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מתנה אחת מהן מעכבת. שירי הדם היה שופך על יסוד מערבי של מזבח החיצון, ואם לא נתן לא עיכב. אלו ואלו נשרפין אבית הדשן.
and failure to perform even one placement of their blood disqualifies the offering. As for the remainder of the blood that is left after those sprinklings, a priest would pour it onto the western base of the external altar, but if he did not pour the remainder it does not disqualify the offering. These, the bull and the goat of Yom Kippur, and those, the bulls and the goats that are burned, are then burned in the place of the ashes, a place outside of Jerusalem where the priests would bring the ashes from the altar.
גמ׳ וניתני נמי: וקיבול דמן בכלי שרת בצפון! כיון דאיכא אשם מצורע דקיבול דמו ביד הוא – שייריה.
Talmud: The Mishnah opens with a principle that the slaughter of offerings of the most sacred order is in the north of the Temple courtyard. The Talmud inquires: And let the Mishnah also teach as a principle: And the collection of their blood in a service vessel is in the north of the Temple courtyard. Since collecting the blood is an indispensable part of the service, why is it not listed in this clause of the Mishnah? The Talmud explains: Since there is among the offerings of the most sacred order the guilt offering of a metzora, for which the collection of its blood is in the hand, the Mishnah could not state this as a principle. Therefore, the tanna omitted this from the requirements for offerings of the most sacred order.
ולא?! והא קתני לה לקמן: אשם נזיר ואשם מצורע – שחיטתן בצפון, וקבול דמן בכלי שרת בצפון!
The Talmud challenges: And is the blood of the guilt offering of a metzora not collected in a service vessel? But the Mishnah teaches this halakha later (54b): With regard to the guilt offering of a nazirite brought for his purification and the guilt offering of a metzora brought for his purification, their slaughter is in the north of the Temple courtyard and collection of their blood in a service vessel is in the north. Apparently, the tanna maintains that the blood of the guilt offering of a metzora must be collected in a service vessel.