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Episode Date
Bava Metzia 71: When Lending with Interest Seems OK, Maybe
May 09, 2024
Bava Metzia 70: Charging Interest Non-Jews
May 08, 2024
Bava Metzia 69: Covering Costs
May 07, 2024
Bava Metzia 68: Iska
May 06, 2024
Bava Metzia 67: The Dust of Interest
May 05, 2024
Bava Metzia 66: Asmachta
May 04, 2024
Bava Metzia 65: Higher and Partial Payments
May 03, 2024
Bava Metzia 64: Looking a Lot Like Interest
May 02, 2024
Bava Metzia 63: Paying It Forward
May 01, 2024
Bava Metzia 62: Market Rates
Apr 30, 2024
Bava Metzia 61: Only God Knows the Truth
Apr 29, 2024
Bava Metzia 60: Deceptive Selling
Apr 28, 2024
Bava Metzia 59: Tanur Shel Akhnai
Apr 27, 2024
Bava Metzia 58: God Owns the Consecrated Animals
Apr 26, 2024
Bava Metzia 57: The Temple Won't Take Advantage (Because It's Allowed)
Apr 25, 2024
Bava Metzia 56: When Onaah Does Not Apply
Apr 24, 2024
Bava Metzia 55: Worth a Perutah, Need a Fifth
Apr 23, 2024
Bava Metzia 54: The Fifth
Apr 22, 2024
Bava Metzia 53: Deconsecrating Maaser Sheini
Apr 21, 2024
Bava Metzia 52: Eroded Coins
Apr 20, 2024
Bava Metzia 51: Who Can Claim Fraud
Apr 19, 2024
Bava Metzia 50: Fraud at a Sixth
Apr 18, 2024
Bava Metzia 49: A Halakhic Better Business Bureau
Apr 17, 2024
Bava Metzia 48: Divine Retribution
Apr 16, 2024
Bava Metzia 47: The Significance of a Handkerchief
Apr 15, 2024
Bava Metzia 46: The Exchange Without the Stock
Apr 14, 2024
Bava Metzia 45: The Power of Exchange
Apr 13, 2024
Bava Metzia 44: Commodity vs. Currency
Apr 12, 2024
Bava Metzia 43: Drinking the Stash
Apr 11, 2024
Bava Metzia 42: To Be a Proper Guardian
Apr 10, 2024
Bava Metzia 41: Moving the Barrel
Apr 09, 2024
Bava Metzia 40: Shrinking Produce
Apr 08, 2024
Bava Metzia 39: Apotropos - Guardian and Custodian
Apr 07, 2024
Bava Metzia 38: The Property of Captives
Apr 06, 2024
Bava Metzia 37: The Thief Who Admits He Stole
Apr 05, 2024
Bava Metzia 36: When a Guardian Hands Off to Another Guardian
Apr 04, 2024
Bava Metzia 35: Of Jewels and Cows and Land Transactions
Apr 03, 2024
Bava Metzia 34: HaMafkid
Apr 02, 2024
Bava Metzia 33: Your Father, Your Teacher
Apr 01, 2024
Bava Kamma 32: The Ban on Animals' Suffering
Mar 31, 2024
Bava Metzia 31: You Can Say That Again
Mar 30, 2024
Bava Metzia 30: Taking Care with Others' Stuff
Mar 29, 2024
Bava Metzia 29: Lost Tefillin and More
Mar 28, 2024
Bava Metzia 28: Lost & Found
Mar 27, 2024
Bava Metzia 27: Returning Lost Objects Is a Mitzvah (But Not Quite Always)
Mar 26, 2024
Bava Metzia 26: A Few Considerations
Mar 25, 2024
Bava Metzia 25: Dropped Coins
Mar 24, 2024
Bava Metzia 24: Be Nice and Give It Back
Mar 23, 2024
Bava Metzia 23: Incidental Simanim
Mar 22, 2024
Bava Metzia 22: Hospitality
Mar 21, 2024
Bava Metzia 21: Ye'ush and Siman
Mar 20, 2024
Bava Metzia 20: Lost & Found: The Documents Edition
Mar 19, 2024
Bava Metiza 19: What is the Norm?
Mar 18, 2024
Bava Metzia 18: Lost (and Found) Documents
Mar 17, 2024
Bava Metiza 17: Can a Ketubah Be a Get?
Mar 16, 2024
Bava Metzia 16: People Share the World... And Stuff Happens
Mar 15, 2024
Bava Metzia 15: So Much Unfairness of a Robber's Payback
Mar 14, 2024
Bava Metzia 14: Protecting Your Property Purchases
Mar 13, 2024
Bava Metzia 13: When Promissory Notes Don't Clarify Matters
Mar 12, 2024
Bava Metzia 12: Household Acquisition
Mar 11, 2024
Bava Metiza 11: The Will to Acquire
Mar 10, 2024
Bava Metzia 10: Falling On What You Want to Acquire
Mar 09, 2024
Bava Metzia 9: Don't Push a Donkey
Mar 08, 2024
Bava Metzia 8: Taking Ownership from Someone or No One
Mar 07, 2024
Bava Metzia 7: Hekdesh and Reshut
Mar 06, 2024
Bava Metzia 6: The Burden of Proof
Mar 05, 2024
Bava Metzia 5: Why We Don't Trust Shepherds
Mar 04, 2024
Bava Metzia 4: Determining Facts on the Ground
Mar 03, 2024
Bava Metzia 3: Oaths vs. Testimony
Mar 02, 2024
Bava Metzia 2: It's Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine!
Mar 01, 2024
Bava Kamma 119: Holding on to What Is Yours (Or Not)
Feb 29, 2024
Bava Kamma 118: Count Your Sheep!
Feb 28, 2024
Bava Kamma 117: Comeuppance for R. Yochanan and the Resurrection of R. Kahana
Feb 27, 2024
Bava Kamma 116: The Laws of Caravans
Feb 26, 2024
Bava Kamma 115: The Law of the Marketplace
Feb 25, 2024
Bava Kamma 114: Go Tell the Bees That They Are Home
Feb 24, 2024
Bava Kamma 113: Excommunication
Feb 23, 2024
Bava Kamma 112: Merciful Halakhah
Feb 22, 2024
Bava Kamma 111: Never Ever Ever Getting (It Back)
Feb 21, 2024
Bava Kamma 110: A Robbed Convert Without Heirs
Feb 20, 2024
Bava Kamma 109: Principal and Chomesh
Feb 19, 2024
Bava Kamma 108: Who Asks a Negligent Guardian to Watch Their Stuff Again?
Feb 18, 2024
Bava Kamma 107: How Can the Torah's Words Be Out of Order?!
Feb 17, 2024
Bava Kamma 106: Hekeish
Feb 16, 2024
Bava Kamma 105: Rava’s teaching
Feb 15, 2024
Bava Kamma 104: Paying the Fifth
Feb 14, 2024
Bava Kamma 103: Much Ado about a Bunch of Flax
Feb 13, 2024
Bava Kamma 102: Studying vs. Writing the Mishnah
Feb 12, 2024
Bava Kama 101: Defining the Art of a Craft
Feb 11, 2024
Bava Kamma 100: Red and Black
Feb 10, 2024
Bava Kamma 99: The Expert Slaughterer
Feb 09, 2024
Bava Kamma 98: Indirect Damages: Who Is Liable?
Feb 08, 2024
Bava Kamma 97: Worthless Coins
Feb 07, 2024
Bava Kamma 96: When Is a Palm Tree No Longer a Palm Tree?
Feb 06, 2024
Bava Kamma 95: Rebbi’s Meir and shinui koneh
Feb 05, 2024
Bava Kamma 94: Rebbe’s Takana for Teshuva
Feb 04, 2024
Bava Kamma 93: Making Something Your Own
Feb 03, 2024
Bava Kamma 92: Pray for Mercy on Others' Behalf
Feb 02, 2024
Bava Kamma 91: When an Object Becomes a Weapon
Feb 01, 2024
Bava Kamma 90: What Judge Recreates the Cases He Judges?!
Jan 31, 2024
Bava Kamma 89: Back in Ketuvot
Jan 30, 2024
Bava Kamma 88: A=B=C
Jan 29, 2024
Bava Kamma 87: Personal Injuries
Jan 28, 2024
Bava Kamma 86: Boshet (Humiliation)
Jan 28, 2024
Bava Kamma 85: Repui and Boshet
Jan 26, 2024
Bava Kamma 84: An Eye for an Eye
Jan 25, 2024
Bava Kamma 83: If You Learn Greek, Must You Think Greek Thoughts?
Jan 24, 2024
Bava Kamma 82: Ezra’s Ten
Jan 23, 2024
Bava Kamma 81: The Ten
Jan 22, 2024
Bava Kamma 80: The Curative Properties of Goat Milk
Jan 21, 2024
Bava Kamma 79: How Much Chutzpah? Ignoring God vs. Ignoring People
Jan 20, 2024
Bava Kamma 78: Kilayim animals
Jan 19, 2024
Bava Kamma 77: Meat - Holy and Treif
Jan 18, 2024
Bava Kamma 76: Answers from Eretz Yisroel
Jan 17, 2024
Bava Kamma 75: Can a Thief Get Out of Penalties by Coming Clean?!
Jan 16, 2024
Bava Kamma 74: 70a vs. 74b
Jan 15, 2024
Bava Kamma 73: Contradictions as the Beginnings of Conspiracy Theories
Jan 14, 2024
Bava Kamma 72: The Moment of Shehitah
Jan 13, 2024
Bava Kamma 71: Cooking on Shabbat
Jan 12, 2024
Bava Kamma 70: Rabbinic Power of Attorney
Jan 11, 2024
Bava Kamma 69: Discreet Efforts against Thievery
Jan 10, 2024
Bava Kamma 68: The Timeline of Despair
Jan 09, 2024
Bava Kamma 67: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Jan 08, 2024
Bava Kamma 66: Despair
Jan 07, 2024
Bava Kamma 65: When the Thief Wins
Jan 06, 2024
Bava Kamma 64: Getting Out of Paying the Fine
Jan 05, 2024
Bava Kamma 63: Thievery vs. A Claim of Thievery
Jan 04, 2024
Bava Kamma 62: Hidden Responsibilities and the Penalties for Theft
Jan 03, 2024
Bava Kamma 61: It's No Surprise That Buildings Contain Things
Jan 02, 2024
Bava Kamma 60: Who By Fire
Jan 01, 2024
Bava Kamma 59: How Mourning the Temple Is Relevant to Damages
Dec 31, 2023
Bava Kamma 58: When an Animal Gives Birth on Another's Property
Dec 30, 2023
Bava Kamma 57: Shomer Sacher vs Shomer Chinam
Dec 29, 2023
Bava Kamma 56: When the Heavenly Court Steps In
Dec 28, 2023
Bava Kamma 55: Everlasting Good for the Jewish People
Dec 27, 2023
Bava Kamma 54: When an Ox is More than an Ox
Dec 26, 2023
Bava Kamma 53: When the Ox and Pit Damage Together
Dec 25, 2023
Bava Kama 52: Good Enough for an Ox, But Not for a Camel
Dec 24, 2023
Bava Kamma 51: Injured Animals, Cisterns, and Water
Dec 23, 2023
Bava Kamma 50: Nechunya’s Pits
Dec 22, 2023
Bava Kamma 49: Not Just Piles of Money
Dec 21, 2023
Bava Kamma 48: Crouching Ox, Hidden Pit
Dec 20, 2023
Bava Kamma 47: Eating Poison
Dec 19, 2023
Bava Kamma 46: Dividing Disputed Property
Dec 18, 2023
Bava Kamma 45: The Only Sure Protection against a Goring Ox
Dec 17, 2023
Bava Kamma 44: The Intent of Animals
Dec 16, 2023
Bava Kamma 43: Unintentional Death
Dec 15, 2023
Bava Kamma 42: A Prospective Asset
Dec 14, 2023
Bava Kamma 41: The Killer Ox
Dec 13, 2023
Bava Kamma 40: Atoning for a Goring Ox
Dec 12, 2023
Bava Kamma 39: Stadium Oxen
Dec 11, 2023
Bava Kamma 38: Fulfilling Your Role on Earth
Dec 10, 2023
Bava Kamma 37: Selective Goring
Dec 09, 2023
Bava Kamma 36: How Many Oxen Can An Ox Gore
Dec 08, 2023
Bava Kamma 35: The Burden of Proof
Dec 07, 2023
Bava Kamma 34: How Much Is That Ox Worth?
Dec 06, 2023
Bava Kamma 33: If Your Ox Gores My Ox...
Dec 05, 2023
Bava Kamma 32: Damages and Unexpected Parallels
Dec 04, 2023
Bava Kamma 31: Pileup
Dec 03, 2023
Bava Kamma 30: Everyone Has a Portion in the Land of Israel
Dec 02, 2023
Bava Kamma 29: Ownerless objects
Dec 01, 2023
Bava Kamma 28: Don't Take the Law into Your Own Hands
Nov 30, 2023
Bava Kamma 27: Left Objects
Nov 29, 2023
Bava Kamma 26: When the Logic Doesn't Apply
Nov 28, 2023
Bava Kamma 25: Sufficient Logic
Nov 27, 2023
Bava Kamma 24: When an Animal You Don't Own Is Your Weapon
Nov 26, 2023
Bava Kamma 11: Ulla x 7
Nov 25, 2023
Bava Kamma 23: Big Mouth
Nov 25, 2023
Bava Kamma 22: How By Fire
Nov 24, 2023
Bava Kamma 21: Dog on a Hot Tin Roof
Nov 23, 2023
Bava Kamma 20: Squatter's Rights
Nov 22, 2023
Bava Kamma 19: Wag the Dog
Nov 21, 2023
Bava Kamma 18: Don't... Excrete Where You Eat
Nov 20, 2023
Bava Kamma 17: Can Chickens Break a Bucket?
Nov 19, 2023
Bava Kamma 16: Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!
Nov 18, 2023
Bava Kamma 15: Why 3?
Nov 17, 2023
Bava Kamma 14: 4 or Maybe 3
Nov 16, 2023
Bava Kamma 13: Kodshim as a Damager
Nov 15, 2023
Bava Kamma 12: Rabbi Yossi HaGilili and Kodshim Kalim
Nov 14, 2023
Bava Kamma 10: Partial Damager
Nov 12, 2023
Bava Kamma 9: Inheriting Debt
Nov 11, 2023
Bava Kamma 8: Land Equity
Nov 10, 2023
Bava Kamma 7: Valuation
Nov 09, 2023
Bava Kamma 6: The Best if His Field
Nov 08, 2023
Bava Kamma 5: Damage Through Speech
Nov 07, 2023
Bava Kamma 4: How Many Damages Can You Count?
Nov 06, 2023
Bava Kamma 3: Ma’veh
Nov 05, 2023
Bava Kamma 2: The First Gate
Nov 04, 2023
Kiddushin 82: The Hope of Torah
Nov 03, 2023
Kiddushin 81: Temptation
Nov 02, 2023
Kiddushin 80: Chazakot
Nov 01, 2023
Kiddushin 79: Who’s who
Oct 31, 2023
Kiddushin 78: What Can I Tell You about My Son?
