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Welcome to the Forty Sixth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 47. In our discussion of muktze so far, we’ve focused on the objects to be (or not to be) carried. Today, we learn how the nature of an object is affected by the identity […]
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Welcome to the Forty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 46. Jewish communities have always encompassed a wide range of ritual practice. Today’s daf invites us to wonder how we behave when we are guests and hosts, holding respect for others as a higher […]
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Welcome to the Forty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 45. Rabbinic discourse requires that we engage in conversation with those who disagree. Through disagreements about muktze, in this episode we consider how we learn from and represent the perspectives of others. Rabbi Emma […]
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Welcome to the Forty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 44. Today’s daf introduces us to the theme of the rest of the chapter — muktze, the objects we might set aside for Shabbat. We learn some of the particulars of carrying, and how […]
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Welcome to the Twenty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 22. Is the mitzvah of Chanukkah to light the candles or simply to place the Chanukkiah in our window? A lesson from the Chassidic text Kedushat Levi suggests that these two possibilities reflect different […]
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Welcome to the Nineteenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 20. “Bameh Madlikin?” With what may we kindle Shabbat lights? This famous Mishnah, read in traditional shuls on Friday nights, bespeaks a key element of Shabbat, and it reminds us that throughout Jewish life, the […]
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Welcome to the Eighteenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 19. The Amoraim (the rabbis of the Gemara) explain an earlier text (a Braita) about a non-Jewish messenger delivering a letter on Shabbat. In the process, they show us how sacred the older texts are […]
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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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