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Menahot 107: The 6 Horns for Collecting Donations
2 mishnayot! 1 - A wine libation may be brought on its own, but what about oil? And what if one makes a vow to do so in an unspecified amount? Or if one isn't…
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Menahot 106: More Covering of Forgotten Vows
A debate between Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi and the Rabbis - based on how many offerings must be brought to cover all bases to fulfill a vow when the details of that…
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Menahot 105: To Cover All Your Bases
Chapter 13! With the new mishnah, and a focus on oaths regarding grain-offerings. What happens when one takes an oath, but isn't sure what amount he'd…
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Menahot 104: Wine and Oil, Redux
Another 2 mishnayot! 1 - Making donations of libations to the Temple must be made in the specific amount of the offerings themselves, rather than being too…
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Menahot 103: Casual Speech, Casual Measures (Not Recommended)
2 mishnayot! 1 - If one makes a vow to bring a voluntary grain-offering, but the phrasing makes it an invalid vow in some way or other, then the vow is…
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Menahot 102: Consecration, Impurity, and Unfulfilled Vows
On consecrated items and ritually impure items -- and how they are not treated the same in halakhah with regard to their prohibited use and their respective…
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Menahot 101: Redeeming the Impure and the Pure
Chapter 12! With a new mishnah - redeeming the sanctity of grain offerings and libations, especially when the item has become impure. But what happens if the…
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Menahot 100: The Impact of Shabbat on the Breads
2 mishnayot to finish chapter 11! What if the items from the table were moved on the wrong day (that is, the shewbread and the frankincense)? What happens if…
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Menahot 99: On Honoring Torah and the Influence of the Sages' Own Experiences
More on King Solomon's 10 tables, and how the kohanim put the shewbread on Moses' table and not Solomon's (or was it one table at a time, including Solomon's…
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Menahot 98: When King Solomon Furnished the Temple
More on the set-up of the Temple, including a larger "amah," that was the one of Shushan, and also a smaller measure, which was most significant for the…
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Menahot 97: What's a Cubit? An Imprecise Mishnah
All of the mention of "amot," the measure of a forearm, that are mentioned in the Temple are "medium-sized" cubits -- which was 5 or 6 handbreadths, depending…
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Menahot 96: All the Technical Details You Ever Wanted about the Shewbread
Opening with a very (very!) long mishnah on the 12 loaves of the shewbread, including their process and their location and their shaping and their measurements…
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Menahot 95: The Traveling Shewbread
On the lehem ha-panim, the 12 loaves of the shewbread - what happened to this offering when the Israelites were traveling in the wilderness, and need to switch…
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Menahot 94: Fresh Bread Baking
Closing chapter 10: A new mishnah! On the ways that semichah (laying on of hands) is more stringent than the requirement of waving the animal parts, and the…
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Menahot 93: The Metaphysical Side of Sacrifices
Yesterday's mishnah raised the case of heirs bringing a sacrifice on behalf of someone who died before being able to offer it - and whether they would do the…
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Menahot 92: The Atonement of the Laying of Hands
On the requirement of "semicha" - the laying on of hands before slaughtering an animal, and how it's the subject of the first recorded debate in the Oral Law…
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Menahot 91: Specifying the Korban Olah (Burnt-Offering)
The Torah mentions offerings that are voluntary, and that theoretically could come to include a burn-offering, but the Torah also specifies the burnt-offering…
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Menahot 90: More on the Holy Measuring Cups
2 new mishnayot! 1: All the dry measures used for measuring in the Temple were expected to be heaping measures. But one of the liquid measures for a unique…
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Menahot 89: On Lighting the Menorah and Libations
It took 3.5 log of oil to light the menorah - half a log per cup (with 6 branches, plus the shamash). That's the precise amount of oil to burn through the…
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Menahot 88: Measuring Oil
More on the measures of liquids - and how the "hin" measuring cup was made by Moses in the wilderness, and then it wasn't used. Plus, a new mishnah - on the…
