Daf Yomi

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?

Menachot 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-02 Wood for sacrifices is always communal wood. A mincha's kometz getting mixed up with another. Do items which go up on the altar nullify each other?

Menachot 21: Marc Chipkin : 2026-02-01 The status of cooked blood. The type of salt needed to salt offerings. The allowance of a Kohen to use salt to eat the offering.

Menachot 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-31 The source that salting a mincha is essential. Anything burned with wood on the altar needs to be salted. Wood is called a mincha offering.

Menachot 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-30 Slaughtering does not need to be by the owner of a sacrifice, except for the bull of Yom Kippur. Do we derive permanent laws for generations from laws of a one-time incident? At which part of the altar do we bring the minchah?

Menachot 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-29 Further discussion of intention to leave over some of the blood until the next day. Non-essential procedures of a minchah. The principles that Kohanim have to ascribe to.

Menachot 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-28 While one is burning the kometz, is an Improper intention regarding the levonah effective? If one burned the kometz intending to burn the levonah and eat the leftovers the next day. Intention to eat something that is meant to be burned, or to burn something that is meant to be eaten.

Menachot 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-27 Intending piggul during only half of the permitter. The status of walking with the kometz to the altar. Burning the kometz or the levonah in tiny amounts.

Menachot 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-26 What if the one of two loaves becomes impure? Relationship between the sacrifice and the bread brought with it. The connection between an animal and it's libations.

Menachot 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-25 Can one have a piggul intention about the right thigh of an animal and the left thigh is not affected? Relationship between the two lambs and the two loaves. Combining piggul thoughts during different avodahs.

Menachot 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-24 Doing kemitzah with intent to burn the levonah the following day. Gathering the levonah by a non Kohen.

Menachot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-23 A mincha offered with an "outside of the time" intent is piggul and the person is liable to karet. A mixture of intentions will disqualify the mincha but it won't be considered piggul. If burning the kometz for a missing leftover can effect piggul or remove me'ilah.

Menachot 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-22 How kemitzah is performed. Unusual forms of kemitzah and chafinah. How much of the francinscence must remain at the end?

Menachot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-01-21 Why the word "left" is used multiple times with the metzora. The word "finger" and "Kehunah" requires the right hand. Which services can be done with the left hand.