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As we have learned (daf 107), this perek focuses on the prohibition against bringing sacrifices outside of the Temple. In fact, not only are sacrifices forbidden outside of the Temple, but all services unique to the Temple cannot be performed outside of it. In the Mishna on our daf Rabbi Elazar teaches that someone who pours a water libation on the holiday of Sukkot outside of the Temple is liable for performing a Temple service inappropriately. (See Daf Ditty Sukkah 48)
The sugya in our daf stands at a critical intersection of ritual law, hermeneutics, and rabbinic authority. Ostensibly addressing liability for sacrificial acts performed outside the Temple courtyard, the passage becomes a sustained meditation on what constitutes an act of avodah, how partial ritual performances acquire full legal status, and—most strikingly—how the Talmud legislates binding law for a rite whose biblical basis is obscure or absent: nissukh ha-mayim, the water libation of Sukkot.