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  • Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 4, 5 Three multi-home courtyards in a row can establish a joint eruv by depositing food in a basket in one of the homes in the middle courtyard. If the outer courtyards make separate arrangements …

  • Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 4 Does an object owned by a non-Jew at twilight on Friday acquire its own Shabbos “dwelling” and boundary, limiting how far it can be carried by a Jew on Shabbos? R’ Yochanan says yes. …

  • Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 4 We have a series of principles about whom the law follows in certain disputes. For example, when Rabbi Yehuda disagrees with Rabbi Shimon the law follows Rabbi Yehuda. Rav Mesharshiya holds that these principles …

  •   Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 4 Why did Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi rule that 1) the law accords with Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri’s lenient opinion in his dispute with the stringent opinions of multiple rabbis regarding the Shabbos boundary …

  •   Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 2,3,4 Who is permitted to leave his Shabbos or Festival boundary? What happens when he gets there and fulfills his mission? If he’s a soldier, may he continue to carry his weapons? May we …

  •   Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 1, 2 Lost in Torah study, Nechemya wandered out of his Shabbos boundary. Rav Chisda pointed it out to Rav Nachman, who answered, build a human enclosure connecting him to his boundary so he …

  • Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 1 Source for command to delight in Shabbos. Difference between Ten Commandments regarding Shabbos in Exodus vs. Deuteronomy. How do we know that Rabban Gamiliel was right in our Mishna when he ruled they could …

  •   Topics covered: Chapter 4, Mishna 1 What happens when a person’s produce is taken outside his Shabbos boundary? Depends on whether it was taken out intentionally or unintentionally. If I don’t know where my Shabbos boundary is, I may …

  •   Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 10, Chapter 4, Mishna 1 Rabba asked Rav Huna, Rav Yehuda and Rava: do we complete a fast that falls on a Friday, or do we end it early so we don’t enter Shabbos …

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