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Take One Daf Yomi

Menachot 95 - These Breads Were Made for Walking

Take One Daf Yomi

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 β€’ 565 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

On today's page, Menachot 95, a debate about the shewbread β€” the loaves that sat continuously in the Tabernacle as a permanent offering β€” asks what happens to their sacred status the moment the whole sanctuary is packed up and put on the road. The rabbis dig into the same verses and pull them in opposite directions, and just when you think the question is settled, a scholar arriving from the Land of Israel reframes the entire dispute. Can holiness travel? Listen and find out.

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0:00.0

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

0:17.6

delectable page of Talmud each day. and I say delectable because today's page

0:22.3

Benachot 95 is all about the shoe bread lechem hapanim those cakes or loaves of bread which were always

0:31.1

always always present in the Mishkan a a constant offering to God.

0:39.5

And on today's episode, we like to do something that we sometimes do on the show,

0:43.8

which is slow things down just a little bit for a segment we like to call,

0:48.6

Slow Jam the Todd.

0:51.5

Today is very technical and yet very interesting and it begins with this question.

1:01.0

A dilemma was raised before the sages.

1:05.0

During the era of the tabernacle, was the Schubert disqualified during the journeys

1:10.0

of the Jewish people in the wilderness? Or was it not disqualified during the journeys of the Jewish people in the wilderness?

1:11.7

Or was it not disqualified during the journeys?

1:15.1

When the Jewish people would travel from one place to another in the wilderness,

1:18.7

the tabernacle would be dismantled and the table would be carried with the loaves upon it.

1:24.4

The dilemma, in other words, is about whether or not these loaves were disqualified

1:28.1

since they left the boundaries of the sanctuary. They were supposed to constantly be there in the presence

1:35.3

of the holiest. And yet, when they left to travel, does that disqualify them? This matter is the

1:42.5

subject of a dispute. Surprise, surprise, but in Rabbi

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Ohan and Rabbi Osho, bin Levy. One says the loaves were thereby disqualified, and one says

1:51.6

they were not disqualified. Let's hear their arguments. Gamara explains their respective reasons.

1:57.1

The one who says the shoe bread was disqualified derives the opinion from a verse, as it is written with regard to the journeys, then the tent of meeting shall journey with a camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps as they encamp, so shall they journey.

2:11.9

Every man in his place by their banners, numbers 217. The verse juxtaposes the encampments with the journeys, indicating

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