Halakhah for Zevachim 128:2

ת"ר כל העולין למזבח עולין דרך ימין ויורדין דרך שמאל עולין דרך מזרח ויורדין דרך מערב חוץ מן העולה לשלשה דברים הללו שעולים דרך מערב ויורדין דרך מערב עולין דרך ימין ויורדין דרך ימין

Our Rabbis taught: All who went up the altar ascended by the right and descended by the left ; they ascended by the east and descended by the west,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They ascended the stairway at its east side, since they would have to turn right, and had they ascended it by the west, they would have to cross the width of the ascent before they could do this. Similarly they descended by the west side of the stairway.');">3 except those who went up for these three things:4 they ascended by the west and descended by the west, ascended by the right and descended by the right.

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is, for example, that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Zevachim 64b), "How does the priest grab the fowl sin-offering at the time of melikah? He grabs the fowl's two legs between two of his fingers and its two wings between two of his fingers, and he stretches its neck upon the width of two of his fingers and does melikah. And this is from the hardest services in the Temple." But if he alters and grabs any place it is [still] fit. And any place on the altar is fit for melikah (Zevachim 63a). We can say that the explanation of this is also to quicken the matter of the poor person - and hence, it has no specific place. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Zevachim (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Sacrificial Procedure 6).

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