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 …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 The Sages argue whether a chain of transmission of tumah, ritual impurity, from creeping thing to vessel to liquid implies that tumah can also pass from creeping thing to liquid to vessel. To …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 In trying to ascertain whether liquids can become tamei, ritually impure, by Torah law or Rabbinic decree, the Talmud brings verses from the prophet Haggai (2:11-14), when he quizzed the priests who were about …

  Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 5 Can liquids become tamei, ritually impure, according to Torah law as opposed to Rabbinic decree? In analyzing this question, Rabbi Elazar brings a statement of Yosei ben Yo’ezer leader of Tzereida, whose wisdom …