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ולא תיסמי ״מנחת נסכים״ ממתניתא. ולא קשיא — כאן בנסכים הבאין עם הזבח, כאן בנסכים הבאין בפני עצמן.
and in light of this ruling he will not delete the phrase: The meal offering that accompanies the libations, from the baraita. And instead, the apparent contradiction between the baraitot can be explained as follows: It is not difficult; here, the baraita that states that meal offerings accompanying libations are sacrificed only in the day is referring to libations that come with an animal offering, whereas there, the baraita that permits sacrificing a meal offering that accompanies the libations at night is referring to libations that come to be sacrificed by themselves, i.e., which do not accompany the sacrifice of an offering.
ואי הוה ליה איגרתא, מי אפשר למישלחה? והא אמר רבי אבא בריה דרבי חייא בר אבא, אמר רבי יוחנן: כותבי הלכות (כשורף) [כשורפי] תורה, והלמד מהן אינו נוטל שכר.
The Talmud raises a difficulty with regard to Rav Dimi’s suggestion to write this opinion in a letter. And even if he had someone to write a letter for him, would it have been possible to send it? But didn’t R' Abba, son of R' Ḥiyya bar Abba, say that R' Yoḥanan said: Those who write halakhot are considered like those who burn the Torah, and one who learns from written halakhot does not receive the reward of studying Torah. Evidently, it is prohibited to send halakhot in letters.
דרש רבי יהודה בר נחמני מתורגמניה דריש לקיש: כתוב אחד אומר ״כתב לך את הדברים האלה״, וכתוב אחד אומר ״כי על פי הדברים האלה״ — לומר לך: דברים שעל פה אי אתה רשאי לאומרן בכתב, ושבכתב אי אתה רשאי לאומרן על פה.
Before resolving the difficulty, the Talmud further discusses the prohibition of writing down the Torah: R' Yehuda bar Naḥmani, the disseminator for Reish Lakish, expounded as follows: One verse says: “Write you these words,” and one verse says, i.e., it states later in that same verse: “For by the mouth of these words” (Exodus 34:27). These phrases serve to say to you: Words that were taught orally you may not recite in writing, and words that are written you may not recite orally, i.e., by heart.