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הזאה כל שהיא – מטהרת; הזאה אינה צריכה שיעור; הזאה מחצה כשר ומחצה פסול!
a sprinkling of any amount of the water of purification on someone rendered impure by impurity imparted by a corpse purifies him from his ritual impurity, as sprinkling does not require a minimum measure to purify him. Likewise, a sprinkling of water that is half fit and half unfit for sprinkling serves to purify the individual. Evidently, R' Yehuda HaNasi maintains that no minimum amount is required for the sprinkling of the water of purification, and the same should apply to the sprinkling of blood on the altar.
לדבריו דרבי אליעזר קאמר. ואיבעית אימא: הזאה לחוד ונתינה לחוד.
The Talmud answers that R' Yehuda HaNasi stated his opinion in accordance with the statement of R' Eliezer, but he himself does not agree with this opinion. And if you wish, say instead that sprinkling of water of purification is discrete and placement of blood on the altar is discrete, i.e., these are two separate halakhot that have no bearing on each other.
נתערבו בבכור ומעשר כו׳. אמר רמי בר חמא: בכור לבית שמאי – אין מאכילין לנדות; תמורתו מהו?
§ The Mishnah teaches: In a case where sacrificial animals were intermingled with a firstborn offering or with an animal tithe offering, they should graze until they become unfit for sacrifice and they should both be eaten as a firstborn offering or as an animal tithe offering. This means that one may not sell them in the marketplace nor sell their meat by weight, so as not to degrade consecrated animals. Rami bar Ḥama says: With regard to a firstborn offering, according to the opinion of Beit Shammai, who hold (Bekhorot 33a) that even after a firstborn offering develops a blemish the priest may not eat it in a state of ritual impurity, and therefore one may not feed it to menstruating women, what is the halakha with regard to its substitute? That is, if the owner of a firstborn animal stated with regard to a non-sacred animal in his possession: This animal is a substitute for the firstborn offering, is a menstruating woman permitted to eat that substitute after it develops a blemish?