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R' Yehuda maintains that this is referring to the place where atonement is achieved once a year, namely the Holy of Holies. In his opinion, the order of actions is indispensable for the services performed in the Holy of Holies. And R' Neḥemya maintains that the verse is referring to the actions thr
The Talmud asks: Is that to say that according to the opinion of R' Yehuda the word place is written? The verse merely states “once a year,” which apparently is referring to the order of the service in general but not to a specific place. Rather, the Talmud retracts the previous explanation in fav
And how does R' Neḥemya interpret these two restricting expressions? In his opinion, one of the restrictions comes to exclude actions performed in the gold garments, and one restriction comes to exclude the remainders of blood that are poured at the base of the altar, meaning that these are not indi
In proof that R' Yehuda maintains that pouring the remainders of blood is no different from the sprinkling of blood, the Talmud cites a baraita that is referring to a case where the pouring of the remainders of the blood is entirely omitted. As it was taught in a baraita: “And when he has finished a
And we say in this regard: What is the practical difference between them? R' Yoḥanan and R' Yehoshua ben Levi debated this point. One of them said: There is a difference between them with regard to the source from which they derive their interpretation, i.e., there is no halakhic difference between