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The Talmud asks: But didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (103b): One who volunteers to bring a meal offering of 61 tenths of an ephah of flour must bring a meal offering of 60 tenths of an ephah in one vessel and a meal offering of a tenth of an ephah in a second vessel, because 60 tenths of an ephah of fl
And R' Zeira said the following explanation: For any measure of flour that is suitable for mixing with oil in a meal offering, the lack of mixing does not invalidate the meal offering. Even though there is a mitzva to mix the oil and the flour ab initio, the meal offering is fit for sacrifice even i
The Talmud refutes this proof: Are the cases comparable? This case is as it is, and that case is as it is. When the Mishnah states: If one did not pour the oil onto the meal offering, it is referring to a case where a priest did not pour oil onto the meal offering but a non-priest did pour it. When
§ The Mishnah teaches: Or if it happened that the priest broke the meal offerings that require breaking into greater pieces [pittim merubbot] than appropriate, the meal offering is fit. The Talmud asks: Now that it has already been stated in the Mishnah that if one did not break the loaves into pie
And if you wish, say instead that the Mishnah is actually referring literally to large pieces [pittim merubbot], and it was necessary to teach this explicitly, lest you say that the meal offering is fit there, when the loaves are not broken, since they have the status of loaves, but here, when the