Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 7, 8, Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2, 3 Highlights from the week of pages while Sal was away. Additional customs relating to work on Passover eve. How to say the Shema properly, including pauses and …

Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 4, 5, 6 Do we refrain from performing work on the Ninth of Av, when we fast and mourn the destruction of the First and Second Temples? Local customs vary. Torah Scholars must refrain from …

Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 3 Apropos a discussion of local customs with respect to lighting a havdala candle (which separates holy time from mundane) after Yom Kippur, the Sages embark on a fascinating discussion regarding the origin, purpose and …

  Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 1, 2 We remove produce from our possession when it is no longer available in the fields during the seventh – Sabbatical – year in the shmitah cycle, but the availability varies from one …

  Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 1 Continuing our discussion of following the custom in a locality with respect to certain stringencies of Jewish law. Does one from Israel observe the second day of a Festival when visiting outside of …

Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 1 When we travel from one place to another, and they have different customs with respect to Jewish law, do we do like them? If they are taking on unnecessary stringencies, do we tell them? …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 8, Chapter 4, Mishna 1 Who is honored in the World-To-Come? Hint: generally speaking, not the same people who are honored here! Zecharia 14:9 says “on that day (in the Messianic Age) the Lord …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 7, 8 When do we remove chametz, leaven, from our possession if the 14th of Nissan (the day before Passover) falls on Shabbos. If one is en route to do a mitzvah and remembers …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 4, 5, 6 Rabbah and Rav Hisda debate whether we employ the principle of “since” as an escape clause from a liability for certain transgressions. Rabbah says yes, Rav Hisda says no. Is this …