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Menachos 7:2-3

Menachos 7:2

For the consecration of the original kohanim (i.e., Aaron and his sons), they brought flour offerings like the unleavened cakes of thanksgiving offering, i.e., in the form of cakes, wafers and cakes soaked in boiling water. For a nazir’s flour offering they brought two parts of unleavened cakes as those of thanksgiving offerings, i.e., cakes and wafers but not cakes soaked in boiling water. Accordingly, there were ten Jerusalem kav, which equals six isaron plus a little extra. From each of these, one-tenth was taken as terumah as per Leviticus 7:14, “He shall offer one from each offering as terumah to Hashem.” “One” precludes taking a broken one; “from each offering” teaches us that all the offerings must be equal in number and that he cannot take from one kind of offering for the other. “It shall be for the kohein who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering” and the rest is eaten by the one who brought the offering.

Menachos 7:3

If a person slaughters his thanksgiving offering inside the Temple courtyard while its bread is outside the wall, the bread is not sanctified. If he slaughtered the offering before the loaves crusted over in the oven, or even if all of the loaves crusted over except for one, the bread is not sanctified. If he slaughtered the offering intending to eat it after its proper time or outside of its proper place, the bread is sanctified. If he slaughtered the offering and it was found to be a treifa, the bread is not sanctified. If he slaughtered the offering and it was found to be blemished, Rabbi Eliezer says that the bread is sanctified and the Sages say that it isn’t. If he slaughtered the offering under the wrong name, the bread is not sanctified; the same would be true of the ram offered at the consecration of the original kohanim and of the two lambs offered on Shavuos if these would be offered under the wrong name.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz