Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 7 A layman can darn socks on the intermediate days of festivals, but not a tailor. What if the tailor has a hole in his sock? May we set up a bed? What if the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 7 The Sages derive from Solomon’s 7-day celebratory dedication of the Holy Temple immediately followed by the 7’day celebration of Sukkos that we don’t mix one joy with another. The people skipped Yom Kippur that …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7 Does a priest have discretion about when or whether to examine a symptom of tzara’as? May we transport bones from temp grave to final crypt during intermediate days of festival? May …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 3, 4 May we fix a hole in a wall during the intermediate days of a festival? How about a leaning wall? May/should a metzora have his skin blemishes examined by a priest during the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1, 2, 3 What can we deduce from certain unclear grave markings? Why did the Sages send agents into the farm fields to inspect and uproot prohibited mixtures of “diverse kinds?” Why did they stop …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 On the intermediate days of a Festival one may attend to the needs of the public even if it requires strenuous effort, but what qualifies as a need of the public? Marking graves so …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 What is the excessive exertion that prohibits certain kinds of work from being done on the intermediate days of a festival? What does this mean in practical terms today? Can we derive 6th year …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 How do we derive from the Torah what kinds of labor are prohibited during the seventh year of the Sabbatical cycle of the land? How is this related to the kinds of work permitted …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 What kind, and how much, work may be done during the intermediate days of a Festival (Passover or Sukkot)? Depends on the consequences of not doing the task and how strenuous it will be. …