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 …

  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 …