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Avodah Zarah 57: When Intent Doesn't Matter
Season 27 Episode 57
Several stories - indicating that the concern about libation wine was real for them. For example, a person's lulav touching his wine. Or the extreme …
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 56: You Can't Make a Libation with Your Feet
Season 27 Episode 56
First, why "libation wine" is a topic that draws so much attention. Wine cannot become "libation" wine until it goes into the cistern - is it fully p…
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 55: Suffering Personified
Season 27 Episode 55
Agrippas, the Roman general, asked Rabban Gamliel (paraphrase): Your God is a jealous God, but people are only jealous of those who are in real compe…
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 54: God Doesn't Interfere
Season 27 Episode 54
R. Dimi came from the land of Israel to Babylonia and taught how the land itself isn't rendered prohibited by virtue of people bowing down, but worki…
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 53: When an Object of Idolatry Can Be Used After All
Season 27 Episode 53
Several mishnayot - beginning with nullifying an idol (on the bottom of the previous daf). Note that a non-Jew nullifies the idol, not a Jew, and onl…
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 52: "Onias Worship": Not Idolatry, But Not Acceptable Either
Season 27 Episode 52
A dispute on the prohibition of the idol when it's owned by a Jew vs. owned by non-Jew (Rabbi Akiva vs. Rabbi Yishmael). Also, vessels that were used…
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 51: Not the Way It Was Done in the Temple
Season 27 Episode 51
An idolatry that is served by using a stick, or breaking the stick, in front of an idol, the stick is then prohibited from use. If the stick were thr…
11 months, 1 week ago
Avodah Zarah 50: Not a Carpenter, Nor the Son of a Carpenter
Season 27 Episode 50
More on the Mercury idol - including stones that were removed from the idol, and were then prohibited. Plus, other idolatries -- more than one that c…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Avodah Zarah 49: No Financial Redemption for Idolatry
Season 27 Episode 47
Rabbi Yosi vs. the Rabbis - on a field that was fertilized by the manure of idolatry, or the like, and how that field can be planted, and what terms …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Avodah Zarah 48: The Asherah
Season 27 Episode 48
A daf of 4 mishnayot! (1) 3 different kinds of trees and how they might have been used for idolatrous purposes, and whether they are permitted afterw…
11 months, 2 weeks ago