Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Menachot 147:18

ורבנן האי כל מנחת כהן כליל תהיה לא תאכל מאי עבדי ליה

Thereupon Raba said to him, A sharp knife is dissecting the verse!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to Abaye's interpretation the verse is broken up and the words are transposed, connecting the last words with the first part of the verse. This is unnatural and arbitrary.');"><sup>25</sup></span> Rather, said Raba, it means, 'Every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt': that is his freewill meal-offering; 'it shall be eaten': that is his obligatory meal-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It must be observed that in essence Abaye and Raba both say the same thing; the only difference between them is as to the correct interpretation of the opening phrase 'And every meal-offering of the priest'. If this refers to his obligatory meal-offering then it is necessary to transpose the order in the verse, as Abaye does; if to his freewill meal-offering, then the verse is interpreted as it stands, as Raba does. V. Rashba.');"><sup>26</sup></span>

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