Oct 30, 2023
Kiddushin 77: Widow, Widow, Widow
Oct 29, 2023
Kiddushin 76: Background Checks
Oct 28, 2023
Kiddushin 75: Shetuki and Beduki
Oct 27, 2023
Kiddushin 74: Marrying In
Oct 26, 2023
Kiddushin 73: Shetuki and Asufi
Oct 25, 2023
Kiddushin 72: The Sun Rises, the Sun Sets
Oct 24, 2023
Kiddushin 71: The Pure Babylonians
Oct 23, 2023
Kiddushin 70: Drama at the Deli
Oct 22, 2023
Kiddushin 69: The Inclusive Jewish People
Oct 21, 2023
Kiddushin 68: Matrilineal Descent
Oct 20, 2023
Kiddushin 67: Really Mixed Marriages and Their Children
Oct 19, 2023
Kiddushin 66: The World of Shimon Ben Shetach
Oct 18, 2023
Kiddushin 65: Marital Dispute
Oct 17, 2023
Kiddushin 64: Permissive Halakhah
Oct 16, 2023
Kiddushin 63: Wanting His Father's Approval, and Other Conditions
Oct 15, 2023
Kiddushin 62: That Which Does Not Yet Exist
Oct 14, 2023
Kiddushin 61: If Yes, If No
Oct 13, 2023
Kiddushin 60: The Moneylender's Money
Oct 12, 2023
Kiddushin 59: Underhanded Betrothal
Oct 11, 2023
Kiddushin 58: The Benefit of Terumah
Oct 10, 2023
Kiddushin 57: That Little Hebrew Word "Et"
Oct 09, 2023
Kiddushin 56: Holy Economics
Oct 08, 2023
Kiddushin 55: When Animals Wandered the Jerusalem Countryside
Oct 07, 2023
Kiddushin 54: The Holy Stones of Jerusalem
Oct 06, 2023
Kiddushin 53: Designated for God, and Not for Betrothal
Oct 05, 2023
Kiddushin 52: The Vexatious Students of Rabbi Meir and Their Defense
Oct 04, 2023
Kiddushin 51: Consummating Betrothal
Oct 03, 2023
Kiddushin 50: So Many Ways Kiddushin Doesn't Work
Oct 02, 2023
Kiddushin 49: If I Were a Rich Man
Oct 01, 2023
Kiddushin 48: False Pretenses
Sep 30, 2023
Kiddushin 47: How a Woman's Sensibility Affects Kiddushin
Sep 29, 2023
Kiddushin 46: The Amoraim Don't Understand the Mishnah!
Sep 28, 2023
Kiddushin 45: A Glass of Wine, a Bundle of Vegetables, and the Marketplace
Sep 27, 2023
Kiddushin 44: Missing a Day in the Beit Midrash
Sep 26, 2023
Kiddushin 43: Is the Hitman Liable or Is the One Who Hires Him?
Sep 25, 2023
Kiddushin 42: When Is an Agent Not an Agent? (For Sin)
Sep 24, 2023
Kiddushin 41: Better Not to Be Alone
Sep 23, 2023
Kiddushin 40: Torah Study vs. Doing Mitzvot
Sep 22, 2023
Kiddushin 39: Reward, Punishment, and the World to Come
Sep 21, 2023
Kiddushin 38: The Birthdays of the Righteous
Sep 20, 2023
Kiddushin 37: Settling the Land - with Mitzvot
Sep 19, 2023
Kiddushin 36: Children of God
Sep 18, 2023
Kiddushin 35: The Bearded Lady
Sep 17, 2023
Kiddushin 34: The Path to Women's Exemptions
Sep 17, 2023
Kiddushin 33: The Ear of Rabbi Yosef's Donkey
Sep 15, 2023
Kiddushin 32: "Sit, Sit, No Need to Stand"
Sep 14, 2023
Kiddushin 31: The Poster Child for Honoring One's Parents
Sep 13, 2023
Kiddushin 30: Sink or Swim
Sep 12, 2023
Kiddushin 29: Teach Your Sons (er, no, not your daughters)
Sep 11, 2023
Kiddushin 28: Bartering vs. Purchasing
Sep 10, 2023
Kiddushin 27: Agav Continued
Sep 09, 2023
Kiddushin 26: Agav
Sep 08, 2023
Kiddushin 25: Is Castration an Incapacitating, Go-Free Injury?
Sep 07, 2023
Kiddushin 24: An Eye for a Slave's Eye, a Tooth for a Slave's Tooth
Sep 06, 2023
Kiddushin 23: The Slave's Simultaneous Freedom and Ownership
Sep 05, 2023
Kiddushin 22: There's Only One Master of the Universe
Sep 04, 2023
Kiddushin 21: Retziah
Sep 03, 2023
Kiddushin 20: When Poverty Happens to Good People
Sep 02, 2023
Kiddushin 19: From Slavery to Marriage
Sep 01, 2023
Kiddushin 18: How to Read a Verse
Aug 31, 2023
Kiddushin 17: How to Calculate Severance
Aug 30, 2023
Kiddushin 16: Severance Gifts
Aug 29, 2023
Kiddushin 15: Cross-generational Talmudic Debate
Aug 28, 2023
Kiddushin 14: Protective Servitude?
Aug 27, 2023
Kiddushin 13: Could Women Have Known the Halakhot?
Aug 26, 2023
Kiddushin 12: When Is Less Than a Perutah Like a Perutah?
Aug 25, 2023
Kiddushin 11: The Value of Money
Aug 24, 2023
Kiddushin 10: The Gemara Isn't Blushing
Aug 23, 2023
Kiddushin 9: Kiddushin Is Not a Bill of Sale
Aug 22, 2023
Kiddushin 8: The Value of 5 Selaim
Aug 22, 2023
Kiddushin 7: A Wife as Property and as Not-Property
Aug 21, 2023
Kiddushin 6: Chit-chat and the Benefit of a Loan
Aug 19, 2023
Kiddushin 5: A Wedding Canopy Can't Effect Betrothal
Aug 18, 2023
Kiddushin 4: Betrothal with Money
Aug 17, 2023
Kiddushin 3: From Her Father's House to Her Husband's House
Aug 16, 2023
Kiddushin 2: Buying a Wife
Aug 15, 2023
Gittin 90: When Not to Stay Married
Aug 14, 2023
Gittin 89: The Moonlight Spinners
Aug 13, 2023
Gittin 88: Generation to Generation
Aug 12, 2023
Gittin 87: Signatures in Both Directions
Aug 11, 2023
Gittin 86: Handwriting, Witnesses, and a Common Get
Aug 10, 2023
Gittin 85: What IS a Get, Anyway?
Aug 09, 2023
Gittin 84: Absurd Conditions for Divorce
Aug 08, 2023
Gittin 83: In Rabbi Eliezer's Wake
Aug 07, 2023
Gittin 82: Exceptions That Seem to Break the Rules
Aug 06, 2023
Gittin 81: Rumors
Aug 05, 2023
Gittin 80: So May Ways to Invalidate a Divorce
Aug 04, 2023
Gittin 79: Pitching to the Rooftops
Aug 03, 2023
Gittin 78: Bound and Sleeping
Aug 02, 2023
Gittin 77: When Your Property Accepts Your Get
Aug 01, 2023
Gittin 76: Proactive Conditional Divorce
Jul 31, 2023
Gittin 75: The art of negotiations
Jul 30, 2023
Gittin 74: When a Woman Pays for Her Own Get
Jul 29, 2023
Gittin 73: If a Lion Eats a Man Who Has a Conditional Get
Jul 28, 2023
Gittin 72: If He Dies before He Wakes, There's a Get for Her to Take (not really)
Jul 28, 2023
Gittin 71: When Deaf Is Not Deaf-Mute
Jul 26, 2023
Gittin 70: Don't Eat Standing Up
Jul 25, 2023
Gittin 69: More Than Old Wives' Tales
Jul 24, 2023
Gittin 68: King Solomon and the Demon
Jul 23, 2023
Gittin 67: The Ways of the Sages
Jul 22, 2023
Gittin 66: Demons and Shadows
Jul 21, 2023
Gittin 65: Stipulations That Work and Some That Don't
Jul 20, 2023
Gittin 64: Old Enough for a Get
Jul 19, 2023
Gittin 63: A Messenger to Accept a Get
Jul 18, 2023
Gittin 62: Shalom, Shalom!
Jul 17, 2023
Gittin 61: Trusting Your Fellow Jew
Jul 16, 2023
Gittin 60: Writing Down the Torah (Or Not)
Jul 15, 2023
Gittin 59: Moshe Rabbenu, Rebbi, and Rav Ashi
Jul 14, 2023
Gittin 58: The Depths of Jewish Identity and the Depths to Which We Sink
Jul 13, 2023
Gittin 57: Titus, Balaam, Jesus, and Rome
Jul 12, 2023
Gittin 56: R. Yochanan ben Zakkai vs. Rome
Jul 11, 2023
Gittin 55: Bar Kamtza and Rabbinic Apathy
Jul 10, 2023
Gittin 54: Intent
Jul 09, 2023
Gittin 53: Unrecognizable Damages
Jul 08, 2023
Gittin 52: The Responsibilities of an Apotropos
Jul 07, 2023
Gittin 51: Swearing to Prove One's Honesty
Jul 06, 2023
Gittin 50: Settling Debts
Jul 05, 2023
Gittin 49: Women Want to Get Married
Jul 04, 2023
Gittin 48: Owning an Ancestral Field l
Jul 03, 2023
Gittin 47: Resh Lakish's Last Day among the Gladiators
Jul 02, 2023
Gittin 46: 'Your Silence Is Better Than Your Speech'
Jul 01, 2023
Gittin 45: Rabbi Nachman's Righteous Daughters
Jun 30, 2023
Gittin 44: Selling Slaves to Non-Jews, Despite the Penalty
Jun 29, 2023
Gittin 43: Penalizing the Seller of Slaves
Jun 28, 2023
Gittin 42: Terumah via the Slave's Owner
Jun 27, 2023
Gittin 41: Freeing Slaves for Tikkun Olam
Jun 26, 2023
Gittin 40: Jangling Coins to Freedom
Jun 25, 2023
Gittin 39: Why It Takes a "Get" to Free
Jun 24, 2023
Gittin 38: Slavery and Its Discontents
Jun 23, 2023
Gittin 37: Prozbul Part 2
Jun 22, 2023
Gittin 36: Prozbul
Jun 21, 2023
Gittin 35: A Widow’s Vow
Jun 20, 2023
Gittin 34: Rabbinic Will
Jun 19, 2023
Gittin 33: Tikkun Olam
Jun 18, 2023
Gittin 32: Voiding the Get
Jun 17, 2023
Gittin 31: An Easterly Wind Blows
Jun 16, 2023
Gittin 30: You Can Assume People Stay Alive
Jun 15, 2023
Gittin 29: Verifying a Shaliach
Jun 14, 2023
Gittin 28: Schrodinger's Get
Jun 13, 2023
Gittin 27: A Shaliach's Worst Nightmare?
Jun 12, 2023
Gittin 26: "Because of the Decree"
Jun 11, 2023
Gittin 25: Retroactive Clarification
Jun 10, 2023
Gittin 24: When a Woman Is Her Own Shaliach
Jun 09, 2023
Gittin 23: Is R. Sheshet Too Harsh on Why Blind People Can't Deliver a Get?
Jun 08, 2023
Gittin 22: The Case of Carrying Hide on Shabbat to Write a Get on It
Jun 07, 2023
Gittin 21: Practical Get
Jun 06, 2023
Gittin 20: Divorce: In Gold or on a Slave
Jun 05, 2023
Gittin 19: The Advantages of Gall Ink
Jun 04, 2023
Gittin 18: Travel Time
Jun 03, 2023
Gittin 17: When the Sun Sets on a Document's Date
Jun 02, 2023
Gittin 16: When Is the Mikveh Like a Divorce?
Jun 01, 2023
Gittin 15: The Writing and the Signing
May 31, 2023
Gittin 14: When Is Taking Not Acquiring?
May 30, 2023
Gittin 13: From Divorces to Debts
May 29, 2023
Gittin 12: The King's Daughter's Glory: In the Palace - and the Workplace
May 28, 2023
Gittin 11: Benefit to Others in Their Absence
May 27, 2023
Gittin 10: When Mishnayot Need Help from Gemara
May 27, 2023
Gittin 9: Death-bed Contracts
May 25, 2023
Gittin 8: Severing a Relationship
May 24, 2023
Gittin 7: If and When to Turn to Secular Authorities
May 23, 2023
Gittin 6: But What About Bavel
May 22, 2023
Gittin 5: We Don't Look to Create Mamzerim
May 21, 2023
Gittin 4: Who Knew the Law?
May 20, 2023
Gittin 3: Can a Woman Witness Her Own Get?
May 19, 2023
Gittin 2: Divorce and the Borders of the Land of Israel
May 18, 2023
Sotah 49: What We Lost
May 17, 2023
Sotah 48: Cancelling Mitzvot
May 16, 2023
Sotah 47: Jesus, Uncensored
May 15, 2023
Sotah 46: Did the Gemara Just Take a Position on Gun Violence?!
May 14, 2023
Sotah 45: Head and Body
May 13, 2023
Sotah 44: When War Is a Mitzvah
May 12, 2023
Sotah 43: Every New Homeowner Has a Housewarming
May 11, 2023
Sotah 42: Priest of War, Man of War
May 10, 2023
Sotah 41: Corrupting Flattery
May 09, 2023
Sotah 40: You Don't Say 'Amen' in the Beit HaMikdash
May 08, 2023
Sotah 39: An Infinite Circle of Blessing
May 07, 2023
Sotah 38: Priestly Blessings
May 06, 2023
Sotah 37: Mathematical Gymnastics
May 05, 2023
Sotah 36: The Punishing Hornet and God's Righteous Name
May 04, 2023
Sotah 35: Bad Reporting
May 03, 2023
Sotah 34: Spying the Land
May 02, 2023
Sotah 33: Do the Angels on High Need Our Prayers?
May 01, 2023
Sotah 32: Blessings and Curses and Sharing One's Pain
Apr 30, 2023
Sotah 31: Love and Fear
Apr 29, 2023
Sotah 30: Responsive Singing at the Sea
Apr 28, 2023
Sotah 29: Logic vs. Verses
Apr 27, 2023
Sotah 28: Belly and Thigh
Apr 26, 2023
Sotah 27: All in a Single Day's Work
Apr 25, 2023
Sotah 26: Innocent, But Ill: Reacting to the Bitter Waters
Apr 24, 2023
Sotah 25: What's the Good of Warnings?
Apr 23, 2023
Sotah 24: Women Who Don’t Drink
Apr 22, 2023
Sotah 23: Men and Women on Display
Apr 21, 2023
Sotah 22: With Great Knowledge Comes Great Responsibility
Apr 20, 2023
Sotah 21: A Woman's Merits and a Pious Fool
Apr 19, 2023
Sotah 20: Women and Learning Torah
Apr 18, 2023
Sotah 19: Waving
Apr 17, 2023
Sotah 18: When There's No (Apparent) Rabbinic Will
Apr 16, 2023
Sotah 17: What's in a Scroll?
Apr 15, 2023
Sotah 16: The Power of Tradition
Apr 14, 2023
Sotah 15: Meal-Offerings
Apr 13, 2023
Sotah 14: Mimicking God, and Protecting the Sotah
Apr 12, 2023
Sotah 13: Burying the Great Ones
Apr 11, 2023
Sotah 12: Moshe's Special Birth
Apr 10, 2023
Sotah 11: In the Merit of Righteous Women
Apr 09, 2023
Sotah 10: Tamar, as Foil to the Sotah
Apr 08, 2023
Sotah 9: Nearly Guilty until Proven Innocent
Apr 07, 2023
Sotah 8: Fear and Trembling
Apr 06, 2023
Sotah 7: Journey to Jerusalem
Apr 05, 2023
Sotah 6: Adultery in the Temple (wait, really?!)
