Menachot 60: Four Categories of Meal Offerings; Bringing Near, Waving

A new Mishna teaches us that there are four categories of meal offerings:

• those that require bringing near, where priests carry the offering in their hands are bring it to the southwest corner of the altar but waving is not required
• those that require both waving and bringing near
• those that require waving but not bringing near
• those that require neither waving nor bringing near

The Mishna continues, teaching us about the meal offerings that require bringing near but not waving:

• fine flour meal offering
• meal offering prepared in a plan
• meal offering baked in an oven in the form of loaves or wafers
• meal offerings of priests
• meal offering of the anointed priest
• meal offering of gentiles
• meal offerings brought by women
• meal offering of one who has sinned
• there is a principal that regarding any meal offering with no removal of a handful in their sacrifice, there is no bringing near

The rabbis debate about the four categories of meal offerings and why or why not they might face the additional restriction of not bringing near.