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Menahot 105: To Cover All Your Bases
Season 30 Episode 105
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'…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 104: Wine and Oil, Redux
Season 30 Episode 104
Another 2 mishnayot! 1 - Making donations of libations to the Temple must be made in the specific amount of the offerings themselves, rather than bei…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 103: Casual Speech, Casual Measures (Not Recommended)
Season 30 Episode 103
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 …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 102: Consecration, Impurity, and Unfulfilled Vows
Season 30 Episode 102
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 res…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 101: Redeeming the Impure and the Pure
Season 30 Episode 101
Chapter 12! With a new mishnah - redeeming the sanctity of grain offerings and libations, especially when the item has become impure. But what happen…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 ha…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 99: On Honoring Torah and the Influence of the Sages' Own Experiences
Season 30 Episode 99
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 S…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 98: When King Solomon Furnished the Temple
Season 30 Episode 98
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 …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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, …
4 months, 3 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…
4 months, 4 weeks ago