Apr 04, 2023
Sotah 5: A Tiny Bit of Arrogance
Apr 03, 2023
Sotah 4: Tracking Time
Apr 02, 2023
Sotah 3: Protecting Our Relationships
Apr 01, 2023
Sotah 2: There Is Smoke. Is There Fire?
Mar 31, 2023
Nazir 66: The Prophet Samuel - Nazir or No?
Mar 30, 2023
Nazir 65: An Unknown Graveyard
Mar 29, 2023
Nazir 64: Floating Impure Mush
Mar 28, 2023
Nazir 63: The Matter Has Legs
Mar 27, 2023
Nazir 62: Not Placing a Value on Non-Jews
Mar 26, 2023
Nazir 61: The Mesorah of Nazir
Mar 25, 2023
Nazir 60: 4 Cases of Purification
Mar 24, 2023
Nazir 59: Women Who Wear Trousers
Mar 23, 2023
Nazir 58: The Fringes, the Garment, and Hair Removal
Mar 22, 2023
Nazir 57: Am I Impure, or Is That You?
Mar 21, 2023
Nazir 56: Links in the Chain
Mar 20, 2023
Nazir 55: When Do you Need a Haircut?
Mar 19, 2023
Nazir 54: When the Land Is Impure
Mar 18, 2023
Nazir 53: Did the Halakhah Change?
Mar 17, 2023
Nazir 52: What's Worse Than Finding a Worm in an Apple?
Mar 16, 2023
Nazir 51: Dust to Dust
Mar 15, 2023
Nazir 50: Melt the Fat Away
Mar 14, 2023
Nazir 49: What Will Become of the Torah?!
Mar 13, 2023
Nazir 48: Parallels, Logic, Necessary Cases, and Drama
Mar 12, 2023
Nazir 47: Miriam the Nezirah
Mar 11, 2023
Nazir 46: Nezirut and Impediments to Completing It
Mar 10, 2023
Nazir 45: The Lesson of Eyeliner and Blush
Mar 09, 2023
Nazir 44: Shaving for Purity
Mar 08, 2023
Nazir 43: The Beheaded Kohen
Mar 07, 2023
Nazir 42: If a Nazir Is Bald, Can He Shave?
Mar 06, 2023
Nazir 41: The Other Side
Mar 05, 2023
Nazir 40: A Nazir, a Metzora, and a Levite Walk into a Barbershop
Mar 04, 2023
Nazir 39: Does Hair Grow from the Tip or the Root?
Mar 03, 2023
Nazir 38: A Revi'it of White, a Revi'it of Red
Mar 02, 2023
Nazir 37: Meat, Milk, and Grape Products
Mar 01, 2023
Nazir 36: A Recipe for Prohibited Soup
Feb 28, 2023
Nazir 35: Two Grape-seeds and a Grape-skin
Feb 27, 2023
Nazir 34: Grapes: Skins, Seeds, Twigs, and All
Feb 26, 2023
Nazir 33: A Page with No Gemara?!
Feb 25, 2023
Nazir 32: It's Not the Staff That Sanctifies
Feb 24, 2023
Nazir 31: The Black Ox and the White Ox
Feb 23, 2023
Nazir 30: Wait for Elijah
Feb 22, 2023
Nazir 29: A Father's Vow of Nezirut for His Son
Feb 21, 2023
Nazir 28: Revoking a Wife's Vow and Making a Vow for a Son
Feb 20, 2023
Nazir 27: Sons and Fathers
Feb 19, 2023
Nazir 26: Exceptions Made for the Nazir Offerings
Feb 18, 2023
Nazir 25: It Is What It Is
Feb 17, 2023
Nazir 24: Interrupting a Woman's Nezirut
Feb 16, 2023
Nazir 23: Pure Motives
Feb 15, 2023
Nazir 22: The Importance of Tone
Feb 14, 2023
Nazir 21: The Conundrum of the Husband Who Joins His Wife's Nezirut
Feb 13, 2023
Nazir 20: Overhearing a Vow of Nezirut: Then What?
Feb 12, 2023
Nazir 19: Religious Bargaining
Feb 11, 2023
Nazir 18: Elegant Exegesis
Feb 10, 2023
Nazir 17: A Month in a Cemetery - Nazir or Not?
Feb 09, 2023
Nazir 16: A Contradiction in a Nazir's Terms
Feb 08, 2023
Nazir 15: To Contradict a Mishnah
Feb 07, 2023
Nazir 14: Nazir Teasers (as it were)
Feb 06, 2023
Nazir 13: Tips for Taking a Vow of Nezirut
Feb 05, 2023
Nazir 12: For the Birds
Feb 04, 2023
Nazir 11: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
Feb 03, 2023
Nazir 10: The Talking Cow
Feb 02, 2023
Nazir 9: People Know What a Nazir Is
Feb 01, 2023
Nazir 8: To Be a Nazir Forever
Jan 31, 2023
Nazir 7: Until the End of the World
Jan 30, 2023
Nazir 6: Growing Your Hair Long
Jan 29, 2023
Nazir 5: How Long Nezirut?
Jan 28, 2023
Nazir 4: Samson Didn't Vow
Jan 27, 2023
Nazir 3: Beauty Is as It Does
Jan 26, 2023
Nazir 2: The Vow of the Nazir
Jan 25, 2023
Nedarim 91: Signs of an Affair
Jan 24, 2023
Nedarim 90: Is Annulment Dependent on Revocation
Jan 23, 2023
Nedarim 89: The Vows That Can't Be Revoked
Jan 22, 2023
Nedarim 88: Can a Blind Man See?
Jan 21, 2023
Nedarim 87: Missing Intel
Jan 20, 2023
Nedarim 86: Who Owns a Wife's Body?
Jan 19, 2023
Nedarim 85: Swearing Away the Future
Jan 18, 2023
Nedarim 84: The Pool of Poor People
Jan 17, 2023
Nedarim 83: If It's a Mitzvah, It's No Gift
Jan 16, 2023
Nedarim 82: Combination Nedarim
Jan 15, 2023
Nedarim 81: Swearing Off Makeup
Jan 14, 2023
Nedarim 80: Defining Affliction
Jan 13, 2023
Nedarim 79: The Safety Net
Jan 12, 2023
Nedarim 78: To Annoy His Wife
Jan 11, 2023
Nedarim 77: Did You Nullify Your Vows before Candle-lighting?
Jan 10, 2023
Nedarim 76: Defining a Day
Jan 09, 2023
Nedarim 75: Preventative Measures
Jan 08, 2023
Nedarim 74: Yibum and Revoking Vows
Jan 07, 2023
Nedarim 73: Impossible vs. Improbable
Jan 06, 2023
Nedarim 72: The Role of Divorce in Upholding Vows
Jan 05, 2023
Nedarim 71: 100 Betrothals
Jan 04, 2023
Nedarim 70: The Male Claim to the Betrothed Young Woman
Jan 03, 2023
Nedarim 69: An Infinity Loop
Jan 02, 2023
Nedarim 68: A Father and a Husband
Jan 01, 2023
Nedarim 67: Revoking a Young Woman's Vows
Dec 31, 2022
Nedarim 66: The Beautiful Daughters of Israel
Dec 30, 2022
Nedarim 65: Nebuchadnezzar's Knowledge of Halakhah
Dec 29, 2022
Nedarim 64: Guilt Trips
Dec 28, 2022
Nedarim 63: Personal Prohibition and the Extreme
Dec 27, 2022
Nedarim 62: The Great Rabbi Tarfon
Dec 26, 2022
Nedarim 61: Jubilee Celebrations
Dec 25, 2022
Nedarim 60: A Vow of Time
Dec 24, 2022
Nedarim 59: When Is an Onion an Onion? (yes, still the onion)
Dec 23, 2022
Nedarim 58: Onion Is as Onion Does (or Grows)
Dec 22, 2022
Nedarim 57: Do Growing and Replanting Remove Foods from a Vow?
Dec 21, 2022
Nedarim 56: Inside/Outside
Dec 20, 2022
Nedarim 55: It's All According to the One Who Vows
Dec 19, 2022
Nedarim 54: Defining "Vegetables"
Dec 18, 2022
Nedarim 53: Olive Oil, Winter Grapes, and Asparagus
Dec 17, 2022
Nedarim 52: Curds and Whey
Dec 16, 2022
Nedarim 51: Awkward Wedding Chitchat
Dec 15, 2022
Nedarim 50: Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Yehoshua, and the Beauty of Torah
Dec 14, 2022
Nedarim 49: Have Some Carbs with Your Carbs
Dec 13, 2022
Nedarim 48: Why Nedarim?!
Dec 12, 2022
Nedarim 47: Prohibiting Something That Doesn't Yet Exist
Dec 11, 2022
Nedarim 46: Bathhouses and Olive Presses
Dec 10, 2022
Nedarim 45: The Smallest Public
Dec 09, 2022
Nedarim 44: Hefker Remorse
Dec 08, 2022
Nedarim 43: Very Helpful Work-Arounds
Dec 07, 2022
Nedarim 42: A Vow of No-Benefit and the Seventh Year
Dec 06, 2022
Nedarim 41: 13 Versions
Dec 05, 2022
Nedarim 40: The Healing Powers of Visiting the Sick
Dec 04, 2022
Nedarim 39: Removing 1/60th of Suffering
Dec 03, 2022
Nedarim 38: Wealthy Prophets (No pun intended)
Dec 02, 2022
Nedarim 37: Do Daughters Need Safeguarding?
Dec 01, 2022
Nedarim 36: Consent and Benefit
Nov 30, 2022
Nedarim 35: What Is the Role of a Kohen?
Nov 29, 2022
Nedarim 34: Versions
Nov 28, 2022
Nedarim 33: Fine-tuning Distinctions
Nov 27, 2022
Nedarim 32: The Power and Importance of Brit Milah
Nov 26, 2022
Nedarim 31: Labeling People
Nov 26, 2022
Nedarim 30: Utterly Extreme Vows
Nov 24, 2022
Nedarim 29: Is There a Grace Period for a Vow?
Nov 23, 2022
Nedarim 28: The Promises Made in Dire Straits
Nov 22, 2022
Nedarim 27: How to Really Mean What You Say
Nov 21, 2022
Nedarim 26: (Some) Onions Are Good for the Heart
Nov 20, 2022
Nedarim 25: Unwitting, Accidental Vows
Nov 19, 2022
Nedarim 24: Circumstances beyond Our Control
Nov 18, 2022
Nedarim 23: Abaye Goes Too Far
Nov 17, 2022
Nedarim 22: Down with Vows
Nov 16, 2022
Nedarim 21: If It Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, It's Still Not Always a Duck
Nov 15, 2022
Nedarim 20: Women and the Deli Counter
Nov 14, 2022
Nedarim 19: The Burden of Proof
Nov 13, 2022
Nedarim 18: Context Matters: Swearing Casually and Its Implications
Nov 12, 2022
Nedarim 17: How One Can Be a Nazir Twice at the Same Time
Nov 11, 2022
Nedarim 16: Nedarim vs. Shevuot
Nov 10, 2022
Nedarim 15: Conditional Vows
Nov 09, 2022
Nedarim 14: When Your Vow Doesn't Work
Nov 08, 2022
Nedarim 13: Granularity
Nov 07, 2022
Nedarim 12: The Breads of the Thanksgiving Offering
Nov 06, 2022
Nedarim 11: The Value of "Francis Bacon"
Nov 05, 2022
Nedarim 10: Sinner or Saint
Nov 04, 2022
Nedarim 9: Righteous People Don't Take Vows
Nov 03, 2022
Nedarim 8: Sworn to Do Mitzvot since Sinai
Nov 02, 2022
Nedarim 7: A Halakhic Bathroom and a Reversed Excommunication
Nov 01, 2022
Nedarim 6: Partial-statement Marriage
Oct 31, 2022
Nedarim 5: When Are Inconclusive, Ambiguous Statements Valid?
Oct 30, 2022
Nedarim 4: The Prohibition against Dawdling
Oct 29, 2022
Nedarim 3: Two Routes to the Same Destination
Oct 28, 2022
Nedarim 2: All the Vows
Oct 27, 2022
Ketubot 112: Honey, I Shrunk the Fruit
Oct 26, 2022
Ketubot 111: The 3 Oaths
Oct 25, 2022
Ketubot 110: Forcing Your Family to Make Aliyah
Oct 24, 2022
Ketubot 109: She Should Wait for Him until Her Hair Turns White
Oct 23, 2022
Ketubot 108: Unfair to the Daughters or the Sons?
Oct 22, 2022
Ketubot 107: Shmuel's Difficult Opinion
Oct 21, 2022
Ketubot 106: Rising Dust
Oct 20, 2022
Ketubot 105: Judges in Jerusalem
Oct 19, 2022
Ketubot 104: Praying for an End to Suffering
Oct 18, 2022
Ketubot 103: 30 Days of Mourning for R. Yehudah HaNasi
Oct 17, 2022
Ketubot 102: Put It in Writing! Or Maybe Not
Oct 16, 2022
Ketubot 101: Are We Back In Yevamot?
Oct 15, 2022
Ketubot 100: When the Assessor Errs
Oct 14, 2022
Ketubot 99: The Responsibility of Representation
Oct 13, 2022
Ketubot 98: Widows' Sales
Oct 12, 2022
Ketubot 97: The Ketubah as Capital
Oct 11, 2022
Ketubot 96: Taking Care of the Widow (Via the Orphans?)
Oct 10, 2022
Ketubot 95: A Wife's Role in Her Husband's Real Estate
Oct 09, 2022
Ketubot 94: Time-stamping Documents
Oct 08, 2022
Ketubot 93: The Complication of Additional Players in Financial Allotment
Oct 07, 2022
Ketubot 92: Buyers and Creditors
Oct 06, 2022
Ketubot 91: Repossession
Oct 05, 2022
Ketubot 90: Inheritance and Debt-Collection
Oct 04, 2022
Ketubot 89: Why We Want Paperwork
Oct 03, 2022
Ketubot 88: He Said, She Said (or He Said, or They Said)
Oct 02, 2022
Ketubot 87: Divorce Court (as it were)
Oct 01, 2022
Ketubot 86: Forcing a Debtor to Pay Up
Sep 30, 2022
Ketubot 85: To the Rightful Owner
Sep 29, 2022
Ketubot 84: When the Sages Disagree (Whom Do We Follow?)
Sep 28, 2022
Ketubot 83: A Cucumber Is Better Than a Gourd
Sep 27, 2022
Ketubot 82: The Day Resh Lakish Tweaked the Mishnah
Sep 27, 2022
Ketubot 81: Mishnaic Good Advice
Sep 27, 2022
Ketubot 80: A Deep-Dive into Eating
Sep 24, 2022
Ketubot 79: Hiding Property in Plain Sight
Sep 23, 2022
Ketubot 78: He Gets the Fruits of Her Property
Sep 22, 2022
Ketubot 77: A Chat between God and the Angel of Death
Sep 21, 2022
Ketubot 76: The Case of the Extra Toe
Sep 20, 2022
Ketubot 75: Women on Display
Sep 19, 2022
Ketubot 74: The Doctor and the Wise One
Sep 18, 2022
Ketubot 73: When Is a Marriage a Marriage?
