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ת"ר מלא קומצו יכול מבורץ ת"ל בקומצו אי בקומצו יכול אפילו בראשי אצבעותיו תלמוד לומר מלא קומצו כדקמצי אינשי הא כיצד חופה שלש אצבעותיו על פיסת ידו וקומץ

Would you not say that it means: If he wishes to make a measure he may do so?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This may be explained to refer to the ladle, to mean that one could have a measure made in accord with the high priest's size of hand.');">³¹</span> - No, this is what it means: In the same manner would he take the hands full within the Holy of Holies.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah here means: And this was the method of measurement within; i.e., the priest would empty incense from the ladle into his hands and then put it over the burning coals in the pan.');">³²</span> May not you then conclude from this that he takes the handfuls [outside] and repeats it inside again! - [No], perhaps it means that if he wants to have a measure made, he may do so;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., one cannot conclude from the Mishnah either way.');">³³</span> or, that he must take neither less nor more.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus was the measure-two exact hands full-rigidly so.');">³⁴</span> Our Rabbis taught: His fistfull.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. II, 2.');">³⁵</span> One might have assumed that it may come forth on both sides, therefore Scripture says: 'With his fist'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 8. No more, just as much as the closed fist will contain.');">³⁶</span> From 'With his fist' I might have inferred that he should just take some with his finger-tips hence Scripture says: His fistful', i.e., in the manner in which people take a fistful. How so? bends three of his fingers<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Grasping with them.');">³⁷</span> up to his wrist and takes a fistful.

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