Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 We can establish an eruv, whether to join houses in a courtyard (eruv chatzeros) or to relocate our Shabbos boundaries (eruv techumin) with any kind of food except water and salt. And we …

  Topics covered: End Chapter 2, Mishna 4 A Shabbos lunch incident at the Exilarch’s house: on Friday, he asked Rav Huna bar Chinana to arrange for Shabbos-carrying between a pavilion in a non-residential enclosure and the house via a …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 4 Another strategy for adjusting a karpef, non-residential enclosure, which is just over the 5000 square cubit size limit for carrying on Shabbos: reduce its size. We can’t do that by adding trees, but …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 4 We may carry on Shabbos in a non-residential enclosure over 5000 square cubits if it was originally built for residential purposes. What happens if we plant crops in it? What about trees? What …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 3, 4 Upright boards in the corners, i.e. a “virtual enclosure” only works to permit drawing water from public well fed by a spring, per Rabbi Yehuda ben Bava. Such an enclosure does not …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1, 2 King Solomon made the Torah more accessible to people by writing Proverbs. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi looks at Deut. 7:10 and says, were this not in the Torah, we could never say …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 The virtual partitions around wells were instituted for the benefit of Festival pilgrims going to Jerusalem, and some say for their animals. Rav Yimeya bar Abba says that Rav said, huts and boards don’t …

Topics covered:  Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Abaye asked Rabba, what if a courtyard opens directly into an enclosure around a well in the public domain – may we carry from one to the other? What if two courtyards open into …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Continuing the last three of ten teachings by Rabbi Yirmeyah ben Elazar. When Babylonia was cursed, its neighbors were cursed too, but when Shomron, Samaria, was cursed its neighbors were blessed. Earthly kings …