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Back to SearchMenachot 102 - April 23, 6 Iyar
The Gemara raises a difficulty from the laws of pigul against the principle that "anything ready to be sprinkled is considered as if it were already …
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Menachot 101 - Yom Haatzmaut - April 22, 5 Iyar
The Gemara cites Vayikra 27:11 to teach that blemished animals are called impure. Although the verse refers to "impure animals," there is a differen…
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Menachot 100 - Yom Hazikaron - April 21, 4 Iyar
The Mishna states that when Yom Kippur fell on a Friday, preventing the meat from being cooked, the Babylonians would eat the goat sin offering raw. …
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Menachot 99 - April 20, 3 Iyar
The Gemara raises a difficulty regarding the opinion that the Table (Shulchan) was positioned in an east-west orientation. It resolves this by explai…
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Menachot 98 - April 19, 2 Iyar
Rabbi Yochanan explains that a "medium-sized cubit" consists of six handbreadths. This terminology implies the existence of a larger cubit. A Mishna …
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Menachot 97 - Shabbat Rosh Chodesh - April 18, 1 Iyar
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The Gemara offers three suggestions for why the Shulchan, which was made of wood and covered in gold, was treated as a wooden vessel reg…
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Menachot 96 - Rosh Chodesh - April 17, 30 Nisan
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Unlike the showbread (lechem hapanim) and the two loaves (shtei halechem), for which there is a debate about when they are sanctified the min…
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Menachot 95 - April 16, 29 Nisan
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Did the lechem hapanim become disqualified in the desert whenever the Tabernacle was dismantled for travel? Furthermore, does this statu…
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Menachot 94 - April 15, 28 Nisan
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The Mishna compares the details regarding the laws of semicha (leaning) and tenufa (waving). Semicha has a stringency in that all owners of…
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Menachot 93 - April 14, 27 Nisan
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There is a Tannaitic debate regarding whether an heir performs semicha (the laying of hands) on an inherited sacrifice and whether they …
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