Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 150:4

הא כיצד מנחת ישראל קופל אחד לשנים ושנים לארבעה ומבדיל מנחת [כהנים] וכהן משיח היה מקפלה וכו' והא אנן תנן לא היה מקפלה אמר רבה אינו מקפלה לארבעה אבל מקפלה לשנים

THEY MUST ALL BE BROKEN INTO PIECES THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Reading . In the MSS., and also further in the Gemara and in Rashi, the reading is , 'All the pieces must be about the size of an olive'. The exact implication of this statement is doubtful and many interpretations have been suggested: (i) After the pieces have been folded and broken into four, they must be broken into eight, and then again into sixteen and so on until each piece is reduced to the size of an olive. This statement accordingly continues the view of the first Tanna in this Mishnah (R. Gershom and Rashi) . (ii) This statement is the expression of R. Simeon's view, that the pieces must be broken many times until each is reduced to an olive's size, this in opposition to the first Tanna who maintained that the cake was broken into four pieces only (Rashi in MS.) . (iii) Each cake must first be broken into pieces each about the size of an olive, and then the pieces must be folded into two and then into four (Maim. in Com. on Mishnah, and Bartinoro) .');">⁸</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Our Rabbis taught: [It is written,] Thou shalt break.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. II, 6.');">⁹</span> From this expression I would say [that it must be broken] in two, the text therefore states, In pieces.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. II, 6.');">⁹</span>

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