How much flour must each loaf comprise?
Menachos, 77b: We learn via a Gezeirah Shavah "Lechem" "Lechem" from the Lechem ha'Panim, in Emor, 24:7, that each loaf shoulf comprise one Isaron of flour. 1
See Torah Temimah, note 30.
What are the implications of "Al Chalos Lechem Chametz"?
Refer to 7:12:4:1 & 2.
Ramban: "Al ... " implies that the total amount of flour in the thirty Matzah loaves should equal that of the ten Chametz loaves. 1
Menachos, 78b: The insertion of the (otherwise superfluous ) word "Lechem" implies that the loaves do not become Kadosh until the surface has become crusted. 2
What are the implications of "Yakriv Korbano al Zevach Todas Shelamav"?
Rashi: It implies that the loaves do not become intrinsically Kadosh 1 until the Korban Todah has been Shechted (and that one should Shecht the Todah having in mind to sanctify the loaves together with the Korban - Ramban.
Rashi: To become Pasul should they leave the Azarah, and that they cannot be redeemed (to go out to Chulin).
Why does the Torah insert the (otherwise superfluous) words "Zevach Todas Shelamav"
Menachos, 27a: It comes to include the Shelamim of a Nazir, 1 and consequently, just as everything that is written by Nazir is Me'akev (crucial), 2 so too are all four kinds of Lachmei Todah one another.
Menachos, 78b: To teach us that if one Shechts the Torah she'Lo li'Shemo, the loaves are not Kadosh.
Why does the Korban Todah require so many loaves of bread?
Seforno: Because when sharing the loaves with others 1 , the owner will relate the miracle that he experienced, thereby publicizing it. 2
Seeing as he himself cannot possibly finish a whole animal, plus loaves made from the volume of eight-hundred and sixty-four egg-volumes of flour in one day (PF)
Pirsumei Nisa ? which is the main objective of the Korban Todah (See Tehilim, 107, Pesukim 1-31, on which it is based) and based on which nowadays, we recite Birchas ha'Gomel. See Oznayim la'Torah on Pasuk 5, DH 'be'Yom Korbano Yeachel'..
Why does the Korban Todah contain Chametz (despite the fact that all other Menachos - with the sole exception of Sh'tei ha'Lechem - are brought specifically as Matzah)?
Refer to Vayikra, 2:11:2:2. 1
Seforno (on Pasuk 11): Because the cause of the danger, for which the owner is now thanking Hashem for saving him from is 'the yeast in the dough'. 2
Ramban (23:17 according to Kabalah): Also Sh'tei ha'Lechem on Shavu'os is like a Todah, because it is the day of Matan Torah, which is called Atzeres. The Midrash explains that in the time of Mashi'ach, all the Korbanos will become Batel (they will be much less important. - PF) with the exception of the Korban Todah, for it contains both Chametz and Matzah.
A euphemism for the Yeitzer- ha'Ra.
