מעילה · Meilah

About Masechta Meilah · מסכת מעילה

Me'ilah learns the sin of me'ilah - making ordinary use of what belongs to the Beis HaMikdash - and the korban asham and the added fifth that one who did so by mistake must pay.

Its first perakim learn from when each kind of korban is under me'ilah and until when, the bird offerings, the blood, and holy things after their mitzvah was done. The fourth perek learns how small amounts of different holy things join to reach the measure of a perutah. The fifth perek, HaNehneh Min HaHekdesh, learns benefit from hekdesh - wearing a holy garment, using a holy vessel - and the sixth a shaliach who did me'ilah on his sender's errand, or did otherwise than he was sent: who bears the sin, the one who sent or the one who went.

The Gemara also tells of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's journey to Rome with Rabbi Elazar bar Rabbi Yose to annul a decree against Shabbos, milah and family purity.

From the pages of Meilah

Before Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai went to Rome, Rabbi Reuven ben Istrubli had cut his hair like a Roman, sat among them and argued them into annulling the decrees, until they found out he was a Jew and brought the decrees back. On the way Rabbi Shimon wept: an angel was sent three times to the maidservant of his father's house, and to him not even once - let the miracle come as it will. Ben Temalyon went ahead into the emperor's daughter; when Rabbi Shimon called 'Ben Temalyon, come out', it left her, and they were told to take whatever they wanted from the treasury - they found the decree and tore it. The Mishnah teaches that one who benefits a perutah's worth from hekdesh has done me'ilah even if he did not damage it, the words of Rabbi Akiva, and that there is no me'ilah after me'ilah in holy things except an animal and the vessels of the avodah.

This page holds 25 shiurim on Masechta Meilah from 1 maggid shiur. 15 of them learn the whole daf and 10 are short reviews. 17 dafim have their own shiurim here, each in its own row above, and “Learn in the Daf Room” opens that daf with its text and its shiurim side by side.

Masechta Meilah in the Daf Yomi

The 14th Daf Yomi cycle reaches Masechta Meilah on February 20, 2027 and learns it one daf a day for 21 days, from daf 2 to daf 22, finishing on March 12, 2027. Masechta Meilah is in Seder Kodashim, the fifth of the six orders of the Mishnah, and in the order of the Daf Yomi it comes after Masechta Kerisos and before Masechta Kinnim. On each of those days the Daf Room opens the day's daf with its text and every shiur on it, and the rows above keep the shiurim of every daf of the masechta for anyone who learns at his own pace.

The perakim of Meilah

Masechta Meilah has six perakim, from daf 2a to daf 22a. Each perek below opens its first daf in the Daf Room, where the Gemara’s text and every shiur on that daf sit together.

1. Perek 1 קדשי קדשים 2a – 8a
2. Perek 2 חטאת העוף 8a – 10b
3. Perek 3 ולד חטאת 10b – 14b
4. Perek 4 קדשי מזבח 15a – 18a
5. Perek 5 הנהנה מן ההקדש 18a – 20a
6. Perek 6 השליח שעשה שליחותו 20a – 22a