We just finished talking about the laws of semichah (laying on of hands). Now we'll talk about the laws of tenufah in this Mishnah. Tenufah is the waving of certain components of a korban (offering) of an individual's shelamim (peace offering). We take the chazeh v'shok, the breast and the thigh, and the eimurim, the sacrificial parts that are burned on the Mizbeach (altar), and they're waved before the burning. The two lambs that are brought on Shavuot as a shelamim for the community are waved before the slaughter even happens with the Shtei HaLechem, the two loaves. After the lambs are slaughtered, the breast and the thigh are waved. Tenufah is also done on the loaves that are brought with the korban todah (thanksgiving offering) and the loaves that are brought with the korban of a nazir (Nazirite). The omer (barley offering), the minchah (meal offering) of a sotah (woman suspected of adultery), and a log (unit of liquid measure) of oil that is brought by a metzorah (person with skin affliction) also have...
The Mishnah says there is something about semichah that is more stringent than tenufah. And there are matters where we're more strict with semichah than we are with tenufah. Each one of them has a certain strictness that the other one does not have. Semichah is more stringent than tenufah in terms of many people, if they bring an offering together, because one owner could do the tenufah for everybody. But one owner cannot do semichah on the animal for all of the partners. Each one of them has to do it individually.
And we have a stringency with tenufah where it's more stringent than semichah: tenufah applies to both individual korbanot and communal offerings. You know, with korbanot, it depends on what's brought. It applies to live animals in certain instances, and to slaughtered animals in certain instances. It applies to something considered to be a living matter—animals—and also to something like loaves of bread that accompany the korban todah and the nazir, all depending on the situations. Mah she'ein ken b'semichah, which does not apply to semichah. Semichah is only done on individual korbanot, not communal offerings, and only before shechitah (slaughter) has happened. And it's never performed on non-living things, only on animals, as opposed to bread, where tenufah is done.