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Sanhedrin 65: How Do You Prove That Shabbat Is Shabbat?
Season 24 Episode 65
A new mishnah! On the "ove ve-yedoni," necromancer and sorcerer, and when their death sentences (stoning) kick in. Plus, what are the differences bet…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 64: The Propensity of People to Do Evil
Season 24 Episode 64
A busy daf: First - a story of how the people prayed for idolatry to be removed from the world, to diminish sin. Including the need for an egg, which…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 63: Pronouncing the Names of Idolatries
Season 24 Episode 63
Any of the otherwise innocuous actions (hugging, kissing, washing, etc.) are problematic with regard to an idol, and incur flogging/lashes. But takin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 62: Violations while Unaware: Shabbat and Idolatry
Season 24 Episode 62
A one-discussion daf: If one did several acts of apparent worshipping of an idol in one time period of unawareness of the violation - that entails on…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 61: Idolatry Loopholes: Intent and Practice
Season 24 Episode 61
A halakhic discussion takes place when Rabbah meets Rav Hamnuna, who's looking for his oxen: 2 mishnayot contradict, over what point a person who pla…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 60: Casual Blasphemy, a Historical, Habitual Practice
Season 24 Episode 60
One who hears blasphemy from a non-Jew is not obligated to tear keriyah (in mourning for the desecration of the Name of God), as he would have been h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 59: Not the Sciatic Nerve or a Limb from a Live Animal
Season 24 Episode 59
More on the Noahide laws -- eating the limb from a live animal, in contrast to the Jews being prohibited about the same thing. But why wasn't the one…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 58: How Violence Destroys Holiness
Season 24 Episode 58
Establishing the prohibition of the illicit relationship with one's father's sister -- with nods to Moshe's parents and Avraham and Sarah. Also, what…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 57: Can a Non-Jew Be Subject to Jewish Law?
Season 24 Episode 57
More on the Noahide Laws - and the puzzling nature of law for people who are not necessarily paying any attention to Torah's requirements for them. P…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 56: Blessing God: The Need for Euphemism
Season 24 Episode 56
A new mishnah! A blasphemer is only culpable once he mentions the Name of God. All testimony would be provided using a euphemism, until the very end,…
1 year, 7 months ago