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Sukkah 17: In the Process of Learning
A mishnah with 3 cases of non-kosher sukkahs. And then the Gemara needs to figure out why all 3 cases are necessary. Also, some narrative about the sages…
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Sukkah 16: Mind the Gap!
Looking for the stages that clarify the previous mishnah. A bed can, of course, be rendered impure and then be purified. Even if the bed is dismantled…
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Sukkah 15: Structural Incongruities
A daf with 2 mishnayot. The first has 3 different disputes in the span of the one mishnah, which focuses on wooden boards that can be used for schach…
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Sukkah 14: What Are Your Intentions?
A follow-up to the hyssop/"eizov" discussion. Also, continuing the case of one who harvested grain and then decided not to eat it, but to use it for schach…
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Sukkah 13: Grapes and Their Branches
Binding things together entails more than one thing! Also, the hyssop (or "eizov"), and its uses in the process of purification. Also, materials that might…
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Sukkah 12: Male and Female Arrow Shafts
Schach - what can be used for it: the specific examples of the leavings from the threshing floor and the winepress, as delineated and derived from the biblical…
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Sukkah 11: God's Rain Cloud
Climbing plants on a sukkah - ivy? Grapes? Etc. When they are attached to the ground, they can't really be part of the schach, unless they were overwhelmed in…
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Sukkah 10: Sukkah Decorations
[Some wonky audio from the app. Not throughout. With our apologies nonetheless.] What can't go over the schach: for example, additional shading, such as a tarp…
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Sukkah 9: A Tree Is Like a House
Does the age of the materials being used to build a sukkah matter? How long on advance of Sukkot can one build a sukkah? What about intent? How do we define an…
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Sukkah 8: The Need for "Secular Studies"
Serious math on the daf, geometry in particular. Squaring a round sukkah. Which gets into the math of circumferences... Which needs π (3.14....). Also, who can…
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Sukkah 7: The Shade-Sunlight Ratio
Defining sukkot - if you put schach on top of an alleyway, you can ha e a kosher sukkah - reviewing many cases, in ways that are reminiscent of Eruvin. Also…
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Sukkah 6: The Tefach-long Wall
Measurements! Barley. The vine. Fig. Pomegranate. Date. Olive. Also, a sukkah must have 3 walls - though that third wall can be as small as a tefach. This…
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Sukkah 5: Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
The minimum measurements of the sukkah coming off the aron brings us to a discussion of God's arrival to meet with man - but always 10 tefachim above the…
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Sukkah 4: From the Earth to the Heavens
More on the very tall 20+ amot high - what if you build a platform within it, raising the ground, as it were, so that it's less than 20 amot high on the…
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Sukkah 3: The House That Is Not a House
Who's Who: Helene HaMalkah - Queen Helene - and her very high sukkah. Was it too tall to be a kosher sukkah? And how are women supposed to handle the sukkah?…
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Sukkah 2: More Shade Than Sunlight
An introduction to the tractate: Sukkah. Plus, the historical component, as compared to the ritual aspect. Note that the Talmud jumps right in, with the basic…
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Yoma 88: A Man's Fear on Yom Kippur
Concluding Yoma - with a return to a discussion of impurity on Yom Kippur, with the case of one who sees a seminal emission over the course of Yom Kippur…
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Yoma 87: The Gates Are Closing
[Some brief audio weirdness from the app at the beginning] Mechilah, forgiveness, and prayer: first, several stories of people getting insulted and then…
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Yoma 86: Living Up to Your Own Standards
More on atonement, with a focus on repentance. For any number of lesser sins, repentance itself atones for them. But for more severe sins, such as taking God's…
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Yoma 85: Life and Death
More on pikuach nefesh. The case of the person who is buried under a collapsed building. Painful, today, in the context of the ongoing search in Surfside…
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Yoma 84: Mad Dogs and Culture Clashes
Fake medicine and real medicine. First, the "fake" (or more home remedies): one who is in contact with a rabid dog, or bitten by one. What do we do for that…
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Yoma 83: Health Matters
A person who is I'll and might need food on Yom Kippur is fed according to the recommendations of experts. But if the person who sick contradicts the doctors…
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Yoma 82: Does a Fetus Have Cravings?
