Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Menahot 45: Explaining Ezekiel
Season 30 Episode 45
More on aspects of Temple worship that are not essential to each other. Also, the treatment of the Temple offerings for Rosh Chodesh from the Book of…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 44: The Prostitute, the Sage, and His Tzitzit
Season 30 Episode 44
On the "hilazon," the crustacean whose blood is used to make the tekhelet: the murex trunculus, and its form, function, and impact. Also, the Gemara …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 43: Should Women Be Wearing Tzitzit After All?
Season 30 Episode 43
More on tzitzit and the garments they are to be tied to. Also, all men need to wear tzitzit on a 4-cornered garment. What about women? Slaves? Those …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 42: Strings Hang Down
Season 30 Episode 42
Where should the tzitzit be attached to the 4-cornered garment? How long do tzitzit need to hang down? But they don't have a measure... or at least n…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 41: An Angel's Halakhic Reproof
Season 30 Episode 41
Some unusual cases pose questions for tzitzit - for example, when a 4-cornered garment is folded in half. That is, is the garment obligated in the tz…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 40: Fraudulent Blue
Season 30 Episode 40
A dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai on whether a linen cloak is obligated in tzitzit (including tekhelet, that is, which has to be a wool t…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 39: Strings and Knots in Blue and White
Season 30 Episode 39
On how to tie tzitzit (another one of those very "visual" descriptions in words). Including the winding and knot-tying of the 8 threads on the corner…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Menahot 38: Tekhelet: The Blue String among White Strings
Season 30 Episode 38
Chapter 4! With a new mishnah. On tzitzit, and the verses that pertain to this mitzvah, including the prohibition against sha'atnez. Note that neithe…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Menahot 37: The Impossible Two-Headed Tefillin-Wearer
Season 30 Episode 37
After discussion of the tefillin shel yad - including which arm - the Gemara turns to what is received as an impossible case: for a person with two h…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Menahot 36: I Wear My Tefillin at Night
Season 30 Episode 36
If one who is in the process of laying tefillin makes the blessing on the arm, puts the "tefillin shel yad" on, and then speaks, interrupting himself…
6 months, 4 weeks ago