Commentary for Menachot 46:4

לעולם אליבא דר' יהודה וכי קא אמר ר' יהודה מין במינו לא בטל ה"מ היכא דאפשר ליה למיהוי כוותיה אבל היכא דלא אפשר ליה למיהוי כוותיה בטל

but R'Hanina holds that we must consider what is to be neutralized.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the substance which is in the minority in the mixture. V. p. 147, n. 7');">⁵</span> We have learnt: IF TWO MEAL-OFFERINGS FROM WHICH THE HANDFULS HAD NOT YET BEEN TAKEN WERE MIXED TOGETHER, BUT IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TO TAKE THE HANDFUL FROM EACH SEPARATELY, THEY ARE VALID; OTHERWISE THEY ARE INVALID, Now in this case we see that when the handful is taken from one, whereby the rest becomes the remainder, this remainder does not neutralize the other meal-offering from which the handful has not yet been taken.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is certain that neutralization does not take place, for otherwise it would not be permitted subsequently (as stated in the Mishnah) to take the handful from the second meal-offering.');">⁶</span>

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