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According to Chachomim, the holes in the mizbeach were hewed out from the time of Creation. According to Rabbi Elazar bar Tzadok they just led to beneath the mizbeach and were taken out to be burned every seventy years.

Summary

Question: In accordance with whose opinion is this mishna ?

There is me’ilah for the wine before it is poured. However, once they went down into the shittin, there is no me’ilah.

It seems to be in accordance with the opinion of Rabbi Elazar bar Tzadok, that the wine did not descend to the depths. According to the Chachomim the wine already descended to the depths? [So it seems that we have a mishna in accordance with a minority opinion].

Response: It can be according to the opinion of the Chachomim as well. It could be referring to a case where some of the wine was caught by someone before it fell to the depths.

Ikka D’omri [a different version]:

Question: Perhaps the mishna is in accordance with the opinion of the Chachomim and not Rabbi Elazar bar Tzadok.

According to Rabbi Elazar, there should still be me’ilah until the wine is burned at the end of seventy years.

Response: It can be according to the opinion of the Rabbi Elazar as well, however the main mitzvah is Nisuch Hayayin, since the mitzvah was accomplished, there is no more me’ilah.

Reish Lakish: When the wine was poured, they plugged up the shittin so that the basins looked full of wine were visible, as the possuk states: “Pour a wine offering of good drink [ sheichar ] for Hashem”.

Question: From where do we see that the good drink must accumulate?

Rav Papa: Sheichar is an expression of drinking, of satiation, of intoxication. In order to underscore all three aspects, we must be able to see the wine.

Rav Papa: We hear from this that when a person is satiated from drinking wine, it is from his throat that he is satiated. The sensation of having a lot of wine in his throat is what satisfies him.

Rava: Therefore, a young Torah scholar, who does not have much wine, should swallow his wine in a big gulp.

Rava himself, when drinking a kos shel bracha, would swallow a large gulp in honor of the mitzvah.

A Derasha by Rava: The possuk states: “How beautiful are your feet in shoes, you daughter of that princely man” [Nadiv means a princely man of generous spirit; who volunteers]. It means: How beautiful are the feet of Yisroel at the time when they go up to Yerushalayim for Yom Tov. [They achieved their noble spirit of forsaking their homesteads three times a year, because they are descended from that generous man].

“That princely man” refers to Avraham, who was called prince, as it is stated: “The generous ones of the nations [the twelve tribes] are gathered together, they’re the people of Elokei Avraham”. Why are the Jewish people associated specifically with Avraham, and not Yitzchok and Yaakov? Because he was first of the geirim [he left his father’s house to wander after Hashem and that spirit is still in his children].