Questions tagged [maseches-menachos]
Tractate mainly dealing with meal/matza offerings and libations, also contains laws of writing Sefer Torah/tefilin/mezuza and Tzitzis
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Greek Chi and Anointment
In Menachos 75a and other places it says that meshicha, smearing of oil, on the רקיקים wafer-offerings, is done כמין כי יווני - like a greek letter chi. Tosefos there brings quite a
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Where are the regions Kerutim & Hatoulim, mentioned in the Mishna as having the best wine grapes, located on a map?
I have not been able to find these locations that are mentioned in the Mishna. I came across this quote:
The Mishna also (Menahot, 8, 6) points to the regions where the best
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No leaning for communal offerings? But there is!
M'nachos 9:9:
חֹמֶר בַּסְּמִיכָה מִבַּתְּנוּפָה וּבַתְּנוּפָה מִבַּסְּמִיכָה, שֶׁאֶחָד מֵנִיף לְכָל הַחֲבֵרִים וְאֵין אֶחָד סוֹמֵךְ לְכָל הַחֲבֵרִים. וְחֹמֶר בַּתְּנוּפָה, שֶׁהַתְּנוּפָה נוֹהֶגֶת ...
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Bracha b'mitzvat tefillin on tefilla shel rosh
The bracha that appears in all modern siddurim that I'm aware of for the tefilla shel rosh (whether normally or in case of interruption between the two tefillin) ends with the phrase al mitsvat ...
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Menachot 65/66 why did the counting of the omer needed to start with a fixed time?
I was looking at all the arguments made (against the Boethians) in favor of counting the omer from 16th Nisan until Shavuot - Menachot 65/66.
Then I went looking at Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16.
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Why did Rebbi reject impossible questions?
Starting premise: Chazal were not fond of people asking questions solely to waste their time. We see this from, for instance, Bava Basra 23b:
בעי ר' ירמיה רגלו אחת בתוך חמשים אמה ורגלו אחת חוץ ...
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Why not wear tefillin on Yom Tov according to Rabbi Akiva? [duplicate]
The Gemara (menachos 36:) quotes an argument why we don’t wear tefillin on shabbos:
דתניא (שמות יג, י) ושמרת את החוקה הזאת למועדה מימים ימימה ימים ולא לילות מימים ולא כל ימים פרט לשבתות וימים טובים ...
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Who got to have the leftover flour from the Omer?
The Mishna reports in Menachot 10:4 that, after the required amount of premium flour had been extracted from the barley set aside for the Omer, the considerable amount tof leftover, mixed-quality ...
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Is grain from outside Israel usable for offerings or not?
There seems to be a contradiction between what the Mishna explicitly says in Menachot 8:1 and what R' Ovadia miBartenura says in his commentary on it.
The Mishna says:
כָּל קָרְבְּנוֹת הַצִּבּוּר ...
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Where is an introduction to the concept of "מתיר" (regarding offerings)?
Mishnayot Menachot 2:5 introduces (as far as this tractate is concerned) the term "מתיר", which I take to mean, in the context of offerings, something like "condition which permits something" or maybe ...
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Precautions to avoid adulterated handful of meal offering
According to the Mishna (Menachot 1:2), when the Kohen extracts the representative kometz-handful from a mincha (meal offering), any foreign objects, such as a pebble, a chunk of salt, or a bit of ...
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If Moshe received ALL future Torah at Har Sinai, why didn't he understand R' Akiva's shiur (Menachos 29b)?
(inspired by this question)
The Talmud Yerushalmi Peah 2:4 - (daf 13a) states:
ריב"ל אמר... אפי' מה שתלמיד ותיק עתיד להורות לפני רבו כבר נאמר למשה
בסיני מה טעם (קוהלת א) יש דבר שיאמר אדם ראה זה ...
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Why may one not wear Tefillin after Shekiah?
The Gemara (Menachos 36b) writes:
אמר ר' אלעזר כל המניח תפילין אחר שקיעת החמה עובר בעשה ור' יוחנן אמר עובר בלאו
R’ Elazar said: whoever places Tefillin after sunset violates a positive ...
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What kind of ‘rocking boat’ is Menachos 94 referring to?
The Gemara in
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רבי חנינא אמר כמין תיבה פרוצה ר' יוחנן אמר כמין ספינה רוקדת
Rabbi Ḥanina says: It was rectangular, with a wide base and two parallel walls with an open space between ...
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What happens at a third of the growth of produce?
In yesterday's Daf Yomi - Menachot 71a - and other places(*) in various Mishnayoth, there's mention of a cut-off date of 1/3 of the growth of produce - עַד שֶׁלֹּא הֵבִיאָה שְׁלִישׁ
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Is something missing from Menachot 63b?
In the classic Vilna printing of the Talmud, there is a significant amount of white space present underneath Menachot 63b.
Why is this the case? Is there something missing that used to be there in ...
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Terumoth and Maasroth in Babylon
The Ohr Zarua (328) attempted to justify the prevalent leniency regarding the consumption of chodosh (new grain) in Europe by suggesting two novel arguments:
that Europe must have had a tradition to ...
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How did the Boethusians linked the morrow after the Shabat with the Shabat Chol HaMoed Pesach?
