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Makkot 3: Talmudic Actuary Tables
Season 25 Episode 3
How to assess the damage that the conspiring witnesses would have caused if they hadn't been determined to be conspiring: especially with monetary ca…
1 year, 5 months ago
Makkot 2: Introducing the Lashes of Conspiring Witnesses
Season 25 Episode 2
An introduction to the tractate Makkot, and to chapter 1: lashes as punishment for middle-level transgressions. Also, conspiring witnesses who cannot…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 113: Wickedness Brings Anger; Righteousness Brings Joy
Season 24 Episode 113
More on the idolatrous city - specifically, how to handle the sacred scrolls that cannot be burned (namely, bury them). How little prevents an ir ha-…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 112: Destroying Consecrated Property
Season 24 Episode 112
More on the city of idolaters... Including how to determine how at least half of the city was involved, and the process by which each was put to deat…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 111: Destroying a City of Idolaters
Season 24 Episode 111
A story of an old man in Egypt who recounted what his ancestors had done to the Israelite ancestors, which leads to a presentation of Moshe's questio…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 110: Mrs. Korach, Mrs. On, and Moshe's Authority
Season 24 Episode 110
The sin of Korach (who didn't have a portion in the World to Come)... including a focus (and blame) on the wife of Korach and the wife of On (who nam…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 109: Sins of the People of Genesis
Season 24 Episode 109
[Who's Who: Nachum Ish Gamzu] (He turned dirt into gold, after all!). The generation of the Tower of Bavel - and what they did so wrong that they los…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 108: Animal Rescue
Season 24 Episode 108
A new mishnah - it's very long - listing the groups of people who have no share in the World to Come. Such as, the generation of the flood (those who…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 107: Jesus Leaves the Jewish Path
Season 24 Episode 107
A long discussion of the sins of King David... and yes, it's a long list. Largely, and perhaps unsurprisingly, related to issues of lust. (In contras…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sanhedrin 106: The Wicked Moabite and the Wicked Edomite
Season 24 Episode 106
More on Balaam, and how was truly just so wicked, at least in the rabbinic literature. How bad was he in the Torah? Plus, he was a true prophet, rega…
1 year, 5 months ago