Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 May we benefit from a prohibited thing if we didn’t put ourselves in that situation on purpose? Interestingly, the cases under consideration include the smell of incense burned for idolatry – prohibited because …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 May we benefit from a prohibited thing if we didn’t put ourselves in that situation on purpose? Interestingly, the cases under consideration include the smell of incense burned for idolatry – prohibited because …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 We learn the prohibition on benefitting from a meat/milk mixture from the prohibition on planting diverse kinds together. We may heal ourselves when life is in danger with any substance that is otherwise …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 We’ve established the connection between prohibited for eating and prohibited for benefit. So what do we do with these substances? Must they be burned? Why does the Torah prohibit some substances more than …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Concluding our discussion of the difference between Chizkiya and Abahu with respect to benefitting from that which the Torah prohibits for eating. Examples include Teruma for a non-priest, wine for a nazir, new …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Continuing our search for the Torah source of the principle that any food/animal specifically prohibited for eating is also prohibited for benefit unless the Torah further specifies otherwise. The ox that gores. The …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1 As long as “someone” is permitted to eat chametz, leaven, a Jew is also permitted to benefit from it. The someone is a kohen, a priest. What does benefit include? From where is …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Concluding our discussion of this mishna with the law of a tamei (ritually impure) needle found inside a consecrated animal brought to Jerusalem so that it could be offered on the altar. Its …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 A lost vessel found in Jerusalem can be assumed to be tahor, ritually pure even though a mishna held that vessels found near the mikveh, ritual bath might be assumed to be tamei …