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After all, a verse already indicates that the oil must be placed on the right thumb and big toe, as it is written: “Upon the blood of the guilt offering” (Leviticus 14:17). Since the Torah has already specified that the blood is placed upon the right thumb and big toe (Leviticus 14:14), it is clear
The Talmud inquires with regard to the verse: “Upon the blood of the guilt offering” (Leviticus 14:17), stated with regard to the purification of a wealthy metzora, and the verse: “Upon the place of the blood of the guilt offering” (Leviticus 14:28), stated with regard to the purification of a poor
The Talmud responds: These verses are necessary, because if God had written only: “Upon the blood of the guilt offering,” I would say: If the blood is still on the right thumb and big toe of the metzora, yes, the priest places the oil upon the blood. But if it was wiped from there, he does not pla
And conversely, if God had written only: “Upon the place of the blood of the guilt offering,” I would say: The oil is placed on his right thumb and big toe specifically when the blood was wiped from there. But if the blood is still there, I will say that the blood is an interposition between the oi
Rava said: Since it is written that the priest places the oil “upon the blood of the guilt offering,” and: “Upon the place of the blood of the guilt offering,” and it is also written with regard to a wealthy metzora (see Leviticus 14:14) and a poor one (see Leviticus 14:25) that the right hand and f