Uno che dice: "Mi prendo [per offrire un'offerta di grano preparata] su una piastra", non deve portare [uno preparato] in una padella; Se [dice, mi prendo per offrire un'offerta di grano preparata] in una padella ”, non deve portare [uno preparato] su una piastra. Qual è la differenza tra una piastra e una padella? La padella ha un coperchio, ma la piastra non ha coperchio - [queste sono] le parole del rabbino Yose Haglili; Il rabbino Hanina ben Gamaliel dice: una padella è profonda e ciò che viene preparato è spugnoso; una piastra è piatta e ciò che è preparato su di essa è difficile.
Bartenura on Mishnah Menachot
מרחשת עמוקה – as it is written (Leviticus 7:9): “and any that is prepared in a pan” implying within it, so we see that it has something inside/within.
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Introduction
Leviticus 7:9 mentions minhahs “prepared in a pan or on a griddle.” Our mishnah teaches the difference in how these two minhahs are prepared.
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ומעשיה רוחשין (and what is inside it moves/vibrates – like jelly – see Tractate Menahot 63a) – that the oil within moves about within it. The language of (Genesis 1:16): “that creep on the earth,” which we translate in Aramaic as moves/swarms. But there are those who have the reading that its contents are soft, that is to say, that is kneaded product/dough is soft.
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One who says, “I take upon myself [to offer a minhah] prepared on a griddle,” he must not bring one prepared in a pan; If [he says, I take upon myself to offer a minhah prepared] in a pan,” he must not bring one prepared on a griddle. The first thing the mishnah asserts is that a minhah prepared in a pan is indeed different from one prepared on a griddle. Therefore, one who vows to bring one type of minhah cannot bring the other.
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ומחשבת צפה – as it is written (Leviticus 7:9): “or on a griddle,” implying on it but not within it. So we see, it has nothing inside/within.
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What is the difference between a griddle [mahabat] and a pan [marheshet]? The pan has a lid to it, but the griddle has no lid, the words of Rabbi Yose the Galilean. Rabbi Hanina ben Gamaliel says: a pan is deep and what is prepared is spongy; a griddle is flat and what is prepared on it is hard. There are two opinions as to what the difference was between a griddle and a pan. According to Rabbi Yose the Galilean, the pan had a lid but the griddle did not. Rabbi Hanina ben Gamaliel says that the pan was deep and since there was more oil, the cake prepared was softer than that prepared on the flat griddle. What is interesting to me is that these rabbis, living only one hundred years after the destruction of the Temple, already dispute how minhahs were prepared in the Temple. Clearly, they have no historical record to turn to, and therefore must decipher how things were done by reasoning out various verses in the Torah. This is probably quite common in Seder Kodashim and demonstrates well that much of the material in this Seder is not a record of what went on in the Temple but rather an interpretation of what the Torah says should have gone on in the Temple.
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צפה – it is not deep but rather its edges float near its rim/border of the vessel, like “floating on the top of the water.”
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ומעשיה קשים – that the dough that fries in it that which was kneaded is hard in order that it not pour outside, for the utensil lacks a rim/border.
