Commentary for Menachot 113:16

מנחת נסכים מי פירות הם

This question remains undecided. R'Mari enquired, What is the law if he leavened [the handful] at the head of the altar? Does not the Divine Law say, 'Which ye shall bring', and this has already been brought up;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the head of the altar before it was leavened.');">¹³</span> or perhaps I should say, since it still requires to be burnt it is as though the act [of bringing] has not been completed? This question remains undecided. And now that the general prohibition has been derived from 'every meal-offering', wherefore is the expression 'which ye shall bring'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which refers specifically to the handful only.');">¹⁴</span> stated? - It is required for the following which was taught: Which ye shall bring includes the meal-offering which is offered with the drink-offerings, so that it too comes within the prohibition of leavening.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For this meal-offering is different in that no part thereof is eaten but it is wholly burnt upon the altar; it was therefore necessary for this to be expressly included within the prohibition of leavening. On the other hand, the Shewbread does not come within this prohibition according to R. Jose, for he is of the opinion that the Shewbread was hallowed only when set upon the table and not before when the flour was measured out, for the measuring vessels for dry goods were not consecrated as vessels of ministry.');">¹⁵</span> So R'Jose the Galilean. R'Akiba says, It includes the Shewbread, so that it too comes within the prohibition of leavening.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Akiba maintains that the measuring vessels for dry goods were consecrated and so the flour was hallowed for a meal-offering (for such is the Shewbread) as soon as it was measured out; hence it comes within the prohibition of leavening.');">¹⁶</span> But is not the meal-offering which is offered with the drink-offerings prepared with fruit juice,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The meal-offering offered with the drink-offerings required a large quantity of oil, three logs to the tenth, and presumably no water was added to it; accordingly it cannot possibly become leavened.');">¹⁷</span>

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