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 …

Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 2, 3 Spectacular wisdom teachings of Hillel the Elder! The floating skull. Why do the wicked sometimes seem to evade justice in this world? Where there is no mensch, be the mensch! The Songs of …

Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 2 A spectacular page! Apropos a verse about the end of days which explain why men and women celebrated separately during Sukkot in the Holy Temple, we enter an extended digression on the nature of …

Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 What was the primary aspect of the music which accompanied offerings in the Holy Temple: the vocals of the Levite choir or the instruments of the musicians? How was the celebration of the …