Commentary for Menachot 152:14

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך פרק אלו מנחות נקמצות </strong></big><br><br>

<big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Our Rabbis taught: [It was sifted] through a fine sieve and then a coarse one, and again through a fine sieve and then a coarse one.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A coarse sieve (i.e., which has a netting of large meshes) , when sifting the ground grain, lets through the flour and retains the bran, whilst a fine sieve retains the flour and lets through the fine dust only. Here the grain was sifted thirteen times, the first time in a fine sieve and the second time in a coarse one. The third time it was sifted again in the same fine sieve as before and the fourth time in the same coarse sieve as before; thus only two sieves were in use (R. Gershom and Rashi) . According to Rashi MS. and Tosaf., thirteen sieves were used of various sizes, the last being the finest of all. On this interpretation the statement of R. Simeon son of R. Eleazar which follows merely elucidates the view of the first Tanna.');">¹⁴</span> R'Simeon son of Eleazar says, There were thirteen sieves in the Temple, one on top of the other;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The sieve below being of finer texture and of smaller meshes than the one above it.');">¹⁵</span>

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