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שסודרן על גבי מזבח, ואם אין מחזיקן, שסודרן על הכבש או על גבי סובב, עד שיעשה מערכה גדולה, וסודרן? תלמוד לומר: ״אשר תאכל האש את העולה על המזבח״.
that they are arranged upon the altar, and if the space on the altar cannot hold them, that they are arranged upon the ramp or upon the ledge that protrudes from the altar, until the large arrangement is made the following day and then they are arranged upon it? The verse states: “That which the fire will consume of the burnt-offering, on the altar” (Leviticus 6:3). This is taken to mean that those items that the fire already consumed are once again placed upon the altar.
ורבי מאיר: עיכולי עולה אתה מחזיר, ואי אתה מחזיר עיכולי קטורת. דתני רבי חנניא בר מניומי בדבי רבי אליעזר בן יעקב: ״אשר תאכל האש את העולה על המזבח״ — עיכולי עולה אתה מחזיר, ואי אתה מחזיר עיכולי קטורת.
And how does R' Meir expound this verse? He derives from it that if parts of a burnt-offering that were already partially consumed on the altar fell off the altar, you should return them to continue burning; but you do not return incense that was consumed and fell off of the inner incense altar. As R' Ḥananya bar Minyomi from the school of R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov taught in a baraita: The verse states: “That which the fire will consume of the burnt-offering on the altar” (Leviticus 6:3). This teaches that if parts of a burnt-offering that were partially consumed fell off the altar, you should return them; but you do not return incense that was partially consumed and fell off the altar.
דכולי עלמא מיהת מוסיפין בו ביום אית להו. מנא להו? נפקא להו: מ״והאש״. ואפילו למאן דלא דריש ואו, ואו הא דריש.
At any rate, everyone assumes there is an additional arrangement of wood that they add on that day, i.e., Yom Kippur, for the incense that is burned in the Holy of Holies. From where do they derive this? They derive it from the verse “And the fire upon the altar” (Leviticus 6:5). The apparently superfluous words “and the” allude to an additional fire. And even one who does not generally expound the word “and” does expound the phrase “and the.”