Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 5 Exploring Psalm 26 as an aspirational prayer. Our mishna explores the consequences of eating leavened bread set aside as teruma, the priest’s tithe, during Passover.

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 3, 4 Examining what it means for Jew to possess chametz, leaven, during Passover. What if he borrowed money from a gentile and put up an inventory of bread as collateral before Passover? Then …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 2 What do we do with a pot in which prohibited chametz, leaven, was cooked during Passover? How do we prepare a daily-use vessel or utensil for Passover?

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 2 If prohibited chametz (either because during Passover or because after Passover by the chametz was owned by a Jew during Passover) becomes mixed with a permitted food, is the mixture prohibited? Depends on 1) …

  Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1, 2 Rabbi Yehuda tries one argument after another to convince his fellow sages that any unsold chametz, leaven, must be disposed of by burning prior to Passover rather than some other method, but …

  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 …