Menachot (mixed natractate)

The Treatise Menachot ( Hebrew מַסֶּכֶת מְנָחוֹת Masechet menachot ) comes from the word "flour" ( Hebrew מִנְחָה“Gabe, Gift”) and is a treatise of the order Qodaschim סֵדֶר קָדָשִׁים from the Mishnah . This Gemara occurs only in the Babylonian Talmud .

The tract has thirteen chapters and contains provisions on flour- made offerings to the temple .

Most of the food offerings were only a handful ( Komez קֹמֶץ) intended for the altar . The remaining food was consumed by the priests. The term Komez קֹמֶץcomes from the ritual in which the priest took a handful from the food for the sacrifice.

Meal offerings made from flour were compulsory for certain occasions. So the Minchat Chote מִנְחָת חוֹטֵא(“Sin Flour Offerers ”) and the Minchat Kanna'ut מִנְחָת קַנָּאוּת("Jealous flour"). Food offerings could also be used voluntarily as Minchat Nedawa מִנְחָת נְדָבָה ("Voluntary Flour Offerings").

There were several prescribed foods to be offered as sacrifices to the temple and its priesthood:

Minchat Solät מִנְחָת סֹלֶת ("Flour made from the finest wheat flour")

Mincha maApha Tannur מִנְחָה מַאֲפֶה תַּנּוּר(" Baked in the oven "), like cakeחַלָּוֹת or flatbread רָקִיקים

Mincha al machawat מִנְחָה עַל מַחֲבַת( "In the frying pan fried - flat container") or minchah al marche contemptuous (מִנְחָה עַל מַרְחֶשֶׁת) ("In the crucible - deep vessel").

literature

Herbert Danby: The Mishnah. Translated from the Hebrew with introduction and brief explanatory notes. 8th edition. Oxford University Press, 1964, pp. 491-513
Abba Zvi Naiman: Masekhet Menahot. Volume 3. Mesorah Publications, 2005
Jacob Neusner : A History of the Mishnaic Law of Holy Things: Menahot - Translation and Explanation. Wipf & Stock, 2007

Individual evidence

↑ David Hoffmann et al. a .: Mishnayot. The six orders of the Mishnah . Part V order Kodaschim , translated and explained by John Cohn. 3. Edition. Victor Goldschmidt Verlag, Basel 1986, p. 95 f.
^ Herbert Danby: The Mishnah . Translated from the Hebrew with introduction and brief explanatory notes. 8th edition. Oxford University Press, 1964, pp. 491-513
↑ David Hoffmann et al. a .: Mishnayot. The six orders of the Mishnah . Part V order Kodaschim , translated and explained by John Cohn. 3. Edition. Victor Goldschmidt Verlag, Basel 1986, p. 97 footnote 1.

[1] David Hoffmann et al. a .: Mishnayot. The six orders of the Mishnah . Part V order Kodaschim , translated and explained by John Cohn. 3. Edition. Victor Goldschmidt Verlag, Basel 1986, p. 95 f.

[2] Herbert Danby: The Mishnah . Translated from the Hebrew with introduction and brief explanatory notes. 8th edition. Oxford University Press, 1964, pp. 491-513

[3] David Hoffmann et al. a .: Mishnayot. The six orders of the Mishnah . Part V order Kodaschim , translated and explained by John Cohn. 3. Edition. Victor Goldschmidt Verlag, Basel 1986, p. 97 footnote 1.