Reference for Yoma 53:13

אמר רב המנונא קשיא ליה לר"א האי בבן הבקר כתיב ובן הבקר עשרים וארבעה בעי וניחא ליה (ויקרא א, ח) על העצים אשר על האש אשר על המזבח איזהו דבר שנאמר בו עצים אש ומזבח

to exclude flaying and dismembering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [V. supra, note 2. The passage that follows up,' . . text meaning' is difficult and is omitted by Wilna Gaon. The interpretation attempted here involves no change in the text of cur. edd.]');">¹⁴</span> But say, perhaps, that this text is necessary for its own meaning?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [To show that the arrangement of the pieces required a priest, as it might have been assumed that 'even a non-priest may perform it since it is not a service' indispensable for effecting an atonement.]');">¹⁵</span> --[In reality so.] What then is the purpose of [the passage], 'And the priest shall make the whole smoke upon the altar'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 9.');">¹⁶</span> To exclude flaying and dismembering. [So that] 'And the priest shall offer the whole' refers to the bringing up of the limbs to the ramp; only the bringing up of the limbs to the ramp requires a priest, but not the bringing of the two logs of wood to the ramp. Implying that the putting in order of the two logs of wood that does require the services of a priest and the words: 'And they shall put'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 7.');">¹⁷</span> have immediate text meaning;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That a priest is required for putting on the fire, v. supra p. 126.');">¹⁸</span> the words 'And they shall lay in order [the pieces]'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 8.');">¹⁹</span> indicate it must be two; the words: 'The sons of Aaron'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 8.');">¹⁹</span> also indicate two; the words: 'The priests'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 8.');">¹⁹</span> also indicate two, together we learn from them that the [offering up of the] lamb requires the services of six priests. R'Hamnuna said: To R'Eleazar it seems difficult, for this passage<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 8.');">¹⁹</span> refers to the young bullock, the service in connection with which required twenty-four priests! But he found it right again , for Scripture says: Upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 8.');">¹⁹</span> ; now what thing is it in connection with which 'wood', 'fire' and 'altar' ar mentioned?

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