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Menahot 87: Sourcing Wine
A final mishnah for chapter 9: On sourcing the wine for libations in the Temple. With limitations on the practices that would damage or sour the wine. Also…
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Menahot 86: EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
On "shemen ha-mor" - the oil of myrrh, which a discussion of how Queen Esther beautified herself among the other girls in the beauty contest, until the king…
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Menahot 85: An Olive Travelogue (Beginning with Tekoa)
2 mishnayot! 1 - Which grain is not acceptable - in this case, specifically listed, but after the fact, the grain would be accepted if used. Plus, how one…
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Menahot 84: The First Fruits of the 7 Species
Which barley is to be used for the omer offering? During a sabbatical/shemitah year, they couldn't plant, but they could collect the natural growth, which they…
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Menahot 83: The Timing of the Pesach Offering
On the sanctification of the many kinds of offerings, including the absorption into the sanctity. Plus, leading into the Pesach sacrifice, and when it might be…
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Menahot 82: Sacrifice Expenses
The case of one who designates ma'aser sheni money towards a peace-offering, can that work? The Gemara delves into the level of sacredness of the various…
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Menahot 81: In Exchange
More on the mnemonic and exchanging a korban todah -- what if the exchange and the original are confused? And then what if one dies? The mnemonic addresses the…
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Menahot 80: 40 Loaves and Replacement Sacrifices
What if something happens to the animal designated for the thanksgiving sacrifice? The animal part of the sacrifice is the more significant part, where the…
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Menahot 79: Thanksgiving Disqualifications
A new mishnah - from the bottom of daf 78: What happens to the thanksgiving offering when there's an issue with the grain-offering part of it -- as compared to…
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Menahot 78: The Inexperienced Kohen
A new mishnah - with a new discussion of a korban: miluim, the inaugural grain-offerings that were brought by Aaron and his sons. A second mishnah - when the…
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Menahot 77: Bakery Conversions
Chapter 8, focusing on the korban todah, the thanksgiving offering - with a new mishnah. The amount of flour used for this grain-offering was 5 "Jerusalem…
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Menahot 76: Refining the Flour - Again and Again and Again
2 mishnayot: 1 - All of the grain-offerings require 500 "rubbings" (between hands) and 300 "poundings" (in kneading, for example). With clear heritage of the…
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Menahot 75: Oil, Folding, Breaking: Terms of the Various Grain-Offerings
More on the use of oil in the grain-offerings, whether mixing, or smearing, etc. Note the different ways of applying the oil. Plus, a tiny new mishnah…
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Menahot 74: The Sinner's Grain-Offering
A couple of addenda - about the grasshoppers as reapers of the field, and the impossibility of the 16th of Nisan falling out on Shabbat nowadays. Also - for…
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Menahot 73: Idolators' Temple Offerings (Yes, Really)
A new chapter! With a breakdown of the specific various grain-offerings, with an initial focus on the different ways a grain-offering could be prepared. With a…
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Menahot 72: Overriding Shabbat
A daf that covers a range of topics at the end of chapter 5: harvesting a crop for the sake of clearing out the area, rather than for the sake of the…
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Menahot 71: Reaping What You Sow
Exclusions when it comes to harvesting the omer and bringing the offering - including an irrigated field, not fully ripe grain. The offering should come from…
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Menahot 70: The 5 Grains of Chametz and Matzah
What about produce that remains attached to the ground? Is that to be tithed? Is it food? Also, a new mishnah with the 5 grains that are obligated in "challah"…
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Menahot 69: Elephants, Wolves, and the Things They Swallow Whole
Does the omer offering render kernels that are planted in the ground permitted? It depends on whether they have taken root. Also, sales of grain - with…
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Menahot 68: More Omer and the Decrees of R. Yohanan ben Zakkai
2 mishnayot - 1. The impact of bringing the omer offering - and how it releases the new grain from that status, even at quite a physical distance from the…
