Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1, 2 Moving a ladder from one dovecote to another, and an attic ladder from inside the house to outside: might not violate carrying, but it might create the appearance of impropriety – that the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 The needs of a corpse are so important that the Sages relaxed certain prohibitions on a Festival that would otherwise keep us from burying our dead, but the exceptions are limited! Why did a …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Accessing deep pools of talmudic thought through a simple egg! May an egg laid on the first day of a two day Festival, or Shabbos adjacent to a Festival be eaten on the next …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Accessing deep pools of talmudic thought through a simple egg! May an egg laid on the first day of a two day Festival, or Shabbos adjacent to a Festival be eaten on the next …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Delving deeper into the Sages’ reasoning for why a Jew may not eat an egg that was newly laid on a Festival, by comparing this egg to fruit that fell off a tree, juice …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Opening a new tractate – on the laws of Festivals and how they differ from the laws of Shabbos – with a challenging debate on whether it is permitted to eat an egg on …

Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 5, 6 Celebrating the completion of Tractate Sukkah! Always try to live/work/travel alongside righteous people! May we be blessed to remember what we’ve learned and to learn many more tractates! L’chaim!

Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 3, 4, 5 Sukkot is the most universal of Jewish festivals, for on it, offerings were brought on behalf of all the nations of the world! Tune in tomorrow (Wednesday) for the big siyum celebration …

Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 3 Learning Psalm 27 for the holiday season stretching from Elul 2 to the end of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret/Simchas Torah. From the Sages’ debate regarding the number of trumpet blasts sounded on weekdays and …