Question: We say below (49b) one takes the spoon in the ends of his fingers, and some say, in his teeth;

How can he do so? One would not do so in front of a mortal king!

Answer: There is different, for he merely draws the spoon towards himself. It is not resting in the air, rather, it rests on his hand;

He draws it towards himself with his teeth, in order to return [the Ketores] to his cupped hands;

However, to take the Machtah with his teeth and put it on the ground is improper.

Question: Why didn't they make a long handle for the Machtah? In any case we said above that on Yom Kipur, it had a long handle;

They should make a long handle that reaches until his underarm, and he can hold it in his underarm, and the end of the Machtah on his hands, or on his left arm;

When he gets inside, he lowers his hands to the floor, and gently removes his hands from under the Machtah, and rests the Machtah on the floor!

Answer #1: We require "Melo ha'Machtah Gachalei Esh", and it is impossible that some would not spill if he did it this way.

Answer #2: One would not do so in front of a mortal king!

Question: Why don't we say that the measure of the Kaf was like the Shi'ur of Chafnav of each Kohen Gadol?

If he was big or small, they would make it a Kaf corresponding to the Shi'ur [of Chafnav]!

Answer: There is no reason to do so. Just the contrary, it is better to have a bigger Kaf!

If it were equal to Chafnav, when he pours from his hands into it, it is impossible that some would not scatter and spill on the ground a little!

Explanation: He holds like the opinion (Menachos 75b) that he folded [a Minchah] one into two and two into four.

However, according to Tana d'Vei R. Yishmael, who says that he crumbles them until they are like flour again, this is no harder than other Menachos.

Question: What does this mean "later he resolved it"? Also initially, when he asked, it was a Safek!

Answer #1: Perhaps initially he was unsure, and thought to prove that it is considered part of the Kometz, or it is part of the Shirayim;

He later resolved that it is a Safek, and he does not come to resolve the question, if it is Vadai part of the Kometz, or Vadai Shirayim;

Rather, Vadai it is a Safek, and no one will ever be able to resolve it.

Answer #2: Initially, he asked whether it is Tevel (part of a Minchah from which a Kometz was not taken), or a Safek;

[Perhaps] it is Safek Kometz, Safek Shirayim. Or, it is Tevel, like one who separates too much Ma'aser;

We say (Kidushin 51a) that his Peros are fixed, but his Ma'aser is messed up.

Note: Seemingly, only separating too much Ma'aser Rishon is problematic, for the excess is Chulin, so Ma'aser Sheni or Ma'aser Oni must be separated from it (Aruch l'Ner Rosh Hashanah 14a). This is unlike Bein ha'Beinayim, which does not become Kometz, and the Kometz does not exempt it! Rather, Tosfos holds like the Rashash (Gitin 31a) explains Rashi (Kidushin 51a), that if one separates too much of any Ma'aser, only an [outer] 10th of what he intended to exempt becomes Ma'aser, and the rest remains Tevel. E.g. if he separates two measures to exempt nine others, exactly one becomes Ma'aser.

[Here,] whatever he takes more than is proper, and is not seen outside [his hand], depends on the Kohen's intent;

The Kohen intends only what is inside his hand to be the Kometz. What is left in the Kli, and what is outside, is Shirayim;

However, what is in the middle [between his fingers] is Tevel, like initially, before Kemitzah. Or, perhaps surely it is not Tevel, rather, a Safek, either Kometz or Shirayim.

He later resolved that it is a Safek.

Relevance: If it would be Tevel, this would affect if it became mixed with Chulin in the Azarah eaten with the Minchah;

This is like it says in Menachos (21b) "Yochlu" - they may eat with it Chulin, so it (the Minchah) will be eaten when he is satiated;

[If it would be Tevel], it is not Batel, for any amount of Tevel forbids a mixture. If it is a Safek, it is Batel.

Assertion: Even R. Yochanan, who said in Menachos (9a) that [if the Shirayim became Chaser], we are Maktir the Kometz [based] on them, agrees that one may not eat the Shirayim, like he learns there from a verse;

Here we say that we are not Maktir on them, i.e. we are not Maktir the Kometz for the sake of the Shirayim, in order to permit eating them;

Support: This is why it changed the wording. There it says "we are not Maktir the Kometz on them", and mentions Haktarah adjacent to the Kometz, for the Haktarah is primarily for the sake of the Kometz;

Here, most texts say "we are not Maktir on them [the Kometz]";

It says that we are not Maktir first what is in between, for this would forfeit ability to eat the Shirayim.

Explanation: If you will say that regarding the Kometz it is Pasul because it says "v'Kamatz ha'Kohen", and not what is in between, for the Kohen did not [overtly] take it. Rather, it entered by itself...

However, regarding Chafnav, it does not say "v'Lakach Melo Chafnav", rather, "Melo Chafnav", which connotes even what enters Chafnav by itself;

The verse "v'Lakach" is written regarding coals, and not regarding Ketores.

Or, perhaps "v'Lakach v'Hevi" i.e. v'Lakach at the beginning of the verse refers also to Ketores, just like it refers to coals.

Implied question: We already said above "one might have thought even with his fingertips"!

Answer: That is when there is flour only on his fingertips. Here we suggest that he begins to take the Kometz with his fingertips, and takes so much until his fingers cover his palm.

Rashi's opinion: He stuck his fingertips into the flour, and the back of his hand faced the flour, and he took a Kemitzah.

Implied question: This is taking with his fingertips, which we asked about above!

Answer: This is when he took with his fingertips, and his palm faced the flour.

Implied question: Since we already asked Kemitzah, why do we ask about Chafinah? It is the same, like we asked above [about between the fingers]!

Answer: Obviously, Chafinah and Kemitzah themselves are not the same. One is the way people take a Kemitzah (a handful, through curling three fingers to the palm), and one is the way people take Chafnav (a double handful);

Therefore, we ask even if you will say that this (using the fingertips) is the way people take a Kemitzah, or it is not the way people take a Kemitzah, is it the way people take Chafinah, or not?