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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 48. Why would the ritual of Nisuch Ha-Mayim (water libations) become a flash point for disagreements among different groups of Jews? Why would a misstep in such a ceremony so bother the people at the Temple that they […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 47. What is the holiday of Shmini Atzeret? What makes it different from the rest of Sukkot — and in what ways does it resemble the rest of Sukkot? (And should we even refer to “the rest of” […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 46. What are the blessings for dwelling in the sukkah, for using the lulav and etrog, and for lighting Hanukkah candles? How have these practices changed over time? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 45. What can Sukkot teach us about different ways of being in relationship with God? Today’s daf will explore this question through the ritual of hoshanot. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Micha’el Rosenberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 44. Why do things sometimes matter to us more than they’re “supposed” to? On Sukkah 44, we explore the tension between the official, authoritative sources for a practice, and the visceral, lived experience of performing that practice. The opening […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Micha’el Rosenberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 43. What value is there to having a single Temple? And what have we lost with its destruction? Thinking about the lulav might offer an answer that doesn’t require fundamentalist assumptions. The opening and closing music for this podcast […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 42. We see Bar/Bat Mitzvah time as an induction into religious obligation, but today’s daf will provide an alternative view, leaving us with a question: How do we know when it is time for children become participants in Jewish […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 41. Today’s daf explores the question of personal ownership of lulavim on Sukkot. Why is such ownership required? Why is giving a lulav to a friend as a temporary gift okay? What do these rules tell us about the […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 40. Today’s daf engages in the question of what sabbatical produce may be used for leading to the question of what the primary purpose of the ban on agricultural labor during the sabbatical year. Is it to give the […]
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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 39. What assumptions should we make about the religious practice of others? In what ways should these assumptions inform our interactions with them? Today’s daf engages these questions through a discussion of purchasing a etrog in the shmitta (sabbatical) […]
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