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Mishnah: All the meal offerings require rubbing 300 times and striking 500 times with one’s fist or palm. Rubbing and striking are performed on the wheat kernels to remove their husks prior to grinding them into flour. And R' Yosei says: They are performed on the dough to ensure a smooth product.
Talmud: A tanna taught in a baraita that the rubbing and striking are done in the following manner: He rubs once and strikes twice. Then he rubs twice and strikes 3 times. This sequence is repeated 100 times, so that he rubs 300 times and strikes 500 times. R' Yirmeya raises a dilemma with regard
§ The Mishnah teaches: Rubbing and striking are performed on the wheat kernels, while R' Yosei says: They are performed on the dough. The Talmud comments: A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: Does R' Yosei mean that these actions are performed on the dough and not on the wheat kernels? Or perha
§ The Mishnah teaches that according to the opinion of R' Yehuda, all of the meal offerings come as 10 loaves or wafers, except for the shewbread and the griddle-cake offering of the High Priest, which come as 12 loaves or wafers. The Talmud examines the sources for these exceptions: With regard to
That the griddle-cake offering of the High Priest is also offered as 12 units is derived from a verbal analogy of the word “obligation,” written in the context of the verse discussing the shewbread. With regard to the griddle-cake offering, the verse states: “And the anointed priest…shall offer it;