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Menahot 65: How a Boethusian Heretic Counts the Omer
Season 30 Episode 65
A new mishnah! On the ceremony of the process of the omer - how they wove the stalks of barley together while they were still attached to the ground,…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Menahot 64: The Land of Israel Shuddered in Dismay
Season 30 Episode 64
A new chapter - focused on the grain-offering that is the omer, brought on the 16th day of Nisan, the second day of Pesach, and which allows the "new…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Menahot 63: Pots and Pans
Season 30 Episode 63
A new mishnah, with specifications for the different grain-offerings - marheshet vs. merhavat (with the different pans for each). The first has a cov…
6 months ago
Menahot 62: Hashem Is Here, Hashem Is There
Season 30 Episode 62
Still more on the offerings for Shavuot - the lambs and the loaves. Namely, showing the lambs in the 4 directions, plus up and down, to demonstrate G…
6 months ago
Menahot 61: The Wave
Season 30 Episode 61
A new mishnah! Another list of the grain-offerings that require waving and do not require being brought near to the altar. With a deep dive into the …
6 months ago
Menahot 60: Bringing the Grain-Offering Near and/or Waving It
Season 30 Episode 60
A new mishnah! Two requirements of all grain-offerings (and not only): 1. bringing near (to the altar), and 2. waving. The bringing near is only done…
6 months ago
Menahot 59: Oil, Frankincense, and More Grain-Offerings
Season 30 Episode 59
A new mishnah! It lists grain-offerings that need both oil and frankincense, one or the other, or neither. Note the various kinds of menahot, and how…
6 months ago
Menahot 58: Honey on the Altar (and Muzzling)
More on when the grain-offerings can have chametz/leaven and when they cannot. And the prohibition again honey on the altar -- and if there are excep…
6 months ago
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…
6 months 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…
6 months, 1 week ago