In the last Mishnah, we said that a minchat choteh (sin offering) and a minchat kena'ot (jealousy offering), these two menachot (meal offerings), are made with no oil and no levonah (frankincense). The minchat choteh is for violating specific averot (transgressions), and the minchat kena'ot is what the husband of the sotah (woman suspected of adultery) brings when she is going through the entire ordeal. The Torah forbids adding oil or levonah to these menachot. Not only is it not done, but you are not allowed to add them. Here we will get into the details of that mitzvah (commandment).
The Mishnah says a person is liable for adding oil, even without levonah, to a minchat choteh or minchat kena'ot, or for adding levonah on its own, without oil, to one of these menachot. In other words, adding oil or levonah is a problem. They are separate prohibitions, and therefore, if a person did either one of them, they would receive lashes, and if they did both of them, they would receive two sets of lashes. If they added oil to one of these menachot, they made the Mincha (meal offering) invalid, because when oil is mixed in with the flour, it cannot be separated from it afterward. But when he placed levonah into one of the menachot, he has the ability to collect levonah from on top of the Mincha, and the Mincha would still be valid. If it does not fully mix in, you could remove it.
“Natan shemen al sheyareha, eino over b'lo ta'aseh” (If he put oil on its remainder, he does not violate a prohibition). If he put oil or levonah on the remainder of one of the menachot, that means that after he took the kometz (handful) out, he has not violated the prohibition. The issur (prohibition) only applies to a Mincha from which the kometz has not yet been removed.
“Natan keli al gabei keli lo pesalah” (If he placed a vessel atop a vessel, he did not disqualify it). If he took a jar of oil, for example, and put it on top of a keli, a utensil that was filled with one of the menachot, he did not make the Mincha invalid. Only adding oil itself to the Mincha invalidates it, but placing oil in a keli above the Mincha does not.
The Torah says, “shelo yasim aleha shemen” (That he should not put oil on it), talking about one of these menachot: you cannot put oil on top of it. You may think that you are not allowed to put it on top of it at all, but what it really means is that you cannot put shemen, cannot put oil into the Mincha. But we are not talking about if it is near it or on top of it, in a separate way. In a separate way. In a separate way. In a separate item, we are talking about it being mixed in.