Grains of Truth: Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud

Hamilton Books (2013)
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This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers

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