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Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 5, 6, 7 If there’s a ladder leading to a private courtyard at the dead end of a public domain, is it an entrance or a partition? How does this compare to a ladder …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 4, 5 Yesterday we learned how challenging it can be to measure and lay out the boundaries of a city’s Shabbos limit, so it’s no surprise to learn in today’s Mishna that an expert …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 3 How did they measure the Shabbos boundary of a city? Why a 50 cubit rope? Why not a chain? What material for the rope? How did they handle canyons, hills, walls, and cliffs? …
Topics covered: DOUBLE DAF Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 Interesting coincidence: on the same day that I read about the need for zinc in order to stay healthy as we get older, and its primary source in food is …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1 Three more wisdom teachings based on Deut. 30:12-13, the Torah is not in the Heavens or beyond the sea… How do we set the edges of certain irregularly-shaped cities for the purpose of …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1 Meet Beruria, the female sage who proves her self as a Torah scholar from a young age despite living in a very patriarchal society. The original editors of the Talmud open a series …
Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1 How did the Sages establish the edge of a city with regard to Shabbos boundaries? They would extend the border to encompass protrusions. The word extend, me’abrin, can be spelled with an ayin …
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