Commentary for Zevachim 235:12

ולוקמה במנחת חובה דהא איכא חביתין קא סבר אין מנחה בבמה:

For if you would refer to sin-offerings, is there then a votive sin-offering?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not. For the passage must mean that apart from Passover-offerings R. Simeon includes only those obligatory offerings of which there were also votive offerings. For if he meant all obligatory offerings which have a fixed time, he should simply mention them, and not the Passover-offering at all, since that too is an obligatory offering with a fixed time. Hence this is what he means: The only difference between the public and the private bamoth was in respect of the Passover-offerings, which were offered at the former but not at all at the latter, while as for other sacrifices which were offered at both, the difference is that at the private bamah only votive offerings were offered, whereas at the public bamah statutory offerings which have a fixed time were also offered. - The text is emended; v. Marginal Gloss.');">¹⁷</span> Yet let him make it refer to an obligatory meal-offering, since there were habitin?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A sort of cake (v. Lev. VI, 13 seq.; the actual word occurs in I Chron. IX, 31 where it is rendered, things that were baked on griddles) . These were statutory daily offerings, and as there were also votive meal-offerings, these too fulfilled the conditions required by R. Adda b. Ahabah.');">¹⁸</span>

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