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The Talmud concludes the proof from the verse: And with regard to a gift offering, is it permitted to deviate from its protocol ab initio? Clearly one may not do so. Accordingly, if one of the sacrificial rites of a meal offering was performed for the sake of a different meal offering, it is still p
§ The Mishnah teaches that all the meal offerings from which a handful was removed not for their sake are fit for sacrifice but they do not fulfill the obligation of the owner. The Talmud suggests: Let us say that the Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, as it is taught in a b
The baraita continues: Conversely, consecrated animals that were sacrificed not for their sake do not fulfill the obligation of the owner, as in this regard meal offerings are not similar to slaughtered offerings. The difference is that when one removes a handful from a pan meal offering for the sa
But with regard to slaughtered offerings it is not so, as there is one manner of slaughter for all offerings, and one manner of sprinkling the blood for all offerings, and one manner of collection of the blood for all offerings. Since the differentiation between slaughtered offerings is established
The Talmud comments: This works out well, i.e., the Mishnah can be explained in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, according to Rav Ashi, who says (3b), in a resolution of two apparently contradictory statements of R' Shimon: Here, where R' Shimon says that the meal offering is fit and fulf