Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6 May we bake thick matzah? Figure-shaped matzah? Lotsa matzah?

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6 With what dough may we fulfill our obligation to eat matza on the first night (first two nights outside Israel) of Passover? May we use dough from the second tithe of grain? What makes …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6 We’ve been discussing what’s prohibited at Passover, now we look at what’s obligated. We must eat matza, unleavened bread, but which grains qualify to be used for matza? The Sages disagree about rice, but …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 5 Examining a strange ruling that if a priest plants tamei teruma saplings, the resulting growth is tahor but prohibited. The issue at first seems to turn on whether the planting can be considered …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 5 The consequences of eating chametz, leavened bread, set aside as teruma, the priest’s tithe, during Passover are perplexing as this chametz has no value. Perhaps the key is that intent plays a different and …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 5 Exploring Psalm 26 as an aspirational prayer. Our mishna explores the consequences of eating leavened bread set aside as teruma, the priest’s tithe, during Passover.

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 3, 4 Examining what it means for Jew to possess chametz, leaven, during Passover. What if he borrowed money from a gentile and put up an inventory of bread as collateral before Passover? Then …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 2 What do we do with a pot in which prohibited chametz, leaven, was cooked during Passover? How do we prepare a daily-use vessel or utensil for Passover?

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 2 If prohibited chametz (either because during Passover or because after Passover by the chametz was owned by a Jew during Passover) becomes mixed with a permitted food, is the mixture prohibited? Depends on 1) …