Commentary for Menachot 161:1
וכי מפרישין תחלה למותרות
May one at the very outset set apart [an animal] to be the surplus [of an offering]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not.');"><sup>1</sup></span> R'Isaac B'Samuel B'Martha was sitting in the presence of R'Nahman, and while sitting there he said, 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 the [original] thank-offering.
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