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Shevuot 7: Offerings and Atonement
Season 26 Episode 7
An investigation into the verses that teach that the sliding scale sacrifice is offered to atone for bringing impurity into the Temple, or the consec…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 6: White on White
Season 26 Episode 6
On the shades of white of tzara'at, in terms of color and brightness, and how they were to be compared, and perhaps even mixed. With various analogie…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 5: Pathways of Interpretation
Season 26 Episode 5
Beginning on the previous daf - we have a deep dive into the halakhic approach, when it comes to interpreting the biblical text. Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 4: Mishnaic Authorship -- and Lashes
Season 26 Episode 4
More on whose opinion is represented in the mishnah - Rabbi Yishmael vs. Rabbi Akiva, and why each would be the opinion represented. Plus, the underl…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 3: Sacrifices on a Sliding Scale
Season 26 Episode 3
The Gemara's introduction to Shevuot seems far afield - in its sidestepping to tzara'at blemishes and Shabbat details. So it explains the connection …
1 year, 2 months ago
Shevuot 2: Two That Are Four
Season 26 Episode 2
A new - and long - mishnah: Those who violate their oaths need to bring a sacrifice for not following through on their commitment (2 such cases). But…
1 year, 2 months ago
Makkot 24: The Promise of the Foxes
Season 25 Episode 24
More on the 613 mitzvot - and ways of encapsulating the most essential mitzvot into many fewer. Plus, the way one prophet follows the next, supplanti…
1 year, 2 months ago
Makkot 23: The Heavenly Court Supporting the People (Even King Solomon)
Season 25 Episode 23
Details of the whip itself are derived or inferred from verses in the Torah -- specifically to focus on the process of flogging the sinner. Also, the…
1 year, 2 months ago
Makkot 22: Not 40 Lashes, But 39 - And More Difficult Details
Season 25 Episode 22
3 mishnayot, but first: more on plowing, in such a way that leads to lashes. Then: details of lashes -- how many, where on the body, in numbers divis…
1 year, 2 months ago
Makkot 21: The Tattoo Taboo
Season 25 Episode 21
A daf with 2 mishnayot: 1. One who tattoos a tattoo is liable for lashes -- if the person both engraved in the skin and also added the ink. But maybe…
1 year, 2 months ago