Commentary for Menachot 213:21

How can you say so?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That Rabbi derives the rule that oil may be offered as a freewill-offering from the drink-offerings and not from the meal-offering.');">¹⁴</span> Behold it has been taught: Offering:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. II, 1; stated with reference to the freewill meal-offering.');">¹⁵</span> this teaches us that a man may offer oil as a freewilloffering. And how much [must he bring]? Three logs. Now whom have you heard say, Three logs. It is only Rabbi; and yet he derives it from the expression 'offering'! - He replied, If was taught, it was taught.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'I admit then that I am wrong.'');">¹⁶</span> [IF HE SAID,] 'I SPECIFIED [HOW MUCH I WOULD OFFER] BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT QUANTITY I SPECIFIED', HE MUST BRING THAT QUANTITY WHICH IS THE MOST THAT IS BROUGHT ON ANY ONE DAY. A Tanna taught: Like the first day of the Feast [of Tabernacles] when it falls on a Sabbath.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On this day were offered thirteen bullocks, two rams, and eighteen lambs, v. Num. XXIX, 12ff; and as for each bullock were required six logs of wine and of oil, for each ram four logs; and for each lamb three logs, the total number of logs of wine, and similarly of oil, offered on this day was 140.');">¹⁷</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>[IF A MAN SAID,] 'I TAKE UPON MYSELF TO OFFER A BURNT-OFFERING,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which must be a male animal.');">¹⁸</span> HE MUST BRING A LAMB.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the least expensive animal that can be offered as a burnt-offering. rec');">¹⁹</span> R'ELEAZAR B. AZARIAH SAID, [HE MAY BRING] A TURTLE-DOVE OR A YOUNG PIGEON. [IF HE SAID,] 'I SPECIFIED A BEAST OF THE HERD<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' vnvc');">²⁰</span> BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS I SPECIFIED', HE MUST BRING A BULL AND A BULL CALF. [IF HE SAID, 'I SPECIFIED] A BEAST OF THE CATTLE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' .');">²¹</span> BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS I SPECIFIED', HE MUST BRING A BULL, A BULL CALF, A RAM, A HE-GOAT, A HE-KID. AND A HE-LAMB. [IF HE SAID,] 'I SPECIFIED [SOME KIND] BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS I SPECIFIED',

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