Sep 17, 2022
Ketubot 72: The Hair-Covering Daf
Sep 16, 2022
Ketubot 71: "Place a Finger between Her Teeth"
Sep 15, 2022
Ketubot 70: Absurd, Outlandish Vows and the Third-party Loopholes around Them
Sep 14, 2022
Ketubot 69: Last of the Tannaim, First of the Amoraim
Sep 13, 2022
Ketubot 68: You Don't Have to Be Homeless to Need Help
Sep 12, 2022
Ketubot 67: Buffet's Giving Pledge and Talmudic Tzedakah
Sep 11, 2022
Ketubot 66: Why a Wife's Humiliation Shames Her Husband
Sep 10, 2022
Ketubot 65: Real Wives of Abaye and Rava
Sep 09, 2022
Ketubot 64: A Woman's Provisions
Sep 08, 2022
Ketubot 63: Rabbi Akiva: Shepherd, Scholar, Husband
Sep 07, 2022
Ketubot 62: Those Special Friday Nights
Sep 06, 2022
Ketubot 61: Mommy Wars and Whetting a Waiter's Appetite
Sep 05, 2022
Ketubot 60: A Mother and Child Reunion
Sep 04, 2022
Ketubot 59: A Wife's Responsibilities
Sep 03, 2022
Ketubot 58: Did the Kohen Cook Dinner?
Sep 02, 2022
Ketubot 57: Using Rivka's Story to Explain No Child-Marriage
Sep 01, 2022
Ketubot 56: Love of the Chuppah - Or of the Wedding Night
Aug 31, 2022
Ketubot 55: Intent to Marry
Aug 30, 2022
Ketubot 54: Respecting Respective Rabbis' Views: On Inheritance
Aug 29, 2022
Ketubot 53: When a Girl Becomes a Woman (financially speaking)
Aug 28, 2022
Ketubot 52: Captives, Bloodletting, and Tailoring a Standardized Ketubah
Aug 27, 2022
Ketubot 51: Rape Is Rape (Or: Where Shmuel's Father Goes Wrong)
Aug 26, 2022
Ketubot 50: Age-Appropriate Curriculum
Aug 25, 2022
Ketubot 49: Even the Jackal Feeds Its Young
Aug 24, 2022
Ketubot 48: The Transactional Equations of Marriage
Aug 23, 2022
Ketubot 47: A Wife's Monies
Aug 22, 2022
Ketubot 46: The Triangle of Husband, Wife, and Her Father
Aug 21, 2022
Ketubot 45: Stoning at the Entrance to the City
Aug 20, 2022
Ketubot 44: Tailor-made Ketubot
Aug 19, 2022
Ketubot 43: Halakhic Estate Planning
Aug 18, 2022
Ketubot 42: Seduction Is Not Consent
Aug 17, 2022
Ketubot 41: Partial Payments and a Goring Ox
Aug 16, 2022
Ketubot 40: Putting a Price on Humiliation
Aug 15, 2022
Ketubot 39: Trigger Warning: Rape
Aug 14, 2022
Ketubot 38: She Can't Go Home Again
Aug 13, 2022
Ketubot 37: An Ethic of Justice
Aug 12, 2022
Ketubot 36: The Spectrum of Violation
Aug 11, 2022
Ketubot 35: Building Up a Gezarah Shavah
Aug 10, 2022
Ketubot 34: Two Sins, One Death Penalty
Aug 09, 2022
Ketubot 33: Lashes, Warnings, and the Fiery Furnace
Aug 08, 2022
Ketubot 32: According to the Amount of One's Wickedness
Aug 07, 2022
Ketubot 31: Walking, Standing and Throwing
Aug 05, 2022
Ketubot 30: When a Thief Is Caught Red-handed, Yet He May Not Have to Pay
Aug 05, 2022
Ketubot 29: If a Kohen Gadol Rapes a Widow, Can They Marry?
Aug 04, 2022
Ketubot 28: Childhood Memories
Aug 03, 2022
Ketubot 27: Holding Hands: To No Avail
Aug 02, 2022
Ketubot 26: A Woman in Ashkelon
Aug 01, 2022
Ketubot 25: Are You Sure the Kohen Is a Kohen?
Jul 31, 2022
Ketubot 24: Could Kohanim Collude?
Jul 30, 2022
Ketubot 23: Women Testify
Jul 29, 2022
Ketubot 22: Self-incrimination, to a Degree
Jul 28, 2022
Ketubot 21: Witnesses, Judges, and Stumped Amoraim
Jul 27, 2022
Ketubot 20: Wherefore Mounds of Dirt?
Jul 26, 2022
Ketubot 19: Unreliable Documentation in Financial Halakhah
Jul 25, 2022
Ketubot 18: Signing Your Life Away
Jul 24, 2022
Ketubot 17: All Brides Are Beautiful
Jul 23, 2022
Ketubot 16: Virgin Brides
Jul 22, 2022
Ketubot 15: An Abandoned Baby
Jul 21, 2022
Ketubot 14: A Widow of Dough
Jul 20, 2022
Yevamot 13: Speaking Together (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Jul 19, 2022
Yevamot 12: Crying Rape Is Not Crying Wolf
Jul 18, 2022
Ketubot 11: Virginity: A Lack of Sexual Activity or an Intact Hymen?
Jul 17, 2022
Ketubot 10: Protecting the Virginity of the Virgins
Jul 16, 2022
Ketubot 9: An Open Opening and the Righteousness of King David
Jul 15, 2022
Ketubot 8: Celebrating Weddings
Jul 14, 2022
Ketubot 7: The Universal Practice of... Sex
Jul 13, 2022
Ketubot 6: When the Bride Isn't Ready for Marriage
Jul 12, 2022
Ketubot 5: When to Stick Your Fingers in Your Ears
Jul 11, 2022
Ketubot 4: Sad on Your Wedding Day
Jul 10, 2022
Ketubot 3: Roman Oppression of Brides-to-Be
Jul 09, 2022
Ketubot 2: Unforseen Circumstances
Jul 08, 2022
Yevamot 122: Bringing Peace to the World
Jul 07, 2022
Yevamot 121: Not Learning Halakhah from a Miracle
Jul 06, 2022
Yevamot 120: Talmudic Forensics
Jul 05, 2022
Yevamot 119: Starting with Co-wives, Ending with Co-wives
Jul 04, 2022
Yevamot 118: Whom Did I Betroth?
Jul 03, 2022
Yevamot 117: The Hatred of the Mother-in-Law
Jul 02, 2022
Yevamot 116: The Dangerous Grain Harvest
Jul 01, 2022
Yevamot 115: The Drama of a Sesame Plant
Jun 30, 2022
Yevamot 114: Family Dynamics
Jun 29, 2022
Yevamot 113: Women Want to Marry More Than Men Do
Jun 28, 2022
Yevamot 112: Rejecting the Conspiracy Theory Case
Jun 27, 2022
Yevamot 111: Minor Wives and Yibum (or Divorce)
Jun 26, 2022
Yevamot 110: When Kidnapping a Bride Doesn't Work
Jun 25, 2022
Yevamot 109: A Sword Between His Thighs
Jun 24, 2022
Yevamot 108: Not against Her Will
Jun 23, 2022
Yevamot 107: The Daughters of Israel Are Not "Hefker"
Jun 22, 2022
Yevamot 106: Paying Off the Yavam
Jun 21, 2022
Yevamot 105: The Curse of the House of Eli
Jun 20, 2022
Yevamot 104: Chalitzah as It Is NOT Supposed to Be Done
Jun 19, 2022
Yevamot 103: Yael's Seduction of Sisera
Jun 18, 2022
Yevamot 102: Even Eliyahu Can't Reverse Chalitzah
Jun 17, 2022
Yevamot 101: Practical Chalitzah
Jun 16, 2022
Yevamot 100: "Maybe I'm a Kohen and Maybe I'm Not!" - Uncertain Paternity
Jun 15, 2022
Yevamot 99: Switched at Birth
Jun 14, 2022
Yevamot 98: Non-Jews Don't Have Parents (halakhically)
Jun 13, 2022
Yevamot 97: Giving Credit Where It's Due
Jun 12, 2022
Yevamot 96: Pushing the Parameters
Jun 11, 2022
Yevamot 95: Returning from the Dead (with implications for your marriage)
Jun 10, 2022
Yevamot 94: Ulterior Motives
Jun 09, 2022
Yevamot 93: The Existence of the Things That Do Not Yet Exist
Jun 08, 2022
Yevamot 92: The Court's Error
Jun 07, 2022
Yevamot 91: When Rape Is Not at All Rape
Jun 06, 2022
Yevamot 90: Extreme Measures to Protect the System
Jun 05, 2022
Yevamot 89: Upholding Rabbinic Law over Torah Law
Jun 05, 2022
Yevamot 88: The Original Agunot
Jun 03, 2022
Yevamot 87: The Limbo of a Husband Who Goes Missing
Jun 02, 2022
Yevamot 86: When Kohanim Are Called "Leviim"
Jun 01, 2022
Yevamot 85: How Pure Are Your Marriages?
May 31, 2022
Yevamot 84: A Prohibited Husband and a Permitted Yavam
May 30, 2022
Yevamot 83: The Questionable Father of 7
May 29, 2022
Yevamot 82: Default to Male
May 28, 2022
Yevamot 81: Being Able to Count
May 27, 2022
Yevamot 80: The Twelve Months of Gestation
May 26, 2022
Yevamot 79: The Sons of Saul
May 25, 2022
Yevamot 78: Generations Who Can't Marry In
May 24, 2022
Yevamot 77: The Inner Honor of the Daughter of the King
May 23, 2022
Yevamot 76: Those Who Can't Marry In
May 22, 2022
Yevamot 75: Damage to a Man's Reproductive Organs
May 21, 2022
Yevamot 74: Becoming Pure
May 20, 2022
Yevamot 73: When Is Bikkurim Like Ma'aser Sheni?
May 19, 2022
Yevamot 72: The North Wind
May 18, 2022
Yevamot 71: A Baby's Korban Pesach
May 17, 2022
Yevamot 70: Disqualifying Kohanim from Terumah
May 16, 2022
Yevamot 69: Second Generation Edomites (and Others)
May 15, 2022
Yevamot 68: An Extra "Vav"
May 14, 2022
Yevamot 67: The Influence of a Fetus
May 13, 2022
Yevamot 66: Usufruct Property (and the other kind too)
May 12, 2022
Yevamot 65: "P'ru Ur'vu" Is Plural!
May 11, 2022
Yevamot 64: God Wants the Prayers of the Righteous
May 10, 2022
Yevamot 63: What Could Be Worse Than Death?!
May 09, 2022
Yevamot 62: Rabbi Akiva's Students
May 08, 2022
Yevamot 61: The Saving Graces of the Priestly Marriage Practicalities
May 07, 2022
Yevamot 60: A Lot of Questions and a Spiritual Truth Test
May 06, 2022
Yevamot 59: The Restrictive Marital Status of the High Priest
May 05, 2022
Yevamot 58: The Woman's Right to Eat Terumah
May 04, 2022
Yevamot 57: Married at 3?!
May 03, 2022
Yevamot 56: Kohanim and Marital Complications
May 02, 2022
Yevamot 55: Another NSFW
May 01, 2022
Yevamot 54: The X-Rated Spotlight on Yibum
Apr 30, 2022
Yevamot 53: Complicating Yibum or Chalitzah
Apr 29, 2022
Yevamot 52: Rabbinic Muscle: Lashes
Apr 28, 2022
Yevamot 51: The Consensus on Levirate Betrothal
Apr 27, 2022
Yevamot 50: How Final Are the Yibum Options?
Apr 26, 2022
Yevamot 49: Who Is a Mamzer?
Apr 25, 2022
Yevamot 48: Captives and Converts
Apr 24, 2022
Yevamot 47: The Self-Incrimination of a Convert
Apr 23, 2022
Yevamot 46: Women Can't Be Circumcised
Apr 23, 2022
Yevamot 45: Was Rav a Bigot? (God forbid, of course)
Apr 21, 2022
Yevamot 44: Rabbi Akiva's Mamzerim
Apr 20, 2022
Yevamot 43: Who Waited 3 Months, and for What?
Apr 19, 2022
Yevamot 42: Tracking the 7- and 9-Month Babies
Apr 18, 2022
Yevamot 41: Elijah the Prophet to Clarify Which Woman Is Which
Apr 17, 2022
Yevamot 40: Inheritance Rules: A Key Element of Yibum
Apr 16, 2022
Yevamot 39: Can You Do Yibum Instead of Me?
Apr 16, 2022
Yevamot 38: Complicating Inheritance
Apr 14, 2022
Yevamot 37: Those Viable Babies
Apr 13, 2022
Yevamot 36: The Sadness of Yibum
Apr 12, 2022
Yevamot 35: Contraception, Talmud-style
Apr 11, 2022
Yevamot 34: Getting Pregnant the First Time
Apr 10, 2022
Yevamot 33: Talmudic Clarity? Bait and Switch
Apr 09, 2022
Yevamot 32: Once Forbidden, Always Forbidden
Apr 08, 2022
Yevamot 31: An Absence of Real Life Yibum Stories
Apr 07, 2022
Yevamot 30: Adding a Non-Sister to the Mix
Apr 06, 2022
Yevamot 29: The Strength (and Weakness) of Ma'amar
Apr 05, 2022
Yevamot 28: Abaye Didn’t Really Rape That Woman
Apr 04, 2022
Yevamot 27: The Strength of Bonds
Apr 03, 2022
Yevamot 26: Yibum Word Problems
Apr 02, 2022
Yevamot 25: Permitting and Forbidding
Apr 01, 2022
Yevamot 24: Converting for the Sake of Marriage
Mar 31, 2022
Yevamot 23: When You're Not Sure Whom You Betrothed
Mar 30, 2022
Yevamot 22: Not My Brother, Not My Father Either
Mar 29, 2022
Yevamot 21: The Family Compound
Mar 28, 2022
Yevamot 20: The Mitzvah of Halitzah
Mar 27, 2022
Yevamot 19: With or Without Consent: Ma'amar
Mar 26, 2022
Yevamot 18: 5 Sages and Their Approaches
Mar 25, 2022
Yevamot 17: Matrilineal Descent - Talmud-style
Mar 24, 2022
Yevamot 16: Jewish Geography, Talmud-style
Mar 23, 2022
Yevamot 15: How D'Ya Like Them Olives?
Mar 22, 2022
Yevamot 14: Not So Kumbaya
Mar 21, 2022
Yevamot 13: Disagreements without Factions
Mar 20, 2022
Yevamot 12: Birth Control, Talmud-style
Mar 19, 2022
Yevamot 11: The Case of the Inadvertent Adulteress and the Case of the Divorcee's Remarriage
Mar 18, 2022
Yevamot 10: Six Brothers and a Double Yibum
Mar 17, 2022
Yevamot 9: How Rape Can Affect Yibum
Mar 16, 2022
Yevamot 8: Better to Be Stringent (ahem)
Mar 15, 2022
Yevamot 7: When the Extreme Case Is Practical
Mar 14, 2022
Yevamot 6: The Temple Is Not for Practice
Mar 13, 2022
Yevamot 5: Shaatnez as a Classic Contradiction
Mar 12, 2022
Yevamot 4: The Witch Must Die
Mar 11, 2022
Yevamot 3: When "Exempt" Means Forbidden
Mar 10, 2022
Yevamot 2: Ervah by Association
Mar 09, 2022
Chagigah 27: The Scholars, the Sinners, and the Fire of Gehenna
Mar 08, 2022
Chagigah 26: Trusting the Am Ha’aretz
Mar 07, 2022
Chagigah 25: Navigating Purity Diversity at Home
Mar 06, 2022
Chagigah 24: When One Hand Isn't Relevant to What the Other Hand Is Doing
Mar 05, 2022
Chagigah 23: The Shoe-Bomber and Ritual Impurity
Mar 04, 2022
Chagigah 22: Who Can You Trust?
