Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 10:20

אלא פטום הקטרת יוכיח שאסור להדיוט ומותר לגבוה מה לפטום הקטרת שכן מצותו בכך

Resh Lakish said, One could reply that the case of the compounder of the incense can prove otherwise: for he is forbidden to man yet permitted to the Most High.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Ex. XXX, 34ff. Likewise it would be said that a trefah animal, though forbidden to man, is permitted to the Most High. Hence a verse is necessary to exclude a trefah animal.');">²⁶</span> But the compounder is a person!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And how can it be said that he is permitted to the Most High?');">²⁷</span>

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