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

grateful page of Talmud each day.

And I say grateful because today's pages,

Menechot, 77 and 78, are all about the Korban Toda, the Thanksgiving offering.

It's a beautiful and heartwarming subject, but it's also one we discussed at some,

okay, at great length last year when we were learning tractate Zvachim,

which deals with very similar themes to our tractate. So rather than reinvent the wheel,

and very much in the spirit of the Talmud, which beckons us to always, always, always repeat

and relearn things and find new meanings and familiar subjects.

Here is the conversation about Koban Tudah we aired last November with the one and the only,

Rabbi David Vashvka.

What is the halakha as to whether a matter derived via a verbal analogy can teach its halakha to another matter via a juxtaposition?

Ravpapa says, the verse states, and this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one may offer to the Lord. If he sacrifices it for a thanks offering, then he shall offer with the thanks offering unleavened cakes mingled with oil,

and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes mingled with oil of fine flour soaked,

Leviticus 7, 11 to 12.

From this juxtaposition, we have learned that the money to purchase a thanks offering

can come for money used to redeem the second tithe since we find that the money to purchase a thanks offering can come for money used to redeem the second

tithe since we find that the money to purchase a peace offering can come for money used to

redeem the second tithe. Now, I said a minute ago that this had some kind of relevance to

everyday life and so far it seems like very very very sort of like distinct specific difficult

halakhah but our guest today will explain to us that that is not at all the case and that the

talmud as ever has real meaning a guide to life right here right now you know who i'm going to

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