Topics covered: Answering a community question, why does a Torah scroll transmit ritual impurity? A rabbinic prohibition that evolved to protect Torah scrolls from mice and dirty hands. Back to our daf in Chapter 19, Mishnah 3. Tragic case …

  Topics covered: Chapter 19, Mishna 3 An 8th day circumcision overrides Shabbos, but an uncertain 8th day cicumcision does not. Five examples of uncertainty: 1) uncertain gender because the baby is an “androginos”, 2) baby born at twilight Friday …

  Topics covered: Chapter 19, Mishnah 2 and 3. Preventing infection with cumin after a circumcision was a necessity in Talmudic times, so if it wasn’t prepared during the week, it could be ground atypically on Shabbos with one’s teeth, …

  Topics covered: An 8th day circumcision overrides a festival just as it does Shabbos, but its facilitators, like bringing the scalpel which could have been done before the festival, do not. Slaughtering the Paschal lamb or kid on the …

  Topics covered: Until now we’ve assumed that an 8th day circumcision overrides the restrictions of Shabbos, but how do we know that? It’s not written explicitly in the Torah. All the Sages agree on this law, but they dig …

  Topics Covered: This whole page teaches Rabbi Eliezer’s opinions and their derivations in the matter of mitzvahs that override Shabbos, as well as their facilitating actions. The Sages, however, held like Rabbi Akiva who ruled that even if a …

  Topics Covered: Opening Chapter 19, what happens when a cricumcision falls on Shabbos? We perform it. Rabbi Eliezer says we violate Shabbos to carry the scalpel if it was not brought before Shabbos, and we even manufacture a scalpel …

  Topics covered: Closing Chapter 18 with Mishna 3, when a woman gives birth on Shabbos we provide anything she requests, even if it’s for her emotional and mental comfort rather than to save her from physical danger. We also …

  Topics covered: We can move a certain amount of stored grain on Shabbos to make room for guests or the teaching of Torah, but we may not move inedible foods. Inedible means something that neither humans nor animals will …