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בכדי חסרונן, אבל יותר מכדי חסרונן — מוכרן בבית דין. וכל שכן הכא, דהא פסידי לגמרי.
their decrease in value is at the standard rate of stored produce, due to rot and rodents. However, if their decrease in value is beyond the standard rate, everyone agrees that one sells them in court; and all the more so in the case here, with regard to leavened bread, as the bread will be entirely lost. Once the leaven is prohibited, it remains prohibited even after Passover. Consequently, everyone agrees that one is obligated to sell the leaven.
ועוד אמר רבי יהודה שתי חלות כו׳. תני תנא קמיה דרב יהודה ״על גב האיצטבא״. אמר ליה: וכי להצניען הוא צריך?! תני ״על גג האיצטבא״.
We learned in the Mishnah: And furthermore, R' Yehuda said: Two disqualified loaves of a thanks-offering are placed on the pillars surrounding the Temple as an indicator. The tanna who recited mishnayot in the study hall taught a baraita before Rav Yehuda: The loaves were placed on [al gav] the bench in the Temple. He said to him: And does he need to conceal them? No one would see them if they were placed there. Rather, teach the baraita: On the roof of [al gag] the colonnade, where everyone could see them.
אמר רחבא אמר רבי יהודה: הר הבית סטיו כפול היה. תניא נמי הכי: הר הבית סטיו כפול היה. רבי יהודה אומר: איסטוונית היתה נקראת — סטיו לפנים מסטיו.
Raḥava said that R' Yehuda said: The Temple Mount was a double colonnade, i.e., surrounded by two rows of columns. That was also taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda says it was called an istevanit and it was a colonnade within a colonnade.
פסולות וכו׳. אמאי פסולות? אמר רבי חנינא: מתוך שהיו מרובות — נפסלות בלינה. דתניא: אין מביאין תודה בחג המצות, מפני חמץ שבה.
We learned in the Mishnah that R' Yehuda says these two loaves placed outside were disqualified. The Talmud asks: Why were they disqualified? What caused their disqualification? R' Ḥanina said: Since the thanks-offerings brought that day are numerous, and the priests are unable to eat their portions from the loaves of all the offerings, the remaining loaves are disqualified by virtue of their being left overnight. The Talmud explains that so many loaves were brought that day, as it was taught in a baraita: One may not bring a thanks-offering on the festival of Passover due to the leavened bread included with it, as 10 of the 40 loaves brought with a thanks-offering are loaves of leavened bread.