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Menahot 97: What's a Cubit? An Imprecise Mishnah
Season 30 Episode 97
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, …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Menahot 96: All the Technical Details You Ever Wanted about the Shewbread
Season 30 Episode 96
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 me…
3 months ago
Menahot 95: The Traveling Shewbread
Season 30 Episode 95
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…
3 months ago
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, …
3 months ago
Menahot 93: The Metaphysical Side of Sacrifices
Season 30 Episode 93
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 woul…
3 months ago
Menahot 92: The Atonement of the Laying of Hands
Season 30 Episode 92
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 …
3 months ago
Menahot 91: Specifying the Korban Olah (Burnt-Offering)
Season 30 Episode 91
The Torah mentions offerings that are voluntary, and that theoretically could come to include a burn-offering, but the Torah also specifies the burnt…
3 months ago
Menahot 90: More on the Holy Measuring Cups
Season 30 Episode 90
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 …
3 months ago
Menahot 89: On Lighting the Menorah and Libations
Season 30 Episode 89
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 throug…
3 months, 1 week ago
Menahot 88: Measuring Oil
Season 30 Episode 88
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 -…
3 months, 1 week ago