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Malbim Ayelet HaShachar Klal 219

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ומאמר שבאו בו כמה מינים, ובכל מין יש פרטים מובדלים ופרטים מתדמים, ונמצא פרט אחד מפורש במין אחד וסתום ביתר המינים ולא באר הפוכו – למדינן שכמו שמתדמה במין המפורש כן הוא הדין שמתדמה במין הבלתי מפורש. (צו ס' קג)

Ayelet Hashachar, translated by Betzalel Avraham Feinstein, 2021

And for an expression that comes with several types and in each type there are details that are found in only one type and details that are found in more than one type, and one detail is found explicitly in one type but is ambiguous in the remainder of types (it does not clarify that it is the opposite in the remainder of types) – we learn that whenever one detail is mentioned explicitly in many types, it is thus the rule that these types share in the other detail that is only mentioned explicitly in one of them.

Leviticus 7:12 says, אם על תודה יקריבנו והקריב על זבח התודה חלות מצות בלולת בשמן ורקיקי מצות משחים בשמן וסלת מרבכת חלת בלולת בשמן*(If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked).*

There are three types:

  1. חלות מצות בלולת בשמן*(unleavened cakes mingled with oil).*
  2. ורקיקי מצות משחים בשמן*(and unleavened wafers spread with oil).*
  3. וסלת מרבכת חלת בלולת בשמן*(and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked).*

It uses the word חלות for “cakes” in the first and third types; however, the first and third types are different in that the third type is מורבכת (soaked) but not the first type, and the third type hasסולת*(fine flour) but is ambiguous in the first type. Hence,סולתmust also apply in the first type, according to Rule 219⁵¹⁰.*

footnotes: ⁵¹⁰ Malbim, HaTorah v’HaMitzvah Tzav 103.

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