Menachot

The Lord upon them, they shall live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.1 MISHNAH. THE [ABSENCE OF THE] FINE FLOUR AND THE OIL DOES NOT INVALIDATE THE WINE,2 NEITHER DOES THE [ABSENCE OF THE] WINE INVALIDATE THEM. THE [OMISSION OF ONE OF THE] SPRINKLINGS [OF THE BLOOD] ON THE OUTER ALTAR DOES NOT INVALIDATE THE REST.3 GEMARA. Our Rabbis taught: It is written, And their meal-offering and their drink-offerings,4 that is, you must first offer the meal-offering and then the drink-offering.5 Rabbi says, It is written, A sacrifice and drink-offerings,6 that is, you must first offer the sacrifice and then the drink-offering.7 But [against] Rabbi [it will be asked]: Is it not written, ‘And their meal-offering and their drink-offerings’? — That verse he requires for the teaching that their meal-offering and their drink-offerings may be offered at night and that their meal-offering and their drink-offerings may be offered even on the following day.8 And [against] the Rabbis [it will be asked]: Is it not written, ‘A sacrifice and drink-offerings’? — That verse they require for Ze'iri's teaching; for Ze'iri said, The drink-offerings become hallowed only by the slaughtering of the animal-offering.9 And does not Rabbi also require that verse for Ze'iri's teaching? And do not the Rabbis also require the other verse for the teaching that their meal-offering and their drink-offerings may be offered at night and that their meal-offering and their drink-offerings may be offered even on the following day?10 — In truth this is the reason for the Rabbis’ view; it is written, A burnt-offering and a meal-offering.11 And [against] Rabbi [then it will be asked]: Is it not written, A burnt-offering and a meal-offering? — Rather [this is the true position]: When the drink-offerings accompany the sacrifice all are agreed that the meal-offering is offered first and it is followed by the drink-offering, for it is written, ‘A burnt-offering and a meal-offering’. They only differ where they are offered as an offering by themselves; the Rabbis are of the opinion that just as when they accompany the sacrifice the meal-offering is offered first and then the drink-offering, so it is, too, when they are offered by themselves, namely, the meal-offering is offered first and then the drink-offering. Rabbi, however, distinguishes thus: only there [where they accompany the sacrifice does the meal-offering precede the drink-offering] for since the offering began with what is eaten12 one should continue with what is eaten;13 but where they are offered as an offering by themselves the drink-offering takes the first place, since the Psalm is sung [by the Levites] over it.14 THE [OMISSION OF ONE OF THE] SPRINKLINGS [OF THE BLOOD] ON THE OUTER ALTAR DOES NOT INVALIDATE THE REST. Our Rabbis taught: Whence do we know that any offering whose blood must be sprinkled on the outer altar effects atonement even if it is sprinkled with but one act of sprinkling? From the verse, And the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the Lord thy God.15 MISHNAH. THE [ABSENCE OF EITHER THE] BULLOCKS OR THE RAMS OR THE LAMBS DOES NOT INVALIDATE THE OTHERS.16 R. SIMEON SAID, IF THEY HAD [MEANS ENOUGH FOR THE] MANY BULLOCKS BUT HAD NOT [MEANS ENOUGH FOR] THE DRINK-OFFERINGS, THEY SHOULD BRING ONE BULLOCK AND ITS DRINK-OFFERINGS AND SHOULD NOT OFFER THEM ALL WITHOUT DRINK-OFFERINGS. GEMARA. Which bullocks and lambs are meant? Will you say those of the Feast [of Tabernacles]?17 But there is written of them, After the ordinance,18 After the ordinance!18 — We must therefore say that those of the New Moon and of Pentecost are meant, which are ordained in the Book of Numbers.19 the name of the Lord (i.e. that wear the tefillin) shall live. absence of one component part does not prevent the offering of the other. sprinkled with but one act of sprinkling. V. Zeb. 36b. priority of the meal-offering over the drink-offering, or vice versa. two bullocks, one ram and seven lambs; cf. ibid. XXVIII, 11 and 27.