Wednesday 17 October 2018

Menachot 67: Availability of Flour After Waving/Sacrificing the Omer Offering

A short note on today's daf:

Today's daf continues to provide us with examples of rituals that are changed because of some exception or another.  For example, the challah offering is not taken at all if the bread is kneaded without having taking challah yet.

At the end of today's daf, we learn from a new Mishna:

  • after the sun rises the priest sacrificing the omer placed the sifted tenth of an ephah into the vessel in his hand along with the log of oil and the frankincense (on the side)
  • more oil was mixed together with the fine flour 
  • these were waved
  • the meal offering was brought to the corner of the alter
  • the handful was removed and burned on the altar
  • the remaining offering was eaten by the priests
  • after the omer was sacrificed, more parched grain was available in the market
  • grain from the new crop was permitted following the waving/sacrifice of the omer
  • Rabbi Meir says that the market was filled with grain without approval of the Sages
  • Rabbi Yehuda says that the Sages approved







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