Menachos 4:5 - 5:1

חביתי כהן גדול – the meal-offering of the High Priest that he brings every day, on account that it is written concerning it (Leviticus 6:14): “Shall be prepared with oil on a griddle,” because of this, it is called, griddle-cakes.

לא היו באות חצאין – that he should not bring from his house one-half of an Issaron/tenth in the morning and half an Issaron/tenth in the evening.

ולא חצי עשרונו של ראשון – [the one-half] that remained from the complete Issaron/tenth first [Kohen Gadol] who died had brought [in the morning] for he had not offered anything other than the [first] half.

ושני חציין אובדים – half of the Issaron/tenth of the first [High Priest] who died and half of the Issaron/tenth of this one who stood [in his place].

משל צבור – as it is written (Leviticus 6:15): “[And so shall the priest, anointed from among his sons to succeed him, prepare it; it is the LORD’s] – a law for all time – [to be turned entirely into smoke],” this law will be from that which shall be forever, meaning to say, from the community from the collection of the money stored in the chamber [in the Temple complex].

רבי יהודה אומר משל יורשים – as it is written (Leviticus 6:15): “And so shall the priest, anointed from among his sons,” and it implies the following, that the anointed priest who dies, from those who succeed him (literally, “under him”), will perform it.

ושלימה היתה קריבה – whenever it comes from the community according to Rabbi Shimon or from the heirs [of the Kohen Gadol who died] according to Rabbi Yehuda, it should be offered whole, a complete Issaron and not one-half of an Issaron. Rabbi Shimon derives it from (Leviticus 6:15): “to be turned entirely into smoke/כליל תקטר,” that should not be turned into smoke in halves, but rather entirely when it comes from the community. But Rabbi Yehuda derives it from what is written (Leviticus 6:15): “from among his sons to [to succeed him] prepare it/מבניו יעשה אותה,” when one of his sons offers it up after his father died, that is the heirs, he should do it, but not half of it. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda that it comes from the heirs.

כל המנחות באות מצה חוץ מחמץ שבתודה – as it is written (Leviticus 7:13): “This offering with cakes of leavened bread added.”

ושתי הלחם – as it is written (Leviticus 23:15): “baked after leavening.”

שאור היה בודה להן מתוכן (leaven is set aside for them from their own [contents]) – from the Issaron/tenth of thanksgiving offering and the two loaves [of bread], he removes the yeast, that he would knead from the fine flour a little after it was measured and preserve it in fine-flour and it leavens on its own and from it the rest leavens, for from another place, he would not be able to ring it so that there wouldn’t be extra meal-offering.

והיא אינה מן המובחר – and it doesn’t leaven well, because it does not have yeast from the good vinegar.

אלא מביא שאור – that is from good vinegar from within his house, and places it it within the Issaron and adds and fills it in with fine flour.

אף היא היתה חסרה או יתירה – as for example, the yeast was thick and kneads with difficulty with a little water, it doesn’t hold a large volume as if it were flour and it is found that the Issaron is greater, for if the yeast/leaven were kneaded its yeast/leaven would be greater than now. But if it is not kneaded well, that he placed in a lot of water, it is found that is volume is greater than if it were flour and it was found that the Issaron is less, for were it not for the water, it would not be full. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.