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EPISODE · Apr 7, 2026 · 18 MIN

Menahot 86: EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)

from Talking Talmud · host Yardaena Osband & Anne Gordon

On "shemen ha-mor" - the oil of myrrh, which a discussion of how Queen Esther beautified herself among the other girls in the beauty contest, until the king chose her to be queen. With the question of defining what this oil was used for (an anointing or a depilatory). Also, a new mishnah - with a focus on olives and the several harvests and various pressings of them, attesting to the various qualities of oil too. And another mishnah - 9 degrees of oil, where the top level would be just prohibitive for the grain-offerings, but were always taken for the menorah oil.

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