Talmud for Menachot 11:9

שְׁתֵּי הַלֶּחֶם נֶאֱכָלוֹת אֵין פָּחוֹת מִשְּׁנַיִם, וְלֹא יָתֵר עַל שְׁלשָׁה. כֵּיצַד. נֶאֱפוֹת מֵעֶרֶב יוֹם טוֹב וְנֶאֱכָלוֹת בְּיוֹם טוֹב, לִשְׁנָיִם. חָל יוֹם טוֹב לִהְיוֹת אַחַר הַשַּׁבָּת, נֶאֱכָלוֹת לִשְׁלשָׁה. לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים נֶאֱכָל אֵין פָּחוֹת מִתִּשְׁעָה, וְלֹא יָתֵר עַל אַחַד עָשָׂר. כֵּיצַד. נֶאֱפֶה בְעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת וְנֶאֱכָל בְּשַׁבָּת, לְתִשְׁעָה. חָל יוֹם טוֹב לִהְיוֹת עֶרֶב שַׁבָּת, נֶאֱכָל לַעֲשָׂרָה. שְׁנֵי יָמִים טוֹבִים שֶׁל רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, נֶאֱכָל לְאַחַד עָשָׂר. וְאֵינוֹ דוֹחֶה לֹא אֶת הַשַּׁבָּת וְלֹא אֶת יוֹם טוֹב. רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן הַסְּגָן, דּוֹחֶה אֶת יוֹם טוֹב וְאֵינוֹ דוֹחֶה אֶת יוֹם צוֹם:

<i>Shtei Halechem</i> [loaves] were eaten no sooner than two [days from their baking] and no later than three. How so? They were baked on the day before Yom Tov [Shavuot] and eaten on Yom Tov, which is two days. If Yom Tov fell after Shabbat, they were eaten on the third day. <i>Lechem Hapanim</i> [loaves] were eaten no sooner than nine days [after their baking] and no later than eleven. How so? They were baked on the eve of Shabbat and eaten the following Shabbat, which is nine days. If Yom Tov fell on the eve of Shabbat, they would be eaten on the tenth day. If the two days of Rosh Hashanah fell before Shabbat then they were eaten on the eleventh day, for [their baking] does not override Shabbat or Yom Tov. Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Hasgan: they do override Yom Tov but not the Fast Day [Yom Kippur].

Jerusalem Talmud Chagigah

It was stated²⁰⁵Tosephta 3:35.: “If the table became impure one immerses it at its time, even on the Sabbath, the words of Rebbi Meïr. But the Sages are saying, immediately.”²⁰⁶The table in the Sanctuary is movable, therefore it is an implement and subject to impurity, e. g., by contact with a dead reptile. In the case of biblical impurity it should be impossible to return it to its place before sundown; this is R. Meïr’s position. The Sages require that it be returned immediately, as soon as it is no longer impure even if it is not yet pure, since the verse requires that the shew-bread be “always” on the table, i. e., every day and certainly at sundown and sunrise. You find to say, in Rebbi Meïr’s opinion it makes two breads impure; in the rabbis’ opinion it only makes one bread impure²⁰⁷The biblically impure table makes the bread it touches biblically impure. For the rabbis the higher degrees of impurity are rabbinic (or rather, conventional), to be disregarded in the Sanctuary. For R. Meïr one accepts at least one degree of conventional impurity (but not all three additional ones.). Rebbi Jacob bar Sosai said before Rebbi Yose, even according to Rebbi Meïr it makes only one bread impure. Explain it if it became impure by fluids of questionable status²⁰⁸If the impurity of the table from the start was not clearly biblical, R. Meïr accepts the rabbis’ point of view.. “Once they immersed the candelabrum. The Sadducees said, look the Pharisees immerse the ball of the sun.^205,Tosephta 3:35.²⁰⁹They object to conventional extensions of the notions of impurity.”

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