Mar 03, 2022
Chagigah 21: Inside Outside
Mar 02, 2022
Chagigah 20: Paying Attention for Purity's Sake
Mar 01, 2022
Chagigah 19: The Wave
Feb 28, 2022
Chagigah 18: When Purification Requires Intent
Feb 27, 2022
Chagigah 17: Keep Your Goals Modest
Feb 26, 2022
Chagigah 16: It Was What It Was
Feb 25, 2022
Chagigah 15: "From Him I Will Learn": Rabbi Meir and Acher
Feb 24, 2022
Chagigah 14: Creating Angels
Feb 23, 2022
Chagigah 13: A Select Few
Feb 22, 2022
Chagigah 12: The Taboo Topic of Creation
Feb 21, 2022
Chagigah 11: A Discussion of Those Topics That Should Not Be Discussed
Feb 20, 2022
Chagigah 10: When the Oral Law Is Hanging by a Thread
Feb 19, 2022
Chagigah 9: Second Chances - Sometimes
Feb 18, 2022
Chagigah 8: What If You Don't Have Money for a Lot of Sacrifices?
Feb 17, 2022
Chagigah 7: To Bring or Not to Bring a Hostess Gift
Feb 16, 2022
Chagigah 6: Why Women Made Holiday Pilgrimages
Feb 15, 2022
Chagigah 5: Seeing the Pain in God's Hidden Face
Feb 14, 2022
Chagigah 4: To Be Seen by God
Feb 13, 2022
Chagigah 3: Radical Empathy
Feb 12, 2022
Chagigah 2: Making an Appearance
Feb 11, 2022
Moed Katan 29: Going from Strength to Strength
Feb 10, 2022
Moed Katan 28: Death Comes to All
Feb 09, 2022
Moed Katan 27: Excessive Grief
Feb 08, 2022
Moed Katan 26: When We Rend
Feb 07, 2022
Moed Katan 25: Eulogies, by and for the Sages
Feb 06, 2022
Moed Katan 24: The Worst
Feb 05, 2022
Moed Katan 23: "Go Take Care of Your Sister's Children"
Feb 04, 2022
Moed Katan 22: Mourning Our Leaders
Feb 03, 2022
Moed Katan 21: The Calamities That Befell the Sages
Feb 02, 2022
Moed Katan 20: When Bad News Makes Its Way Home
Feb 01, 2022
Moed Katan 19: A Master Torah Scroll
Jan 31, 2022
Moed Katan 18: Is There Fire Where There's Smoke?
Jan 30, 2022
Moed Katan 17: Excommunicated for Life (and then some)
Jan 29, 2022
Moed Katan 16: Multiple Intelligences
Jan 28, 2022
Moed Katan 15: Organizing Moed Katan
Jan 27, 2022
Moed Katan 14: The Prison That Is the Womb
Jan 26, 2022
Moed Katan 13: Better to Do Mitzvot!
Jan 25, 2022
Moed Katan 12: Protecting against Financial Loss
Jan 24, 2022
Moed Katan 11: Amateur Hour
Jan 23, 2022
Moed Katan 10: The Grooves of a Millstone
Jan 22, 2022
Moed Katan 9: Eating on Yom Kippur
Jan 21, 2022
Moed Katan 8: No Mixing One Simcha with Another
Jan 20, 2022
Moed Katan 7: The Mezora on Chol Hamoed
Jan 19, 2022
Moed Katan 6: Accidental Kilyaim
Jan 18, 2022
Moed Katan 5: Public Works
Jan 17, 2022
Moed Katan 4: Schools of Interpretation and the Babylonian Rain
Jan 16, 2022
Moed Katan 3: How Far Shemitah?
Jan 15, 2022
Moed Katan 2: A Spectrum of Holiday
Jan 14, 2022
Megillah 32: Handling a Torah Scroll
Jan 13, 2022
Megillah 31: Blessing the Curses
Jan 12, 2022
Megillah 30: Replacing the Torah Reading with... Torah Reading
Jan 11, 2022
Megillah 29: Exile and Return
Jan 10, 2022
Megillah 28: What Is the Secret of Your Longevity?
Jan 09, 2022
Megillah 27: Don't Sell a Daughter for Food
Jan 08, 2022
Megillah 26: Jerusalem as Washington, DC
Jan 07, 2022
Megillah 25: Heretical? Racy? Dealing with the "Inappropriate" in Shul
Jan 06, 2022
Megillah 24: Blindness and Blemishes
Jan 05, 2022
Megillah 23: The Evil Congregation
Jan 04, 2022
Megillah 22: The Puzzle of Rav and the Stone Floor
Jan 03, 2022
Megillah 21: Going Up to Read the Torah
Jan 02, 2022
Megillah 20: Defining Daytime
Jan 01, 2022
Megillah 18 - CORRECTED - By Heart (for Thursday, December 30, 2021)
Jan 01, 2022
Megillah 19: Who, How, When, and Why We Read Megillah
Dec 31, 2021
Error!! Will fix for Megillah 18
Dec 30, 2021
Megillah 17: Order in the (Prayer) House!
Dec 29, 2021
Megillah 16: The Many Layers of Narrative in the Megillah
Dec 28, 2021
Megillah 15: Strengths of Mordechai and Esther
Dec 27, 2021
Megillah 14: The 7 Prophetesses
Dec 26, 2021
Megillah 13: What Was Esther's Real Name, Anyway?
Dec 25, 2021
Megillah 12: Inserting God into Vashti's Removal
Dec 24, 2021
Megillah 11: Wicked by Association
Dec 23, 2021
Megillah 10: Transportable Religion
Dec 22, 2021
Megillah 9: Translation by the 70
Dec 21, 2021
Megillah 8: The "Only" Distinction(s)
Dec 20, 2021
Megillah 7: The Year Rabbi Zeira Woke Up Dead after Purim
Dec 19, 2021
Megillah 6: Adar I vs. Adar II
Dec 18, 2021
Megillah 5: Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi: Mishnah Compiler and... Gardener
Dec 17, 2021
Megillah 4: Rabbinic Megillah Reading (by definition)
Dec 16, 2021
Megillah 3: Translation Is Interpretation
Dec 15, 2021
Megillah 2: So Many Days of Reading the Megillah
Dec 14, 2021
Taanit 31: Dancing for Salvation
Dec 13, 2021
Taaanit 30: The Mourning of Tisha B'Av
Dec 12, 2021
Taanit 29: Grim History
Dec 11, 2021
Taanit 28: Liturgical Growth
Dec 10, 2021
Taanit 27: Sourcing the Ma'amadot
Dec 09, 2021
Taanit 26: No Drunk Duchening (aka Birkat Kohanim)
Dec 08, 2021
Taanit 25: Fasting, Praying, and Provoking God
Dec 07, 2021
Taanit 24: Who Wants a Miracle?
Dec 06, 2021
Taanit 23: Much More Than a Jewish Rip Van Winkle
Dec 05, 2021
Taanit 22: Are We in Danger Yet?
Dec 04, 2021
Taanit 21: All for the Best
Dec 03, 2021
Taanit 20: The Strength of the Reed
Dec 02, 2021
Taanit 19: Beyond Rain
Dec 01, 2021
Taanit 18: Bad for the Jews
Nov 30, 2021
Taanit 17: The King's Daily Haircut
Nov 29, 2021
Taanit 16: Sackcloth and Ashes Are Not Where It's At
Nov 28, 2021
Taanit 15: A Mega Mishnah Read
Nov 27, 2021
Taanit 14: The Rain in Spain (really, anywhere Diaspora)
Nov 26, 2021
Taanit 13: How Do We Mourn
Nov 25, 2021
Taanit 12: When Not Eating Is Not Fasting
Nov 24, 2021
Taanit 11: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for One Who Fasts Is a Sinner
Nov 23, 2021
Taanit 10: When the Rain Doesn't Fall
Nov 22, 2021
Taanit 9: Supernatural Natural Rain
Nov 21, 2021
Taanit 8: Praying for Two Things at Once
Nov 20, 2021
Taanit 7: A Theology of Rain
Nov 19, 2021
Taanit 6: The Many Words for Rain
Nov 18, 2021
Taanit 5: What to Get for One Who Has It All
Nov 17, 2021
Taanit 4: Inappropriate Requests
Nov 16, 2021
Taanit 3: Judged for Rain... on Sukkot
Nov 15, 2021
Taanit 2: Praying for Rain
Nov 14, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 35: Really Different Ways of Thinking about Tefilah
Nov 13, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 34: Anatomy of a Shofar Blast
Nov 12, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 33: Describing Sound without Sound
Nov 11, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 32: The Splendor of the King Is in the Multitudes
Nov 10, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 31: The Divine Presence in Exile
Nov 09, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 30: Preventing Mistakes and Greater Mistakes
Nov 08, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 29: Moshe's Magic Hands
Nov 07, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 28: With Intent to Sin
Nov 06, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 27: We Can't Hear Two Things at Once
Nov 05, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 26: The Shofar as Defense Attorney
Nov 04, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 25: The Connection between Ben Zaza's Mother and Rosh Chodesh
Nov 03, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 24: What Do You See in the Sky?
Nov 02, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 23: Diving for Coral, Raising Up Pearls
Nov 01, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 22: Kosher Witnesses, Kosher Testimony, and a Kosher Messengers
Oct 31, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 21: Yes, the Witnesses Matter
Oct 30, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 20: Calendar Manipulation
Oct 29, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 19: How Long the Months
Oct 28, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 18: God's Curse for Generation (or: The Power of Torah and Chesed)
Oct 27, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 17: Sinners and... Sinners
Oct 26, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 16: The Ins and Outs of Judgement Days
Oct 25, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 15: Fruit Trees and Some Exceptions
Oct 24, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 14: Etrog: Is It a Fruit? Is It a Vegetable?
Oct 23, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 13: The Sages Knew Their Measurements
Oct 22, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 12: Vowing to Suffer
Oct 21, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 11: Redemption - But When?!
Oct 20, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 10: Six Hundred Years and One Day
Oct 19, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 9: Increasing the Holiness in the World
Oct 18, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 8: The Collective Birthday of Flocks
Oct 17, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 7: The First of Nisan
Oct 16, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 6: Fixing the Calendar
Oct 15, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 5: Oaths, Gifts, and Deadlines
Oct 14, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 4: The Expected Corruption of a Non-Jewish King
Oct 13, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 3: Jewish Kings, Non-Jewish Kings, and One Who Was Both (not quite)
Oct 12, 2021
Rosh Hashanah 2: Keeping Track of Time
Oct 11, 2021
Beitzah 40: Mic Drop
Oct 10, 2021
Beitzah 39: Shlepping Fire and Water
Oct 09, 2021
Beitzah 38: Peer Review
Oct 08, 2021
Beitzah 37: Juggling Competing Halakhic Values
Oct 07, 2021
Beitzah 36: The Bathroom Episode (not only)
Oct 06, 2021
Beitzah 35: Dropping Your Fruit through the Ancient Skylight
Oct 05, 2021
Beitzah 34: Labor-intensive Holidays
Oct 04, 2021
Beitzah 33: Toothpicks and Spice Wood
Oct 03, 2021
Beitzah 32: When the Bathroom Isn't Already Put Together
Oct 02, 2021
Beitzah 31: Wood and Bricks
Oct 01, 2021
Beitzah 30: Better They Should Be Unwitting Sinners
Sep 30, 2021
Beitzah 29: Business Non-business
Sep 29, 2021
Beitzah 28: Going to the Butcher... on Yom Tov
Sep 28, 2021
Beitzah 27: Special for Yom Tov
Sep 27, 2021
Beitzah 26: Half Shabbos
Sep 26, 2021
Beitzah 25: Manners for the Stiff-necked Jewish People
Sep 25, 2021
Beitzah 24: Staying 'Til the Very End
Sep 24, 2021
Beitzah 23: A Child's Wagon
Sep 23, 2021
Beitzah 22: So Much Preparing for Yom Tov
Sep 22, 2021
Beitzah 21: A Non-Jewish Army in a Jewish Town
Sep 21, 2021
Beitzah 20: Marrying Off a Daughter for a Nice Price
Sep 20, 2021
Beitzah 19: When Doing Extra Means Nothing (and is therefore allowed)
Sep 19, 2021
Beitzah 18: The Prohibited Dunking of Yom Tov
Sep 18, 2021
Beitzah 17: God's Partners in Jewish Life
Sep 17, 2021
Beitzah 16: An Extra Soul on Shabbat
Sep 16, 2021
Beitzah 15: Spreading Holiday Cheer
Sep 15, 2021
Beitzah 14: Do You Need It for the Holiday?
Sep 14, 2021
Beitzah 13: Is Eating-on-the-Go Not Holy?
Sep 13, 2021
Beitzah 12: Holiday Gift-Giving
Sep 12, 2021
Beitzah 11: When a Talmudic Debate Isn't a Talmudic Debate
Sep 11, 2021
Beitzah 10: Interdisciplinary Details
Sep 10, 2021
Beitzah 9: When the Sages Get It Wrong (according to themselves)
Sep 09, 2021
Beitzah 8: Neither Here Nor There
Sep 09, 2021
Beitzah 7: Why Did the Chicken Cross the River?
Sep 08, 2021
Beitzah 6: The Two Days of Rosh Hashanah (or: The Chicken and the Egg)
Sep 06, 2021
Beitzah 5: What's Special about the Egg?
Sep 05, 2021
Beitzah 4: Cooking for the Holiday
Sep 04, 2021
Beitzah 3: Fruit and Eggs
Sep 03, 2021
Beitzah 2: A Tractate about an Egg, Kinda, Sorta
Sep 02, 2021
Sukkah 56: Be Careful in the Company You Seek
Sep 01, 2021
Sukkah 55: Our Atonement for All Nations of the World
Aug 31, 2021
Sukkah 54: Calendar Combinations and the Mishnah's Responsibility
Aug 30, 2021
Sukkah 53: Juggling Knives with Joy
Aug 29, 2021
Sukkah 52: Human Foibles
Aug 28, 2021
Sukkah 51: In the Eyes of the Beholders
Aug 27, 2021
Sukkah 50: Temple Music and Moshe's Flute
Aug 26, 2021
Sukkah 49: Kindness Is for the Living and the Dead
Aug 25, 2021
Sukkah 48: Rejoicing and Heresy
Aug 24, 2021
Sukkah 47: The New Holiday of the Eighth Day
Aug 23, 2021
Sukkah 46: When the Children Ate Their Etrogim
Aug 22, 2021
Sukkah 45: The Existence of 36 Tzadikim
Aug 21, 2021
Sukkah 44: Make Sure You Have Food for Shabbat!
Aug 20, 2021
Sukkah 43: The Palm, the Willow, Heresy, and History
Aug 19, 2021
Sukkah 42: A Child's Lulav Readiness
Aug 18, 2021
Sukkah 41: Rabban Gamliel's Lulav
Aug 17, 2021
Sukkah 40: Living with Holiness
Aug 16, 2021
Sukkah 39: The Value of 3 Meals
Aug 15, 2021
Sukkah 38: What If You Don't Know How to Say Hallel?
Aug 14, 2021
Sukkah 37: Waving in the Rainy Season
Aug 13, 2021
Sukkah 36: Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
Aug 12, 2021
Sukkah 35: A Peculiar Fruit
Aug 11, 2021
Sukkah 34: A Rose by Any Other Name...
