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 …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 3, 4 Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Meir disagree by one hour re how late we may eat chametz, leaven, on the morning before Passover begins. They also disagree by one hour and how big …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 3, 4 Is Rabbi Yehuda more stringent than the other Sages or less? Depends on the situation, so what is his underlying philosophy? Examining cases of searching for chametz, leaven, after it has become …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2, 3 A series of cases on mice and children dragging leaven back into a house that’s already been searched on the 14th of Nisan. We borrow legal principles from the unmarked grave in …