Beyond the Daf - Hadran

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain

In this week’s daf (Menachot 93a-b), the mishnah declares that women do not lay their hands (semicha) on their korbanot. This seems to be the position within mishnah, as corroborated in Kiddushin (36a, Mishnah 1:8). However, in another tannaitic source - the Sifra (Midrash Halakha on Vayikra) - R. Yose and R. Shimon are cited as saying that women may choose to lay their hands (semicha) on their korbanotץ Their approach introduces an important rabbinic concept - רשות - volitional acts. It also serves as precedent in the Bavli for women’s volitional performance of mitzvot that are understood as not required of them. In this shiur, we will examine both of these dimensions.

Menachot 93

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Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain

The mishnah bases the prohibition to buy required korbanot from ma’aser sheni money (=i.e., money used to redeem ma’aser sheni produce) on the korban Pesach. After all, in both Egypt and in the desert, people did not yet separate ma’aser sheni, so they certainly did not use the money to buy the animals for these korbanot. This leads the Gemara into a discussion about the similarities between the Pesach in Egypt, known as Pesach Mitzraim, and the way Pesach is observed for all time, known as Pesach Dorot. In this shiur, we will examine layered relationship between the original Pesach and all Pesachim since! חג שמח!

Menachot 82

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Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.

How do we renew ourselves on Passover night? Thanks to studying Tractate Menachot during the war, we can reflect together on the matzah we eat on Passover night. It seems that besides being bread of poverty and bread of redemption, it has another characteristic. This characteristic is connected to the Omer offering that allows the new grain to be eaten at the end of the fifteenth day of Nisan. What is the essential characteristic of the matzah revealed in the tractate? Join us for a special session in honor of Passover night and Tractate Menachot.

Gefet Ep 213

Menachot 66

Gefet with Rabbanit Yael Shimoni and Shalhevet Schwartz is in collaboration with Yeshivat Drisha.

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Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.

In our discussion lies hidden, within Rashi as preserved in the manuscript “Otzer,” an interpretation of the Talmud that links the birds of the metzora with the goats of Yom Kippur. Together, we will uncover this “treasure” with the help of the Tosfot on the passage, and delve deeper to understand the meaning of this surprising connection that appears in our sugya.

Gefet Ep 212

Menachot 74Gefet with Rabbanit Yael Shimoni and Shalhevet Schwartz is in collaboration with Yeshivat Drisha.

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Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain

The mishnayot of chapters 4 and 5 of Menachot mention flour offerings brought as korbanot by a non-Jews to the Beit Hamikdash. In this shiur, we will examine the logic and parameters of offerings by non-Jews inside and outside the Mikdash.

Menachot 73

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Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.

Though its discussion of the minchat haomer, our sugya arrives at sefirat haomer – a mitzvah that we encounter in our day-to-day lives. Tosafot on our sugya cites several disagreements with the Ba’al Halachot Gedolot, which we’ll use to open the door to a number of fundamental conceptual and halakhic questions about the nature of this mitzvah.

Gefet Ep 211

Menachot 66

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Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain

This week’s daf yomi discusses the traditional understanding of the term ממחרת השבת for beginning sefirat ha-omer not as Sunday, but as the second day of Pesach. In this shiur, we will examine logical justifications for this understanding, each of which shed light on the various themes of both Pesach and Shavuot.

Menachot 65

Dr. Elana Stein Hain – [email protected]

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Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.

Join us for a case study in the different ways rishonim can solve interpretive problems: by providing practical solutions or offering conceptual reformulation. Our sugya deals with the waving of a mincha – an action which the Kohen and the owner participate in together. Their cooperation creates a problem: it generates a chatzitzah (separation) between the hand of the Kohen and the vessel containing the mincha.

Gefet Ep 210

Menachot 61

Gefet with Rabbanit Yael Shimoni and Shalhevet Schwartz is in collaboration with Yeshivat Drisha.

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Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain

Mishnah Zevachim 5:3 delineate two flour offerings that may not contain oil or frankincense: the most impoverished type of sinner’s korban, as well as the flour offering given in the case of a sotah, a woman suspected of adultery. What is the logic behind denying these korbanot oil and incense? What does this logic teach us about korbanot in general, or about these korbanot in particular?

Menachot 59

Dr. Elana Stein Hain – [email protected]

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Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.

Our sugya develops into a discussion of tithes and offerings (terumot and ma’aserot) and states that it is possible to designate them through thought alone. Tosafot has a distinctive approach in explaining what kind of thought is being referred to. We will follow their approach and examine their statements in different contexts, and conclude with reflections and discussions about the difference between good thoughts and other kinds of thoughts.

Gefet Ep 209

Menachot 53

Gefet with Rabbanit Yael Shimoni and Shalhevet Schwartz is in collaboration with Yeshivat Drisha.

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