Children are not supposed to fast, but we help them learn to fast and train them in it a couple of years before they reach the age of bar/bat mitzvah. Is that…
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Yoma 81: The Afflictions of Yom Kippur Are a Positive Thing
Can one measure that would violate Yom Kippur be combined from food and drink? The claim is no, and that is not disputed, apparently. R. Yehoshua says that if…
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Yoma 80: The Size of Og's Cheeks
More on the measurements. First, the classic olive: k'zayit. Note that the measurements are presented as Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai. They are not the subject…
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Yoma 79: Dates, Eggs, and the Essence of a Meal
On the "large date," which is thr amount of food it would take to violate eating on Yom Kippur. R. Pappa asks whether the large date measure includes the pit…
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Yoma 78: We Don't Wear Shoes to Bed
An interesting side discussion leads into a focus on what kinds of shoes are not considered halakhic shoes for the purpose of keeping the affliction of Yom…
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Yoma 77: Why Shammai Had to Wash Both Hands on Yom Kippur
Aggadot on Daniel and his dealings with some angels, including Gabriel. God's anger cools down enough to assure the continuation of Bnei Yisrael. More, Gavriel…
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Yoma 76: The 5 Afflictions
More on the manna. Why did the manna come every day, instead of getting the full dole once a year, for example? 3 possible answers are given. Plus, a rejected…
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Yoma 75: The Manna and How It Did More Than Sate Hunger
A two-pronged talmudic plan to ease anxiety. In the context of the Israelites waiting for the manna in the wilderness. Also, when Bnei Yisrael complained about…
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Yoma 74: The Yom Kippur We Know: A Fast Day
Dedicated to Robin Katcoff by Jason Katcoff in honor of their 20th wedding anniversary. || Rounding out the end of Yoma, the Gemara turns to how Yom Kippur is…
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Yoma 73: Light and Truth
On the kohen gadol, and his colleague, the kohen who is anointed for war (mashuach milchamah). The kohen gadol is excepted from certain practices, specifically…
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Yoma 72: Skilled Labor
Preparing the holy fabrics for their use, given that they've all just been in use (the parokhet, the ephod, etc ). The fabrics are very lush and fine, with…
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Yoma 71: The Day After
The next day, after Yom Kippur, the man who accompanied the goat to Azazel meets with the kohen gadol, whether in the marketplace or at home, and confirms that…
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Yoma 70: When the Kohen Gadol Goes Home
On how the kohen gadol read from the Torah, especially given that part of what he reads is in Leviticus and part is in Numbers. He is careful to recite the…
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Yoma 69: Shimon HaTzadik and Alexander the Great
The story of Shimon HaTzadik, kohen gadol, and Alexander the Great! Can bigdei kehunah be worn outside the Beit HaMikdash? Also, how do we handle the…
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Yoma 68: Reading the Torah on Yom Kippur
Ending the 6th chapter. With mention of the focus on "outside of the camp." And the last mishnah if the chapter, and the attention paid to this part of the…
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Yoma 67: Torn Limb from Limb
Continuing the schedule of the day... Following the man who leads the goat out to the wilderness. He is accompanied along his way, with stops (10) along the…
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Yoma 66: Again, with the Babylonians?!
More on the fact that any unused goats need to be left to die, rather than risk it being used the following year. Even under conditions that would be…
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Yoma 65: Why Is the Cow Like the Goat?
Focusing on the details of many possible cases in a way that seems harried, and perhaps is a diversion from larger worries. Also, why do we pasture the goat…
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Yoma 64: A Kid and Its Mother
What happens if the se'ir ha-mishtaleach (the scapegoat) is disqualified? Whether because it's too young, or has a physical blemish, or because of the…
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Yoma 63: The Death of the Scapegoat
What happens when the kohen gadol goes to slaughter the goats? What if he does so outside of the Temple, which might be fine for the Azazel, but certainly not…
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Yoma 62: When Identical Goats Are Not Identical
A focus on the goats of the Yom Kippur avodah. They have to be alike exactly - but how identical can they be? Which leads to the lottery to select each for its…
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Yoma 61: Whence Jewish Guilt?
The focus on the practical details, as opposed to philosophizing. Even though the focus is literally on atonement. That is, the phenomenon of atonement is…
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Yoma 60: Going Back to the Beginning
A new mishnah! On the order of the day, and what happens if the kohen gadol does things out of order.
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Yoma 59: Is There Revelation through Blood?
Sprinkling on the "pure" of the altar - the Gemara puzzles out what this pure is. Possibly, the midpoint of the altar wall. Possibly, an indication of…
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Yoma 58: Go Straight for a While, Turn Left, and Then Ask
Pouring the blood of the bull into the blood of the goat.... Into the smaller bowl. And then the smaller bowl or its contents are put into the empty one. To…
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Yoma 57: The Truth of the Bloody Curtain
Another daf considering "hekesh," comparing verses and inferring halakhic detail. In this case, on what happens in the Sanctuary, but it's a hekesh on a…
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Yoma 56: A Detour to the Middle Ages
Who's Who: The Baalei HaTosafot. What they do, and why they're here, on the daf. Plus, what one of these long comments by the Baalei HaTosafot has to say on…
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Yoma 55: One and One, One and Two
The sprinkling of the blood of the bull and of the goat, in great detail - as it also appears in the Yom Kippur liturgy. How does the kohen gadol count? Of…
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Yoma 54: Raiders of the Lost Ark II
What really happened with the ark? Was it exiled to Babylonia? Was it buried? How the biblical verses are used to support both views. And how Jerusalem and the…
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Yoma 53: Raiders of the Lost Ark
The deaths of Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon, who die in a conflagration on the altar. The sages work hard to figure out what sin deserved this death, and…
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Yoma 52: Entering the Holy of Holies
How the kohen gadol needs to take a circuitous route to get to the Kodesh Kodashim... Or not. An the implications thereof. Also, that "amah" that at one time…
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Yoma 51: Inside/Outside
On the kohen gadol's sin-offering - to what extent us it a communal offering and to what extent is it his own? With implications for whether temurah would…
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Yoma 50: Show Us Your Korbanot and We'll Tell You Who You Are
Sin-offerings that could not be offered as sacrifices, and therefore were left to die: 5 cases. A more brutal death, surely, than simply putting it to…
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Yoma 49: Vying for Bragging Rights: The Most Difficult Service
What if a replacement kohen gadol is needed, whether because of death, Impurity, or anything else? Can the initial scooping done by the first kohen gadol count…
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Yoma 48: The Puzzle of the Left-Handed Kohen
More on the incense. What happens if things go wrong with the basic incense plan? When is the incense invalid? When is it fine? (Shouldn't they know the…
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Yoma 47: Meritorious Kimchit, Mother of High Priests
Note: Audio issues in the first 2 minutes, but then it settles down. ||. Chapter 5 - a new chapter, with a focus on the avodah that is done by the kohen gadol…
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Yoma 46: The Temple Fires
On the different fires in the Temple. With a focus on R. Huna's position, on the conflation of issues between Yom Kippur and Shabbat. Plus, the override…
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Yoma 45: The Many Shades of Gold
Gold! 7 different kinds, or maybe 5, ranging in quality, and shade, and origin. Including the red gold for Yom Kippur, which reflected the red of the blood of…