Commentary for Menachot 157:10
איתמר חטאת ששחטה חוץ לזמנה אם עלתה לא תרד חוץ למקומה רבא אמר תרד רבה אמר לא תרד
At this R'Eliezer was silent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he recognized in this last statement a convincing argument, and eventually acquiesced in R. Joshua's view that where there was an intention expressed at the slaughtering of the offering of eating thereof outside its proper place the bread is not hallowed.');"><sup>6</sup></span> Why is it, according to R'Meir's view, that where [the thank-offering] was slaughtered and was found to be trefah [the bread is not hallowed, for] the defect is regarded as having befallen it before the slaughtering, and that where it was slaughtered and was found to have a blemish [the bread is, according to the ruling of R'Eliezer, hallowed.
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