Welcome to the Seventeenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 18. What are the issues regarding passive work on Shabbat? The Torah says “so that your ox and your donkey can rest (Shabbat 23:13).” Does this apply to my crockpot, as well? Rabbi Abby Sosland […]

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Welcome to the Sixteenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 17. Learning about Hillel and Shammai as we continue through the “18 Decrees” from Daf 13b, we see that Shammai didn’t always get his way through intellectual debate! Rabbi Abby Sosland is the Morah Ruchanit […]

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Welcome to the Fifteenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 16. “Its insides are like its outsides.” As we compare the law regarding tumah (impurity) of glass vessels to the laws of pottery and metal vessels, we learn an important lesson about the human vessel […]

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