Hey there, and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one new page of Tom at each day day and you have heard the different theme music,

which could only mean one thing. It is time for a brand new tractate. This one, Tractate

Manahot, what is it about? What are we going to learn? What awaits us on this brand new

thrilling adventure to help us unlock that.

As always, we turn to our dear friend, our teacher, our guide and learning, the one, the only by David Bachevkin.

Hello.

Liel, what an absolute pleasure and privilege to be starting a new tractate, tractate menochos with you. And right after that wild,

strange world of tractate Zavachim, which was all about sacrificial worship and the blood of

animals and sprinkling the blood, we come to the world of Manahos. And I like beginning Minnachos with an old joke.

The old joke goes, and we would never be guilty of this, but how do you know that someone is a vegan?

And of course, the punchline is, don't worry, they will tell you within the first two minutes of meeting them.

Neither you or I, Lord knows, are anywhere close to being vegan.

But what makes tractate Menachos so fascinating is that this is, so to speak,

the world of sacrificial offerings for vegans.

Whereas the discussions in tractate Zvachm focused on animal sacrifice,

along with all the blood and gore associated with slaughtering,

tractate Menachos strikes a more vegetarian sensibility.

Instead of animal sacrifices, this tractate discusses the offerings of flour, which is known

as a mincha.

That's why it's called minochos, or minchaos, as some might pronounce it, flower, oil,

frankincense, salt.

These were offerings that were brought to the altar but did not involve the blood or the

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