Topics covered: Begin Chapter 9, Mishna 3, 4 What do Pesach Rishon (Passover) and Pesach Sheni (the second opportunity to bring the Paschal offering for people disqualified from bringing it on Passover) have in common, and how do they differ? …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 9, Mishna 2 In ascertaining how far a person must be from Jerusalem to be excused from bringing the Korban Pesach, the Passover Offering, the Sages digress to examine the relative sizes and distances of the …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 9, Mishna 1, 2 How does the Pesach Sheni relate to the korban Pesach, the Passover offering? What are the consequences for missing the first, and what for the second? Depends on why you missed them! …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 8, Mishna 9 The challenge of “This is the day!” from Psalm 118. The acute mourner and the Paschal lamb. Moving bones from crypt to ossuary. The recent convert and the Paschal lamb – a dispute …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 8, Mishna 7, 8 Sanctification of the New Moon. Slaughtering the Pascal lamb on behalf of people fit to eat it now, but who may not be fit by tonight, like acute mourners, one digging for …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 8, Mishna 6 Why are we commanded to REMEMBER TO FORGET Amalek? May we slaughter the Passover lamb on behalf of one who is tamei, ritually impure, at this moment and therefore unfit for the lamb, …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 8, Mishna 3, 4, 5 Until when may people join a group registered for a particular Paschal lamb? May we offer a portion of the lamb to our kids as a prize? Until when may a …

Topics covered: Begin Chapter 8, Mishna 1, 2 Why did God send Jews to Babylonia and other countries of exile? Why is the Holy Temple referred to as the House of the God of Jacob, but not Abraham or Isaac? …

Topics covered: Chapter 8, Mishna 1 This chapter is about who may and who must be included in a group of people registered for a Korban Pesach, the Passover Offering. There was a custom that newlywed wives would return to …