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Welcome to the Eighty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jill Jacobs looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 86. Today’s daf asks “When is a person ready to receive Torah?” According to the rabbis, one needs to be ready both spiritually and physically. And that leads to some fascinating speculation about sex […]
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Welcome to the Eighty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 85. This episode continues with the theme of planting multiple species in a small garden, and in the process reminds us why the Talmud is more of an educational experience than a series of […]
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Welcome to the Eighty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 84. Masechet Shabbat, Daf 84 opens with the challenge of planting multiple species in a small garden, and ends by implicitly raising the question of how best to analyze the purpose of any given […]
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Welcome to the Eighty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 83. Masechet Shabbat, Daf 83 is chock full of great Talmudic material, form the question of whether a disassembled idol still imparts impurity, to the question of how we know that ocean-going ships do […]
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Welcome to the Eighty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 82. Masechet Shabbat, Daf 82 shares best practices for conduct in the bathroom, which I have taken the liberty of cross-checking with a medical doctor. It also gives us the chance to bid farewell […]
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Welcome to the Eightieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 81. Masechet Shabbat, Daf 81 is a tale of stones, of latrines, and of Kavod HaBriyot — human dignity, all in the context of Shabbat. Rabbi Harry Pell is Schechter Westchester’s rabbi-in-residence, as well as […]
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Welcome to the Seventy Nineth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 80. Daf 80 begins with a discussion of carrying on Shabbat, but winds up teaching lessons about the cosmetic uses of lime, and an even more important lesson about personal responsibility. Rabbi Harry Pell […]
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Welcome to the Seventy Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Harry Pell looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 79. In this episode, we focus on a page that asks the question whether Tefilin be written only on Klaf, or also on Duchsustus? The question is answered elegantly, in part by citing the […]
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Welcome to the Seventy Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 78. In this episode, we explore the question of when is a piece of paper is not really a piece of paper, abd we have further adventures in the laws of carrying. Rabbi David […]
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Welcome to the Seventy Sixth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 77. In today’s episode, we try to make sense of the prohibition of “carrying”. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture and serves as scholar-in-residence in the Development Department […]
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