Audio by Dr. Michael Sokolow

Mishnah Menachot 6:7: The omer was sifted in thirteen sieves, the two loaves [of Shavuot] in twelve and the showbread in eleven. Rabbi Shimon said there was no fixed [number], rather flour that was sifted as much as necessary was brought as it says (Leviticus 24) "You shall take flour and bake it" - until it has been sifted as much as needed.

העמר היה מנפה בשלש עשרה נפה. ושתי הלחם בשתים עשרה. ולחם הפנים באחת עשרה. רבי שמעון אומר, לא היה לה קצבה, אלא סלת מנפה כל צרכה היה מביא, שנאמר (ויקרא כד), ולקחת סלת ואפית אתה, [עד] שתהא מנפה כל צרכה.

Mishnah Menachot 7:1: The thanksgiving offering was brought from five se'im [specific unit of volume] of flour of the Jerusalem measure, which is six se'im of the desert measure. [This was equivalent to] two eifot [specific unit of volume, each] eifah is three se'im [and two eifot are also equal to] twenty issaron, ten of which for leavened bread and ten for unleavened bread. Ten for the leavened [meant that] each loaf [was made from] a whole issaron [of flour]. The ten for the unleavened bread - and in the unleavened bread [there were] three varieties: loaves, wafers and deep-fried dumplings - therefore there were three and a third issaron for each variety, three loaves for every issaron. In the Jerusalem measures it was thirty kav [particular unit of volume], fifteen for the leavened and fifteen for the unleavened. Fifteen for the leavened [meant that] each loaf [was made from] one and a half kav. Fifteen for the unleavened bread - and in the unleavened bread [there were] three varieties: loaves, wafers and deep-fried dumpling - therefore there were five kav for each variety, two loaves for every kav.

התודה היתה באה חמש סאין ירושלמיות, שהן שש מדבריות, שתי איפות, והאיפה שלש סאין, עשרים עשרון, עשרה לחמץ ועשרה למצה. עשרה לחמץ, עשרון לחלה. ועשרה למצה, ובמצה שלשה מינין, חלות ורקיקין ורבוכה, נמצאו שלשה עשרונות ושליש לכל מין, שלש חלות לעשרון. במדה ירושלמית היו שלשים קב, חמשה עשר לחמץ, וחמשה עשר למצה. חמשה עשר לחמץ, קב וחצי לחלה. וחמשה עשר למצה, והמצה שלשה מינין, חלות ורקיקים ורבוכה, נמצאו חמשת קבים לכל מין, שתי חלות לקב.

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