Derasha 2 — Vayikra 2:6

פָּת֤וֹת אֹתָהּ֙ פִּתִּ֔ים וְיָצַקְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ שָׁ֑מֶן מִנְחָ֖ה הִֽוא׃

Source Citation

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Menachos 75b

״פָּתוֹת״ — יָכוֹל לִשְׁנַיִם? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר ״פִּתִּים״. אִי ״פִּתִּים״ יָכוֹל יַעֲשֶׂנָּה פְּרוּרִים? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר ״אֹתָהּ״ — אוֹתָהּ לִפְתִיתִים וְלֹא פְּתִיתִים לִפְתִיתִים.

English: “Break” — might [into] two? The verse says “pieces.” If “pieces,” might one make it crumbs? The verse says “it” — it into pieces, and not pieces into [further] pieces.

Type of Learning

Miyut of degree of breaking — neither left whole nor reduced to crumbs.

What Is Learned

The minchah is broken into pieces, not left whole and not reduced to crumbs. The verse’s language teaches a middle path: break it into pieces, but do not continue breaking those pieces into still smaller fragments.

Derasha 2 on Vayikra 2:6

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