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Rabba says: This is the reason that wafers are also excluded from the mitzva of pouring, while a meal offering brought by a priest is not excluded: The verse uses two expressions of exclusion: “Upon it,” and: “It is a meal offering.” What is the matter that requires two exclusions? You must say: It
Mishnah: In breaking the meal offering of an Israelite into pieces, the priest folds [kofel] one into two and two into 4 and separates it at the folds. In breaking into pieces the meal offering of priests, the priest folds one into 4 into 4 and does not separate it at the folds. Because no handful
Talmud: With regard to the difference between the meal offering of an Israelite and that of a priest detailed in the Mishnah, A baraita states: The verse states: “You shall break it in pieces” (Leviticus 2:6). One might have thought that it should be broken into only two pieces. Therefore, the vers
How so? In the case of the meal offering of an Israelite, the priest folds one into 4 into 4 and separates the pieces. In breaking into pieces the meal offering of priests and the anointed priest, the priest folds it into two, as it is stated: “In broken pieces you shall sacrifice the offering” (
The Mishnah teaches: R' Shimon says: In neither the meal offering of priests nor the meal offering of the anointed priest is there breaking into pieces…and in all meal offerings that are broken into pieces, one breaks them into olive-bulk pieces. Rav Yosef said: Over this cooked dish, which contai