Today's Mishnah Yomi
Menachos 2:3 - 2:4
The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, September 8, 2025 is Menachos 2:3 - 2:4
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Menachos Perek 2 Mishnah 3
מנחות פרק ב׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
התודה מפגלת את הלחם. שהלחם בא בשביל התודה והוא טפל לה, ואין התודה טפילה ללחם. וכן שני כבשים של עצרת, שתי הלחם הבאים עמהם הם טפלים לכבשים ואין הכבשים טפלים ללחם, והעיקר מפגל הטפל ואין הטפל מפגל העיקר. ואי אשמועינן תנא האי דינא בתודה ולא אשמועינן בכבשים של עצרת הוה אמינא התם הוא דכי מפגל לחם לא מפגלא תודה משום דלא הוזקקו בתנופה עם החלות, אבל כבשים דהוזקקו בתנופה עם החלות דכתיב (ויקרא כ״ג) והניף הכהן אותם על לחם, אימא כי מפגל לחם לפגלו נמי כבשים. ואי תנא כבשים, הוה אמינא התם כי מפגלי כבשים מפגל לחם משום דהוזקקו זה עם זה בתנופה, אבל תודה דלא הוזקקו אימא כי מפגל בתודה לא מפגלי בחלות, צריכא:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Menachos Perek 2 Mishnah 4
מנחות פרק ב׳ משנה ד׳
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הזבח מפגל את הנכסים – and a person who drinks from them is punished with extirpation.
משקדשו בכלי – after they placed them in the sacred vessels, for the vessel sanctifies them with an eternal holiness, and furthermore they don’t have any redemption.
דברי ר' מאיר – for Rabbi Meir holds that the libations make the sacrifice rejectable, because the blood of the offering is what makes it appropriate and permits them for the altar. And since they have something that makes it permitted, it becomes rejectable through an intention/thought outside of its proper time. But the Sages dispute him in the Tractate Zevakhim in the chapter “The School of Shammai” (Chapter 4, Mishnah 3 – Talmud Zevakhim) [44a] and they (i.e., the Sages] state that the libations do not have that which makes them permissible [for consumption], therefore they do not become rejectable. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.
הזבח מפגל את הנמכים. והשותה מהן ענוש כרת:
משקדשו בכלי. לאחר ששמו אותם בכלי שרת, שהכלי מקדשן קדושת עולם דשוב אין להם פדיון:
דברי ר׳ מאיר. דרבי מאיר סבר שנסכים מתפגלים, לפי שהדם של הזבח הוא שמכשיר ומתיר אותן למזבח, והואיל ויש להן מתיר, מתפגלים במחשבת חוץ לזמנו. וחכמים פליגי עליה בפרק בית שמאי במסכת זבחים [דף מ״ד] ואמרי שהנסכים אין להם מתיר, לפיכך אין מתפגלין. ואין הלכה כרבי מאיר:
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What is Mishnah Yomi?
Mishnah Yomi is a daily study program where participants study two mishnayot (individual teachings from the Mishnah) every day. By following this program, one can complete the entire Mishnah in about six years.
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The Mishnah is the first major written collection of Jewish oral traditions, forming the basis of the Talmud. It dates back to around 200 CE and consists of teachings and discussions of Jewish law by various rabbis.
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In 1934, the Kozoglover Gaon, Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer, who took over from Rav Meir Shapiro (the founder of Daf Yomi) as the head of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, initiated the Mishnah Yomi cycle, focusing on Seder Zeraim and Seder Taharos. After World War II, in 1947, Rav Yonah Sztencl, a disciple of Rav Frommer, expanded the program, advocating for a comprehensive study of Shishah Sidrei Mishnah. The idea of studying two Mishnayos daily gained the support of figures like Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Tchebiner Rov, and the Gerer Rebbe, marking the formal inception of Mishnah Yomi.
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התודה מפגלת את הלחם – that the bread (i.e., loaves) comes for the thanksgiving offering and it is of secondary import to it, but the thanksgiving offering is not of secondary import to the bead. And similarly, the two lambs of Atzeret/Shavuot, the two loaves that come with them are of secondary import to the lambs but the lambs are not of secondary import to the bread, but the principal [item(s)] make the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal but that of secondary import do not make the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal. But if it was necessary for the Tanna/teacher to teach this law regarding the thanksgiving offering but it was not necessary [to teach this law with regard] to the lams of Atzeret/Shavuot, I would think that it is there that the when the bread makes the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal, the thanksgiving-offering does not make the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal because it was not dependent upon the waving with the loaves, but the lambs [for Atzeret/Shavuot] which were dependent upon the waving with the loaves, as it is written (Leviticus 23:20): “The priest shall elevate these – the two lambs- together with the bread [of first fruits as an elevation offering before the LORD],”I would say that the bread makes the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal to also make the lambs rejectable through improper mental disposal. But if the Tanna/teacher taught [only] the lambs, I would state there that when the lambs make the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal, it makes the bread rejectable through improper mental disposal because they were dependent upon each other in waving, but the thanksgiving-offering which were not dependent, I would state that when the thanksgiving offering makes the sacrifice rejectable through improper mental disposal, it does not make the loaves rejectable through improper mental disposal, hence, they are both necessary.