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Menachos 9:9-10:1

Menachos 9:9

In some ways the laying of hands is more stringent than waving an offering, while in other ways waving is more stringent than laying hands. Laying hands is more stringent in that one may wave an offering for the other owners of the sacrifice but one may not lay hands for the other owners. Waving is more stringent in that it applies to both private and communal offerings, to both living and slaughtered animals, and to both things that have life (animals) and to things that do not (certain flour offerings); this is not the case with laying hands (which only applies to live, private animal offerings).

Menachos 10:1

(The omer was brought on 16 Nisan.) Rabbi Yishmael says that when the omer was brought on Shabbos, it was taken from three seah of barley; when it was brought on a weekday, it was taken from five seah. The Sages say that it was taken from three seah regardless of when it was brought. Rabbi Chanina the Deputy High Priest says that on Shabbos the omer was reaped by one person, with one sickle, in one basket; on weekdays by three people, in three baskets, with three sickles. The Sages say that, regardless of when it was brought, it was reaped by three people, in three baskets, with three sickles.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz