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Back to SearchMenachot 12 and 13 - The Power of Intention
Season 40 Episode 12
On today’s pages, Menachot 12 and 13, we see that the physical act of the meal offering is inseparable from the mental state of the one performing it…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Menachot 11 - Dexterity and the Soul
Season 40 Episode 11
On today’s page, Menachot 11, the rabbis debate the "Kemitzah," an incredibly difficult ritual requiring the priest to use only three fingers to scoo…
5 months ago
Menachot 10 - Ding-Dang Doodily Disqualified
Season 40 Episode 10
On today’s page, Menachot 10, the rabbis examine the differences between a sacrifice offered by a righteous person versus one brought by a sinner, fo…
5 months ago
Menachot 9 - Moses of Mixology
Season 40 Episode 9
On today’s page, Menachot 9, the rabbis debate whether a meal offering is invalidated if its ingredients are mixed outside the Temple courtyard. This…
5 months ago
Menachot 7 and 8 - Sanctifying Lunch
Season 40 Episode 7
On today’s pages, Menachot 7 and 8, the Talmud debates whether holiness can take hold when a sacrifice is offered in parts rather than all at once. J…
5 months ago
Menachot 5 and 6 - Inquiring Minds
Season 40 Episode 5
On today’s page, Menachot 5, a disagreement about the Omer offering leads the rabbis to slow down and ask what this ritual is actually meant to accom…
5 months ago
Menachot 4 - True Possession
Season 40 Episode 4
On today’s page, Menachot 4, the rabbis reflect on the omer offering, the first and finest grain brought with great care and intention. The ritual po…
5 months, 1 week ago
Menachot 3 - Returning to Intention
Season 40 Episode 3
On today’s page, Menachot 3, the Talmud opens its discussion of meal offerings by examining when a handful of flour taken from an offering is valid o…
5 months, 1 week ago
Menachot 2 - A Fistful of Divinity
Season 40 Episode 2
On today’s page, Menachot 2, the Talmud turns from blood and slaughter to a quieter sacrificial world shaped by grain offerings. Rabbi David Bashevki…
5 months, 1 week ago
Zevachim 119 and 120 - The Small Aleph
On today’s pages, Zevachim 119 and 120, we reach the conclusion of the tractate and step back to ask what the entire world of sacrificial worship has…
5 months, 1 week ago