Commentary for Menachot 45:4

איתיביה ר' יוחנן לריש לקיש חרב שנתערב בבלול יקריב רבי יהודה אומר לא יקריב מאי לאו קומץ דמנחת חוטא דאיערב בקומץ דמנחת נדבה

R'Judah says, It may not be offered up. presumably the handful of a sinner's meal-offering was mixed with the handful of a freewill meal-offering!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The former meal-offering being dry, and the latter mingled with oil. Now it is clear that the first Tanna permitted the offering of these meal-offerings only because he holds that things offered up when mixed together do not neutralize each other, so that each is considered as though it were by itself; where, however, oil was poured on to a dry meal-offering they would also declare it to be invalid, contra Resh Lakish.');">⁶</span>

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