Today's Mishnah Yomi
Menachos 5:2 - 5:3
The Mishnah Yomi for Tuesday, September 16, 2025 is Menachos 5:2 - 5:3
Mishnah 1
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מנחות פרק ה׳ משנה ב׳
Bartenura
שנאמר כל המנחה אשר תקריבו לה׳ לא תעשה חמץ. ארישא קאי דקתני ומשתמרות שלא יחמיצו, וקודם קמיצה משתעי. ושייריה ילפינן מקרא אחרינא דכתיב (שם ו,) לא תאפה חמץ חלקם, אף חלקם של כהנים שהם שיירי המנחה שנשארו מן הקומץ, אף זו לא תאפה חמץ. ובחמץ דוקא הוזהרו על השיריים, אבל מותר ללוש אותם בדבש ולטגנן בו:
עריכתה. שמתעסק בה בידים אחר לישה. וחייבין על כל אחת ואחת, לפי שנאמר לא תעשה חמץ, יכול לא יהא חייב אלא אחת, תלמוד לומר לא תאפה, אפייה בכלל היתה ולמה יצאת להקיש אליה, מה אפייה מיוחדת שהיא מעשה יחידי וחייבין עליה בפני עצמה, אף אני אביא לישתה ועריכתה וכל מעשה יחידי שבה, לאתויי קיטוף שהוא מעשה יחידי וחייבין עליה בפני עצמה. וקיטוף הוא שמחליק פניה במים ואע״ג דלא מחזי כל כך מעשה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Menachos Perek 5 Mishnah 3
מנחות פרק ה׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
מנחת סולת – a person who vows a mere free-will meal-offering, brings fine flour and oil and frankincense and mixes it and takes a handful as it is prior to baking it. And for which it is written (Leviticus 2:1): “he shall pour oil upon it, lay frankincense on it,” all of these others we derive from the meal-offering of fine flour where it is written regarding the meal-offering of fine flour (Leviticus 2:1): “when a person,” that implies that all meal-offerings of an individual require oil and frankincense.
והחלות והרקיקין – a meal-offering of grain that is baked in an oven is called, the loaves [of bread] and the wafers. For if he requires loaves [of bread], he brings them and if he requires wafers, he brings wafers.
ומנחת כהנים – a Kohen who volunteers to donate one from these five meal-offerings.
מנחת כהן משיח – the meal-offering of unleavened cakes (see Tractate Menahot, Chapter 4, Mishnah 5).
גוי – [a heathen] who freely donates a meal-offering as we derive from "איש איש"/anyone (Leviticus 17:8 – “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who reside among them offers a burnt-offering or a sacrifice”) which teaches that heathens bring votive offerings and free-will offerings like Israelites.
ומנחת נשים – a woman who vowed to donate a meal-offering.
ומנחת נסכים – which does not require frankincense, for oil is stated with it but not frankincense (see Numbers 15:4-5).
ולחם הפנים – it is written regarding it (Leviticus 24:7): “With each row you shall place pure frankincense, [which is to be a token offering for the read, as a gift to the LORD].” But oil is not written there.
שתי חלות – of Atzeret/Shavuot, but it is not mentioned on them neither oil nor frankincense (see Leviticus 5:11: “he shall not add oil to it or lay frankincense on it, [for it is a purification offering].”
מנחת חוטא ומנחת קנאות – it is written explicitly regarding them (Leviticus 5:11): “he shall not add oil to it or lay frankincense to it” (and Numbers 5:15: “No oil shall be poured upon it and no frankincense shall be laid upon it for it is a grain offering of jealousy.”).
מנחת סולת. המתנדב מנחה סתם, מביא סולת ושמן ולבונה ובוללה וקומצה כמו שהיא קודם אפייה. ובדידה כתיב שמן ולבונה, וכל הני אחריני גמרי ממנחת סולת דכתיב בה נפש, דמשמע דכל מנחת יחיד טעונה שמן ולבונה:
והחלות והרקיקין. למנחת מאפה תנור קרי החלות והרקיקין. דאי בעי חלות מייתי ואי בעי רקיקין מייתי:
ומנחת כהנים. כהן שהתנדב אחת מחמשת מנחות הללו:
מנחת כהן משיח. מנחת חביתין:
גוי. מתנדב מנחה, כדילפינן מאיש איש, מלמד שהנכרים מביאין נדרים ונדבות כישראל:
ומנחת נשים. אשה שהתנדבה מנחה:
ומנחת נסכים. לא בעי לבונה, דשמן נאמר בה ולא לבונה:
ולחם הפנים. כתיב ביה (ויקרא כ״ד:ז׳) ונתת על המערכת לבונה זכה, ולא כתיב ביה שמן:
שתי החלות. של עצרת, לא הוזכר בהן לא שמן ולא לבונה:
מנחת חוטא ומנחת קנאות. בהדיא כתיב בהו (שם ה׳) לא ישים עליה שמן ולא יתן עליה לבונה:
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שנאמר כל המנחה אשר תקריבו לה' לא תעשה חמץ – it refers to the first clause [of the Mishnah] as it teaches that they are watched so that they do not become leavened, and it is speaking of prior to grabbing a handful . But the residue/remnants we derive from a different verse, as it is written (Leviticus 6:10): “It shall not be baked with leaven; [I have given it] as their portion [from My gifts],” even the portion of the priests which are the residue of the meal-offering that remained from the handful, even this shall not be baked with leaven, and with leaven, it is especially mentioned regarding the residue, but it is permitted to knead them with honey and to fry them with oil in it.
עריכתה (rolling it) – when he engages it with his hands after kneading, and they are liable for each and every one, for since it is says (Leviticus 2:11): “[No grain offering that you offer to the LORD] shall be made with leaven,” he is not able to be liable except for one [offering], the inference teaches us that “it should not be baked” (Leviticus 6:10), that baking was included and why was it excluded, to make an analogy of Biblical verses to it, just as baking is special that it is the action of an individual and one is liable for it on its own, even I include kneading it and rolling it and all individual actions regarding it, to include forming and smoothing the surface of the dough which is the action of an individual and we are liable for it on its own. And forming and smoothing the surface of the dough is smoothing its face in water and even though it does not appear so much as an action.