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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…
4 months, 4 weeks 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, …
5 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…
5 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 …
5 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…
5 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 …
5 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…
5 months 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 -…
5 months ago
Menahot 87: Sourcing Wine
Season 30 Episode 87
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…
5 months ago
Menahot 86: EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
Season 30 Episode 86
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 t…
5 months, 1 week ago