In Menachot 65a-66a (according to the Sefaria translation): The Boethusians say, Shavuot falls on a Sunday [because they hold that "the day after the Shabbat" refers to the Sunday after Shabbat Chol ...
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Why the extra "בֶן" in חֲנַנְיָה's name?
The Mishna in Shabbos (1:4) references חֲנַנְיָה בֶן חִזְקִיָּה בֶן גֻּרְיוֹן, with two בֶן's, but when referenced in Menachos (45a):
אמר רב זכור אותו האיש לטוב וחנינא בן חזקיה שמו
the Tanna's ...
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Head tefillin - how serious is it when the divisions between the individual scrolls are split?
Gemoro Menachos 35a
R. Huna said, As long as the surface of the sides(19) of the tefillin is
whole they are valid. R. Hisda said, If two [sides](20) were split they
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What type of olive oil was used for the shemen hamishcha (Anointing oil)?
I have looked through the relevant gemoros in Menachos and Krisos as well as the Rambam in H' Klei Hamikdosh but I can't find a source for what quality of olive oil was used for the shemen hamishchah. ...
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The Yud and Hey in creation (Isaiah 26:4)
Isaiah (26:4) is usually translated: "Trust in G-d forever, for in Y-ah, [who is] G-d, is the everlasting rock." However, the prefix translated here as "in" can also mean "through" or "by"; and the ...
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Who should one credit? A question on the Bartenura
This question might be larger than just on the Bartenura, but it was a passage in his commentary on the Mishna that inspired it:
In Menachot 8:7, the mishna states that the Temple treasurer would ...
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Why is the second batch better quality from the first harvest not fit for the Menorah, but the lesser quality first batch from the third is fit?
In the Mishna (Menachot 8:4), it says that there are three olive harvest for oils, and three qualities for each batch. The first quality from each batch is suitable for the Menorah, and the others ...
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If someone knowingly designates a Korban Mincha with barley, does he offer with wheat?
In the Mishna, (Menachot 12:3) it says that if one makes a neder (vow) to offer a Korban Mincha with barley, he offers with wheat. Kehati explains, if he didn't know that Menachot are only wheat, but ...
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Understanding how the omer was sifted
M'nachos 76 amud 2, describes how flour was sifted to yield the good-quality soles flour for the omer offering that was brought on the second day of Pesach. It was sifted thirteen times, the mishna ...
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Which version of Rashi is learned on M'nachos chapters 7–10?
Four chapters of Bavli M'nachos (chapters 7–10 in the Bavli's order) have two versions of Rashi printed alongside in the standard edition. Toward the top of the page is Rashi printed in regular Rashi ...
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Why does Rambam say the omer can be cut by day and on Shabas?
Rambam תמידין ומוספין chapter 7:
מצותו להקצר בלילה בליל ששה עשר בין בחול בין בשבת. וכל הלילה כשר לקצירת העומר ואם קצרוהו ביום כשר
The command of [the omer] is to be reaped at night, the night of the ...
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What is "קוצר לשחת"?
The mishna, M'nachos 71 amud 1, says:
קוצר לשחת ומאכיל לבהמה
That is, under the circumstances described there (not important for this question), one is allowed to cut his grain לשחת and feed the ...
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Why does Rashi translate שלולית differently from everyone else?
The beginning of chapter 2 of Pea says:
These things divide a field [into two] for purposes of pea [requiring a separate pea from each subdivision]: …, a שלולית, ….
The Bavli, Bava ...
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Who said to whom? (M'nachos 70)
Bavli, M'nachos 70 amud 1:
בעי ר׳ אבהו שבולת שמרחה בכרי ושתלה וקרא עליה שם במחובר מהו כיון דמרחה טבלא לה כי קרא עליה שם קדשה לה או דלמא כיון דשתלה פקע ליה טבלא מינה אמרי ליה רבנן לאביי אם כן מצינו ...
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Why does the gemora in Manachot 38b interupt its own flow of conversation?
In Manachot 38b we see the following lines of Gemora (Translated by Soncino)
As the sons of R. Hiyya said, Curtailed blue threads are valid; curtailed hyssop twigs are valid. What is the minimum ...
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The case of the missing Maharsha (Sota 49, BK 82, M'nachos 64)
There was fighting among the Chashmonaim, and one group besieged the other in Jerusalem, passing animals over the wall for the korban tamid, but eventually passing a pig.
This story is recounted (in ...
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Why does M'nachos 61:2 have only three of six kal vachomer arguments?
Bavli, M'nachos 61:2, quotes the tana Rabbi Shim'on (in my own loose translation):
Three types [of offering] have three commands to them [all told]: each has two, but not the third. They are ...
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Why not say mishna (M'nachos 61) means to exclude R' Y'huda?
There's a dispute between tanaim as to when the bikurim were waved (t'nufa): Rabi Eliezer ben Yaakov says they were were waved during viduy, while Rabi Y'huda says they were waved after viduy. (...
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question on Rashi to M'nachos 57
The top Rashi on Menachos 57:2, if I'm reading it correctly, adds some information as an aside, stating that both Rabi Akiva and Rabi Yose Hag'lili derive from "asher takrivu" that a mincha of a kohen ...
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