Description
Book SynopsisThis volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers.
Table of ContentsAuthor’s Introduction 1. All Grain Offerings (dapim 2a-13a) 2. Performing Kometz on a Grain Offering (dapim 13a-17a) 3. The Great Kometz (dapim 17a-38a) 4. The Techelet (dapim 38a-52b) 5. All Grain Offerings Are Brought as Unleavened Bread (dapim 52b-63b) 6. Rabbi Yishmael (dapim 63b-72b) 7. These Grain Offerings Subject to Kemitzah (dapim 72b-76b) 8. The Thanksgiving Offering Used to Be Brought (dapim 76b-83b) 9. All Community Offerings (dapim 83b-87a) 10. Two Measures (dapim 87a-94a) 11. Two Loaves (dapim 94a-100b) 12. Grain Offerings and Libations (dapim 100b-104b) 13. I Must Bring an Issaron of Flour (dapim 104b-110a) Glossary of Selected Terms Index of Tannaim and Amoraim Index to Biblical and Rabbinic References
