Hey there, and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one

useful page of Talmud each day.

And on today's pages, Benachot 26 and 27, we learned

the following Mishnah. A handful of a meal offering that was not sanctified and a service vessel

is unfit, says the Talmud, and Rabbi Shimon deems it fit. If the priest burned the handful of a

meal offering twice, i.e. in two increments, it is fit.

Despite the argument, all opinions agree that the meal offering must be brought in a kli-shar-it,

or a service vessel, in order to sanctify it in the first place.

The argument comes later, and it's about what happens next when the comets or handful is sacrificed. But

let us take a moment and ponder the beauty and genius of this cliche of this service vessel.

What is the purpose of a cliche of it? As you can imagine, that's a question that contains

multitudes and the answer is intricate and well worth studying if you have the time

and the inclination.

But one simple idea is this.

The mincha offering has different components.

We know we've been learning it for a while now.

Yet when you put them all in the klisharet in that service vessel, you turn all these

different components into one cohesive unit, into one cohesive

offering.

Which means, if you think about it, that the vessel is more than something that's merely

functional.

We see later on today's duff, after all, that a Kohen can use his hand just as easily,

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