Topics covered: Why some materials are prohibited in the wicks and oils of the Shabbos lamp. Using a prohibited nut float the wick. Same materials prohibited in the Temple menorah for a different reason, but permitted in the Hanukkah …

  Topics covered: Optional activities which must be completed before Shabbat begins, like roasting meat and baking bread, and how do we define completion? The bonfire that warmed the Temple priests in the Chamber of the Hearth. Bonfires outside the …

  Topics covered: Selling leavened foods to a gentile before Passover. Giving food to a dog on Shabbos if the dog is likely to transfer that food from private to publc domain. On the eve of Shabbos: giving mail to …

  Topics Covered: Activities one ought not commence just before Shabbos begins even if they proceed by themselves. Water power vs animal power in a mill. Grinding is not respectful of Shabbos. Renting a mill, or a kosher deli, to …

  Topics covered: Ox goad can act as a tent over a corpse if wide enough. Incidental juice of grapes in a basket renders them susceptible to tumah, ritual impurity. Sages prohibit the wine, bread and oil of non-Jews to …

  Topics covered: Why we should read the whole Book of Psalms in one day, crying/singing/shofar-blowing from our porches. Our crucial role while homebound. Tumah (ritual impurity) of domestic glass vessels – a post-Torah technology – differs from clay and …

  Topics covered: Daf-Parsha connection with Pekudei, God’s Kavod (Glory, Honor) filled the Tabernacle, Dwelling, and so it can fill our homes if we acknowledge, thank and praise the Eternal. Three differences between Shammai and Hillel settled by the Sages …

  Topics covered: Living waters vs. drawn waters, tumah vs taharah, impurity imparted by hands, Torah scroll, and food. What meaning do we find in COVID-19 taking one’s breath away?

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