Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 112:16

אמר ליה ההוא צדוקי לר' חנינא

And if you were to say some thereof might be spilled; - still, one [blood] is lighter [in colour], the other darker. Hence you must needs explain that the high priest, because of his fatigue, could not pay sufficient attention [to the difference in the blood]; thus is it here: because of his fatigue the high priest could not pay sufficient attention [to the inscriptions]. Once a man went down [to the praying desk] in the presence of Raba<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He acted as deputy of the congregation (public reader) and read the order of the service of the Day of Atonement.');">⁹</span> and read: Then he came forth, and placed it upon the second stand in the Temple. He took the blood of the bullock and deposited the blood of the he-goat. He said to him: In one point in accord with the Sages,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference to the second stand.');">¹⁰</span> in another with R'Judah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Stating that he took first the blood of the bullock and then deposited the blood of the he-goat.');">¹¹</span> Rather say: He deposited the blood of the he-goat and took the blood of the bullock. AND HE SPRINKLED THEREOF UPON THE CURTAIN OUTSIDE OPPOSITE THE ARK: Our Rabbis taught: And so shall he do for the tent of meeting.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVI, 16.');">¹²</span> What does that come to teach? That as he sprinkles in the Holy of Holies, thus must he sprinkle in the Hekal, i.e., just as in the Holy of Holies he sprinkles once upward and seven times downward, from the blood of the bullock, thus shall he sprinkle in the Hekal. That dwelleth with them in the midst of their uncleanness<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid.');">¹³</span> i.e., even when they are unclean, the Divine Presence is among them. A certain Sadducee<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A censorial corruption of Min (v. Glos.) . A Sadducean would not have spoken of Israel as 'you'.');">¹⁴</span> said to R'Hanina:

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