Grains of Truth

Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud

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Grains of Truth

Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud

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Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk of what we know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult, having accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Menachot (grain offerings), which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Joshua A. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers.

Table of Contents

Author’s Introduction
1. All Grain Offerings (dapim 2a-13a)
2. Performing Kometz on a Grain Offering (dapim 13a-17a)
3. The Great Kometz (dapim 17a-38a)
4. The Techelet (dapim 38a-52b)
5. All Grain Offerings Are Brought as Unleavened Bread (dapim 52b-63b)
6. Rabbi Yishmael (dapim 63b-72b)
7. These Grain Offerings Subject to Kemitzah (dapim 72b-76b)
8. The Thanksgiving Offering Used to Be Brought (dapim 76b-83b)
9. All Community Offerings (dapim 83b-87a)
10. Two Measures (dapim 87a-94a)
11. Two Loaves (dapim 94a-100b)
12. Grain Offerings and Libations (dapim 100b-104b)
13. I Must Bring an Issaron of Flour (dapim 104b-110a)
Glossary of Selected Terms
Index of Tannaim and Amoraim
Index to Biblical and Rabbinic References

Product details

Published 31 Dec 2013
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 390
ISBN 9780761863021
Imprint Hamilton Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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