Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Priests in the Temple raced each other for the morning ash-removal work, until one got hurt and they switched to a lottery system. King Saul was too merciful when God told him to be …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 6 People crowded on the Temple Mount for Festivals, yet they all had room to bow and confess privately. This leads to an AMAZING discussion of the ongoing miracles in the Holy Temple, especially the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 6 A beautiful story about one page of Talmud, a son, a father, and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Staying awake with the High Priest on the night of Yom Kippur led to unintended consequences. Sweeping the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 4, 5 Psalm 20 for the healing of the injured in Meron. The Elders kept the High Priest up all night on Yom Kippur. One tactic was reading aloud the most gripping books of the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 3 Elders prepped the High Priest for a week before Yom Kippur, intellectually, emotionally and physically. They reviewed his Torah obligations for the big day in case he’d forgotten or never learned them. How could …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 The Kohen Gadol, High Priest, is entitled to bring any sacrifice he chooses, and to eat any of the priestly portions that he chooses. He also gets one of the two loaves brought on …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 The six moments in Torah history we are commanded to remember every day. In resolving a contradiction between two mishnas describing certain chambers in the Temple complex, we get some wonderful details of the …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 The Lubavitcher Rebbe learns from the prohibition of certain priests to serve in the Temple that differently abled people acquire perspective and wisdom that people without such challenges can never attain. A contradiction in …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 2 According to Rabbi Akiva, the waters of purification – which purify a person who became ritually impure by coming into contact with a corpse – render a person IMPURE if he was pure when …