Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 118:16

ותיהוי פך ואמאי פסלה במחשבה דחוי הוא

Surely it should be regarded as rejected!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the text strongly supported by Tosaf. and for which there is MS. authority (v. Dik. Sof. a.l. n. 60) , and the interpretation is as follows: Why is it taught in our Mishnah and in the Baraitha quoted in the Gemara that the frankincense may be picked off from the meal-offering? But surely, once the meal-offering has had frankincense put upon it, it became invalid and so absolutely rejected as a meal-offering! How then can it become valid after it had once been made invalid? Cf. the similar question in Zeb. ');">¹⁷</span> - Abaye answered, Scripture still refers to it as a sin-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. V, 11. It is still valid as a sin-offering even after it has had frankincense upon it.');">¹⁸</span>

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