Commentary for Menachot 209:22

דתניא רבי שמעון אומר למחרת מביא אשמו ולוגו

If follows from this, that [if he said] 'kinds of meal-offering' he would have to bring only one! - Perhaps that [Baraitha] represents the view of R'Simeon who ruled that one may bring it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the meal-offering baked in the oven; v. supra 63a.');">¹⁰</span> the half in cakes and the half in wafers; accordingly the expression 'kinds of meal-offering' refers to that meal-offering which may be of two kinds. According to the Rabbis, however, who ruled that one may not bring it the half in cakes and the half in wafers, he would then have to bring two meal-offerings of two kinds.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the fulfilment of the expression 'kinds of meal-offering'.');">¹¹</span> [IF HE SAID,] 'I SPECIFIED [A CERTAIN KIND] BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT KIND I SPECIFIED'. HE MUST BRING THE FIVE KINDS. Who is the Tanna that taught this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That because of the doubt he must bring the five kinds of meal-offerings.');">¹²</span> - R'Jeremiah said, It is not R'Simeon; for according to R'Simeon who stated that he may bring it the half in cakes and the half in wafers,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the meal-offering baked in the oven must consist of ten pieces, but it may be made up partly of cakes and partly of wafers. v. supra 63a.');">¹³</span> even though R'Judah's view were accepted, that all meal-offerings consisted of ten cakes each,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As opposed to R. Meir's view that all meal-offerings must consist of twelve pieces each. V. supra 76a.');">¹⁴</span> he would have to bring fourteen meal-offerings because of the doubt.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For he would have to bring the eleven possible variations of the baked meal-offering, viz., ten cakes and no wafers, nine cakes and one wafer, eight cakes and two wafers, seven cakes and three wafers... no cakes and ten wafers, plus the three other kinds of meal-offering, a total of fourteen meal-offerings. According to R. Meir there are thirteen variations of the baked meal-offering, beginning with twelve cakes and no wafers, and so the total would be sixteen.');">¹⁵</span> Abaye said. You may even say that it is R'Simeon, for we have heard R'Simeon express the view that one may bring an offering and make conditions about it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore, in the case of our Mishnah, he would only have to bring one baked meal-offering of ten cakes and one of ten wafers (in addition, of course, to the other three kinds of meal-offering) and declare, 'If I had specified to bring it all in cakes, or all in wafers, then let the cakes or the wafers be offered in fulfilment of my vow and the others be a freewill-offering; and if I had specified to bring it partly in cakes and partly in wafers, then let that number of each kind which I had specified be offered in fulfilment of my vow and the rest be offered as a freewill-offering'.');">¹⁶</span> For it has been taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef. Neziruth VI. The case dealt with is that of a Nazirite who was in doubt whether he was rendered unclean or not and also whether he ,rjnk was still a confirmed leper or not; and the Tanna of the Baraitha rules that he may eat consecrated food after sixty days. V. Tosaf s.v. .');">¹⁷</span> R'Simeon says. On the following day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After sixty days have elapsed. Cf. Naz. 59b.');">¹⁸</span> he brings his guilt-offering and a log [of oil]

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