איזהו מקומן

Tefillah is associated with Korbanot. Tefillat Shacharit is divided into several sections. The first section involves reciting the daily Korbanot as an attempt to reenact what was, and for which we are praying, to be reinstated.[1] The power of this recital is directly related to our understanding.

This section concludes with a chapter of Mishnayot, Eizehu Mekoman. This unique chapter of Mishnayos from Masechet Zevachim presents a summary classification of  the Korbanot. This summary is cryptic and confusing for the uninitiated, anyone who hasn't invested in studying Kodshim.

The attached, a carefully planned and organized chart with concise notes was composed to help clarify the differering details in each Mishna, along with various unclear references, such as:

אלו ואלו נשרפין

שיירי הדם

שינה באכילתן

As mentioned in the notes, a chapter of Mishnayot was included so that we approach Tefillah after learning oral Torah. Besides relating to and providing an overview of Korbanot, this is the only chapter in the entire Shas Mishnayot without even one disagreement. 

This chart was created by a young avreich, Rav Nosson Neta Weiss Shlita, and repeatedly peer-reviewed until it reached the current state of superb clarity. It serves as an introduction to Korbanot as it renders the chapter readily accessible and meaningful with relatively minimal effort.

It is his sincere desire that these charts be distributed in durable form far and wide לזיכוי הרבים and to dramatically increase the power of כאילו הקריבו  recital considered as if these Korbanot were actually brought up.

May this learning help to focus our yearning for the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash speedily in our days ושם נעבדך ביראה כימי עולם וכשנים קדמוניות

 Rav Weiss lives in Bet Shemesh, and may be contacted by phone at 0533101314, email g0534158595@gmail.com. He is fluent in Hebrew and in Yiddish. For English, please contact 0533144111.

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 [1] אמר ריש לקיש: מאי דכתיב 'זאת התורה, לעולה, למנחה, ולחטאת, ולאשם'? כל העוסק בתורה - כאילו הקריב עולה, מנחה, חטאת, ואשם.

אמר רבא: האי 'לעולה, למנחה', "עולה ומנחה" מיבעי ליהW אלא אמר רבא: כל העוסק בתורה - אינו צריך לא עולה, (ולא חטאת) ולא מנחה, ולא אשם.

אמר רבי יצחק: מאי דכתיב 'זאת תורת החטאת', ו'זאת תורת האשם'? כל העוסק בתורת חטאת - כאילו הקריב חטאת. וכל העוסק בתורת אשם - כאילו הקריב אשם." (מנחות ק"י ע"א).

Aggressive brain cancer may respond to high-dose vitamin therapy, study suggests

 https://www.foxnews.com/health/aggressive-brain-cancer-may-respond-high-dose-vitamin-therapy-study-suggests

High-dose vitamin B3 (niacin) may enhance immune activity and improve short-term disease control in glioblastoma when added to standard therapy, according to early preclinical studies.

Six months after receiving niacin in addition to standard treatments (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy), 82% of the patients showed no disease progression, compared to the typical 54%, according to the study's press release.

The study’s small sample size, short follow-up and lack of a randomized control group also posed limitations, the researchers acknowledged.

Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz

 https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-ee950ad4

President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.

In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade. If that fails, Washington would press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait, the officials said. 

Researchers tie vaping to mouth and lung cancers in new analysis

 https://www.jpost.com/science/article-891810

A new comprehensive scientific review concludes that vaping, including nicotine-containing products, is likely to cause oral and lung cancers. The authors identified early warning signs strongly linked to cancer risk, such as DNA damage, inflammation, and epigenetic changes associated with later lung cancer. They warned that delaying recognition of vaping’s dangers could have dire consequences, given cancer latency periods of 20 to 40 years and the roughly 15-year window of widespread e-cigarette availability.

Large-scale human data on vapers who develop cancer will take decades to accumulate. “The evidence was remarkably consistent across fields. It dictated an unequivocal finding now, though human studies that estimate the risk will take decades to accumulate,” Associate Professor of Epidemiology Freddy Sitas said. He noted it took 100 years for authorities to recognize smoking as a cause of lung cancer and urging regulators not to let vaping follow the same path, according to Bloomberg.

According to the review vaping may cause cancer independently, even in people who have never smoked conventional cigarettes. It cites case reports, including a 19-year-old with aggressive oral cancer, and dentists’ observations of mouth cancers in non-smoking patients attributed to vaping.

Trump: We will be leaving Iran very soon

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424910

US President Donald Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday that the US would leave Iran “very soon", estimating it could happen “within two or three weeks".

“I would say that within two weeks, maybe three. We're hitting them very hard. Last night, we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile-making facilities," he said.

“We're negotiating with them right now. We have had regime change," Trump stated, adding that “regime change was not one of the things I had as a goal. I had one goal. They will have no nuclear weapon. And that goal has been attained. They will not have nuclear weapons. But we're finishing the job. And I think within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job."

When asked about the Strait of Hormuz, Trump stated that he expects the shipping lane "automatically reopen" with the end of the war and that "the countries that are using the strait, let them go and open it."

Hegseth exonerates helicopter crews over Kid Rock flyby, nullifying Army probe

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/31/hegseth-kid-rock-flyby/

“No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, Patriots,” the Pentagon chief wrote on social media hours after military officials announced they had grounded the pilots involved.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday nullified an Army investigation into the unauthorized helicopter flybys of musician Kid Rock’s estate and anti-Trump protests in Tennessee over the weekend, announcing the move just hours after military officials opened their disciplinary review of the soldiers involved.

Kid Rock, whose legal name is Robert Ritchie, is an enthusiastic, longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, and he is widely admired among the president’s political base. Hegseth’s swift intervention in the case raised immediate questions about whether the military can hold its own accountable for actions that Hegseth may deem politically favorable.

Ingraham questions whether Trump understood Iran military operation’s ‘complexity’

 https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5809190-ingraham-questions-trump-iran/?tbref=hp

Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday called into question whether President Trump understands the “complexity” of the U.S. military operation in Iran.

The host used her opening monologue on “The Ingraham Angle” to talk about how, despite the April 16 deadline set by the president, Trump faces complications to his calls for negotiations with the Iranians amid his threats of further escalating the conflict.

“Now, knowing what little time we have and how quickly this can spiral out of control, we still have a lot of questions,” she said. “For instance, was the president fully briefed about the risks of all of this from the beginning? And was he then able to take it all in and understand the complexity of this? How complex it could actually get, and further possibilities of casualties or other damage –– the difficulty of dealing with these people? Or was he told this would be relatively quick, in and out?”

‘Conversion Therapy’ and the Constitution

 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kaley-chiles-v-salazar-supreme-court-neil-gorsuch-conversion-therapy-b6af6325?mod=hp_opin_pos_4

Democrats want voters to believe that the Supreme Court is pushing a right-wing cultural agenda, but that narrative keeps being refuted by liberal Justices. On Tuesday the Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” has an obvious First Amendment problem. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined the majority.

Kaley Chiles is a licensed counselor who offers only talk therapy. She told the Justices she is also a Christian who “believes clients can accept the bodies that God has given them and find peace.” Colorado’s law prohibits counselors from trying to change the sexual “behaviors or gender expressions” of a client who is a minor. The state law explicitly permits, however, providing “assistance to a person undergoing gender transition.”