[Avodah] Association of Positive Mitzvot with Days of Year?
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Wed Feb 29 17:59:35 PST 2012
On 29/02/2012 8:33 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 04:39:42PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Surely they didn't keep anything;
>> > whatever they took on the 29th of Adar in lieu of wages, they sold back
>> > on the 1st of Nissan, so this had no net effect on the accumulated size
>> > of the mixture....
> I already pointed you to the gemara in Sheqalim which says otherwise.
>
> A person from Beis Avtimas could be maqdish the qetores back to
> the beis hamiqdash for service. Thus, they DID take it home. See
> Sheqalim 11b in the Bavli edition.
Where are you seeing this in the gemara? The gemara seems pretty clear
that this was purely a formality.
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