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Menahot 57: Chametz (Leaven) on the Altar
Season 30 Episode 57
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 Shabba…
4 months, 1 week ago
Menahot 56: Upon the Head of the Goat
Season 30 Episode 56
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…
4 months, 1 week ago
Menahot 55: The Grain-Offering Cookbook
Season 30 Episode 55
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…
4 months, 1 week ago
Menahot 54: A Fistful of Dough
Season 30 Episode 54
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 f…
4 months, 1 week ago
Menahot 53: Menahot Are Matzah (with 2 exceptions)
Season 30 Episode 53
Chapter 5! On preparing the dough... with a new mishnah that explains that all of the grain-offerings are matzah (unleavened), with two exceptions. P…
4 months, 1 week ago
Menahot 52: Measuring Flour and Frankincense
Season 30 Episode 52
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 ho…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 51: How Good Was the Griddle-Cake?
Season 30 Episode 51
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 …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 50: The Kohen's Grain-offering: Minhat Havitin
Season 30 Episode 50
More on the incense - including differences between communal incense vs. individual's incense. Also, the parallel is drawn between the gifts of the 1…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 49: Managing Sacrificial Shortfalls
Season 30 Episode 49
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 i…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 48: The Parallel of the Voluntary Peace-offering
Season 30 Episode 48
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 offere…
4 months, 2 weeks ago