Aug 10, 2021
Sukkah 33: Disqualifying Berries
Aug 09, 2021
Sukkah 32: Its Ways Are Ways of Pleasantness
Aug 08, 2021
Sukkah 31: Saving the Lulav for the Grandchildren
Aug 07, 2021
Sukkah 30: Sourcing Not-Stolen Merchandise
Aug 06, 2021
Sukkah 29: It's a Big Questions Episode
Aug 05, 2021
Sukkah 28: Women's Exemption from Sukkah
Aug 04, 2021
Sukkah 27: The Hotel California of Sukkahs
Aug 03, 2021
Sukkah 26: Sleeping Too Much
Aug 02, 2021
Sukkah 25: Sukkahs, a Wedding, and a Funeral
Aug 01, 2021
Sukkah 24: Complete Severance
Jul 31, 2021
Sukkah 23: Would You Really Use an Elephant as a Sukkah Wall?
Jul 30, 2021
Sukkah 22: On a Boat, in a Tree, on a Camel, Oh, What Can Be?
Jul 29, 2021
Sukkah 21: Sukkah Beds (Or Is That Bed Sukkahs?)
Jul 28, 2021
Sukkah 20: When a Mat Has a Wall
Jul 27, 2021
Sukkah 19: Creative Interpretations
Jul 26, 2021
Sukkah 18: The Little Fish
Jul 25, 2021
Sukkah 17: In the Process of Learning
Jul 24, 2021
Sukkah 16: Mind the Gap!
Jul 23, 2021
Sukkah 15: Structural Incongruities
Jul 22, 2021
Sukkah 14: What Are Your Intentions?
Jul 21, 2021
Sukkah 13: Grapes and Their Branches
Jul 20, 2021
Sukkah 12: Male and Female Arrow Shafts
Jul 19, 2021
Sukkah 11: God's Rain Cloud
Jul 18, 2021
Sukkah 10: Sukkah Decorations
Jul 17, 2021
Sukkah 9: A Tree Is Like a House
Jul 16, 2021
Sukkah 8: The Need for "Secular Studies"
Jul 15, 2021
Sukkah 7: The Shade-Sunlight Ratio
Jul 14, 2021
Sukkah 6: The Tefach-long Wall
Jul 13, 2021
Sukkah 5: Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Jul 12, 2021
Sukkah 4: From the Earth to the Heavens
Jul 11, 2021
Sukkah 3: The House That Is Not a House
Jul 10, 2021
Sukkah 2: More Shade Than Sunlight
Jul 09, 2021
Yoma 88: A Man's Fear on Yom Kippur
Jul 08, 2021
Yoma 87: The Gates Are Closing
Jul 07, 2021
Yoma 86: Living Up to Your Own Standards
Jul 06, 2021
Yoma 85: Life and Death
Jul 05, 2021
Yoma 84: Mad Dogs and Culture Clashes
Jul 04, 2021
Yoma 83: Health Matters
Jul 03, 2021
Yoma 82: Does a Fetus Have Cravings?
Jul 02, 2021
Yoma 81: The Afflictions of Yom Kippur Are a Positive Thing
Jul 01, 2021
Yoma 80: The Size of Og's Cheeks
Jun 30, 2021
Yoma 79: Dates, Eggs, and the Essence of a Meal
Jun 29, 2021
Yoma 78: We Don't Wear Shoes to Bed
Jun 28, 2021
Yoma 77: Why Shammai Had to Wash Both Hands on Yom Kippur
Jun 27, 2021
Yoma 76: The 5 Afflictions
Jun 26, 2021
Yoma 75: The Manna and How It Did More Than Sate Hunger
Jun 25, 2021
Yoma 74: The Yom Kippur We Know: A Fast Day
Jun 24, 2021
Yoma 73: Light and Truth
Jun 23, 2021
Yoma 72: Skilled Labor
Jun 22, 2021
Yoma 71: The Day After
Jun 21, 2021
Yoma 70: When the Kohen Gadol Goes Home
Jun 20, 2021
Yoma 69: Shimon HaTzadik and Alexander the Great
Jun 19, 2021
Yoma 68: Reading the Torah on Yom Kippur
Jun 18, 2021
Yoma 67: Torn Limb from Limb
Jun 17, 2021
Yoma 66: Again, with the Babylonians?!
Jun 16, 2021
Yoma 65: Why Is the Cow Like the Goat?
Jun 15, 2021
Yoma 64: A Kid and Its Mother
Jun 14, 2021
Yoma 63: The Death of the Scapegoat
Jun 13, 2021
Yoma 62: When Identical Goats Are Not Identical
Jun 12, 2021
Yoma 61: Whence Jewish Guilt?
Jun 11, 2021
Yoma 60: Going Back to the Beginning
Jun 10, 2021
Yoma 59: Is There Revelation through Blood?
Jun 09, 2021
Yoma 58: Go Straight for a While, Turn Left, and Then Ask
Jun 08, 2021
Yoma 57: The Truth of the Bloody Curtain
Jun 07, 2021
Yoma 56: A Detour to the Middle Ages
Jun 06, 2021
Yoma 55: One and One, One and Two
Jun 05, 2021
Yoma 54: Raiders of the Lost Ark II
Jun 04, 2021
Yoma 53: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jun 03, 2021
Yoma 52: Entering the Holy of Holies
Jun 02, 2021
Yoma 51: Inside/Outside
Jun 01, 2021
Yoma 50: Show Us Your Korbanot and We'll Tell You Who You Are
May 31, 2021
Yoma 49: Vying for Bragging Rights: The Most Difficult Service
May 30, 2021
Yoma 48: The Puzzle of the Left-Handed Kohen
May 29, 2021
Yoma 47: Meritorious Kimchit, Mother of High Priests
May 28, 2021
Yoma 46: The Temple Fires
May 27, 2021
Yoma 45: The Many Shades of Gold
May 26, 2021
Yoma 44: The Challenge of the Holiness of the Space
May 25, 2021
Yoma 43: How Is This Day Different from All Other Days?
May 24, 2021
Yoma 42: Elazar Was a Kohen
May 23, 2021
Yoma 41: Love, Devotion, and Ignorance in Amoraic Babylonia
May 22, 2021
Yoma 40: Sleight of Hand
May 21, 2021
Yoma 39: Shimon HaTzadik and God's Presence in the Beit HaMikdash
May 20, 2021
Yoma 38: Nikanor's Doors
May 19, 2021
Yoma 37: On the Heads of the Goats
May 18, 2021
Yoma 36: Atonement
May 17, 2021
Yoma 35: Famously Frozen Hillel and Talmud Torah for All
May 16, 2021
Yoma 34: A Highly Sensitive Kohen Gadol
May 15, 2021
Yoma 33: Every Chance to Do a Mitzvah
May 14, 2021
Yoma 32: Wardrobe Functions
May 13, 2021
Yoma 31: Warming the Cold, Cold Water
May 12, 2021
Yoma 30: The Other White Sheet
May 11, 2021
Yoma 29: A Hot Oven, a Cold Oven, the Smell of Meat, and the Dawn
May 10, 2021
Yoma 28: Avraham's Yeshiva Days
May 09, 2021
Yoma 27: Lottery after Lottery
May 08, 2021
Yoma 26: The Incense Blessing of Prosperity
May 07, 2021
Yoma 25: Breaking Down the Morning to Its Many Parts
May 06, 2021
Yoma 24: Courtyard Commotion
May 05, 2021
Yoma 23: Hold a Grudge Like a Snake
May 04, 2021
Yoma 22: Safety Precautions
May 03, 2021
Yoma 21: 10 Most Amazing Miracles
May 02, 2021
Yoma 20: When the Cock Crows
May 01, 2021
Yoma 19: Sadducee Drama and Keeping the Kohen Gadol Awake
Apr 30, 2021
Yoma 18: As Yom Kippur Draws Near
Apr 29, 2021
Yoma 17: The Kohen Gadol Eats First
Apr 28, 2021
Yoma 16: The Four Corners of the Beit HaMikdash
Apr 27, 2021
Yoma 15: From Dusk to Dawn
Apr 26, 2021
Yoma 14: Kohen Gadol Bootcamp
Apr 25, 2021
Yoma 13: The Kohen's Backup Wife and Conditional Divorce
Apr 24, 2021
Yoma 12: Always Bring a Hostess Gift
Apr 23, 2021
Yoma 11: The Mezuzah-less Gates of Mehoza
Apr 22, 2021
Yoma 10: The One Mezuzah in the Beit HaMikdash
Apr 21, 2021
Yoma 9: Blaming the Babylonians
Apr 20, 2021
Yoma 8: The Annual Changing of the Kohen Gadol
Apr 19, 2021
Yoma 7: Keep Quiet, and They Won't Know
Apr 18, 2021
Yoma 6: The Impure Kohen's Avodah
Apr 17, 2021
Yoma 5: When It Comes to the Yom Kippur Avodah, Details Really Matter
Apr 16, 2021
Yoma 4: Moshe's Days in the Cloud
Apr 15, 2021
Yoma 3: The Sequestering of the Kohen Gadol
Apr 14, 2021
Yoma 2: A Great Deal of Sanctity
Apr 13, 2021
Shekalim 22: An Eye to the Future
Apr 12, 2021
Shekalim 21: Please Don't Spit
Apr 11, 2021
Shekalim 20: Finders Keepers
Apr 10, 2021
Shekalim 19: Making Assumptions
Apr 09, 2021
Shekalim 18: Eleven Menorahs of Gold
Apr 08, 2021
Shekalim 17: Climate Change
Apr 07, 2021
Shekalim 16: Other Important Items Hidden Away with the Ark
Apr 06, 2021
Shekalim 15: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Apr 05, 2021
Shekalim 14: Shoemakers' Children
Apr 04, 2021
Shekalim 13: The Priests and the Sages
Apr 03, 2021
Shekalim 12: No Backsies, No Exchangies
Apr 03, 2021
Shekalim 11: Leftover Kedushah
Apr 01, 2021
Shekalim 10: Dessert for the Altar
Mar 31, 2021
Shekalim 9: The Ladder to Piety
Mar 30, 2021
Shekalim 8: Wandering Where the Machatzit ha-Shekel Takes Us
Mar 29, 2021
Shekalim 7: Not Just What to Do, But Who To Be
Mar 28, 2021
Shekalim 6: Surplus Funds
Mar 28, 2021
Shekalim 5: Shepherding the Shekalim to the Temple Treasury
Mar 26, 2021
Shekalim 4: Who Counts?
Mar 25, 2021
Shekalim 3: Throwing Off the Shackles of Winter
Mar 24, 2021
Shekalim 2: It's Time for the Appeal: Funding the Temple (Introduction to Masekhet Shekalim)
Mar 23, 2021
Pesachim 121: Redemption
Mar 22, 2021
Pesachim 120: Falling Asleep at the Table
Mar 21, 2021
Pesachim 119: Will the Real Afikoman Please Stand Up?
Mar 20, 2021
Pesachim 118: What Gratitude Does Israel Owe Egypt?
Mar 19, 2021
Pesachim 117: Praising God Out of Time
Mar 18, 2021
Pesachim 116: The Engaging Seder
Mar 17, 2021
Pesachim 115: Hillel's Sandwich
Mar 16, 2021
Pesachim 114: Getting Everything in Order (It's the Seder!)
Mar 15, 2021
Pesachim 113: The Harlots' Cobblers
Mar 14, 2021
Pesachim 112: Polonius Moments
Mar 13, 2021
Pesachim 111: Saved by Verses
Mar 12, 2021
Pesachim 110: Must We Believe in Demons?
Mar 11, 2021
Pesachim 109: So That the Children Should Ask
Mar 10, 2021
Pesachim 108: Of Course Women Were Part of the Pesach Miracle!
Mar 09, 2021
Pesachim 107: Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Beer
Mar 08, 2021
Pesachim 106: Keeping Your Wits about You
Mar 07, 2021
Pesachim 105: Shabbat Arrives When It Does, Like It or Not
Mar 06, 2021
Pesachim 104: Drawing Distinctions
Mar 05, 2021
Pesachim 103: The Alphabet Soup of Havdalah
Mar 04, 2021
Pesachim 102: When Meals End (or Don't)
Mar 03, 2021
Pesachim 101: Eat Where You Kiddush
Mar 02, 2021
Pesachim 100: If You Close Your Eyes, Tomorrow Never Comes
Mar 01, 2021
Pesachim 99: How Hard It Is to Keep Quiet
Feb 28, 2021
Pesachim 98: Tying Up Loose Ends
Feb 27, 2021
Pesachim 97: Taking Refuge in a Cemetery
Feb 26, 2021
Pesachim 96: The Original Pesach
Feb 25, 2021
Pesachim 95: Sing the Korban Home
Feb 24, 2021
Pesachim 94: When the Stars Weren't Fixed in the Sky
Feb 23, 2021
Pesachim 93: The Make-Up Exam (Maybe)
Feb 22, 2021
Pesachim 92: Impractical Cases
Feb 21, 2021
Pesachim 91: Social Cohesion of the Pesach, Excepting Women (R. Shimon)
Feb 20, 2021
Pesachim 90: The Korban Pesach and the Prostitute
Feb 19, 2021
Pesachim 89: No Semikhah for Women
Feb 18, 2021
Pesachim 88: Who Tells the Story
Feb 17, 2021
Pesachim 87: Taking Comfort in Babylonia
Feb 16, 2021
Pesachim 86: Upstairs Downstairs
Feb 15, 2021
Pesachim 85: The 'Lepers' at the Gateways of Jerusalem
Feb 14, 2021
Pesachim 84: The Whole-Animal Approach
Feb 13, 2021
Pesachim 83: Burning Down the Bones
Feb 12, 2021
Pesachim 82: Gleaning Halakhah from Narrative: Nadav and Avihu and Their Father's Korban
Feb 11, 2021
Pesachim 81: Do You Know Where the Bodies Are Buried?
Feb 10, 2021
Pesachim 80: Retroactively Impure - Now What?
Feb 09, 2021
Pesachim 79: Was the Korban Pesach Optional for Women?!
Feb 08, 2021
Pesachim 78: Ritual Sprinkling
Feb 07, 2021
Pesachim 77: The Holy Frontplate and Its Influence
Feb 06, 2021
Pesachim 76: When the Gravy Splashes the Meat
Feb 05, 2021
Pesachim 75: When Fire Isn't Just Fire
Feb 04, 2021
Pesachim 74: What's So Special about Pomegranate Wood?
Feb 03, 2021
Pesachim 73: Constructing and Uprooting
Feb 02, 2021
Pesachim 72: To Err Is Human (But Sometimes, There's No Good Excuse)
Feb 01, 2021
Pesachim 71: How We Rejoice
Jan 31, 2021
Pesachim 70: When the Entire Nation Was Impure (or Could Have Been)
Jan 30, 2021
Pesachim 69: The Student Akiva
Jan 29, 2021
Pesachim 68: Whence Resurrection of the Dead?
Jan 28, 2021
Pesachim 67: 3 Camps of Impurity: The Tip of the Iceberg
Jan 27, 2021
Pesachim 66: When Israel's Sages Needed Hillel the Babylonian to Explain the Sacrifices
Jan 26, 2021
Pesachim 65: The Bloody Pageantry of the Korban Pesach
Jan 25, 2021
Pesachim 64: Throngs of People Enter the Beit HaMikdash
Jan 24, 2021
Pesachim 63: When Saying Other Than You Mean Isn't Hypocrisy
Jan 23, 2021
Pesachim 62: Even Beruriah Couldn't Have Learned 300 Halakhot in 3 Months
Jan 22, 2021
Pesachim 61: The Challenge of Inclusion
Jan 21, 2021
Pesachim 60: Can You Bring a Korban Pesach on the Wrong Day?!
