Menachot 72: Meal Offerings in Different Circumstances

Today's daf begins perek VII, which we are told focuses on how meal offerings are brought, prepared, and the laws regarding the meal offering left over for the priests after the kemitza, fistful of flour, is offered.

A new Mishna teaches us which offerings include the five different types of voluntary meal-offerings that are brought by Jewish men and/or those same offerings that would be made voluntarily by Gentiles or women:

• minchat solet, fine flour mixture offering
• challot, unleavened loaves
• rekikim, unleavened wafers
• machavat, offerings prepared in a pan
• marchesher, offerings prepared in a deep pan

Other required meal offerings have these rules as well, including:

• minchat ha'omer, the meal offering brought on the second day of Pesach which marks the new harvest
• minchat choteh, the meal-offering brought when a person must bring a sacrifice for one from a number of sins but s/he can't afford the expensive sacrifice
• minchat kena'ot, the meal offering brought by a sota, a woman suspected of infidelity