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it is admitted by the partitions of the courtyard for all matters; and from that point onward it has the status of a burnt offering sacrificed in the Temple with regard to all halakhot.
The Talmud continues: In this regard, R' Elazar asks: In the case of a burnt offering consecrated to be sacrificed on a personal altar that one brought into the Temple courtyard and it was rendered unfit for sacrifice, e.g., it was slaughtered in the south rather than its proper place in the north,
The Talmud concludes: From the fact that R' Elazar asked this question only with regard to this one case, one can conclude that in the other case, where the burnt offering was consecrated for sacrifice in the Temple, the halakha of the limbs that ascended the altar is obvious to him. He either hold
The Talmud rejects this inference, as it is possible that R' Elazar was actually uncertain with regard to that case as well; but he raises one dilemma as a result of the other. In other words, R' Elazar was asking two questions, one predicated on the other, and the second question is valid regardle
The Talmud elaborates: Even if R' Elazar holds in accordance with the opinion of Rabba, that in a regular case the limbs are removed from the altar, one can claim that Rabba says that if the limbs ascend the altar they shall descend only there, i.e., if the burnt offering was consecrated for sacrif