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that if they became bound to each other and then one of them became lost, that the lost item prevents fulfillment of the mitzva with the other, i.e., the remaining item is unfit and must be burned. R' Yoḥanan clarifies: And what is it that establishes their bond? It is the slaughter of the sheep.
With regard to the establishment of the bond between the loaves and the sheep, Ulla said that the rabbis in the West, Eretz Yisrael, raise a dilemma: Does waving of the sheep and loaves before the sheep are slaughtered establish a bond between the sheep and the loaves, such that if one is lost the
The Talmud asks: Why is there a dilemma about this issue? Resolve it from the statement of R' Yoḥanan, as R' Yoḥanan says that slaughter of the sheep establishes a bond between sheep and the loaves. One can conclude by inference that waving, which precedes the slaughter, does not establish a bond b
The Talmud answers: It is with regard to the statement of R' Yoḥanan itself that Ulla raises the dilemma: Is it obvious to R' Yoḥanan that slaughter establishes a bond between them but waving does not establish a bond between them? Or perhaps it is obvious to him that slaughter establishes a bond b
R' Yehuda bar Ḥanina said to Rav Huna, son of Rav Yehoshua: But when it is written: “They shall be holy to YHWH for the priest” (Leviticus 23:20), it is written immediately after the verse mentions waving, and nevertheless R' Shimon ben Nannas and R' Akiva disagree, based on this phrase, about whet