Jan 20, 2021
Pesachim 59: Sacrificial Parts
Jan 19, 2021
Pesachim 58: Busy, Busy Day
Jan 18, 2021
Pesachim 57: The Kohanim Who Took the Lunch Money
Jan 17, 2021
Pesachim 56: Rabbinic Reprimand
Jan 16, 2021
Pesachim 55: Holier Than Thou
Jan 15, 2021
Pesachim 54: Partners in Creation
Jan 14, 2021
Pesachim 53: A Jewish Leader in Rome
Jan 13, 2021
Pesachim 52: Breaking Yom Tov
Jan 12, 2021
Pesachim 51: In Trouble for NOT Following the Local Practice
Jan 11, 2021
Pesachim 50: A Talmudic Near-Death Experience
Jan 10, 2021
Pesachim 49: Biting a Torah Scholar Like a Donkey Would
Jan 09, 2021
Pesachim 48: When 3 Women Bake Matzah
Jan 08, 2021
Pesachim 47: Advanced Preparation
Jan 07, 2021
Pesachim 46: The Benefit of Discretion, the Principle of "Since" (again), and Deaf Dough
Jan 06, 2021
Pesachim 45: The Dregs of Chametz
Jan 05, 2021
Pesachim 44: Time, Amount, Taste: Eating in Halakhah
Jan 04, 2021
Pesachim 43: Aren't Women Obligated in Pesach?!
Jan 03, 2021
Pesachim 42: When in Doubt, Do or Do Without?
Jan 02, 2021
Pesachim 41: Don't Add Flour to Your Haroset
Jan 01, 2021
Pesachim 40: They're Still Figuring It Out
Dec 31, 2020
Pesachim 39: Wherefore Horseradish?!
Dec 30, 2020
Pesachim 38: What's Not Written in the Torah
Dec 29, 2020
Pesachim 37: How Thick Is Your Matzah?
Dec 28, 2020
Pesachim 36: So Much Unleavened Bread
Dec 27, 2020
Pesachim 35: Wheat Is Wheat Is Wheat
Dec 26, 2020
Pesachim 34: Planting to Purify
Dec 25, 2020
Pesachim 33: Juicy Fruit
Dec 24, 2020
Pesachim 32: Value vs. Volume
Dec 23, 2020
Pesachim 31: Chametz, Chametz, Everywhere
Dec 22, 2020
Pesachim 30: Pesach Inflation
Dec 21, 2020
Pesachim 29: Prohibition Combos
Dec 20, 2020
Pesachim 28: Dumpster Diving
Dec 19, 2020
Pesachim 27: Extreme Burn
Dec 18, 2020
Pesachim 26: In the Shadow of the Beit HaMikdash
Dec 17, 2020
Pesachim 25: Undesirable Benefits
Dec 16, 2020
Pesachim 24: The Role of Normalcy in Floggings
Dec 15, 2020
Pesachim 23: The Process of Elimination
Dec 14, 2020
Pesachim 22: Do You Have Any... Filet Mignon?
Dec 13, 2020
Pesachim 21: Chametz Liability
Dec 12, 2020
Pesachim 20: Sprinkling Wine Is a Thing
Dec 11, 2020
Pesachim 19: Pure Spit
Dec 10, 2020
Pesachim 18: Back to the Leviticus Source: Text vs. Logic
Dec 09, 2020
Pesachim 17: Inside Outside
Dec 08, 2020
Pesachim 16: Liquid Pure
Dec 07, 2020
Pesachim 15: Purity vs. Impurity - It's Just a Status
Dec 06, 2020
Pesachim 14: Entering the World of Tumah and Taharah
Dec 05, 2020
Pesachim 13: Why Eliyahu Won't Show Up on Shabbat
Dec 04, 2020
Pesachim 12: As Clear as Day
Dec 03, 2020
Pesachim 11: Gaps in Time
Dec 02, 2020
Pesachim 10: The Mouse House
Dec 01, 2020
Pesachim 9: Rava Had a Sense of Humor
Nov 30, 2020
Pesachim 8: Are Mitzvot a Good-luck Charm?!
Nov 29, 2020
Pesachim 7: Finding the Right Words
Nov 28, 2020
Pesachim 6: Rules of Gemara Logic
Nov 27, 2020
Pesachim 5: Such Need for the Biblical Text
Nov 26, 2020
Pesachim 4: If a Women Says a House Is Chametz-free, Do We Believe Her?
Nov 25, 2020
Pesachim 3: The Mic Is Live
Nov 24, 2020
Pesachim 2: When Day Is Really Night
Nov 23, 2020
Eruvin 105: The Value of the Loophole: Eruvin Revisited
Nov 22, 2020
Eruvin 104: Somebody's Knocking (Should You Let Him in?)
Nov 21, 2020
Eruvin 103: Temple Space and the Power of the Group
Nov 20, 2020
Eruvin 102: The Man Who Mistook His Hat for a Tent
Nov 19, 2020
Eruvin 101: The Walled City of Jerusalem Sleeps
Nov 18, 2020
Eruvin 100: The 10 Curses of Eve
Nov 17, 2020
Eruvin 99: Polite Company
Nov 16, 2020
Eruvin 98: Bodily Fluids and the Public Domain
Nov 15, 2020
Eruvin 97: Old-New Tefillin
Nov 14, 2020
Eruvin 96: The One about Michal bat Shaul and Her Tefillin
Nov 13, 2020
Eruvin 95: The Limits of Carrying
Nov 12, 2020
Eruvin 94: Turning Away, Out of Respect and Principle
Nov 11, 2020
Eruvin 93: Our Human Manipulation of Space
Nov 10, 2020
Eruvin 92: Big Roof, Little Roof
Nov 09, 2020
Eruvin 91: Not Anything Goes
Nov 08, 2020
Eruvin 90: Rebuke and Playing Nicely Together
Nov 07, 2020
Eruvin 89: A Whole New World... of Rooftops
Nov 06, 2020
Eruvin 88: Bring Your Towel
Nov 05, 2020
Eruvin 87: Drawing Water in the Galilee
Nov 04, 2020
Eruvin 86: Torah Is Not a Commodity
Nov 03, 2020
Eruvin 85: Friday Brunch (as it were)
Nov 02, 2020
Eruvin 84: The Sages as World Travelers
Nov 01, 2020
Eruvin 83: Up the Down Staircase
Oct 31, 2020
Eruvin 82: Developmental Milestones in Eruvin
Oct 30, 2020
Eruvin 81: Gourmet Bread Not Fit for a Dog
Oct 29, 2020
Eruvin 80: Behind the Husband's Back
Oct 28, 2020
Eruvin 79: Learning from the 3 Little Pigs
Oct 27, 2020
Eruvin 78: A Lion Crouches at the Entrance
Oct 26, 2020
Eruvin 77: Something There Is That Loves a Wall
Oct 25, 2020
Eruvin 76: The Optional Cooperative
Oct 24, 2020
Eruvin 75: Rav Yosef's Loss
Oct 23, 2020
Eruvin 74: The Solitary Home of Ivut bar Ihi
Oct 22, 2020
Eruvin 73: From the Rabbi's House
Oct 21, 2020
Eruvin 72: Where You Lay Your Head Down
Oct 20, 2020
Eruvin 71: Oil and Wine Don't Mix (Usually)
Oct 19, 2020
Eruvin 70: Shabbat Status Quo
Oct 18, 2020
Eruvin 69: Home Hospitality
Oct 17, 2020
Eruvin 68: The Race to the Courtyard
Oct 16, 2020
Eruvin 67: The Advantage of a Private Second Entrance
Oct 15, 2020
Eruvin 66: Non-Jews on the Courtyard
Oct 14, 2020
Eruvin 65: Night Was Created for Sleep
Oct 13, 2020
Eruvin 64: "What an excellent halakhah!"
Oct 12, 2020
Eruvin 63: Why Joshua Died Childless
Oct 11, 2020
Eruvin 62: No Eruv with Non-Jews
Oct 10, 2020
Eruvin 61: Getting Drunk on Shabbat
Oct 09, 2020
Eruvin 60: The Gemara Is Not Incomprehensible Song Lyrics!
Oct 08, 2020
Eruvin 59: The Push for Leniencies in Eruvin
Oct 07, 2020
Eruvin 58: Techum and Terrain
Oct 06, 2020
Eruvin 57: Three Cities and the Precise Distance between Them
Oct 05, 2020
Eruvin 56: How to Square a City
Oct 04, 2020
Eruvin 55: Dwellers of Huts
Oct 03, 2020
Eruvin 54: The Curative Powers of Torah Study
Oct 02, 2020
Eruvin 53: The Eye of a Needle
Oct 01, 2020
Eruvin 52: Diminishing Eruv Techumin
Sep 30, 2020
Eruvin 51: Open Questions
Sep 29, 2020
Eruvin 50: The Time Rav Argued with a Beraita
Sep 28, 2020
Eruvin 49: The Moral Lesson of Eruv
Sep 27, 2020
Eruvin 48: The Forearm of Og, King of the Bashan
Sep 26, 2020
Eruvin 47: Those Red-blooded Young Men of Judea
Sep 25, 2020
Eruvin 46: When the Many Dispute the One, and the One Wins
Sep 24, 2020
Eruvin 45: If Enemies Come to Kill You, Defend Yourself
Sep 23, 2020
Eruvin 44: A Willingness to Help
Sep 22, 2020
Eruvin 43: When We're Too Busy to Welcome the Messiah
Sep 21, 2020
Eruvin 42: Blurring Eruv Techumin with Eruv Chatzerot
Sep 20, 2020
Eruvin 41: Fast Days, Feast Days, and When They Meet
Sep 20, 2020
Eruvin 40: Taking Time Seriously
Sep 18, 2020
Eruvin 39: When Rosh Hashanah Falls on Rosh Chodesh
Sep 17, 2020
Eruvin 38: One Kedushah, Two Kedushah
Sep 16, 2020
Eruvin 37: Retroactive Designation
Sep 15, 2020
Eruvin 36: Wherefore Eruv Techumin?
Sep 14, 2020
Eruvin 35: If You Come to Move It, Move It
Sep 13, 2020
Eruvin 34: Accessing the Physical Eruv (Or Not)
Sep 12, 2020
Eruvin 33: Oh, Go Hang Your Eruv in a Tree
Sep 11, 2020
Eruvin 32: Trusting the System
Sep 10, 2020
Eruvin 31: Letting Yourself Off the Mitzvah Hook
Sep 09, 2020
Eruvin 30: Not Everyone Agrees that the Loopholes Work
Sep 08, 2020
Eruvin 29: Wine, Beer, and Food Coloring
Sep 07, 2020
Eruvin 28: That Food Isn't Food, But Isn't That Food Food?
Sep 06, 2020
Eruvin 27: Don't Take the Language of the Mishnah Too Literally (says the Gemara!)
Sep 05, 2020
Eruvin 26: When the Sages Do Well (and When They Do Not)
Sep 04, 2020
Eruvin 25: Hosting in Your Pavilion on Shabbat
Sep 03, 2020
Eruvin 24: Seeing the Water for the Trees
Sep 02, 2020
Eruvin 23: When a Mishnah Steers You Wrong
Sep 01, 2020
Eruvin 22: A Road Runs through It
Aug 31, 2020
Eruvin 21: The Infinite Oral Torah
Aug 30, 2020
Eruvin 20: Watering the Animals
Aug 29, 2020
Eruvin 19: The Jewish Hell
Aug 28, 2020
Eruvin 18: If She Walks in Front of You, You May Not Follow
Aug 27, 2020
Eruvin 17: A Permit to Carry on Shabbat
Aug 26, 2020
Eruvin 16: A Wall Made of 3 Ropes and Air
Aug 25, 2020
Eruvin 15: Live Animals May Wander Away
Aug 24, 2020
Eruvin 14: Rabbinic Geometry Represent!
Aug 23, 2020
Eruvin 13: Why Beit Hillel Trumps Beit Shammai
Aug 22, 2020
Eruvin 12: Panels and Posts
Aug 21, 2020
Eruvin 11: Doorways of... Eruvin
Aug 20, 2020
Eruvin 10: Of Sideposts, Wide Alleyways, and a Toilet
Aug 19, 2020
Eruvin 9: When Like Finds Like
Aug 18, 2020
Eruvin 8: The Case of the Kahanas
Aug 17, 2020
Eruvin 7: How to Not Be Wicked - and Also Not a Fool
Aug 16, 2020
Eruvin 6: Lock Up Your City at Night
Aug 15, 2020
Eruvin 5: Creating a Wall Out of Thin Air
Aug 14, 2020
Eruvin 4: The Seven Species and What They Teach
Aug 13, 2020
Eruvin 3: Someone Will Take Care of It, Right?
Aug 12, 2020
Eruvin 2: A Loophole to Protect Shabbat
Aug 11, 2020
Shabbat 157: Anticlimactic Measuring of Water in a Tub
Aug 10, 2020
Shabbat 156: When God Moved Jupiter to Help Abraham
Aug 09, 2020
Shabbat 155: Camels, Dogs, and Feeding Them
Aug 08, 2020
Shabbat 154: Why Rabban Gamliel's Donkey Died
Aug 07, 2020
Shabbat 153: "Repent, for tomorrow ye shall die"
Aug 06, 2020
Shabbat 152: Confronting Human Mortality
Aug 05, 2020
Shabbat 151: King David Can't Do Mitzvot Now
Aug 04, 2020
Shabbat 150: Going to the Circus on Shabbat
Aug 03, 2020
Shabbat 149: The Writing on the Wall
Aug 02, 2020
Shabbat 148: Better That People Should Sin Less
Aug 01, 2020
Shabbat 147: Why We Don't Go Swimming on Shabbat
Jul 31, 2020
Shabbat 146: A Legacy from the Serpent
Jul 30, 2020
Shabbat 145: Don't Yuck My Yum, or: There's No Accounting for Taste
Jul 29, 2020
Shabbat 144: Pomegranate Juice
Jul 28, 2020
Shabbat 143: Toss the Date-Pits behind the Couch
Jul 27, 2020
Shabbat 142: Put a Child on the Brick and Carry Them Both
Jul 26, 2020
Shabbat 141: New Shoes!
Jul 25, 2020
Shabbat 140: The Advice of R. Hisda
Jul 24, 2020
Shabbat 139: Leadership and Leniencies
Jul 23, 2020
Shabbat 138: Forgetting Torah
Jul 22, 2020
Shabbat 137: Possible Confusions in Brit Milah
Jul 21, 2020
Shabbat 136: The Significance of 30 Days
Jul 20, 2020
Shabbat 135: Born Circumcised
Jul 19, 2020
Shabbat 134: Talmudic Neonatalogy
Jul 18, 2020
Shabbat 133: "Metzitzah BaPeh"
Jul 17, 2020
Shabbat 132: The Rock Paper Scissors of Overriding Shabbat
Jul 16, 2020
Shabbat 131: Overriding Shabbat
Jul 15, 2020
Shabbat 130: Peacock Parmesan
Jul 14, 2020
Shabbat 129: Lenient about Shabbat, Strict about Health
Jul 13, 2020
Shabbat 128: Ostriches and Elephants and Chickadees (Oh My!)
