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Sanhedrin 92: Bringing Back the Dry Bones
Season 24 Episode 92
A small corrective on Cleopatra and Rabbi Meir (we know they couldn't have actually spoken to each other; they didn't live at the same time!). From t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 91: Cleopatra and Antony
Season 24 Episode 91
Sharpening the questions asked of the sages by secular figures (of leadership), such as Cleopatra -- who wants to know if the resurrection of the dea…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 90: The World to Come
Season 24 Episode 90
Finishing the 10th chapter - and beginning the 11th. First, the dispute between the sages and Rabbi Shimon for the details and timing of execution fo…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 89: When God Hides His Reasons
Season 24 Episode 89
The daf begins with two mishnayot, basically, and they begin with a dispute between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yehudah over when to put the rebellious eld…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 88: Accepting Majority Rule
Season 24 Episode 88
On the 3 courts identified in the previous mishnah: delving into the dispute between the courts and the individual who is being questioned as a possi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 87: Disagreeing Rabbis Aren't Rebellious Elders (unless they cross that line)
Season 24 Episode 87
The Gemara specifies what kinds of cases need to be brought before the experts on the court. Plus, discussion of "going up" to the land of Israel, an…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 86: Retranslating the Ten Commandments
Season 24 Episode 86
In the discussion of kidnapping, the source is connected to the "don't steal" of the Ten Commandments (at least, according to a prominent opinion), w…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 85: The Prohibition against Hitting One's Parents: Extra Ramifications
Season 24 Episode 85
Since a son cannot hit his parents, can that son sit on a court that would decide the case of his father being subject to lashes, for example? Rav Sh…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 84: Sentenced to Strangulation
Season 24 Episode 84
First, finishing chapter 9: If a non-kohen served in the Temple, that would be punishable by death "in the hands of heaven." But that opinion seems t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanhedrin 83: The Amora Who Was Like a Tanna
Season 24 Episode 83
In the context of death that is meted out in the hands of heaven, the Gemara presents a list of those in this category - specifically, pertaining to …
1 year, 4 months ago