Today we get a new Mishna that asks: Who has the greater power? The Altar of the Priest? MISHNA: The meal offering of priests, the meal offering of the anointed priest, i.e., the High Priest, and the meal offering brought with libations that accompany burnt offerings and peace offerings are burned in their entirety onContinue reading “Menachot 74”
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Zevachim 120
We did it! We made it to the end of this bloody tractate (see what I did there?)! We end the tractate with a summation of what was the same and what was different between offering sacrifices on a communal altar verses a private personal altar. And, maybe a lesson for us. What are theContinue reading “Zevachim 120”
Zevachim 112
As we learned on yesterday’s daf, the prohibition against bringing sacrifices in places other than the Tabernacle in the desert or the Temple in Jerusalem was relaxed during times when neither the Tabernacle nor the Temple were standing. The Mishna on today’s daf discusses this idea in greater depth. Until the Tabernacle was established, private altars were permitted and the sacrificial serviceContinue reading “Zevachim 112”
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