Mishnayos Menachos Perek 13 Mishnah 1
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מנחות פרק י"ג משנה א׳
One who says: It is incumbent upon me to bring a tenth of an ephah for a meal offering, must bring a meal offering of one-tenth. If he says: It is incumbent upon me to bring tenths of an ephah, he must bring two-tenths, as that is the minimum plural amount. If he says: I specified several tenths of an ephah but I do not know which number I specified, he must bring sixty-tenths, as that is the maximum amount of a meal offering. The flour beyond the amount that he actually specified is rendered a voluntary meal offering. If one says: It is incumbent upon me to bring a meal offering, he may bring whichever meal offering that he wishes, i.e., the fine-flour meal offering, the shallow-pan or deep-pan meal offering, or the meal offering baked in an oven in the form of loaves or wafers. Rabbi Yehuda says: He must bring the fine-flour meal offering, as it is the most notable of the meal offerings.
הֲרֵי עָלַי עִשָּׂרוֹן, יָבִיא אֶחָד. עֶשְׂרוֹנִים, יָבִיא שְׁנָיִם. פֵּרַשְׁתִּי וְאֵינִי יוֹדֵעַ מַה פֵּרַשְׁתִּי, יָבִיא שִׁשִּׁים עִשָּׂרוֹן. הֲרֵי עָלַי מִנְחָה, יָבִיא אֵיזוֹ שֶׁיִּרְצֶה. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, יָבִיא מִנְחַת הַסֹּלֶת, שֶׁהִיא מְיֻחֶדֶת שֶׁבַּמְּנָחוֹת:
Bartenura
הרי עלי עשרון. פירשתי כמה עשרונים אביא ואיני יודע כמה אמרתי:
יביא ששים עשרונים. דאי בציר מהכי נדר, לא איכפת ליה, דמתני ואומר מה שפירשתי יהא לנדרי והשאר יהא לנדבה. ובטפי מהכי ליכא לספוקי, דאין מנחה אחת יתירה מששים עשרון:
הרי עלי מנחה. האומר הרי עלי מנחה סתם:
יביא איזה שירצה. מחמש מנחות:
מיוחדת. שנקראת מנחה סתם ואין לה שם לווי. וכל שאר מנחות יש להם שם לווי, מנחת מחבת, מנחת מרחשת, מנחת מאפה. ואין הלכה כרבי יהודה:
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.