Menachot 44
מכאן לעולין שאין מבטלין זה את זה ורבי יהודה סבר מכאן למין במינו שאינו בטל
from this that in a mixture of things which are offered up one element cannot neutralize the other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., the blood of two consecrated animals. On the other hand, if the blood of a consecrated animal was mixed with that of an unconsecrated animal or with water or wine, one would neutralize the other, according to the quantities of each.');"><sup>1</sup></span>
ודלמא עד דאיכא מין במינו ועולין קשיא
But perhaps the reason [why one does not neutralize the other] is because here is a mixture of like kinds!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the blood of the goat mixed with the blood of the bullock.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
אי אשמעינן עולין מין בשאינו מינו כדקאמרת השתא דאשמעינן מין במינו משום דמין במינו הוא
been merely a mixture of like kinds and not of things which are offered up, it would be as you say; but since it is here a mixture of things which are offered up,it is clear that the reason is that it is a mixture of things which are offered up, perhaps then [we can conclude from this that] only in a mixture of like kinds of things which are offered up [one element cannot neutralize the other]! - This is a difficulty.
תנן רבי יהודה אומר (במנחת כהנים) במנחת כהן משיח ובמנחת נסכים פסולה שזו בלילתה עבה וזו בלילתה רכה והן בולעות זו מזו וכי בולעות זו מזו מה הוי מין במינו הוא
But perhaps the reason [why one does not neutralize the other] is because here is a mixture of things which are offered up! - Had this been merely a mixture of unlike kinds of things which are offered up, it would be as you say; but since it is a mixture of like kinds, it is clear that the reason is that here it is a mixture of li kinds. Perhaps then [we can conclude from this that] only in a mixture of like kinds of things offered up [one element cannot neutralize the other]! - This is a difficulty. [An objection was raised.] We have learnt: R'JUDAH SAYS, IF [IT WAS MIXED] WITH THE MEAL-OFFERING OF THE ANOINTED [HIGH] PRIEST OR WITH THE MEAL-OFFERING OFFERED WITH THE DRINK-OFFERINGS, IT IS INVALID, FOR SINCE THE CONSISTENCY OF THE ONE IS THICK AND THE CONSISTENCY OF THE OTHER IS THIN, EACH ABSORBS FROM THE OTHER'But what does it matter if one does absorb from the other? The mixture here is of like kinds!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is of no consequence even if the oil in the handful did absorb some of the oil from the other meal-offering, since the latter is not neutralized in the mixture; and therefore the handful cannot be reckoned to have had any addition in oil.');"><sup>4</sup></span> -