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Shabbat 1:10-11
Season 7 Episode 87
Roasting on shabbat? In principle, processes that we might set running before shabbat can continue to operate during it, but perhaps not roasting? As…
3 years, 8 months ago
Shabbat 1:7-9
Season 7 Episode 86
After coming to blows at the entrance to the beit midrash, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel continue their debates about processes that we might set runn…
3 years, 8 months ago
Shabbat 1:4-6
Season 7 Episode 85
Swords and spears in the beyt midrash? Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel come to blows. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.
For the source …
3 years, 8 months ago
Shabbat 1:1-3
Season 7 Episode 84
The tractate of Shabbat opens with laws which seem completely obscure - carrying into and out from a private residence, reading by a light, teaching …
3 years, 8 months ago
Bikkurim 4:4-5
Season 6 Episode 83
Find out about gender-fluidity, human rights and gender-inderminacy in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
For the source sheet, look here: …
3 years, 8 months ago
Bikkurim 4:1-3
Season 6 Episode 82
Find out about gender-fluidity in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .
3 years, 8 months ago
Bikkurim 3:10-12
Season 6 Episode 81
How are bikkurim like a sefer torah? How important is the Land of Israel?
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .
3 years, 8 months ago
Bikkurim 3:7-9
Season 6 Episode 80
Questions of social status are followed by questions of intellectual and financial status, as we move towards the conclusion of the Mishnah of Bikkur…
3 years, 8 months ago
Bikkurim 3:4-6
Season 6 Episode 79
Even King Agrippas walks with his own first-fruits on his shoulder. Find out about how the ceremony works!
For the source sheet, look here: https://t…
3 years, 8 months ago
Bikkurim 3:1-3
Season 6 Episode 78
Find out about how we brought first-fruits into the temple: the procession, the flutes, the reception in Jerusalem.
For the source sheet, look here: …
3 years, 8 months ago