Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 109:17

מאי בינייהו איכא בינייהו דלא מנה ולא טעה

Or argue it this way: The word 'blood' is used for the downward [sprinkling] in the case of the bullock, and the word 'blood' is used in the case of the upward [sprinkling] of the bullock: hence just as seven downward sprinklings have to be made with the bullock's blood, so must seven upward sprinklings be made with the bullock's blood! Let us see what comparison is legitimate: One may fitly infer [something about] upward [sprinklings] from [other] upward [sprinklings], but one may not infer [something about] upward [sprinklings] from downward [sprinklings]. On the contrary: It is legitimate to infer one [aspect of one] matter from [another aspect of the same] matter, but one may not fitly infer one matter from an extraneous one.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The assumption that different parts of the same procedure are governed by similar rules seems more justified than that similar aspects of altogether different matters have such regulations.');">¹⁶</span>

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