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the veins of the offering into the vessel, so that all the blood will empty into it. It was also stated: Rav Asi says that R' Yoḥanan says: The veins must see the airspace of the vessel.
§ R' Asi raised a dilemma before R' Yoḥanan: If the priest was collecting the blood, and the bottom of the bowl broke before the blood reached the bowl’s airspace, what is the halakha? Is blood that enters the airspace of a bowl that will not ultimately allow it to settle inside nevertheless consid
R' Yoḥanan said to him: You learned the answer in a baraita: With regard to a jug that is placed under a pipe to catch water running from it, both the water that has already flowed inside the jug and that which is still outside it but about to fall in are unfit to be used as water of purification, w
The Talmud rejects this: What is this comparison? R' Asi raises a dilemma before R' Yoḥanan with regard to a case where an item enters the airspace of a vessel that will not ultimately allow it to settle inside, and R' Yoḥanan resolves the dilemma by citing a case where the item enters the airspace
The Talmud responds: R' Asi raises two dilemmas before R' Yoḥanan: First, what is the halakha with regard to an item that will not come to rest in the vessel? Second, if you say that an item that enters the airspace of a vessel that will not ultimately allow it to settle inside is not considered as