Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Yoma 141:12

אדרבה מה שורף דהשתא אף משלח דהשתא

i.e., just as the letting go takes place before, so does the burning.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Scripture here uses the same participial form in referring to him that letteth go and to him that burneth. That implies a certain analogy. In both passages follows the statement: And the fat of the sin-offering shall he make smoke on the altar. (Ibid. v. 25.) Now the sending away of the he-goat for Azazel preceded that, as v. 21 reads: And he shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wilderness. Of necessity 'He that letteth go' refers to previous passages, as to say: With reference to the letting go of which you were commanded before, i.e., before the smoking of the sacrificial portions of the sin-offering (he that letteth go defiles the garments) . The above-mentioned analogy justifies the inference that 'he that burneth' similarly refers to the burning done before.');"><sup>15</sup></span> - On the contrary! [Say:] Just as the burning takes place now,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., after the smoking of his sacrificial portions.');"><sup>16</sup></span>

Mesilat Yesharim

The elevation was to such an extent that its kind, all over the world, was blessed, as our sages stated in a Midrash. So too, the food and drink which the holy man eats elevates that food or drink as if it had actually been offered on the altar. This is similar to what our sages, of blessed memory, said: "one who brings a gift to a Torah scholar is as if he had offered first-fruits (Bikurim)" (Ketuvot 105b), and "[if a man wishes to offer a wine libation upon the altar], let him fill the throat of the Torah scholars with wine" (Yomah 71a).
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