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

At the heart of today's page, Menachot Five,

is, I'm not going to lie, a fairly intricate discussion. I'll let the late great Rav Adeen

Steinsel sum it up. So in yesterday's stuff, Rav Steinselz explains, we learned about a unique

meal offering, the Minchata Omer, that was brought on the day after the first day of

Pesach, and whose purpose was to permit use of the grain from the new harvest.

Rav taught that, in this case, if the Kohen took the required fistful of flour,

shallolishma, meaning with inappropriate intentions, the Minchat Ha Omer is totally invalid,

since the purpose of this

mincha was to permit the new harvest, and it did not fulfill that purpose.

So far, so good.

But on today's page, surprise, surprise, we find that not all of the sages agree with Robb's ruling.

Obishi-Himun-Bin Lakish, for example, the great Rays Lakish rules that in such a case,

the meal offering remains valid, and the comets, or the fistful of flour taken from the

Minha can be offered on the altar.

Nevertheless, the rest of the flour cannot be eaten by the Kohaneem until a second Minchata Omer is brought

since the first one did not fulfill the necessary requirement and the new grain has not yet been permitted.

We need, in other words, a mulligan, a do-over.

Other rabbis give other reasons, but then in comes Rava, coming in hot with a deeply insightful

comment. He argues that the minchata omel really is unique inasmuch as it is the only meal

offering brought from barley, all others are brought from wheat, so that the ordinary sacrificial

rules do not apply.

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