Commentary for Menachot 40:5

סמי מיכן עצים ואלא קרא למעוטי מאי אי למעוטי דם מעל מנחתך נפקא

- Strike out 'wood' from here.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., from the argument in the passage stated by the Master,');">⁸</span> Then what does the verse exclude? It surely cannot exclude the blood, for this is excluded by the expression 'from thy meal-offering'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the original Baraitha, supra p. 129, it will be seen that the first argument established that the expression 'meal-offering' excludes the blood and the wood. Later this Baraitha excluded the blood from another phrase of the verse 'from thy meal offering'. If now we strike out 'the wood' from the first argument then we are left in this position, that the Baraitha by the interpretation of two different expressions each time excludes the blood and nothing more.');">⁹</span> -

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