Menachot 47: Shavuot Offerings - Loaves and Sacrifices

We learn about the offerings for Shavuot:

• two categories of burnt offerings - one for musaf sacrifices and the two lambs brought as peace offerings
• a sin offering
• a peace offering
• two holiday loaves

Daf 45 target us that each of these offerings was offered independently excepting the loaves and the burnt offerings which are meant to be brought together. Some rabbis argue whether or not the loaves must be brought with other offerings. We learn that the loaves could not be eaten until the slaughters were completed and the blood was collected and sprinkled.

The rabbis discuss what to do if the sacrifices and/or sprinkling of blood were not done properly. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi says that sprinting with the wrong intention means that the animal has been only partially sanctified. Abaye and Rava argue about how to define the level of sanctification. Rabbi Elazar b'Rabbi Shimonarguies rules that the loaves are sanctified only if the slaughter and the sprinkling of the blood are both done properly. A number of different proof texts are presented to defend each opinion.