Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 11:23

לר"ש איצטריך דתניא א"ר שמעון בדין הוא שתהא מנחת חוטא טעונה שמן ולבונה שלא יהא חוטא נשכר ומפני מה אינה טעונה שלא יהא קרבנו מהודר ובדין הוא שתהא חטאת חלב טעונה נסכים

OR THAT HAD NOT WASHED HIS HANDS AND FEET,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Every priest was obliged to wash his hands and feet from the Temple laver daily before taking part in the service. Cf. Ex. XXX, 19, 20.');">²⁹</span> OR THAT WAS UNCIRCUMCISED<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose brothers had died by reason of their circumcision.');">³⁰</span> OR UNCLEAN, OR THAT MINISTERED SITTING,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For it is written, To stand to minister (Deut. XVIII, 5.) .');">³¹</span> OR STANDING UPON VESSELS OR UPON A BEAST OR UPON ANOTHER'S FEET,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The priest must stand on the floor and nothing should interpose between his feet and the floor of the Temple. V. Zeb. 24a.');">³²</span> HAD TAKEN THE HANDFUL THEREFROM IT IS INVALID. IF [A PRIEST] REMOVED THE HANDFUL WITH HIS LEFT HAND IT IS INVALID. BEN BATHYRA SAYS, HE MUST PUT [THE HANDFUL] BACK AND TAKE IT OUT AGAIN WITH THE RIGHT HAND. IF ON TAKING THE HANDFUL THERE CAME INTO HIS HAND A SMALL STONE OR A GRAIN OF SALT OR A DROP OF FRANKINCENSE IT IS INVALID;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the handful is not quite full since there is lacking flour to the extent of the volume of the stone or other substance that came up with it.');">³³</span> FOR THEY HAVE RULED: IF THE HANDFUL WAS TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE IT IS INVALID. WHAT IS MEANT BY TOO MUCH? IF HE TOOK AN OVERFLOWING HANDFUL. AND 'TOO LITTLE'? IF HE TOOK THE HANDFUL WITH THE TIPS OF HIS FINGERS ONLY.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Instead of extending his fingers over the palm of his hand, v. infra 11a.');">³⁴</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Why does the Mishnah state: 'WHETHER IT IS A SINNER'S MEAL-OFFERING OR ANY OTHER MEAL-OFFERING'? Surely it should state, 'Every meal-offering from which the handful was taken by a non-priest or a priest that was in mourning [etc.]'. - It was necessary [to state it so] according to R'Simeon's view. For it was taught: R'Simeon said, By right the sinner's meal-offering should require oil and frankincense, so that the sinner should have no advantage;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By being spared the cost of these ingredients.');">³⁵</span> why then does it not require them? In order that his offering be not sumptuous. Also, by right an ordinary sin-offering<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a sin-offering (to be brought on account) of (eating forbidden) fat'. This is the usual example of a transgression involving a sin-offering.');">³⁶</span> should require drink-offerings.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Num. XV, where are prescribed the quantities of flour and oil for the meal-offering and wine for the drink-offering which must accompany the burnt-offering and the peace-offering.');">³⁷</span>

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