Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 151:22

מיתיבי כל המנחות שריבה במדת חלתן או שמיעט במדת חלתן כשרות חוץ מלחם הפנים וחביתי כוהן גדול ולחמי תודה ונזירות הוא

R'Tobi B'Kisna said in the name of Samuel, If for the cakes of the thank-offering one baked only four cakes [instead of forty],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He baked only one cake of each of the four kinds prescribed (unleavened cakes, wafers, soaked cakes, and leavened cakes) instead of ten of each kind.');">²⁷</span> it is sufficient. But are not forty necessary? - That is only as a meritorius act. Bu terumah has to be taken therefrom?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From each set of ten cakes one cake was to be given to the priest as terumah.');">²⁸</span> And should you say that a piece is taken from each cake as terumah, but the Divine Law expressly says 'One',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VII, 14.');">²⁹</span> [meaning] that he may not take what is broken!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 77b.');">³⁰</span> - [The terumah] was taken therefrom during the kneading.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During the kneading of each kind a portion was taken as terumah and baked into a whole cake.');">³¹</span> An objection was raised: All meal-offerings which were made into too many or too few cakes are valid, excepting the Shewbread, the griddle-cakes of the High Priest, the cakes of the thank-offering and of the Nazirite-offering! - He

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