Daf Yomi

Menachot 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-30 The initiation minchah of a Kohen. Slaughtering the todah when the bread is outside. Using 80 leaves instead of 40.

Menachot 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-29 The amount of flour used in the todah loaves. One should not profit through selling by more than a sixth. One of the ten loaves is given to the Kohanim.

Menachot 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-28 The rubbing and pounding of menachot. The amount of menachot. The sifting process of the omer.

Menachot 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-27 When is the oil mixed into the loaves? Breaking the minchah into pieces. The blessing said on bread smaller than an olive.

Menachot 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-26 A Kohen can bring his own offering. Other opinions of the treatment of a Kohen's mincha. What is done with offerings of wine or oil?

Menachot 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-25 Sources for various offerings eaten by Kohanim. What types of offerings are accepted by idolators ( including nesachim).

Menachot 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-24 Mitzvot of the day can't be done at night and vice versa. How come cutting the omer overrides shabbat? Precious is a mitzvah in it's time.

Menachot 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-23 The harvesting prohibition only applies to places from which the omer may be taken. Various practices of the people of Jericho which the Rabbis found objectionable. Is harvesting unripe grain considered harvesting?

Menachot 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-22 One who separated maaser from stalks of grain and replanted them. The five grains which are subject to challah and chadash. Grain, flour, and dough combine with one another.

Menachot 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-21 Various queries regarding kernels which were harvested and replanted, and the omer was offered before they took root. An elephant swallowed palm fibers and expelled them, and they were made into a basket. Using wheat which descended from clouds for the two loaves.

Menachot 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-20 When does the new grain become permitted? Eating new grain outside of Israel. The omer permits me grain to people, the two loaves permit grain to the altar.

Menachot 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-19 Mixing dough while it belonged to an idolator. The challah obligation can be easily evaded, as opposed to maaser. The marketplace was full of new grain immediately after the omer was brought.

Menachot 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-18 Counting days and weeks for Sefirat HaOmer. How the barley for the omer was toasted. Smoothing done by the Temple Treasury.

Menachot 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-17 The publicity surrounding the cutting of the omer. The debate over privately donating the tamid offering. The Rabbi's proofs that the counting of the omer begins on the second night of Pesach and not after Shabbat.

Menachot 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-16 One who catches fish and thereby saves a drowning child. Detaching two figs on two stems vs. three figs on one stem (where two figs are needed). Bringing the omer from nearby grain. The great wisdom of Mordecai.

Menachot 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-15 Deep and shallow pans of a minchah. Can one bring a half-loaves half-wafer offering? Harvesting for the omer on Shabbat vs. a weekday

Menachot 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-14 Different opinions of how to wave the bread with the lambs. The symbolism of waving in all directions. Which parts of the communal shelamim are waved.

Menachot 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-13 Offerings which require waving but not bringing close, those which require waving and bringing close, those which require neither. First fruits require waving. Offerings of idolators and women.

Menachot 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-12 Does the minchah of a Kohen (or Kohen Gadol) need to be brought close to the altar? Comparing and contrasting the various minchah offerings.

Menachot 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-10 Menachot which contain both oil and levonah, just oil, just levonah, or neither oil nor levonah. Adding oil to a sinner's minchah will disqualify it. Crushed levonah on a sinner's minchah.

Menachot 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-10 if one offered up the meat of a bird chatat onto the altar, is he liable? Any leaven or any honey is not allowed to be offered on the altar.

Menachot 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-09 One who placed meat onto coals on Shabbat but did not turn it over. Leavening only applies to an acceptable minchah. The sanctification of various vessels.

Menachot 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-08 Why a bird offering and Pesach don't have to sacrificed in the north. Letting blood of a bechor animal to heal it: four opinions. Inflicting a blemish on an already blemished animal.

Menachot 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-07 Separating terumat ma'aser from longer-lasting produce vs. superior quality produce. Even leftover parts of a minchah offering which are eaten by Kohanim cannot be allowed to become chametz. One is liable separately for each act of the baking process for a minchah baked as chametz.

Menachot 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-06 Can one add water to a sinner's mincha? Does one view items in their current state or original state? Separating terumah from dried figs on fresh ones and vice versa.