Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 As long as “someone” is permitted to eat chametz, leaven, a Jew is also permitted to benefit from it. The someone is a kohen, a priest. What does benefit include? From where is …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Concluding our discussion of this mishna with the law of a tamei (ritually impure) needle found inside a consecrated animal brought to Jerusalem so that it could be offered on the altar. Its …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 A lost vessel found in Jerusalem can be assumed to be tahor, ritually pure even though a mishna held that vessels found near the mikveh, ritual bath might be assumed to be tamei …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 The Sages argue whether a chain of transmission of tumah, ritual impurity, from creeping thing to vessel to liquid implies that tumah can also pass from creeping thing to liquid to vessel. To …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 In trying to ascertain whether liquids can become tamei, ritually impure, by Torah law or Rabbinic decree, the Talmud brings verses from the prophet Haggai (2:11-14), when he quizzed the priests who were about …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Can liquids become tamei, ritually impure, according to Torah law as opposed to Rabbinic decree? In analyzing this question, Rabbi Elazar brings a statement of Yosei ben Yo’ezer leader of Tzereida, whose wisdom …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Did Rabbi Meir arrive at the proper inference with respect to mixing pure/impure leaven of consecrated foods for burning on the eve of Passover from the statements of Rabbis Chanina and Akiva regarding …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 What is tumah, ritual impurity? How does to relate to tahara, ritual purity, and kedusha, holiness? How is tumah a acquired? How is it transmitted? What are its degrees? What are the consequences of …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 4 Rav Nachman said in the name of Rav, the law accords with Rabbi Yehuda over Rabbi Meir regarding the last hour to eat leaven on the eve of Passover. But does it? Related …