Reference for Menachot 4:3

הַפָּר וְהָאֵילִים וְהַכְּבָשִׂים וְהַשָּׂעִיר אֵינָן מְעַכְּבִין אֶת הַלֶּחֶם, וְלֹא הַלֶּחֶם מְעַכְּבָן. הַלֶּחֶם מְעַכֵּב אֶת הַכְּבָשִׂים, וְהַכְּבָשִׂים אֵינָן מְעַכְּבִין אֶת הַלֶּחֶם, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא. אָמַר שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן נַנָּס, לֹא כִי, אֶלָּא הַכְּבָשִׂים מְעַכְּבִין אֶת הַלֶּחֶם, וְהַלֶּחֶם אֵינוֹ מְעַכֵּב אֶת הַכְּבָשִׂים, שֶׁכֵּן מָצִינוּ, כְּשֶׁהָיוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל בַּמִּדְבָּר אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה, קָרְבוּ כְבָשִׂים בְּלֹא לֶחֶם, אַף כָּאן יִקְרְבוּ כְבָשִׂים בְּלֹא לָחֶם. אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן, הֲלָכָה כְּדִבְרֵי בֶן נַנָּס, אֲבָל אֵין הַטַּעַם כִּדְבָרָיו, שֶׁכָּל הָאָמוּר בְּחֻמַּשׁ הַפְּקוּדִים, קָרַב בַּמִּדְבָּר. וְכָל הָאָמוּר בְּתוֹרַת כֹּהֲנִים, לֹא קָרַב בַּמִּדְבָּר. מִשֶּׁבָּאוּ לָאָרֶץ, קָרְבוּ אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ. וּמִפְּנֵי מָה אֲנִי אוֹמֵר יִקְרְבוּ כְבָשִׂים בְּלֹא לֶחֶם, שֶׁהַכְּבָשִׂים מַתִּירִין אֶת עַצְמָן בְּלֹא לֶחֶם. לֶחֶם בְּלֹא כְבָשִׂים, אֵין לִי מִי יַתִּירֶנּוּ:

[The absence of the] the bull or the rams or the lambs or the sheep do not invalidate the bread-offering, nor does [the absence of] the bread-offering invalidate [them]. [The absence of ] the bread-offering can invalidate the lambs, but [the absence of ] the lambs cannot invalidate the bread-offering - [these are] the words of Rabbi Akiva; Rabbi Shimon ben Nanos said: Not so, rather [the absence of} the lambs can invalidate the bread-offering, but the [the absence of] the bread-offering cannot invalidate the lambs; because we find that when Israel was in the wilderness forty years, they offered lambs without the bread-offering, so now too they may offer the lambs without the bread-offering. R. Simon said: The law is [according to] the words of Ben Nanos, but the grounds are not [according to] his words, [because] all the [offerings] stated in <i>Chumash HaPekudim</i> [Rabbinic name for the Book of Numbers] were offered in wilderness, but all the [offerings] stated in <i>Torat Kohanim</i> [Rabbinic name for the Book of Leviticus] were not offered in the wilderness. When they came to the land, they offered both [sets of offerings]. And why do I say [nevertheless] they offer the lambs without the bread-offering? Because the lambs render themselves permissible without the bread-offering [via the burning of their innards on the altar], but the bread-offering without the lambs - there is nothing [offered] that would permit it.

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