Talmud for Menachot 9:3

רְבִיעִית מֶה הָיְתָה מְשַׁמֶּשֶׁת. רְבִיעִית מַיִם לִמְצֹרָע, וּרְבִיעִית שֶׁמֶן לְנָזִיר. חֲצִי לֹג מֶה הָיָה מְשַׁמֵּשׁ. חֲצִי לֹג מַיִם לְסוֹטָה. וַחֲצִי לֹג שֶׁמֶן לְתוֹדָה. וּבַלֹּג הָיָה מוֹדֵד לְכָל הַמְּנָחוֹת. אֲפִלּוּ מִנְחָה שֶׁל שִׁשִּׁים עִשָּׂרוֹן, נוֹתֵן לָהּ שִׁשִּׁים לֹג. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר, אֲפִלּוּ מִנְחָה שֶׁל שִׁשִּׁים עִשָּׂרוֹן, אֵין לָהּ אֶלָּא לֻגָּהּ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ויקרא יד), לְמִנְחָה וְלֹג שָׁמֶן. שִׁשָּׁה לְפַר, אַרְבָּעָה לְאַיִל, שְׁלשָׁה לְכֶבֶשׂ, שְׁלשָׁה וּמֶחֱצָה לַמְּנוֹרָה, מֵחֲצִי לֹג לְכָל נֵר:

For what purpose did the quarter-log serve? A quarter-log of water for the one with skin disease and a quarter-log of oil for the Nazirite. For what purpose did the half-log serve? A half-log of water for the sotah [suspected adultress subjected to a trial by ordeal through drinking the bitter waters]and a half-log of oil for the thanksgiving offering. With the log one measured [the oil] for all the grain offerings. Even a grain offering of sixty issaron required sixty log [of oil]. Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov says: even a grain offering of sixty tenths required only one log [of oil], for it is written, “For a grain offering, and a log of oil” (Leviticus 14:21). Six [log] for a bull, four for a ram, and three for a lamb, three a half for the candlestick, a half-log for each lamp.

Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim

Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: The olive-sized piece of mazzah with which a person fulfills his obligation on Passover must be without fluid²²⁸The dough must be made with water to the exclusion of any other fluid. Cf. Babli 36a.. Rebbi Jeremiah said, this was said for a meritorious deed²²⁹In this opinion the mazzah which either was made from dough containing other fluids or where fluid was rubbed into it after baking is undesirable but not forbidden.. Rebbi Abba said, this was said for a meritorious deed. Rebbi Jehudah bar Pazi said, this was said as a necessary condition. The word of Rebbi Abun bar Ḥiyya implies that this was said as a necessary condition. Rebbi Abun bar Ḥiyya objected, did we not state: “flat cakes for a thanksgiving offering”? Are there flat cakes for a thanksgiving offering without fluids²³⁰Lev. 7:12 prescribes “flat cakes mixed with oil”. If the Mishnah permits such cakes when commercially made, it must permit all mazzah kneaded with a mixture of oil and water.? Rebbi Yose said, there it is a quartarius; one quartarius splits into many kinds²³¹Mishnah Menaḥot9:3 specifies that half a log (2 quartarii, slightly more than 1/4 liter) was used to bake the bread required for a thanksgiving offering, 10 flat cakes, 10 wafers, and flour mixed with oil. The amount used for a single flat cake was negligible. Babli 38b.. But what implies this? “One might think and a person could satisfy his obligation with pancake, the verse says, guard the mazzot²³²Ex. 12:17; a similar baraita is quoted in Midrash Haggadol Ba 12:17; where it is spelled out that a pancake made from flour fried in oil is unacceptable since it never can become leavened., a mazzah which needs guarding, excluding this one which does not need guarding.” Because it does not need guarding; therefore if it would need guarding one would satisfy his obligation with it. And so we stated: “One fulfills his obligation with spiced mazzah, even if it does not taste of grain, on condition that it be mostly grain”²³³Tosephta 2:21.. They thought to say, spiced by fluids. We may say, spiced by sesame, spiced by nuts. But the following says it: One might think that a person only could satisfy his obligation on Passover with (roasted) [whole grain]²³⁴The scribe wrote “roasted bread”, i. e., baked on the open fire (parallel to the roasting prescribed for the Passover sacrifice.). The corrector changed this to “bread from the second milling”, i. e., from non-white flour. This correction is induced from the Babli 36b and should be disregarded. bread? From where even with Solomon’s mazzah²³⁵Which certainly was made from pure white flour. Sifry Deut. 130.? The verse says, you shall eat mazzot, it included. If it is so, why does it say bread of affliction²³⁶Deut. 16:3.? To exclude sursīn²³⁷This word is unexplained. סוּרְסִי is the name of the Syriac language. We do not know what “Syriac cakes” are. Sifry only mentions חָלוּט “pancake fried in oil” and cake. The rule is mentioned in the Tosephta 2:20, Babli 119b; the Babli version also in Mekhilta dR. Ismael Ba 10 (end)., and pancake, and cake.

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