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Menahot 17: Consumption - Eating and Burning
Season 30 Episode 17
Rabbi Hanina helped Rabbi Hamnuna with understanding something in Torah that he counted as equivalent to all the rest of his Torah learning: namely, …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Menahot 16: Permitting Factors Mitigating against Pigul
Season 30 Episode 16
A long mishnah - on the affect of pigul when it only affects part of the "permitter" - matirin - namely, by burning one part, the rest becomes permit…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 15: Thanksgiving and Shavuot
Season 30 Episode 15
2 mishanyot! 1 - How combinations can make items pigul or not. With the cases of the thanksgiving offering (animal offering plus loaves) and also the…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 14: Partial Pigul
Season 30 Episode 14
Is there such a thing as pigul for half of the offering? It's a machloket! And a further development of Rabbi Yosei's position, which doesn't presume…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 13: When Grain Is Like Blood
Season 30 Episode 13
Returning to pigul, in a new mishnah, with a focus on Rabbi Yosei's position of when the wrong intent would not result in a punishment of karet. Also…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 12: The Toll of an Olive's Measure
Season 30 Episode 12
A long mishnah... specifically on how grain-offerings can be brought with invalidating intent, and how that will make the offerings "pigul." Yet, som…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 11: A Fistful of Grain, with Frankincense on the Side
Season 30 Episode 11
More on the kohen's fistful from the grain - ensuring no barrier to the grain itself. Plus, the physical description of how to take the grain in one'…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 10: Right- and Left-handed Kohanim
Season 30 Episode 10
When the Torah uses the term "finger" or the term "kohen," it is understood to always mean the right hand. The bias against the left-hand is already …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 9: Explicitly Left-handed
Season 30 Episode 9
If oil and grain for the grain-offering were mixed outside the wall, would that be kosher as an offering or not? It's a machloket! With verses as pro…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Menahot 8: The Kohen Gadol's Bag-Lunch
Season 30 Episode 8
On the "griddle-cakes" of the kohen gadol, Rabbi Yohanan addresses how partial cakes can be sanctified. But a beraita makes it clear that they needed…
5 months, 4 weeks ago