Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Who were the Sadducees and Boethusians? Why did Rabban Gamliel’s father tell his Jewish neighbors to hurry up and use their alleyway on Shabbos before the Sadducee used it and took back the rights …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Why is it that in the neighborhood where two Sages as great as Rabba and Abaye lived, no eruv had been established?! And why did Rava not hold like Shmuel on the question of …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Three situations brought for clarification with respect to Shabbos and the law of eruv: 1) two houses separated by a public domain are enclosed in a new private domain by partitions erected by a …

  Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 On Shabbos, may we “rent” the rights in a shared courtyard of a Gentile so the Jews can carry there on Shabbos? Rabbi Yochanan says yes. Shmuel does not allow this under certain …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 A series of beautiful wisdom teachings on the intersection of alcohol, good sense, intoxication, fatigue, the evil inclination, good inclination, anger, prayer, Torah study, character and our relationships with God & each other. Finally …

  Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Rava, Abaye, Rav Huna bar Rav Yehoshua and others figure out how to handle a situation in which a non-Jew will not “rent” out his rights in a shared alleyway, thus restricting all …

  Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Yesterday we learned that Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov’s view prevails over R’ Meir’s in our Mishna. Several Sages agree with this conclusion, but for different reasons. Abaye says to his teacher Rav Yosef, …

  Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 The first commandment is “Be fruitful and multiply.” If it only meant “Reproduce,” then “be fruitful” would be redundant. Be fruitful is the secret to life: bearing fruit is what we souls were …

  Topics covered: Chapter 5, Mishna 5, 6, 7 If there’s a ladder leading to a private courtyard at the dead end of a public domain, is it an entrance or a partition? How does this compare to a ladder …