Daf Yomi

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.

Menachot 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-05 Hashem only shows gratitude to the Avot. Avraham in the Temple during the destruction. Why the Jewish nation is compared to an olive.

Menachot 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-05 Me'ilah with the ashes of the parah adumah. Doubling of the flour - did that mean that the francinscence and oil was doubled as well?

Menachot 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-03 How much oil does the chavitin offering need? Who funds the chavitin of the Kohen Gadol until a new Kohen Gadol is appointed?

Menachot 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-02 Inauguration of the altars. The chavitin of the Kohen Gadol if he died after the first half was brought. The baking and frying of the chavitin of the Kohen Gadol.

Menachot 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-01 Is an erroneous uprooting still considered an uprooting? If there are insufficient animals for today's mussaf and tomorrow's tamid? The supply of six checked lambs, and requirement to examine the tamid offering for four days prior to the sacrifice.

Menachot 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-28 Extra loaves with the sheep. Extra sheep with the loaves. What sacrifice is the best comparison to the two sheep?

Menachot 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-27 Are both the slaughter of the sheep as well as the throwing of the blood required to sanctify the breads? Throwing the blood with a piggul intention for breads outside the courtyard. If the bread was lost after slaughter, can the blood be deliberately sprinkled not for it's own sake in order to permit the meat?

Menachot 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-26 The connection between the bread and the sheep. Which is considered primary? If you hold the bread is able to be brought by itself why does it have to be left "until it's appearance changes" and then burned?

Menachot 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-25 Various verses in Ezekiel that seemingly contradict the Torah, but are reconciled. What is primary on Shavuot- the loaves or the sheep? The offerings on Shavuot mentioned in Vayikra are not the same as those mentioned in Bamidbar.

Menachot 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-24 Description of the chilazon. The man whose tzitzit prevented him from sinning. The order of a mincha with nesachim.

Menachot 43. : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-23 Seeing the tzitzit and being reminded. Being surrounded by mitzvot. Saying 100 blessings a day.

Menachot 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-22 Blessings on making tzitzit and other mitzvit. Tzitzit made by a non-Jew. Preparation of techelet.

Menachot 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-21 Are tzitzit an obligation on the garment or the person? At a time when there is Heavenly anger, there is punishment even for those who do not fulfill mitzvot such as tzitzit. The required number of threads and the placement on the garment.

Menachot 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-20 Putting tzitzit on a linen garment. Is the tzitzit obligation determined by the material of the main garment or the corners? "You shall make [tzitzit],” and not use that which was already made.

Menachot 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-19 The allowance of shatnetz in tzitzit. Composition of the tzitzit - windings and strings. Wool and linen tzitzit exempt all garments.

Menachot 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-18 The white and blue strings of the tzitzit. The white should precede the blue ideally. Stubs of tzitzit.

Menachot 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-17 Sources for tefillin being placed on the left hand. Where exactly to place the tefillin on your body. Are the for tzitzit one mitzvah or separate mitzvot - practical differences.

Menachot 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-16 Speaking between putting on the arm tefillin and the head tefillin. Whether tefillin are worn at night, or on shabbat. A person is obligated to touch his tefillin constantly to remain mindful of them.

Menachot 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-16 Structural aspects of tefillin. Requirements of the straps. The awe of the nations due to tefillin. Moshe saw the back part of Hashem.

Menachot 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-14 Only one mezuzah on a doorpost. The making of tefillin. The order of the parshiot of the tefillin.

Menachot 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-13 Determining which side of a door is correct to affix the mezuzah. The proper height for placing a mezuzah. The protection provided by the mezuzah.

Menachot 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-12 Are the paragraphs of a mezuzah written "closed" or "open"? Differences between mezuzah and tefillin - what they are written on, etching on the parchment etc. Sitting on a bed which has a Torah on it.

Menachot 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-11 A large barrel is impervious to tumah. Taking ma'aser from tevel mixed with chullin. Number of words on a line of a mezuzah.

Menachot 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-10 Who wrote the last eight verses of the Torah? The merit of one who purchases, writes, or merely corrects a sefer Torah. Spaces between columns, lines and words in a sefer Torah.

Menachot 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-09 Deficiencies of a single letter in mezuzah or tefillin, asking a child. Moshe sees Hashem tying crowns to letters, and Hashem shows him Rabbi Akiva. The two Worlds were created with a yud and hei.

Menachot 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-08 What is essential for the Menorah? Dispute about which materials may be used for the Menorah.

Menachot 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-07 Parts of a mincha which are essential for each other. Other parts of various mitzvot which are essential including goats of Yom Kippur, parah adumah, metzora, lulav. Sprinkling of the blood of the parah adumah opposite the Sanctuary.

Menachot 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-06 Can the kemitza be burned if the remainder becomes impure? A kometz without a service vessel. How much of the kometz needs to be burned in order for the remainder to be allowed to be eaten?

Menachot 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-05 The tzitz allows for impurity but not for items removed from the Courtyard. Does the impurity have to be inadvertent, or is it the sprinkling of the blood that has to be inadvertent or does the tzitz allow it in all circumstances?

Menachot 24: Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-04 A vessel combining two halves of a mincha. Can an item that is impure be considered "full" of impurity? An original portion, a lost portion and a replacement portion.

Menachot 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-03 If oil was placed on the kometz of a sinner's mincha. Two minchas or their elements became mixed together. In a mixture of substances do we go according to the item that nullifies the other or the item that gets nullified?