Topics covered: One who carries a heavy object outside on Shabbos is liable. If two carry an object that either could have carried alone, they are exempt. If they carry an object so heavy it requires two, they are …

  Topics covered: One who steals a purse on Shabbos is liable for theft unless he drags it along the ground. WHAT?! We unpack this concept in the video. 🙂 What happens when someone becomes liable for two harms caused …

Topics covered: Opening Chapter 10. One who stores seeds renders them significant even if less than the minimum measure for liability for carrying on Shabbos. If he carries and returns without using them, he shows that they’re not significant, but …

  Topics covered: MIshnahs 5, 6, 7 to complete Chapter 9. Back to miminum measures that render an item significant enough to make one liable if he carries it outside on Shabbos. Wood, spices, nutshells and madder and other items …

  Topics covered: Two tales of Satan at Mount Sinai when the Torah was given: the first demonstrates Moses’ imperviousness to the temptation of self-aggrandizement, the second shows how easily a mob can devolve into panic and evil in response …

  Topics covered: What is a Midrash? These are some of the most beloved midrashim in Judaism’s Oral Tradition. Did God coerce us into accepting the obligations of Torah by suspending Mt. Sinai over our heads? The Earth feared that …

  Topics covered: The timeline between the children of Israel arriving at Mount Sinai and then giving of Torah, according to Rabbi Yosei vs. the Rabbis. Three matters undertaken by Moses according to his own perception and subsequently approved by …

  Topics covered: Chapter 9, Mishnah 4 includes four teachings unrelated to Shabbos, but seeking Scriptural support, like the other mishnahs in this chapter. The first is that a wife is rendered tamei if she discharges semen within three days …

  Topics covered: In th midst of the George Floyd riots, LA is burning blocks from our home. We pray for peace, and that our Torah-learning this night will add to the peace, just as we learn in Berachos 64a. …