Commentary for Menachot 88:14

אלא דר"ח ועצרת דחומש הפקודים

And [against] Rabbi [then it will be asked]: Is it not written, A burnt-offering and a meal-offering? - Rather [this is the true position]: When the drink-offerings accompany the sacrifice all are agreed that the meal-offering is offered first and it is followed by the drink-offering, for it is written, 'A burnt-offering and a meal-offer They only differ where they are offered as an offering by themselves; the Rabbis are of the opinion that just as when they accompany the sacrifice the meal-offering is offered first and then the drink-offering, so it is, too, when they are offered by themselves, namely, the meal-offering is offered first and then the drink-offering. Rabbi, however, distinguishes thus: only there [where they accompany the sacrifice does the meal-offering precede the drink-offering] for since the offering began with what is eaten<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. solid food; i.e., the flesh of the sacrifice which is burnt upon the altar.');">¹²</span> one should continue with what is eaten;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the meal-offering. which is also solid food consumed by the altar.');">¹³</span> but where they are offered as an offering by themselves the drink-offering takes the first place, since the Psalm is sung [by the Levites] over it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. 'Ar. 11a.');">¹⁴</span> THE [OMISSION OF ONE OF THE] SPRINKLINGS [OF THE BLOOD] ON THE OUTER ALTAR DOES NOT INVALIDATE THE REST. Our Rabbis taught: Whence do we know that any offering whose blood must be sprinkled on the outer altar effects atonement even if it is sprinkled with but one act of sprinkling? From the verse, And the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the Lord thy God.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XII, 27. The expression 'poured out' suggests one act of sprinkling.');">¹⁵</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>THE [ABSENCE OF EITHER THE] BULLOCKS OR THE RAMS OR THE LAMBS DOES NOT INVALIDATE THE OTHERS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each may be offered by itself in the absence of the others.');">¹⁶</span> R'SIMEON SAID, IF THEY HAD [MEANS ENOUGH FOR THE] MANY BULLOCKS BUT HAD NOT [MEANS ENOUGH FOR] THE DRINK-OFFERINGS, THEY SHOULD BRING ONE BULLOCK AND ITS DRINK-OFFERINGS AND SHOULD NOT OFFER THEM ALL WITHOUT DRINK-OFFERINGS. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Which bullocks and lambs are meant? Will you say those of the Feast [of Tabernacles]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On each day of this Festival bullocks and lambs were offered; v. Num. XXIX, 12ff.');">¹⁷</span> But there is written of them, After the ordinance,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 18 and 33. These terms imply precision and the indispensability of every item prescribed.');">¹⁸</span> After the ordinance!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 18 and 33. These terms imply precision and the indispensability of every item prescribed.');">¹⁸</span> - We must therefore say that those of the New Moon and of Pentecost are meant, which are ordained in the Book of Numbers.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference is to the Musaf or additional offerings of the New Moon and of Pentecost, consisting in each case of two bullocks, one ram and seven lambs; cf. ibid. XXVIII, 11 and 27.');">¹⁹</span>

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