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 …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 10 Rabbi Dosa ben Harekinos ruled that the prayer leader on Rosh Hashana should include conditional language reflecting that doubt over which day, first or second, is actually Rosh Hashana, but the Rabbis overruled …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 9, 10 We may make two separate eruvs in advance when a Festival day abuts Shabbos, one for each day, but we may not do this for the two days of Rosh Hashana. For …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 9 When a festival day falls just before or just after Shabbos, Rabbi Eliezer says we may establish two separate eruv techumins (boundaries for walking distance) in advance, for walking in two different directions, …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 8 It appears in the Mishna about a dually conditional eruv that Rabbi Yehuda accepts the principle of retroactive designation, but elsewhere he seems to reject it. Is the Mishna wrong?! Several cases are …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 7, 8 Looking at doubtful eruv for the purpose of shifting our Shabbos boundary (how far we can walk away from my dwelling on Shabbos) so we can better fulfill the commandment to delight in …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 6, 7 KEY DAF! Putting our page in context. What have learned so far in our Talmud journey? Why does the concept of eruv matter? Because we transform space by creating an edifice in …

  Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 4, 5, 6 Eruv in a pit, Shabbos dwelling in a karmelis (neither private nor public domain – carrying into or out prohibited on Shabbos by rabbinic decree) is valid according to Rebbi. Eruv …