Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Yesterday we learned that Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov’s view prevails over R’ Meir’s in our Mishna. Several Sages agree with this conclusion, but for different reasons. Abaye says to his teacher Rav Yosef, …

  Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 The first commandment is “Be fruitful and multiply.” If it only meant “Reproduce,” then “be fruitful” would be redundant. Be fruitful is the secret to life: bearing fruit is what we souls were …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 5, 6, 7 If there’s a ladder leading to a private courtyard at the dead end of a public domain, is it an entrance or a partition? How does this compare to a ladder …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 4, 5 Yesterday we learned how challenging it can be to measure and lay out the boundaries of a city’s Shabbos limit, so it’s no surprise to learn in today’s Mishna that an expert …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 3 How did they measure the Shabbos boundary of a city? Why a 50 cubit rope? Why not a chain? What material for the rope? How did they handle canyons, hills, walls, and cliffs? …

  Topics covered: DOUBLE DAF Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 Interesting coincidence: on the same day that I read about the need for zinc in order to stay healthy as we get older, and its primary source in food is …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1 Three more wisdom teachings based on Deut. 30:12-13, the Torah is not in the Heavens or beyond the sea… How do we set the edges of certain irregularly-shaped cities for the purpose of …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1 Meet Beruria, the female sage who proves her self as a Torah scholar from a young age despite living in a very patriarchal society. The original editors of the Talmud open a series …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1 How did the Sages establish the edge of a city with regard to Shabbos boundaries? They would extend the border to encompass protrusions. The word extend, me’abrin, can be spelled with an ayin …