Menachot 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-24 Mitzvot of the day can't be done at night and vice versa. How come cutting the omer overrides shabbat? Precious is a mitzvah in it's time.

Menachot 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-23 The harvesting prohibition only applies to places from which the omer may be taken. Various practices of the people of Jericho which the Rabbis found objectionable. Is harvesting unripe grain considered harvesting?

Menachot 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-22 One who separated maaser from stalks of grain and replanted them. The five grains which are subject to challah and chadash. Grain, flour, and dough combine with one another.

Menachot 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-21 Various queries regarding kernels which were harvested and replanted, and the omer was offered before they took root. An elephant swallowed palm fibers and expelled them, and they were made into a basket. Using wheat which descended from clouds for the two loaves.

Menachot 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-20 When does the new grain become permitted? Eating new grain outside of Israel. The omer permits me grain to people, the two loaves permit grain to the altar.

Menachot 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-19 Mixing dough while it belonged to an idolator. The challah obligation can be easily evaded, as opposed to maaser. The marketplace was full of new grain immediately after the omer was brought.

Menachot 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-18 Counting days and weeks for Sefirat HaOmer. How the barley for the omer was toasted. Smoothing done by the Temple Treasury.

Menachot 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-17 The publicity surrounding the cutting of the omer. The debate over privately donating the tamid offering. The Rabbi's proofs that the counting of the omer begins on the second night of Pesach and not after Shabbat.

Menachot 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-16 One who catches fish and thereby saves a drowning child. Detaching two figs on two stems vs. three figs on one stem (where two figs are needed). Bringing the omer from nearby grain. The great wisdom of Mordecai.

Menachot 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-03-15 Deep and shallow pans of a minchah. Can one bring a half-loaves half-wafer offering? Harvesting for the omer on Shabbat vs. a weekday