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Menahot 67: When the Answer Came to Rava in a Dream
Questions by Rava that lead to his seeking answers in a dream! What if dough were kneaded by a non-Jew? Is that dough subject to having hallah separated? What…
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Menahot 66: The Omer in the Temple and Now
More on the opinions about when the omer offering was to be brought - as presented by the Tannaim, and explained (and refuted and then finally upheld) by Rava…
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Menahot 65: How a Boethusian Heretic Counts the Omer
A new mishnah! On the ceremony of the process of the omer - how they wove the stalks of barley together while they were still attached to the ground, which…
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Menahot 64: The Land of Israel Shuddered in Dismay
A new chapter - focused on the grain-offering that is the omer, brought on the 16th day of Nisan, the second day of Pesach, and which allows the "new" grain…
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Menahot 63: Pots and Pans
A new mishnah, with specifications for the different grain-offerings - marheshet vs. merhavat (with the different pans for each). The first has a cover and the…
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Menahot 62: Hashem Is Here, Hashem Is There
Still more on the offerings for Shavuot - the lambs and the loaves. Namely, showing the lambs in the 4 directions, plus up and down, to demonstrate God's…
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Menahot 61: The Wave
A new mishnah! Another list of the grain-offerings that require waving and do not require being brought near to the altar. With a deep dive into the procedure…
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Menahot 60: Bringing the Grain-Offering Near and/or Waving It
A new mishnah! Two requirements of all grain-offerings (and not only): 1. bringing near (to the altar), and 2. waving. The bringing near is only done for…
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Menahot 59: Oil, Frankincense, and More Grain-Offerings
A new mishnah! It lists grain-offerings that need both oil and frankincense, one or the other, or neither. Note the various kinds of menahot, and how these…
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Menahot 58: Honey on the Altar (and Muzzling)
More on when the grain-offerings can have chametz/leaven and when they cannot. And the prohibition again honey on the altar -- and if there are exceptions…
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Menahot 57: Chametz (Leaven) on the Altar
In the context of cooking on Shabbat... when there is layering of meat on the coals, and then turn the meat over, one is liable for cooking on Shabbat. But not…
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Menahot 56: Upon the Head of the Goat
Essential component elements of offering sacrifices on the altar - including the laying on of hands, on the head of the goat (for example). Also, the concept…
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Menahot 55: The Grain-Offering Cookbook
A new mishnah! With basic directions as to how to make and shape the grain-offerings, with a clear prohibition against "chametz"/leaven, except for 2 specific…
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Menahot 54: A Fistful of Dough
How much flour needs to be measured out for the grain-offering? A minimal amount, so that even the poorest sinner can manage the offering. And that flour? It's…
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Menahot 53: Menahot Are Matzah (with 2 exceptions)
Chapter 5! On preparing the dough... with a new mishnah that explains that all of the grain-offerings are matzah (unleavened), with two exceptions. Plus, a…
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Menahot 52: Measuring Flour and Frankincense
More on the griddle-cakes... which were brought together with the daily offerings of the morning and of the afternoon. This raises the question of how much…
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Menahot 51: How Good Was the Griddle-Cake?
On Rava's opinion about the kohen gadol's griddle-cake offering. The griddle-cake involves flour and oil, but the measurements of each are not clear -- and are…
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Menahot 50: The Kohen's Grain-offering: Minhat Havitin
More on the incense - including differences between communal incense vs. individual's incense. Also, the parallel is drawn between the gifts of the 12 tribes'…
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Menahot 49: Managing Sacrificial Shortfalls
More on Shavuot and its lambs... If older animals were brought - it's a dispute, whether they would count for the offerings of Shavuot or not. That is, if the…
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Menahot 48: The Parallel of the Voluntary Peace-offering
The case of slaughtering 4 lambs with the 2 loaves of Shavuot (instead of 2 lambs), then how is that error handled? Two of those lambs are not offered for…