Quotation for Shevuot 14:2
ואלא בה למה לי
so here it refers to entering the Temple while unclean. - If so, why is the expression by which necessary?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 22, n. 5. It had been suggested that by which excludes Terumah; but that argument had been refuted; and now we find that we even require an extra deduction to include Temple; we should therefore not have included Terumah in any case, even without the limitation of by which.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Sefer HaIkkarim
The substance of a thing is also called place, as the Rabbis say, “From its own place the matter is proved,” also, “Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place.” The last expression means that the glory of the Lord which appeared to the prophets emanated from God’s own essence without a mediator, and not that the glory has a place.
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