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And if you wish, say instead: If we hold that the encircling is performed by foot, i.e., the priest walks around the inner altar, everyone agrees that we learn the method of sprinkling inside from the sprinkling outside. And here they disagree about this matter: One Sage, R' Akiva, holds that the
And if you wish, say instead: Everyone agrees that the encircling was performed by hand, and here they disagree about this matter: One Sage, R' Yosei, holds that we derive the halakhot of an encircling performed by hand from those of an encircling by foot, and therefore the ritual of the inner alt
§ The Talmud asks: And does R' Yosei HaGelili hold that the encircling is performed by hand? But from the fact that it is taught in the latter clause of the Mishnah that R' Eliezer says: He stood in one place and sprinkled the blood from there, it can be learned by inference that the first tanna, w
And if you wish, say instead that they disagree about this matter: One Sage, R' Akiva, holds that the perimeter of the inner altar is like the perimeter of the outer altar, and one Sage, R' Yosei, holds that the entire inner altar stands in place of one corner of the outer altar. Since the entire
It was taught in a baraita that R' Yishmael said: Two High Priests remained from the days of the First Temple. This one says: I encircled by hand and sprinkled, and I did not encircle the perimeter of the inner altar by foot. And that one says: I encircled by foot. This one gave a reason for his sta