Topics covered: Domains for the sake of transfer on Shabbos: Public vs. Private vs. Karmelis. Ben Azzai says walking is like standing. Three punishments depending on awareness and warning: liable to bring a chatas (sin-offering), stoning, or death at …

  Topics covered: Creating Rabbinic prohibitions to prevent people from violating Biblical prohibitions is complicated due to unintended consequences. The Karmelis is a Rabbinic construct. Exempt generally means Rabbinically prohibited with three exceptions: trapping deer, trapping poisonous snake, or lancing …

  Topics covered: Intro to Talmudic reasoning. Liable to a sin offering biblically vs. exempt biblically but still prohibited rabbinically vs. permitted. The case of the poor man outside and the homeowner inside: if they combine to violate Shabbos, why …

  Topics covered: Why can we make up a missed Amidah but not a Shema? Rabba’s insight could uproot mountains, Rav Yosef’s knowledge encompassed the entire tradition since Sinai. Which takes precedence? Torah scholars increase peace in the world 🌎 …

  Topics covered: The penultimate page and wisdom is flying! Alcohol and Adultery. Tithing makes one wealthy. Where there is no mensch, be the mensch! Torah from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. The need to be cheerful. …

  Topics covered: Modesty in all places and times, even bathroom, face north/south when relieving oneself if the Temple Mount lies to the east/west, learning from a Sage’s example greater than words, what Rav Kahana learned under Rav’s bed.

  Topics covered: When a Jew must accept martyrdom, the origin tale of women, good inclination vs. evil inclination, Rabbi Akiva’s end, the Parable of the Fox and the Fishes.