Topics covered:
Chapter 4, Mishna 1
Continuing our discussion of following the custom in a locality with respect to certain stringencies of Jewish law. Does one from Israel observe the second day of a Festival when visiting outside of Israel? Is there a difference if he plans to work in public or in private? In town or in the desert? If he’s an ordinary Jew or a Torah Scholar? With respect to removing produce from our possession when it is no longer available in the fields during the seventh – Sabbatical – year in the shmitah cycle, does it matter if the produce is available in the fields in another region? When we remove such produce from our possession, how and where do we do it?