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 …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 4 The debate between R’ Eliezer and R’ Yehoshua regarding separating the priest’s challah from tamei, ritually impure, dough on the first day of Passover turns not on the principle of “benefit of discretion” …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 2, 3, 4 If the significance of dough in a kneading bowl for purposes of tumah, ritual impurity, depends on the owners INTENT (remove it to clean it, or leave it in to reinforce …