשה ולא כלום

Yet say [that] 'and he shall make atonement' [intimates] even if he made only three applications above [the red line] and one below; and he shall make atonement' even if he made only two applications above and two below; 'and he shall make atonement even if he did not apply [the blood] above but only below? - Said R. Adda b. Isaac: If so, you annul the law of horns. But if the Divine Law has ordained [it so], let them be annulled? - Said Raba: What thing is it that requires three? Surely the horns. Yet say, 'and he shall make atonement' [teaches] even if he made only one application above and three below? - We do not find blood [applied] half above and half below. Do we not? Surely we learnt: He sprinkled thereof once above and seven below? - That was done as mazlif [one swinging a whip]. What is a mazlif? - Rab Judah showed it by imitating the movements of a whipper. [Again, we learnt:] He besprinkled the surface of the altar seven times.

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