Hey there and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one raw page of Tomit each day.

And on today's page, Manachot 100, the rabbis all

sound kind of like, kind of like Larry David, honestly. Have a listen. The Mishnah states,

If Yom Kippur occurs on Shabbat, the loaves are distributed on Saturday night. If Yom Kippo

occurs on Friday, the goat's sin offering of Yom Kippur is eaten Friday night

on Shabbat. Since there was no possibility of cooking the meat, the Babylonian priests would eat

it raw. The Gamara notes, Rabba Barbarana says that Rabbi Yohanan says, these priests are not

actually Babylonians. Rather, they are Alexandrians, i.e. priests who

came from Egypt. But since the Jews of Eretz Israel hate the Jewish Babylonians, they would

call the gluttonous Alexandrians by the name Babylonians. So, once upon a time, if and when

Yom Kippur fell on Shabbat, which by the way cannot happen today

because we have now a set calendar, the priests had a big problem because you can only eat a sin

offering on the day and the evening when it was brought. It had to be eaten on Friday night.

And because it was Shabbat, the meat couldn't be cooked. How is the problem solved?

Thanks to the Babylonians, who would eat at raw. Who were the Babylonians? Well, say the rabbis,

they weren't actually Babylonians. They were from Egypt. And they were willing to eat the meat

raw because, hey, that was our cultural habit. but we call them Babylonians because, well,

the rabbis really didn't like Babylonians, so they called everyone with bad, poor manners,

Babylonians.

The Talmud continues.

This interpretation of the Mishnah is also taught in a baraita.

Rabiosi says, these priests are not actually Babylonians. Rather, they are

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