The day after Passover Seder, we begin to count the omer, and we continue to count, both days and weeks, until we reach Shavuot. What’s the omer? A measure of barley brought from the harvest. On our daf today, we get a new Mishna which teaches where the barley can be from. You can imagineContinue reading “Menachot 83”
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Menachot 70
Do you eat rice on Passover? Growing up, I was not allowed, but the rabbis on the daf seem to make it clear that rice does not count as Chametz (items with leaven)! While discussing which grains require separating challah (not the loaf, challah actually refers to a percentage of dough/bread taken from your dough/breadContinue reading “Menachot 70”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 