Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 101:16

אל יסוד מזבח העולה תן יסוד למזבח של עולה

Where unfit [persons] received [the blood] and sprinkled it - in the case of those unfit persons who are eligible for public service.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., an unclean priest, who is fit when the sacrifice is brought in uncleanness. - Only then does the blood not descend, once it ascended. This is apparently the meaning of the text, but in that case the question is left unanswered. Possibly, however, the second half is the answer; thus: Why does the blood not descend when unfit persons received or sprinkled it? Because it does not descend in the case of those unfit persons who are eligible for public service, i.e., unclean priests when the community is unclean.');">¹¹</span>

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