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Menahot 77: Bakery Conversions
Season 30 Episode 77
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 "Jeru…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 76: Refining the Flour - Again and Again and Again
Season 30 Episode 76
2 mishnayot: 1 - All of the grain-offerings require 500 "rubbings" (between hands) and 300 "poundings" (in kneading, for example). With clear heritag…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 75: Oil, Folding, Breaking: Terms of the Various Grain-Offerings
Season 30 Episode 75
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 mishna…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 74: The Sinner's Grain-Offering
Season 30 Episode 74
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. Als…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 73: Idolators' Temple Offerings (Yes, Really)
Season 30 Episode 73
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 prepar…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 72: Overriding Shabbat
Season 30 Episode 72
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…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 71: Reaping What You Sow
Season 30 Episode 71
Exclusions when it comes to harvesting the omer and bringing the offering - including an irrigated field, not fully ripe grain. The offering should c…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 69: Elephants, Wolves, and the Things They Swallow Whole
Season 30 Episode 69
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 - wi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 68: More Omer and the Decrees of R. Yohanan ben Zakkai
Season 30 Episode 68
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 fro…
3 months, 4 weeks ago