daf bit: Menachot 50, and a question
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cellioThe torah calls for a daily meal-offering to be prepared by the high
priest. The mishna on today's daf refers to this as griddle-cakes.
The g'mara asks how they were cooked. R. Chiya b. Abba said in the name
of R. Yochanan: they were baked in an oven first and then fried in oil.
R. Assi said in the name of R. Chanina: they were first fried and then
baked. Both men cite the same proof-text but disagree on its meaning.
R. Dosa, apparently seeking a compromise, says they should be baked
several times -- bake, then fry, then bake again. We also learn in
today's g'mara that the dough was kneaded, shaped, baked, and fried
daily, even overriding the restrictions of Shabbat. (50b)
A torah question: in this week's parsha God speaks to the whole congregation of Israel, rather than the more-usual case of speaking to Moshe (and optionally Aharon) and having them talk to the congregation. (Edit: no he doesn't; I mis-heard the torah reader. But he does say to speak to "kol eidat yisrael", all the congregation of Isreal, instead of the usual "b'nei yisrael" (children of Israel), so the distinction is still interesting.) Where else in torah does this happen? I'd appreciate answers or search-refinement clues ("congregation" in torah being rather noisy for this search). Thanks.
(This offering was then completely burned (see Lev 6:12-15), so culinary experimentation to determine what would be most palatable to humans is of only tangential interest.)
A torah question: in this week's parsha God speaks to the whole congregation of Israel, rather than the more-usual case of speaking to Moshe (and optionally Aharon) and having them talk to the congregation. (Edit: no he doesn't; I mis-heard the torah reader. But he does say to speak to "kol eidat yisrael", all the congregation of Isreal, instead of the usual "b'nei yisrael" (children of Israel), so the distinction is still interesting.) Where else in torah does this happen? I'd appreciate answers or search-refinement clues ("congregation" in torah being rather noisy for this search). Thanks.