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Menahot 106: More Covering of Forgotten Vows

04.27.2026 | י׳ באייר תשפ״ו

A debate between Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi and the Rabbis – based on how many offerings must be brought to cover all bases to fulfill a vow when the details of that vow have been forgotten. What is the status of all the offerings that aren’t fulfilling that vow? Also, one who takes a vow to bring wood for the altar – is that to burn the other offerings or is it an offering itself? The Gemara seems to understand it as an offering in and of itself. With a limitation that bringing an offering of wood must bring 2 logs (at least). Plus, 5 cases of fistfuls – primarily around the frankincense. Plus, the shock value measuring stick of determining how much one’s donation of gold or silver or copper might have been.

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Anne Gordon is the deputy editor of Ops & Blogs at The Times of Israel. She is a veteran educator, having taught in high school and post-high school institutions in Israel and America for several decades. Yardaena Osband is a pediatrician and teaches in her community and online. They both hail from Boston, proud alumna of Maimonides School, where they first learned Gemara. Talking Talmud is their conversation (via podcast) on the daf yomi. They say: “Learning the daf? We have something for you to think about. Not learning the daf? We have something for you to think about! (Along with a taste of the daf…) Join the conversation with us!”

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