There’s No Business Like Showbread Business

JL;DR SUMMARY In the early chapters of Tractate Menachot in the Talmud, the focus is on the procedures for offering meal offerings in the Temple, including details on baking unleavened bread, quantities of flour, use of oil and frankincense, and specific rituals for presenting the loaves at the altar. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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