Menachot 59: Basic Guidelines for Meal-Offerings

A new Mishna teaches a summary of the rules surrounding meal offerings:

• Some offerings require both oil and frankincense:
• fine flour
• prepared in a pan
• prepared in a deep pan
• loaves and wafers
• those given by the priests
• that of the anointed high priest
• that of a non-Jew
• those of women
• that of the omer
• the meal offering paired with libations and a burnt offering or a peace offering requires only oil and no frankincense
• shewbread requires frankincense and not oil
• the sinner's loaf and the jealous husband's loaf do not require oil nor frankincense
• the first listed mincha is the meal offering of fine flour where oil and frankincense are listed (Vayikra 2:1)
• Rashi: one who claims that s/he will bring an offering without saying what type of offering should bring a standard meal offering, fine flour
• the rabbis debate on whether the shewbread should be included with the meal offerings