Talmud Illuminated

What does the verse in Malachi mean, “ For from the rising of the sun to its setting My Name is great among the nations... all will sacrific...

If one had two lambs and said, “one of my lambs will be consecrated,” the larger of them is consecrated, because we assume that people conse...

If one said, “I promise to bring a burned offering” but did not say which one, he brings a lamb. Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah says that he bring...

If one promises to bring wood for the Altar, he must bring no less than two logs. As we learned before , Rabbi Yehudah the Prince consider t...

We learned before that one who forgot how much flour he promised brings the largest offering, that is, 60 tenths of an ephah. However, Rabb...

The Torah said “ When a soul (person) offers a flour offering to God ...”  Why “soul?” God said, “Who usually brings flour? A poor man. I co...

The largest amount of flour that an individual can bring in a single offering is sixty tenths (of an ephah measure), that is, about 300 poun...

If one says, “I promise to bring a flour offering on a griddle,” and brings instead an offering prepared in a deep pan, then instead of a pr...

This way of looking at things is the opinion of Rabbi Shimon. For example, the Red Heifer was slaughtered in a designated place on the Mount...

If an animal offering became blemished, it may be redeemed, that is, exchanged for money. After redemption, the money becomes sanctified and...

Four priests would enter the Sanctuary, two carried the two stacks of bread, and the other had the two spoons filled with frankincense. Four...

King Solomon added ten tables and ten menorahs in the Temple. However, they put bread only on the one table that Moses had made, and lighted...

In the Temple there was a chamber called “Shushan the Great City,” because it had a picture of Shushan, the capital of Persia. There they ke...

The table for the breads of vision had two rows, with six compartments each, one above the other, housing the twelve breads. The table was s...

Each day, the High Priest brought twelve wafers, six in the morning and six in the afternoon. In the morning he would bring and consecrate a...

When the Jews traveled in the desert, did the Bread of Vision become invalid at the beginning of each journey? Since the the bread was move...

In some aspects leaning on the sacrifice is stricter than waving it: if many partners bring a sacrifice, each one has to lean on it. But in ...

Basically, personal sacrifices require one to lean on them and recite either his guilt or his thanksgiving to God. However, there are some p...

Most private offering required leaning, or “semichah,” when the owner of the sacrifice placed both his hands upon the sacrifice's head a...

The Torah said, “When you shall make a fire offering to God, burned offering, or another sacrifice.” I might have thought that any offerin...