Reference for Menachot 4:5

חֲבִתֵּי כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל, לֹא הָיוּ בָאוֹת חֲצָיִים, אֶלָּא מֵבִיא עִשָּׂרוֹן שָׁלֵם, וְחוֹצֵהוּ, וּמַקְרִיב מֶחֱצָה בַבֹּקֶר, וּמֶחֱצָה בֵין הָעַרְבָּיִם. וְכֹהֵן שֶׁהִקְרִיב מֶחֱצָה בְּשַׁחֲרִית וּמֵת וּמִנּוּ כֹהֵן אַחֵר תַּחְתָּיו, לֹא יָבִיא חֲצִי עִשָּׂרוֹן מִבֵּיתוֹ, וְלֹא חֲצִי עֶשְׂרוֹנוֹ שֶׁל רִאשׁוֹן, אֶלָּא מֵבִיא עִשָּׂרוֹן שָׁלֵם, וְחוֹצֵהוּ, וּמַקְרִיב מֶחֱצָה, וּמֶחֱצָה אָבֵד. נִמְצְאוּ שְׁנֵי חֲצָיִים קְרֵבִין, וּשְׁנֵי חֲצָיִים אוֹבְדִין. לֹא מִנּוּ כֹהֵן אַחֵר, מִשֶּׁל מִי הָיְתָה קְרֵבָה. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, מִשֶּׁל צִבּוּר. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, מִשֶּׁל יוֹרְשִׁים. וּשְׁלֵמָה הָיְתָה קְרֵבָה:

The high priest’s griddle-cakes cannot be brought in [two separate] halves. Rather, he must bring a whole tenth and then divide it, offering a half in the morning and a half towards evening. If a [high] priest offered half in the morning and then died and they appointed another priest in his place, [the successor] may not bring a half-tenth from his house, neither [may he use] the remaining half-tenth of the first [high priest]. Rather, he must bring a whole tenth and divide it, and offer one half and leaving the other half goes to waste. It turns out that two halves are offered and two halves go to waste. If they did not appoint another priest in his place, from whose [expense] was it offered? Rabbi Shimon says: from the community; Rabbi Yehudah says: from his heirs, and [both agreee that] a whole [tenth] was offered.

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