Menachot
Sign in to saveTractate Menachot (; "Meal Offerings") is the second tractate of the Order of Kodashim. It has Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud and a Tosefta.
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12 sectionsContents
- Summary
- Unfit offerings (''pasul'' and ''piggul)''
- Mode of sacrifice
- Wave-offering
- Intention for offerings
- Order of the chapters
- Notable passages
- Tosefta
- Jerusalem Talmud
- Babylonian Talmud
- References
- Further reading
Tractate Menachot (; "Meal Offerings") is the second tractate of the Order of Kodashim. It has Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud and a Tosefta.
Menachot deals with the rules regarding the preparation and presentation of grain-meal, oil, and drink offerings, including the meal-offering that was burnt on the altar and the remainder that was consumed by the priests as specified in the Torah ( and on); the bringing of the omer of barley (), the two loaves (), and the showbread ().as offerings in the Temple in Jerusalem. The tractate also draws upon verses in Numbers chapters 5, 6, 28, and 29.