Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 83. This page exhibits the tension between the attempt to quantify legal rulings and the messiness of everyday life. Is this problem specifically tied to the breakdown of tradition in modern times, […]

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Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 82. The community building purpose of eruv is highlighted in special ways. It is a mitzvah to make an eruv to facilitate visiting and comforting mourners, even on Shabbat. Children, too, were […]

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Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 81. We encounter two seemingly conflicting propositions. The sages instructed that, in any legal dispute regarding an eruv, the lenient view should always be adopted. Yet the Talmud seems to accept the […]

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Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 80. The interconnections between family members and the role of women in maintaining or straining those connections becomes the subject of an intriguing narrative. David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei […]

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Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 79. Overcoming boundaries continues to be the theme. This question is germane to family groups as well as to communal spaces. How dependent or separate were adult children or wives in relation […]

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Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 78. There are various legal details discussed on this page. When does attention to detail lead to mundane pedantry and when does it evince the impulse to poetry? Which is more real […]

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Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 77. The discussion deals with dividers between two spaces. When can these dividers be breached and when do they retain their identity as separators? This leads us to examine a key aspect […]

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