Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 16:18

מיתיבי ר' יהודה בן בתירא אומר מנין שאם הקיפו עובדי כוכבים את העזרה שהכהנים נכנסין להיכל ואוכלין בקדשי קדשים ושירי מנחות ת"ל

Because the verse says, 'And he shall take his handful from there', that is, from the place from which he has already taken a handful! - Some say that he [R'Jeremiah] raised the objection and he himself answered it [as stated below]. Others report that R'Jacob said to R'Jeremiah B'Tahlifa, I will explain it to you: That [verse] merely serves to teach us that [the rite of taking the handful] may be performed in any part of the Temple court; and you should not argue that since the burnt-offering is most holy and the meal-offering is most holy, therefore as the burnt-offering must be [slaughtered] on the north side [of the Temple court]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid I, 11.');">¹³</span> so the meal-offering must be [attended to] on the north side. But surely the case of the burnt-offering is different, since it is wholly burnt!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How then could one apply the same to the meal-offering?');">¹⁴</span> - Then [one could argue in the same way] from the sin-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is also a most holy offering and must be slaughtered in the north.');">¹⁵</span> But surely the case of the sin-offering is different, since it atones for those [who committed an act inadvertently which, had they committed it wilfully, would have made them] liable to kareth!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">¹⁶</span> - Then [one could argue in the same way] from the guilt-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is also a most holy offering and must be slaughtered in the north.');">¹⁵</span> Again the case of the guilt-offering is different, since it effect atonement by blood!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Lev. XVII, 11. The meal-offering, however, does not effect atonement by blood.');">¹⁷</span> Nor [could one argue in the same way] from all these [sacrifices taken together].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By arriving at the points they all have in common, viz., they are all most holy, and all must be slaughtered on the north side of the Temple court. Similarly it would be said of the meal-offering, that the rite of taking the handful must be performed at the north side of the Temple court only!');">¹⁸</span> since all these [are different from the meal-offering since they] effect atonement by blood! - That [verse] is indeed necessary, for I might have thought that since it is written, And it shall be presented unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the altar,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid II, 8.');">¹⁹</span> and [then it says] 'and he shall take out the handful',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the purport of verse (9) which follows: And the priest shall take off from the meal-offering the memorial thereof.');">²⁰</span> therefore just as the meal-offering was brought unto the south-west corner of the altar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 19b.');">²¹</span> so the handful was to be taken out at the south-west corner of the altar; we are therefore taught<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By the verse And he shall take the handful from there (ibid 2) .');">²²</span> [that it may be performed in any part of the Temple court]. The text [above] stated: R'Johanan said, If a peace-offering was slaughtered in the Temple it is valid, fo is written, And he shall slaughter it at the door of the tent of meeting,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. III, 2. V. supra 45, n. 2.');">²³</span> and surely the accessory cannot be more important than the principal!' An objection was raised: R'Judah B'Bathyra said, Whence do we know that, if the Temple court was surrounded by gentiles,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And so it became dangerous to remain in the Temple court or to eat there consecrated meat.');">²⁴</span> the priests may enter the Temple and eat there the most holy meat and the remainder of the meal-offerings? Because the verse says,

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