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Shevuot 30: Men Swearing on a Stack of Bibles
Season 26 Episode 30
Chapter 4! On the "oath of testimony" - the witness swears on the Bible that his testimony is correct, as rooted in a verse in Vayikra/Leviticus, as …
1 year, 3 months ago
Shevuot 29: Flying Camels
Season 26 Episode 29
2 mishnayot! 1 - If someone swears that something is factually incorrect is in fact true, or if someone swears about something that is impossible to …
1 year, 3 months ago
Shevuot 28: Learning Shevuot in the Beit Midrash
Season 26 Episode 28
What about conditional oaths? That means one oath forbids something, but the second may not. Unless he engineered the events of the first one, and ne…
1 year, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago