Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 212:22

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HE MUST BRING SO MUCH UNTIL HE SAYS.' I CERTAINLY DID NOT INTEND TO GIVE SO MUCH!' <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Our Rabbis taught: Offering:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. II, 1.');">²¹</span> this signifies that one may offer wood as a freewill-offering. And how much must it be? Two logs. For so it is written, And we cast lots for the offering of wood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Neh. X, 35.');">²²</span> Rabbi says, The wood-offering is included under the term 'offering'. and therefore requires salt and also requires to be brought near [the altar].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Like the meal-offering it must be brought to the south-western corner of the altar.');">²³</span> Raba said, According to Rabbi's view the handful must be taken from the wood-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The wood must be cut up into small thin strips and a handful taken and burnt upon the altar.');">²⁴</span> R'Papa said, According to Rabbi's view the wood-offering requires other wood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As with every offering wood from the Temple store is taken in order to burn this wood-offering.');">²⁵</span> IF 'FRANKINCENSE', HE MUST BRING NOT LESS THAN A HANDFUL. How do we know this? - Because it is written, And he shall take up therefrom his handful of the fine flour of the meal-offering and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 8.');">²⁶</span> The frankincense is thus compared with the taking up of the meal-offering: as the taking up of the meal-offering was a handful so the frankincense must consist of a handful. Our Rabbis taught: [If a man said,] 'I take upon myself [to bring an offering] for the altar', he must bring frankincense, for nothing is offered entirely upon the altar but frankincense. [If he said,] 'I specified an offering for the altar but I do not know what it was I specified', he must bring of everything that is offered entirely upon the altar.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He must bring, therefore, an offering of frankincense, a burnt-offering of cattle, a burnt-offering of birds, a wine-offering, and the meal-offering that is offered with the drink-offerings, for all these can in a less strict sense be described as offered entirely upon the altar; v. infra. The fact that this man specified an offering for the altar, and did not merely say 'for the altar', which would have implied frankincense alone, proves that in this case 'for the altar' is to be interpreted less strictly and therefore includes the above offerings.');">²⁷</span> Is there nothing else?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That is offered entirely upon the altar.');">²⁸</span> But what about the burnt-offering? - There is the skin thereof which belongs to the priests. And what about the burnt-offering of a bird? - There are

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