Menachos 13:1 - 13:2

הרי עלי עשרון. פירשתי – I will bring several Esronim but I don’t know how many I stated.

יביא ששים עשרונים – for if he vowed less than this, it does not matter to him, for it teaches [in the Mishnah] and he states: “What that I expressly said will be for my vow, and the rest will be for a free-will offering.” But more than this one does not have to supply, for one meal-offering is not larger than sixty Issarons (see Tractate Menahot, Chapter 12, Mishnah 4).

הרי עלי מנחה – a person who states, “I pledge myself to bring a mere grain-offering.”

יביא איזה שירצה – from the five meal offerings (explained in the Torah: choice flour, in a deep and covered pan, in a pan – without a lid, baked loaves and baked wafers).

מיוחדת – which is called a mere meal/grain-offering, but it does not have a differentiating epithet, for all of the rest of the meal/grain-offerings have a differentiating epithet, the meal offering of the pan-without a lid, the meal-offering of the deep covered pan, the meal-offering that is baked. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

מנחה מין המנחה – he who says, “I pledge myself to bring a meal-offering,” or a kind of meal-offering.

יביא אחת – from the meal-offerings that are mentioned in the portion (i.e., choice flour, in a deep and covered pan, in a pan -without a lid, baked loaves and/or baked wafers).

מנחות – are upon me [as a pledge to bring] or that he states: “from a kind/species of the meal offerings are upon me,” he would bring two meal-offerings from one kind.

פירשתי – kids of meal-offerings that I would bring, but I don’t know how many kinds they are that I vowed to bring.

מביא חמשתן – a meal-offering of choice flour, a meal-offering in a deep and covered pan, a meal- offering in a pan-without a lid, a meal-offering of that which is baked in an oven and it comes from two kinds – loaves and wafers.

... 6) Rebbi says: Since it says 'mincha [shel esronim],' it means he specified one [amount]. Perhaps he specified to bring a mincha of one issaron; if he brings 60 issaron in place of [lit. 'in the vessel of] one issaron, it could be an extraneous mincha. Rebbi is of the opinion that since he specified exaclt how big the mincha will be, [he must bring that exact one], therefore he must bring 60 menachot from 1 through 60, one of 1 issaron, one of two issarons, one of three, one of four, until 60. He will find himself bringing in total 1830 issaron of flour, and for certain one of them will fulfill his vow, and it is not a Nedava. The halacha is not according to Rebbi. [If you specified, and forget what you specified, you bring only a 60 issaron mincha.]

יביא ששים עשרון – for more than this he is not able to supply. But if he vowed less than this, if does not matter to us, for he makes a condition and states how many he specified will be for my vow and the rest will be a free-will offering (see also, Mishnah 8 in this chapter).

רבי אומר – since he said “a meal-offering,” that implies one, so we see, he established it in one utensil, but if he would bring sixty in one utensil, perhaps he vowed less than this, it would be an additional meal-offering, for Rabbi holds that the appointment of a portion is substantial, therefore, he should bring sixty meal-offerings from one until sixty, one of one Isaron, and one of two {Esronim] and one of three [Esronim] and one of four [Esronim] until sixty. That it is found that he brings among them all one thousand eight hundred and thirty Esronim, for certainly vowed one of them, but it is not a free-will offering. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi [Judah the Prince].