Menachot 40

אדרבה דם הוה ליה לרבויי שכן מתיר כמותה נפסל בשקיעת החמה כמותה הנך נפישן

On the contrary, it is more reasonable to include the blood since it renders something permissible like [the meal-offering]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The sprinkling of the blood renders the sacrifice permissible, just as the handful renders the rest of the meal-offering permissible to be eaten.');">¹</span> and is rendered invalid at sunset like it!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The blood may not be sprinkled at night and if it remained overnight it is invalid, likewise with the handful of the meal-offering; whereas the sacrificial portions may be burnt throughout the whole night.');">²</span> - The others [the limbs] have more points in common. The Master said: 'I would have concluded that it also applied to the wood and the blood since these are also termed "offering".'

אמר מר שומע אני אפילו עצים ודם שנקראו קרבן מאן שמעת ליה דאמר עצים איקרי קרבן רבי לרבי מבעיא בעו מלח

Whom have you heard express the opinion that the wood is termed 'offering'? It is Rabbi, is it not? But according to Rabbi it actually requires salting. For it was taught: The term 'offering'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev, II, 1. V. infra 106b.');">³</span>

דתניא קרבן (מנחה) מלמד שמתנדבין עצים וכמה שני גזרין וכן הוא אומר (נחמיה י, לה) והגורלות הפלנו על קרבן העצים רבי אמר עצים קרבן מנחה הן וטעונין מלח וטעונין הגשה

signifies that one may offer wood as a freewill-offering. And how much must it be? Two logs. And it is written, And we cast lots for the offering of wood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Neh. X, 35.');">⁴</span>

ואמר רבא לדברי רבי עצים טעונין קמיצה וא"ר פפא לדברי רבי עצים צריכין עצים

Rabbi says, The wood-offering is included under the term 'offering', and therefore it requires salting and also to be brought near<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the south-western corner of the altar like the meal-offering.');">⁵</span> [the altar]. And Raba had said that according to Rabbi's view it is essential to take a handful out of the wood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The wood must be cut up into small thin strips and a handful of these be taken and burnt upon the altar, like the handful of the meal-offering.');">⁶</span> And R'Papa had said that according to Rabbi's view an offering of wood entails other wood too!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As with every offering, wood from the Temple store is required for the burning of the offering, so here wood from the Temple store is required to burn the wood offered.');">⁷</span>

סמי מיכן עצים ואלא קרא למעוטי מאי אי למעוטי דם מעל מנחתך נפקא

- Strike out 'wood' from here.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., from the argument in the passage stated by the Master,');">⁸</span> Then what does the verse exclude? It surely cannot exclude the blood, for this is excluded by the expression 'from thy meal-offering'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the original Baraitha, supra p. 129, it will be seen that the first argument established that the expression 'meal-offering' excludes the blood and the wood. Later this Baraitha excluded the blood from another phrase of the verse 'from thy meal offering'. If now we strike out 'the wood' from the first argument then we are left in this position, that the Baraitha by the interpretation of two different expressions each time excludes the blood and nothing more.');">⁹</span> -