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Menachot

Tractate Menachot (Hebrew: מְנָחוֹת; "Meal Offerings") is the second tractate of the Order of Kodashim. It has Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud and a Tosefta.

Menachot deals with the rules regarding the preparation and presentation of grain-meal, oil, and drink offerings, including the meal-offering that was burnt on the altar and the remainder that was consumed by the priests as specified in the Torah (Lev 2:1 and on); the bringing of the omer of barley (Lev 23:10), the two loaves (Lev 23:17), and the showbread (Lev 24:5).as offerings in the Temple in Jerusalem. The tractate also draws upon verses in Numbers chapters 5, 6, 28, and 29.

The thirteen chapters of the Mishnah tractate cover the following topics:

As noted by Singer and Lauterbach, "The order given above is that of the editions of the Mishnah and of many manuscripts of the Talmud (compare the observation of R. Bezalel Ashkenazi at the end of the Shiṭṭah Meḳubbeẓet on Menaḥot, in the Vilna edition of the Talmud, p.109b). On the other hand, all the printed editions of the Talmud have the chapter beginning "R. Ishmael," given above as the tenth, in the sixth place, the remaining chapters occurring in the order given above."

The Tosefta (13:18-22) discusses greed and violence done by the priests, which is said to have contributed to the destruction of the Second Temple, due to baseless hatred.

There is no Jerusalem Talmud gemara on tractate Menaḥot, though the medieval Tosafot mentions a passage that is found in tractate Yoma of the Yerushalmi. (109b, s.v. nizdamen).

Besides the main topics, summarized above, the Talmud contains noteworthy deliberations and narratives on other matters, such as:

Chapter 3: Scribal guidelines for Hebrew letters and for writing Torah, mezuzah, and tefillin parchments.

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