Commentary for Menachot 160:14

אמר לוי לרבי וליתי בהמה ולחם ולימא אי הך דקיימא תמורה היא הא תודה והא לחמה ואי האי דקיימא תודה היא הא לחמה והא תיהוי מותר דתודה אמר ליה כמדומה אני שאין לו מוח בקדקדו

Let him bring the bread-offering and declare, 'If the surviving [animal] is the [original] thank-offering, let this be its bread-offering; but if not, let this be unconsecrated [bread]'! - He replied, Ma one bring unconsecrated food into the Sanctuary?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Certainly not. Hence the remedy suggested is unsatisfactory.');">¹⁹</span> Then let him bring another animal and the bread-offering and declare, 'If the surviving [animal] is the substitute, let this [animal] be a thank-offering and this its bread-offering; and if the surviving [animal] is [original] thank-offering, let this be the bread-offering for it and this [animal] be a peace-offering!' - He replied. [This is no remedy] for then the time allowed for the eating of peace-offerings would be curtailed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As this additional animal is in a state of doubt whether it is a thank-offering or a peace-offering. its flesh would only be eaten the same day until midnight like a thank-offering. and what is left over would be burnt; yet if it were a peace-offering it would not have to be burnt then, since it may be eaten during two days and one night. rnt');">²⁰</span> Levi<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 486, n. 8; v. however Tosaf s.v. .');">²¹</span> suggested this to Rabbi, Let him bring another animal and the bread-offering and declare, 'If the surviving [animal] is the substitute, let this [animal] be a thank-offering and this its bread-offering; and if surviving [animal] is the [original] thank-offering. then let this be the bread-offering for it and this [animal be the surplus of the thank-offering!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is offered without the bread-offering.');">²²</span> - He replied. It seems to me that this man has no brains in his skull.

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