מנחות ו׳:ג׳ - ו׳:ד׳

הנעשות בכלי – as for example, the meal-offering prepared in a deep pan [in a container full of oil] and a meal-offering prepared by frying on a flat pan which are made in a utensil.

טעונות שלש מתנות שמן – to exclude that meal-offering which is baked in an oven that does not require pouring [of oil].

ומתן שמן בכלי קודם לעשייתן – first he places the oil in a service/sacred vessel and places fine flour on top of it, as it is written regarding the meal-offering prepared in a deep pan (Leviticus 2:7): “[If your offering is a grain offering in a pan,] it shall be made of choice flour in oil,” that is to say, that it shall be placed, so we see that it requires the placing of oil prior to its being made, and regarding the meal-offering prepared by frying on a flat pan, it is written (Leviticus 2:5-6): “[If your offering is a grain offering on a griddle,] it shall be of choice flour with oil mixed in, unleavened. Break it into bits and pour oil on it;” mixing and pouring is written, but putting oil in a utensil first is not written regarding it, but with a meal-offering prepared in a deep pan [in a container full of oil], that oil is placed in it but pouring and mixing/stirring is not written, and we learn this from that, it is stated, קרבנך/your offering (Leviticus 2:7) with the meal-offering prepared in a deep pan [in a container full of oil] and it is stated קרבנך/your offering (Leviticus 2:5) with the meal-offering prepared by frying on a flat pan/griddle , and how does he make it? He places oil first in the sacred vessel and places upon it the choice flour, [and he returns] and puts upon it oil and mixes/stirs it, behold there is the placing of oil in a utensil and mixing/stirring, and he kneads it with water and bakes it in an oven and crumbles it and pours oil upon it after crumbling/breaking it into pieces, and this is the pouring of the oil, behold three of them, and he grabs a handful and offers up the handful in smoke and the rest is consumed by the Kohanim.

והחלות בוללן דברי רבי – now we are speaking of the meal-offerings baked in an oven which produces loaves or wafers, and it is written concerning it (Leviticus 2:4): “[When you present an offering of grain baked in the oven] it shall be of choice flour: unleavened cakes with oil mixed in,[or unleavened wafers spread with oil].” Rabbi [Judah the Prince] holds that loaves mixed with oil is written, and he mixes them when they are loaves. But the Rabbis hold that mixed/stirred choice flour is written, teaching us that it is mixed/stirred when it is choice flour. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

חלות טעונות בלילה והרקיקים משוחים – as it is written (Leviticus 2:4): “unleavened cakes with oil mixed in,” but wafers do not have it (i.e., oil) mixed in. wafters are spread with oil, but unleavened cakes are not spread with oil.

כיצד מושחן כמין כי – Greek (in the form of an X) – our letter ט' – like the separation of the thumb [of the left hand] from the fingers [like this C].

כל המנחות הנעשות בכלי – here it does not come to include the meal-offering that is baked in an oven, as it is written (Leviticus 2:6): “Break it into bits and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering,” but to include all the meal offerings for breaking into bits, but rather to exclude the two loaves and the shewbread which do not require breaking into bits/crumbling.

כופל אחת לשנים – as it is written (Leviticus 2:6): “Break it into bits,” breaking them (i.e., plural) which is two, for since it was broken, that is two pieces, “bits,” we extend the scope that each piece is broken into two, which is four. It is possible that he can make them crumbs, the inference teaches us, “into bits,” but not its bits into bits. And all of them are broken pieces like olives, that the concluding clause of the Mishnah is not Rabbi Shimon who states, but rather the words of all, for after he made the broken pieces like olives, he folds each olive into two and two into four.

מכפלה – he does not fold them up into four, but rather only into two, for it is not written concerning it other than the meal-offering of broken pieces but not [whole] pieces.

רבי שמעון אומר כו' – But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.