כג ליקטר חובה ברישא דנדבה היכי מקטר לה
23 This is the opinion of the Sages. But Rabbi says, He must bring meal-offerings of [every number of] tenths from one to sixty, that is, one thousand eight hundred and thirty [tenths].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This being the sum of the numbers from one to sixty.');"><sup>10</sup></span> [If he said,] 'I specified [a certai number of tenths of a certain kind] but I do not know what kind I specified or what number I specified', he must bring the five kinds of meal-offering each consisting of sixty tenths, that is, three hundred tenths. This is the opinion of the Sages. But Rabbi says, He must bring the five kinds of meal-offering, and of each kind every number of tenths from one to sixty, that is, nine thousand one hundred and fifty [tenths].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 1830 X 5 = 9150.');"><sup>11</sup></span> What is the issue between them? - R'Hisda said, They differ as to whether or not it is permitted to bring unconsecrated food into the Sanctuary;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But all agree that it is forbidden to mix together (i.e., bring in one vessel) the meal-offering that is brought as an obligation with the meal-offering that is brought as a freewill-offering.');"><sup>12</sup></span> Rabbi holds that it is forbidden to bring unconsecrated food into the Sanctuary,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He therefore cannot bring sixty tenths in one vessel and declare that the quantity corresponding to the amount he specified shall be in fulfilment of his vow and the rest shall remain unconsecrated, since it is forbidden to bring unconsecrated food into the Sanctuary; neither can he say that the rest shall be a freewill-offering, since it is forbidden to mix the offering of obligation with the freewill-offering. The only solution, according to Rabbi, is to bring in sixty vessels meal-offerings of every number of tenths from one to sixty, and declare that the vessel which contains the quantity he specified shall be in fulfilment of his vow and all that which is in the other vessels shall be freewill-offerings.');"><sup>13</sup></span> while the Sages hold that it is permitted.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He therefore brings sixty tenths in one vessel and declares that what is over and above the amount he specified shall remain unconsecrated.');"><sup>14</sup></span> Raba said. All hold that it is forbidden to bring unconsecrated food into the Sanctuary, but they differ as to whether or not it is permitted to mix the offering of obligation with the freewill-offering; the Sages holding that it is permitted to mix the offering of obligation with the freewill-offering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He therefore brings sixty tenths in one vessel and declares that what is over and above the amount he specified shall be a freewill-offering.');"><sup>15</sup></span> while Rabbi holds that it is forbidden. Abaye said to Rabba, According to the Sages who hold that it is permitted to mix the offering of obligation with the freewill- offering, should not two handfuls be taken therefrom?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One for the offering of obligation and one for the freewill-offering.');"><sup>16</sup></span> - [He replied.] First one handful is taken and then another. But he would be taking the handful from the offering of obligation for the freewill-offering and from the freewill-offering for the offering of obligation! - He leaves it to the mind of the priest and says, 'What the priest's hand takes up the first time<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'now'.');"><sup>17</sup></span> shall be [the handful] for the offering o obligation, and what it takes up the second time<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'at the end'.');"><sup>18</sup></span> shall be for the freewill-offering.' But how are [the handfuls] to be burnt? If he burns the handful of the freewill-offering first, then how may he thereafter burn the handful of the offering of obligation; perhaps the entire meal-offering was his offering of obligation, consequently the remainder [of the meal-offering] has diminished [between the taking of the handful<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the first handful, which represents the offering of obligation.');"><sup>19</sup></span> and the burning thereof].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For one handful, that representing the freewill-offering, has already been burnt.');"><sup>20</sup></span> and a Master has stated<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 8a, 9a.');"><sup>21</sup></span> that if the remainder had diminished between the taking of the handful and the burning thereof the handful may not be burnt on behalf of it? And if he burns the handful of the offering of obligation first, then how may he thereafter burn the handful of the freewill-offering;