Pesachim 13B

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their decrease in value is at the standard rate of stored produce, due to rot and rodents. However, if their decrease in value is beyond the standard rate, everyone agrees that one sells them in court; and all the more so in the case here, with regard to leavened bread, as the bread will be entire

We learned in the Mishnah: And furthermore, R' Yehuda said: Two disqualified loaves of a thanks-offering are placed on the pillars surrounding the Temple as an indicator. The tanna who recited mishnayot in the study hall taught a baraita before Rav Yehuda: The loaves were placed on [al gav] the ben

Raḥava said that R' Yehuda said: The Temple Mount was a double colonnade, i.e., surrounded by two rows of columns. That was also taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda says it was called an istevanit and it was a colonnade within a colonnade.

We learned in the Mishnah that R' Yehuda says these two loaves placed outside were disqualified. The Talmud asks: Why were they disqualified? What caused their disqualification? R' Ḥanina said: Since the thanks-offerings brought that day are numerous, and the priests are unable to eat their porti

The Talmud raises a difficulty: It is obvious that one may not bring this offering on Passover, as it contains leaven. Rav Adda bar Ahava said: Here this baraita is not referring to the prohibition against bringing the offering on Passover itself. Rather, we are dealing with the issue of sacrificing