Menachos Daf 75 מנחוס דַף 75

The Mishnah on the previous Daf taught that all menachos which are prepared in a כלי שרת require three applications of oil: יציקה – pouring at the end, בלילה – mixing oil in, and placing oil into the כלי before the minchah is prepared. Regarding בלילה, Rebbe said חלות בוללן – he mixes the oil in after they were already made into loaves. But the Chochomim say it is mixed in while the minchah is still סולת – flour. They darshen: "סלת בלולה" – fine flour mixed with oil, מלמד שנבללת סולת – teaching that it is mixed with oil while it is flour. Thus, the full procedure is as follows: he puts some of the oil into the כלי, then puts the flour in, and puts oil on it and mixes it. He then kneads it, bakes it, breaks it into pieces, puts the remaining oil in, and performs kemitzah. Rebbe says that the passuk "חלות...בלולות בשמן" – loaves mixed with oil implies that the mixing takes place after the minchah is baked as loaves, and he details the full procedure, with the second application and mixing in of oil taking place after the minchah is baked and broken into pieces.

The next Mishnah states that all menachos which are prepared in a כלי שרת require פתיתה – breaking into pieces. [This excludes שתי הלחם and לחם הפנים from פתיתה.] The next Mishnah describes the פתיתה of a Yisroel’s minchah: קופל אחד לשנים ושנים לארבעה ומבדיל – he folds one loaf into two, the two pieces into four, and he separates the four pieces, to allow for kemitzah. A Kohen’s minchah is also folded into quarters, ואינו מבדיל – but he does not separate the pieces, since it does not require kemitzah. Regarding the minchah of the כהן משיח (i.e., the חביתי כהן גדול), לא היה מקפלה – he would not fold it. the Gemara will clarify that it was not folded into four, but was folded into two. Rebbe Shimon maintains that the menachos of Kohanim and the כהן משיח, which do not require kemitzah, also do not require פתיתה. A Baraisa explains that "פתות" – break teaches to fold the minchah, and "פתים" – pieces teaches to fold it again into four. יכול יעשנה פירורין – One might think he should make it into crumbs, so the passuk says "אותה" – break it into pieces, teaching that only the minchah is broken into pieces, but the pieces are not further broken into smaller pieces.

Rav Yosef said: האי חביצא דאית בה פירורין כזית – this [cooked dish with pieces of bread] which has pieces of bread the size of an olive, one recites on it the berachah המוציא לחם מן הארץ, but if they are smaller than a כזית, he recites בורא מיני מזונות. Rav Yosef supports this from a Baraisa which teaches that one who eats שירים of a minchah, which our Mishnah taught is broken into כזיתים, recites המוציא. Abaye objects that according to Rebbe Yishmael, who holds a minchah is broken into pieces smaller than a כזית, one would not say המוציא!? And if one would argue that this is indeed true, but a Baraisa teaches that if one gathers bits of bread into a total amount of a כזית and ate it, then if it was חמץ on Pesach, he incurs כרת, and if it was מצה, he fulfills his obligation. This proves that these small pieces are significant and considered bread!? The Gemara eventually answers that the case is בבא מלחם גדול – where the pieces come from a large bread, which lends significance to its smaller pieces. Rav Sheishess rules that one recites המוציא even on pieces of bread smaller that a כזית. Rava adds that this is only where תוריתא דנהמא – the appearance of bread is still upon them.