Thursday, March 10, 2011

Daf Yomi: Introduction to Menachos

In case anyone who is starting Daf Yomi with Menachos would like a quick overview, here is the Introduction sheet I plan to distribute to my shiur tomorrow morning:

Overview of Menachos

Key pesukim

  • Vayyikra 2:1-16 (Voluntary minchah; Omer)
  • Vayyikra 5:11-13 (Minchas chotei)
  • Vayyikra 6:7-16 (Voluntary minchah; Minchas chinuch and Menachos of kohanim)
  • Vayyikra 7:9-15 (Distribution of menachos; Lachmei Todah)
  • Vayyikra 23:9-22 (Omer; Shtei haLechem)
  • Vayyikra 24:5-9 (Lechem haPanim)
  • Bamidbar 5 (Minchas Sotah)
  • Bamidbar 6 (Minchas Nazir)

The types of Menachos (רמב"ם הל' מעשה הקרבנות ט, יב, יג, הל' סוטה ג, הל' תמידין ומוספין ה, ז, ח)

Minchas Maafeh (Baked Menachos)

  • Minchas Machavas – Add flour to oil, then add more oil and mix, then knead in lukewarm water and bake in a shallow machavas pan, then break into pieces (pesisah), place in kli sharet, add oil and frankincense.
  • Minchas Marcheshes – Add flour to oil, then add more oil and mix, then knead in lukewarm water and bake in a deep marcheshes pan, then break into pieces (pesisah), place in kli sharet, add oil and frankincense.
  • Minchas Maafeh TanurChallot – Mix flour and oil, knead in lukewarm water, bake, break into pieces (pesisah), place in kli sharet, add frankincense.
  • Minchas Maafeh TanurRekikin – Knead flour in lukewarm water, bake, anoint with oil, break into pieces (pesisah), place in kli sharet, add frankincense.

Minchas Soles (Flour Menachos)

  • Neder/Nedavah - Add flour to oil, then add more oil and mix, then place in kli sharet and add more oil, then add frankincense. Hagashah to mizbeiach, Kemitzah and haktarah, kohanim eat the shirayim.
  • Minchas Sotah (aka minchas kena’os) – Barley flour in a kli sharet. No oil or frankincense. Tenufah, Hagashah to mizbeiach, Kemitzah and haktarah, kohanim eat the shirayim.
  • Minchas Chotei – Wheat flour in a kli sharet. No oil or frankincense. Hagashah to mizbeiach, Kemitzah and haktarah, kohanim eat the shirayim.
  • Omer haTenufah (aka minchas bikkurim) – Singe barley, grind into flour, mix with oil, add frankincense. Tenufah, hagashah, kemitzah, haktarah of kometz, kohanim eat the shirayim.

Lachmei Todah

  • Normal – 10 loaves of chametz (sourdough is mixed with the flour) from 10 esronim; 10 challot maafeh tanur, 10 challot rekikin and 10 challot murbechet (scald flour in hot water, bake, fry in oil) from 10 esronim
  • Nazir – 10 challot rekikin, 10 challot maafeh tanur

Communal Menachos

  • Omer haTenufah (aka minchas bikkurim) – Singe barley, grind into flour, mix with oil, add frankincense. Tenufah, hagashah, kemitzah, haktarah of kometz, kohanim eat the shirayim.
  • Shtei haLechem – Beat wheat, grind into flour, knead and bake two challot chametz. Tenufah with the two shelamim lambs.
  • Lechem haPanim – Beat wheat, grind into flour, make twelve challot matzot, bake in special molds.

Chavitei Kohen Gadol

Mix flour and oil, scald in hot water, knead dough and break into loaves, bake, fry with additional oil, break loaves in half, break each loaf into pieces (pesisah). Bring half with frankincense in morning, and half in the evening, unless it is the minchas chinuch he brings on his first time.

Disposition of menachos of kohanim

  • Male Kohen – Burned entirely on the mizbeiach
  • Unmarried bat Kohen – Normal minchah
  • Minchas Eishes kohen – Shirayim go to the beis hadeshen.

Topics in Maseches Menachos, by perek

  1. Lishmah for Menachos; Pesulim for Menachos; Specifics of Kemitzah and Chafinah; Metzora; Tereifah
  2. Pigul in Menachos Part I
  3. (HaKometz Rabbah) Pigul Part II; Required components of various avodos; Salt; Mixtures of menachos; Power of the tzitz; Haktarah; Requirements Part II; the Menorah; Safrus; Mezuzah; Tefillin
  4. (HaTecheles) Tzitzis; Requirements Part III; Korban Tamid; Chavitei Kohen Gadol
  5. Chametz in Menachos; Requirement of North; More on Chametz; Sanctification of Menachos; Shemen and Levonah; Hagashah and Tenufah; Defining different types of Menachos
  6. Melachah for korbanos or other permitted purposes on Shabbos and Yom Tov; Omer Part I; Tziddukim; Chadash Part I; Terumah, Maaser and Kilayim; What’s a Grain?; Chadash Part II; Omer Part II
  7. Division of korbanos; Korbanos of non-Jews; Korbanos of kohanim; Belilah, Meshichah and Pesisah; Kneading the menachos
  8. Quantities of flour in menachos; Different types of loaves; Lachmei todah; Korban todah; Vows to bring a todah; Requirements of various korbanos
  9. Sources of grain for menachos and fruit for bikkurim; Sources of oil; Sources of wine
  10. The measuring vessels of the Beit haMikdash, for dry and liquid measures; Oil and the menorah; Measurement in the Beit haMikdash; Nesachim; Semichah for korbanos;
  11. The shtei halechem; the Shulchan; Measurement of the Beit haMikdash and its kelim; Placement of the klei hamikdash; Changing of the lechem hapanim;
  12. Redemption of kodashim; Tumas ochlin and korbanos; Vows of menachos, Part I; Shiurim of chachamim; Vows of nesachim
  13. Vows of menachos, Part II; Various vows for the Beit haMikdash

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