Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 34.
The laws of arava. The principle of “hilkheta gemirei lehu” and “halakha leMoshe meSinai”, although these principles have no actual scriptural source they are still considered of equal authority as laws that have a scriptural basis. The number of species required and can one add to them or is one considered ba’al tosif and finally, the Mishnah of the laws of etrog.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
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Rabbi Ute Steyer received rabbinic ordination and a M.A. in Jewish Philosophy from The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2009. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Jewish philosophy. Her research interest is in the development of ethical thought in rabbinic literature and contemporary Jewish thought. Rabbi Steyer was appointed rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Stockholm and Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Stockholm. She is also a permanent scholar in residence at Paideia – The Jewish Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden and as lecturer at the University of Stockholm. She was previously the research and program director in the Center for Pastoral Education and adjunct lecturer in Pastoral Theology at JTS and was the program director of the Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
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