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Horayot 5: A Tribal Error
Season 28 Episode 5
A new mishnah! (beginning on 4b) - Who actually brings the offering to atone for the erroneous ruling? What about when the sin is per tribe? Or if th…
1 year ago
Horayot 4: Only a Child Could Make Such an Error (with all due respect to children!)
Season 28 Episode 4
An indictment of the Sadducees in the context of a court that issues an erroneous ruling that agrees with their understanding of the Torah. With a fu…
1 year ago
Horayot 3: When a Majority Means Jews in the Land of Israel
Season 28 Episode 3
Given that if the majority of Jewish people sin in following an erroneous ruling and they need to bring an offering to atone - who counts as that maj…
1 year ago
Horayot 2: Fit to Deliver a Halakhic Ruling
Season 28 Episode 2
A new tractate! On rulings that the court issues in error, and people then follow those ruling - are they held accountable, and if so, how? Sources a…
1 year ago
Avodah Zarah 76: Closing the Relationship between Jew and Non-Jew
Season 27 Episode 76
A question from a mishnah in Zevachim that contradicts the text here - because of the purging, preparation of the vessels here. Specifically on how t…
1 year ago
Avodah Zarah 75: After Non-Jewish Handling: A Process
Season 27 Episode 75
How do we purify different kinds of vessels or utensils? Boiling water should do the trick. Or maybe "olive water." Plus time - whatever that may mea…
1 year ago
Avodah Zarah 74: Jews and Non-Jews at the Wine Press
Season 27 Episode 74
Several mishnayot: 1 - A long list of those items that are prohibited and in a mixture, prohibit the entire mixture in any amount. 2 - Libation wine …
1 year ago
Avodah Zarah 73: Amoraim Agree and Disagree
Season 27 Episode 73
Siyum tomorrow, Sunday!
Mixtures of something permitted with libation wine - is prohibited, no matter how little libation wine is added. But water wi…
1 year ago
Avodah Zarah 72: Halakhah Is Not Science: Funnels
Season 27 Episode 72
Terms used in negotiating a sale or a price - and how 4 people must be in agreement for a price to apply (though the customary appraisal is by 3 peop…
1 year ago
Avodah Zarah 71: Soldiers and Merchants
Season 27 Episode 71
2 new mishnayot! (first, on the bottom of the previous daf) - when a military group enters a city in a time of peace, then when the soldiers leave, o…
1 year ago