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What is the reason of Rabbi Eliezer for deeming it permitted to burn the limbs of the sin offering on the altar as wood? The Gemara explains: The verse states:
“No meal offering that you shall bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven; for you shall make no leaven, nor any honey, smoke as an offering made by fire to the Lord. As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to the Lord; but they shall not come up for a pleasing aroma on the altar” (Leviticus 2:11–12).
This indicates that you may not offer up leaven and honey as a pleasing aroma, i.e., as an offering.
But you may offer upleaven and honey and other substances that are prohibited to be sacrificed upon the altar, such as the limbs of a sin offering, for the sake wood.
We examine the prohibition against leaven and honey in the meal offerings of Leviticus 2:11-12 through the lens of Talmudic interpretation, specifically focusing on the Mishnaic and Gemara discourse in our daf.