Reference for Menachot 106:18
ת"ר אין מחמיצין
as it were, even the Master of the House cannot remove His furniture from there.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even God is powerless against them. vkn vkunv');"><sup>22</sup></span> R'Hiyya B'Hinena demurred, Then why does the verse read 'Because of the noise of the great tumult'? It should read, 'Because of the noise of the great word'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., 'word' instead of 'tumult'. vkunv vknj');"><sup>23</sup></span> Rather [it must be interpreted thus]: The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Abraham, 'I heard thy voice and will have compassion upon them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Interpreting as 'compassion'.');"><sup>24</sup></span> I had said that they shall be subjected to four successive Empires,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman Empires.');"><sup>25</sup></span> each to endure the length of time that the four Empires together [actually lasted], but now each shall endure only the time alotted to it'. Another version: 'I had said [that they shall be subjected to the four Empires] in succession, but now [they shall be subjected to the four] concurrently'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Some under one Empire and others under another.');"><sup>26</sup></span> R'Joshua B'Levi said, Why is Israel likened to an olive-tree? To tell you that as the olive-tree loses not leaves either in summer or in winter, so Israel shall never be lost either in this world or in the world to come R'Johanan said, Why is Israel likened to an olive-tree? To tell you that just as the olive produces its oil onl after pounding, so Israel returns to the right way only after suffering. R'MEIR SAYS, THE LEAVEN MUST BE TAKEN FROM [THE MEAL-OFFERINGS] THEMSELVES AND WITH THIS THEY ARE LEAVENED etc. What is meant by SOMETIMES TOO LITTLE AND SOMETIMES TOO MUCH? - R'Hisda explained, If the yeast [used] was of a thick consistency, then there would be too much [flour in the meal-offering], and if it was thin, there would be too little.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 317, n. 5.');"><sup>27</sup></span> But in any event only a tenth is measured!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For when the measure is filled up with flour there is already yeast in the vessel; it is therefore immaterial how much is taken up by the yeast, so long as the measure is full.');"><sup>28</sup></span> - Rabbah and R'Joseph both said that we must measure it according to its former state.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., when it was flour. In measuring we must have regard to the amount of flour used in the yeast. From this standpoint there would be either too much or too little flour according to the consistency of the leaven.');"><sup>29</sup></span> But one can surely take a little of the flour<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After a full tenth has been measured for the meal-offering.');"><sup>30</sup></span> and have it leavened outside, and then it can be brought back and kneaded with the rest [of the flour]! - It is to be feared that one might bring leaven from elsewhere.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And not take it from the flour of the meal-offering, so that an onlooker might be led to believe that one may add to the meal-offering.');"><sup>31</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: One may not leaven [the meal-offering]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the two loaves of Pentecost and the ten loaves of the Thank-offering, which must be leavened.');"><sup>32</sup></span>