Halakhah for Menachot 34:2
א"נ מה אכילה בכזית אף הקטרה בכזית ולעולם אכילה דאורחא משמע
so for the burning the quantity of an olive's bulk is essential. The term 'eating', however, always means in the usual manner.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The handful to be burnt upon the altar and the remainder to be eaten by man; only in these cases is the intention of consequence. kftv kftv');"><sup>3</sup></span> And R'Eliezer? - If so, [he says], the Divine Law should have stated either he'akol he'akol<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' i.e., the repetition of the verb in the infinitive. kfth kfth');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And he should be careful (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Tefillin, Mezuzah and the Torah Scroll 7:8-9) about the big letters and the small letters, the dotted letters and the letters the form of which is unusual, such as the bent [letter] peh, and the twisted letters — like the scribes copied, one man from another. And he should be careful with the crowns and in their numbers — there is a letter that has one crown upon it and there is [another] letter that has seven upon it. And all of the crowns are like the form of a [letter] zayin, [that] are as thin as a strand of hair. And all of these things are only said for an ideal [fulfillment of the] commandment. And [so] if he diverged [erred] in this refinement or was not exacting with the crowns, but he wrote all the letters as fits them; or if he made the lines closer or further or lengthened them or shortened them — since he did not have one letter cling to [another] letter and he did not miss or add or destroy the form of [a single] letter, and he did not make a change in the open paragraphs (petuchot) or in the closed paragraphs (setumot), behold this is a fit Torah scroll. [These] and the rest of the details of the commandment are elucidated in Tractate Menachot [in] the third chapter, and in the first chapter of Bava Batra and in Tractate Shabbat.
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