Chagiga 23
The Gemara on Amud Bais says that we consider coals of Hekdesh that are put into a utensil as one unit and if tamai touches one coal all the rest of the coals are also Tamai.
Tosfos points out that this connotes that when you put the coals in a utensil they are actually Hekdish. However, the Gemara in Yuma seems to say they're not Hekdish. (The Gemara says that daily they filled up coals (for the Ketores) in a four Kav utensil and poured it into a three Kav utensil. They swept the extra Kav into a stream. If they were Kodesh we wouldn't destroy them.) How do we reconcile this? One answer is that since there is an extra coals that don't need to be Kodesh in this utensil, it doesn't make it Hekdish. Our Gemara refers to Yom Kippur where they filled up the utensil once and brought it in filled. Alternatively, that even though the original utensil makes the coals Hekdishh, but only the amount that Hekdish needs. The extra Kav that eventually falls out is not Hekdish. Alternatively, the original utensil that scooped up the coals were not Kodesh, so it doesn't sanctify what's in it. |
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