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Shevuot 27: An Uttered Oath or an Oath in Vain
Season 26 Episode 27
A new Mishnah! With exceptions to the basic laws of oaths - for example, if one swears not to fulfill a mitzvah. Rabbi Yehudah ben Beterah says that …
1 year, 1 month ago
Shevuot 26: So Much Forgetting of Things
Season 26 Episode 26
More on the tannaitic dispute of the previous daf. Delineating the logic of amplification - ribui u-miyut vs. kelal u-prat u-kelal. They're two diffe…
1 year, 1 month ago
Shevuot 25: Formulating Oaths
Season 26 Episode 25
A new mishnah! Taking a false oath about the past, or an oath about the future, which is not upheld, which turns it into a false oath, about tangible…
1 year, 1 month ago
Shevuot 24: When Is Eating Not Eating?
Season 26 Episode 24
What if one takes an oath not to eat, and then ingests non-food items, does that break the oath? What about eating non-kosher food? The key is the "i…
1 year, 1 month ago
Shevuot 23: How Precise an Oath
Season 26 Episode 23
When we talk about eating and drinking - is drinking included in an oath about eating, or not? With practical implications for whether offerings woul…
1 year, 1 month ago
Shevuot 22: Talking and Eating and Talking about Eating
Season 26 Episode 22
A discussion about speech and eating. Which includes defining when one's speech incurs a requirement to bring an offering -- like the blasphemer? A n…
1 year, 1 month ago
Shevuot 21: Don't Take God's Name in Vain
Season 26 Episode 21
Rabin brought the Torah of Rabbi Yochanan in Israel to Babylonia to establish the difference between a false oath, not keeping one's word, and sweari…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 20: Why Women Making Kiddush Matter to Oaths in Vain
Season 26 Episode 20
Starting chapter 3 with a Mishnah - and the new topic of uttering oaths. Plus, the question of taking oaths, and getting tripped up by them. Somethin…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 19: Two Paths Diverged (in a Wood)
Season 26 Episode 19
Finishing chapter 2! If there are 2 paths, one with a known source of impurity and the other ostensibly pure, and you don't know which is which, and …
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 18: Meriting Sons
Season 26 Episode 18
The case of a couple who are engaged in sexual intercourse when she realizes she has begun menstruating -- which makes their intimacy a violation of …
1 year, 2 months ago