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Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 29. It can be dangerous to eat an onion. This may not seem like the greatest starting out point for a theological discussion of prayer and God’s protection, but it turns out […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 28. Does the fact that I like to eat paper make paper into food? If I love unripe apples does everyone else have to love them too? Do the nutty Jews of […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 27. The mishnah at the bottom of 26b opens with a general statement: Everything (food) may be used to establish an eruv or effect a shittuf mavo’y except for water and salt. Rishonim […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 26. The Exilarch consults a rabbi to ensure that he is permitted to carry food and other meal necessities from his house to an abvarneka (small structure with seating) in his orchard. One […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Eightieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 25. Building a partition (mehitzah) 4 handbreadths into a karpef from a mound (tel) for residential purposes will suffice to allow carrying on Shabbat within the karpef, even if it is larger than 2 […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Seventy Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 24. The Gemara continues to explore issues involving the karpef, as well as the rehavah (fenced-in yard). A karpef greater in size than two bet se’ahs that was not hukaf l’dirah (enclosed for […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Seventy Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 23. Under what circumstances may one carry on Shabbat in a garden or a karpef? What is a karpef? Three Tannaim dispute about this; two holding that even a garden or karpef of […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Seventy Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 22. R. Yohanan says that people are not liable in the land of Israel on account of public domain; that is, they are not liable for carrying in the public domain on Shabbat. […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Seventy Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 21. In an interesting aggadic passage, the Bavli compares Torah and rabbinic law, and interestingly seems to consider the observance of the latter as a more serious matter than the former. What is […]
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Welcome to the Hundred and Seventy Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 20. The stand-out line of our final page is, “Camels are different, because their necks are long.” Our preoccupation is still with the water-well barrier, and the limits of its efficacy for […]
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