Jul 12, 2020
Shabbat 127: Giving Credit Even If It Isn't Due
Jul 11, 2020
Shabbat 126: Hanging Doors, Container Covers, and Cleaning Up for Guests
Jul 10, 2020
Shabbat 125: Leaving Muktzah
Jul 09, 2020
Shabbat 124: Turning Broken Vessels into Vessels
Jul 08, 2020
Shabbat 123: The Extreme Origins of Muktzah
Jul 07, 2020
Shabbat 122: Light One Candle
Jul 06, 2020
Shabbat 121: The 5 Dangerous Creatures
Jul 05, 2020
Shabbat 120: (Not) Burning Down the House
Jul 04, 2020
Shabbat 119: Preparing for Shabbat
Jul 03, 2020
Shabbat 118: The Five Sons of Rabbi Yosi
Jul 02, 2020
Shabbat 117: Literally, a Bun (or Several) in the Oven
Jul 01, 2020
Shabbat 116: Fighting Evangelism
Jun 30, 2020
Shabbat 115: Holy Letters
Jun 29, 2020
Shabbat 114: Torah Scholars Who Build the World
Jun 28, 2020
Shabbat 113: The Spirit of Shabbat
Jun 27, 2020
Shabbat 112: The Donkeys Who Kept Kosher
Jun 26, 2020
Shabbat 111: All of Bnei Yisrael Are Princes
Jun 25, 2020
Shabbat 110: A Snake Who Desires a Woman
Jun 24, 2020
Shabbat 109: A Cornucopia of Talmudic Pharmaceuticals
Jun 23, 2020
Shabbat 108: When Rav Curses Shmuel and It Works
Jun 22, 2020
Shabbat 107: Would You Rather Be a Camel or a Louse? (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Jun 21, 2020
Shabbat 106: Fly High, Free Bird
Jun 20, 2020
Shabbat 105: When You Rend, in Anguish or Anger
Jun 19, 2020
Shabbat 104: Writing (and Not-Writing) the Name of God
Jun 18, 2020
Shabbat 103: A Chicken without Its Head May Run Around, But Then It Surely Dies
Jun 17, 2020
Shabbat 102: Sticking the Landing
Jun 16, 2020
Shabbat 101: Boats and Little Goats
Jun 15, 2020
Shabbat 100: 4 Mishnayot and a Hanging Question
Jun 14, 2020
Shabbat 99: When a Rabbi's Answer Doesn't Sit Well with Another Rabbi
Jun 13, 2020
Shabbat 98: For the Visual Learners among Us (and Also for Everyone Else)
Jun 12, 2020
Shabbat 97: The Road to Gossip
Jun 11, 2020
Shabbat 96: Catch!
Jun 10, 2020
Shabbat 95: God Created Eve from the Rib of Adam
Jun 09, 2020
Shabbat 94: We Are Very Hygienic Today
Jun 08, 2020
Shabbat 93: Making a Show of Support
Jun 07, 2020
Shabbat 92: "Regular" Carrying - Right Hand, Left Hand, Lap, Shoulder... Head?
Jun 06, 2020
Shabbat 91: Carrying Is Never Just Carrying
Jun 05, 2020
Shabbat 90: Chasing Crows
Jun 04, 2020
Shabbat 89: Where the Satan Goes, There Go Questions That Best Mankind
Jun 03, 2020
Shabbat 88: Who Needs Free Will Anyway?
Jun 02, 2020
Shabbat 87: Which Do You Want First -- Good News or Bad News?
Jun 01, 2020
Shabbat 86: No Comfort Hugs at Mount Sinai?
May 31, 2020
Shabbat 85: How Much Agriculture Did the Rabbis Really Know?!
May 30, 2020
Shabbat 84: Little Boxes, Impure Boxes (for Friday, May 29, 2020, Shavuot)
May 30, 2020
Shabbat 83: A Ship Is Not Impure
May 28, 2020
Shabbat 82: When Everyone Has a Remedy for You
May 27, 2020
Shabbat 81: Bathroom Etiquette (and Shabbat)
May 26, 2020
Shabbat 80: How Not to Prepare Your Daughter for Marriage
May 25, 2020
Shabbat 79: Recycling Sifrei Torah (No)
May 24, 2020
Shabbat 78: Blue Eyeshadow
May 23, 2020
Shabbat 77: The Need for Mosquitoes in the World
May 22, 2020
Shabbat 76: Food for a Cow, Food for a Camel, and Luggage Weight Limits
May 21, 2020
Shabbat 75: Killing Is Not in the Spirit of Shabbat
May 20, 2020
Shabbat 74: The Problem of Seedless Watermelon
May 19, 2020
Shabbat 73: The 39 Melakhot of Shabbat
May 18, 2020
Shabbat 72: My Mitzvah Can Beat Up Your Mitzvah
May 17, 2020
Shabbat 71: When Eating Fat Is Literally a Sin
May 16, 2020
Shabbat 70: Keeping Shabbat Is Hard
May 15, 2020
Shabbat 69: On the *Second* Day, Adam (and Eve) Rested
May 14, 2020
Shabbat 68: When You Forget What Day It Is, and That Day Is Shabbat
May 13, 2020
Shabbat 67: The Big Red Tree
May 12, 2020
Shabbat 66: Transferring a Fever to a Passing Ant (Not on Shabbat!)
May 11, 2020
Shabbat 65: Are We Wearing Our Masks - or Carrying Them?
May 10, 2020
Shabbat 64: Erotic in the Eye of the Beholder
May 09, 2020
Shabbat 63: Swords into Ploughshares
May 08, 2020
Shabbat 62: Rabbi Meir: Tefillin Are Not a Positive, Time-bound Commandment (Wait, what?!)
May 07, 2020
Shabbat 61: Medicinal Amulets
May 06, 2020
Shabbat 60: The Story of the Nailed Sandal
May 05, 2020
Shabbat 59: The Queen of England Does Not Show Off Her Crown
May 04, 2020
Shabbat 58: What Makes a Bell a Bell?
May 03, 2020
Shabbat 57: With Ribbons in Her Hair
May 02, 2020
Shabbat 56: In the Footsteps of Repentance
May 01, 2020
Shabbat 55: The Scarlet Tav
Apr 30, 2020
Shabbat 54: The Place of Rebuke
Apr 29, 2020
Shabbat 53: Why Coffee Is Allowed on Shabbat (a good thing, too)
Apr 28, 2020
Shabbat 52: An Unruly Red Heifer
Apr 27, 2020
Shabbat 51: Herding Cats
Apr 26, 2020
Shabbat 50: Washing Your Face in the Service of God
Apr 25, 2020
Shabbat 49: Doves' Wings
Apr 24, 2020
Shabbat 48: Keeping the Soup Hot Friday Night
Apr 23, 2020
Shabbat 47: What Do Clothes Mean to You? Halakhic Subjectivity (in a good way)
Apr 22, 2020
Shabbat 46: Living Proof
Apr 21, 2020
Shabbat 45: When You Hang a Burning Lamp in Your Palm Tree
Apr 20, 2020
Shabbat 44: Ick, don't touch that! Exactly.
Apr 19, 2020
Shabbat 43: The Untranslatable Muktzah
Apr 18, 2020
Shabbat 42: When You Dig a Hole, Do You Need the Hole, or Do You Need the Dirt?
Apr 17, 2020
Shabbat 41: Role Models
Apr 16, 2020
Shabbat 40: No Showers on Shabbat
Apr 15, 2020
Shabbat 39: Heated by Hellfire
Apr 14, 2020
Shabbat 38: Putting One Over on Hilkhot Shabbat - Temporarily
Apr 13, 2020
Shabbat 37: None of These Melakhot Is Exactly as It Seems
Apr 12, 2020
Shabbat 36: We Don't Always Know What the Words Mean - and the Gemara Agrees
Apr 11, 2020
Shabbat 35: The First Pre-Shabbat Siren
Apr 10, 2020
Shabbat 34: The Twilight Zone, Literally
Apr 09, 2020
Shabbat 33: Unfair Stereotyping of Women in the Ancient World - Unlocked! (Maybe)
Apr 08, 2020
Shabbat 32: Scare Tactics
Apr 07, 2020
Shabbat 31: "Go and learn!"
Apr 06, 2020
Shabbat 30: When King David Tried to Cheat the Angel of Death
Apr 05, 2020
Shabbat 29: MacGyvering Shabbat Candles
Apr 04, 2020
Shabbat 28: It's a Unicorn!
Apr 03, 2020
Shabbat 27: Strange and Stranger Mitzvot, and What We Learn from Them
Apr 02, 2020
Shabbat 26: Don't Let Your Daughter-in-Law Catch on Fire
Apr 01, 2020
Shabbat 25: Who Is Rich? Those Who Have Indoor Plumbing
Mar 31, 2020
Shabbat 24: Ambivalence about the Sages' Ambivalence about Chanukah
Mar 30, 2020
Shabbat 23: Like It or Not, People Gossip
Mar 29, 2020
Shabbat 22: Repurposing Chanukah Candles? Nope
Mar 28, 2020
Shabbat 21: There's No Masekhet Chanukah
Mar 27, 2020
Shabbat 20: Does My Toast Have Crunch?
Mar 26, 2020
Shabbat 19: Your Dog Can Break Shabbos
Mar 25, 2020
Shabbat 18: "Set It and Forget It" - A Daf of Modern Shabbat Issues
Mar 24, 2020
Shabbat 17: The Sword in the Study Hall
Mar 23, 2020
Shabbat 16: When All of the Vessels in the Palace Were Impure
Mar 22, 2020
Shabbat 15: When Rabbinic Decrees Create Stability
Mar 21, 2020
Shabbat 14: Making the Torah Off-Limits
Mar 20, 2020
Shabbat 13: A Fool Is Not Harmed (or: The Dead Feel No Pain)
Mar 19, 2020
Shabbat 12: Did Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha Break Shabbos?!
Mar 18, 2020
Shabbat 11: If All the Seas Were Ink
Mar 17, 2020
Shabbat 10: Is Prayer Like a Good Meal?
Mar 16, 2020
Shabbat 9: Get Your Hair Done in the Morning
Mar 15, 2020
Shabbat 8: It Doesn't Matter How You Use Your Domain
Mar 14, 2020
Shabbat 7: Throw a Juicy Cake of Figs against a Wall
Mar 13, 2020
Shabbat 6: Looking for the Beginning, Middle, and End
Mar 12, 2020
Shabbat 5: What If You Never Stop Walking?
Mar 11, 2020
Shabbat 4: When Is Flying through the Air Like Resting on the Ground?
Mar 10, 2020
Shabbat 3: Uprooting and Letting Rest - Carrying in Halakhah
Mar 09, 2020
Shabbat 2 use this link
Mar 08, 2020
Shabbat 2 (Re-release): That's No Introduction to Shabbat!
Mar 08, 2020
Berakhot 64: The Finish Line of Masekhet Berakhot
Mar 07, 2020
Berakhot 63: Power Play (and Win)
Mar 06, 2020
Berakhot 62: Sex Ed, Up Close and Personal
Mar 05, 2020
Berakhot 61: Rabbi Akiva's Moment of Death and Shema
Mar 04, 2020
Berakhot 60: Happy Is the Person Who Is Always Scared
Mar 03, 2020
Berakhot 59: We Don't Bless God for the Suez Canal
Mar 02, 2020
Berakhot 58: We Are All Individuals!
Mar 01, 2020
Berakhot 57: Deepest, Darkest, Fearsome Racy Dreams Writ Well
Feb 29, 2020
Berakhot 56: Dreaming of Elephants
Feb 28, 2020
Berakhot 55: Say You Had a Good Dream, and Your Dream Was Good NOTE: RELEASED PRE-EDIT. FIXED NOW
Feb 27, 2020
Berakhot 54: Hailstones Hovering in the Air
Feb 26, 2020
Berakhot 53: The Flame of the Candle Is Always a New Flame
Feb 25, 2020
Berakhot 52: Ignore That Voice from Heaven Telling You What to Do
Feb 24, 2020
Berakhot 51: What Would Make YOU Smash 400 Barrels of Wine?
Feb 23, 2020
Berakhot 50: Transformations
Feb 22, 2020
Berachot 49: Eat When You Want
Feb 21, 2020
Berakhot 48: When Abaye and Rava Were Little Kids
Feb 20, 2020
Berakhot 47: Ignoramuses in Our Midst
Feb 19, 2020
Berakhot 46: God's Favor: The Corpses Did Not Decompose
Feb 18, 2020
Berakhot 45: Zimun vs. Bentsching (Also Women)
Feb 17, 2020
Berakhot 44: Were Hazal on Drugs?
Feb 16, 2020
Berakhot 43: Dress Up a Pig and It Will Still Roll in the Mud
Feb 15, 2020
Berakhot 42: Warning: Gluten Ahead
Feb 14, 2020
Berakhot 41: A Barley-grain-sized Piece of Bone from a Corpse (Understanding the 7 Species)
Feb 13, 2020
Berakhot 40: Adam and Eve Ate What?!
Feb 12, 2020
Berakhot 39: What's Better Than Sliced Bread?
Feb 11, 2020
Berakhot 38: Breaking Bread
Feb 10, 2020
Berakhot 37: So, You Think Rice Is HaMotzi?
Feb 09, 2020
Berakhot 36: Medicine Is Not Food
Feb 08, 2020
Berakhot 35: Don't Steal from God!
Feb 07, 2020
Berakhot 34: God Knows Who You're Praying For
Feb 06, 2020
Berakhot 33: Lions and Snakes and Scorpions, Oh My!
Feb 05, 2020
Berakhot 32: The Golden Calf Was All God's Fault
Feb 04, 2020
Berakhot 31: No, of course Hannah wasn't drunk
Feb 03, 2020
Berakhot 30: Kavanah, Kavanah, Kavanah!
Feb 02, 2020
Berakhot 29: The Advantages of Praying by Heart
Feb 01, 2020
Berakhot 28: Leadership and the Value of Machloket
Jan 31, 2020
Berakhot 27: If Maariv Is Optional, Why Do We Daven 3x/Day?
Jan 30, 2020
Berakhot 26: Now We Have Prayer
Jan 29, 2020
Berakhot 25: We're Not Angels
Jan 28, 2020
Berakhot 24: Naked!
Jan 27, 2020
Berakhot 23: Distractions
Jan 26, 2020
Berakhot 22: What Can a Ba'al Keri Who Hasn't Dunked Do?
Jan 25, 2020
Berakhot 21: It Takes 10 to Make a Minyan
Jan 24, 2020
Berakhot 20: Generation Gaps
Jan 23, 2020
Berakhot 19: The Case of Kilayim and Stripping in the Marketplace
Jan 22, 2020
Berakhot 18: Death Be Not Proud
Jan 21, 2020
Berakhot 17: The Power of Unique Prayer
Jan 20, 2020
Berakhot 16: The Shema You Recite Up in a Tree
Jan 19, 2020
Berakhot 15: What If You Don't "Hear" Shema?
Jan 18, 2020
Berakhot 14: If women don't lay tefilin, can they say Shema?
Jan 17, 2020
Berakhot 13: Focusing Your Heart
Jan 16, 2020
Berakhot 12: How Wrong Is Wrong?
Jan 15, 2020
Berakhot 11: "Your beard is very full" - A Matter of Debate
Jan 14, 2020
Berakhot 10: Beruriah and Praying from the Depths
Jan 13, 2020
Berakhot 9: Different Opinions (Shocking, We Know)
Jan 12, 2020
Berakhot 8: The Dramatic Innovation of Those 4 Cubits of Halakhah
Jan 11, 2020
Berakhot 7: Blessing God
Jan 10, 2020
Berakhot 6: Encountering God
Jan 09, 2020
Berakhot 5: The Problem of Evil
Jan 08, 2020
Berakhot 4: Moshe, David, and Redemption
Jan 07, 2020
Berakhot Daf 3: When the dog barked, it was much later than midnight
Jan 06, 2020
Introduction and Berakhot 2
Jan 05, 2020