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Pesachim 65: The Bloody Pageantry of the Korban Pesach
Finishing the 5th chapter: On the third group of the Korban Pesach, which was called the "lazy group" (but doesn't the Gemara stipulate that there are 3…
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Pesachim 64: Throngs of People Enter the Beit HaMikdash
A very long mishnah, describing the offering of the Korban Pesach, as presented by 3 separate groups. Also, can we, should we rely on miracles, even in the…
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Pesachim 63: When Saying Other Than You Mean Isn't Hypocrisy
When it comes to the shechitah of the Korban Pesach, is it one full action, or are the many component parts considered separate parts? For example, the intent…
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Pesachim 62: Even Beruriah Couldn't Have Learned 300 Halakhot in 3 Months
What can impurity teach about the uncircumcised, who cannot eat from the Korban Pesach? Also, the Book of Yuchasin, lineage, spurs the question: Where are you…
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Pesachim 61: The Challenge of Inclusion
Offering the Korban Pesach with intent for those who are not registered to eat it, or who are not eligible to eat it would disqualify the sacrifice. Unless…
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Pesachim 60: Can You Bring a Korban Pesach on the Wrong Day?!
Improper intention invalidates the Korban Pesach. Note 4 essential component parts of the sacrifice. The degree of intent here is specific - and yet the case…
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Pesachim 59: Sacrificial Parts
The order of the ritual on Erev Pesach: daily offering, Korban Pesach, incense, lighting menorah. Why so? Including, a specific detail about the menorah that…
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Pesachim 58: Busy, Busy Day
Turning to the 5th chapter of Pesachim, and embarking on the many details of the Korban Pesach. Which means we must first consider the other korbanot that are…
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Pesachim 57: The Kohanim Who Took the Lunch Money
NOTE: Tomorrow, we start a new chapter, for those who want to start dad yomi - or start again! || More on how peah isn't relevant for vegetables. Also, the…
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Pesachim 56: Rabbinic Reprimand
Establishing practices as authoritative, by whom, and how? For example: Grafting palm trees on Erev Pesach. Bundling Shema. Trimming hekdesh. Setting aside…
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Pesachim 55: Holier Than Thou
More on talmidei chachamim, and whether everyone should try to practice as per the approach for them. [What's What: Yuhara] With regard to the bridegroom on…
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Pesachim 54: Partners in Creation
The blessing on fire comes through Havdalah, which was reportedly created after Shabbat. Which brings us to a list of 10+ things that were created Erev…
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Pesachim 53: A Jewish Leader in Rome
Defining Israel's topography based on what grows where. Also, more on different practices in different places. Beginning with commerce between Jews and…
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Pesachim 52: Breaking Yom Tov
More on practices that change from place to place. Including travel on the second day of yom tov. [What's What: Makat mordot] And transporting shemitah…
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Pesachim 51: In Trouble for NOT Following the Local Practice
Following the practice in the place that you're in: 3 examples, including a certain kind of wide shoes. As discovered by those who violate those norms, and how…
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Pesachim 50: A Talmudic Near-Death Experience
A side conversation that explicates a verse from Zachariah, on light and dark and priorities. Plus: The Gemara's presentation of a near-death experience. Also…
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Pesachim 49: Biting a Torah Scholar Like a Donkey Would
A long daf with much to discuss. When Erev Pesach falls out on Shabbat - do you get rid of chametz before Shabbat or on Shabbat? It may depend if your chametz…
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Pesachim 48: When 3 Women Bake Matzah
More on "ho'il" - how the Gemara line up the rabbis in trying to understand how far this logic can apply. Working through the tannaitic sources to figure out…
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Pesachim 47: Advanced Preparation
Lechem Ha-Panim, the "shewbread," and the restrictions on when it can be eaten. And when it can be baked in preparation for when it will be eaten. With an…
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Pesachim 46: The Benefit of Discretion, the Principle of "Since" (again), and Deaf Dough
"Deaf dough" - the halakhah that pertains to it, and why it's called "deaf." Plus, the origins of the 18-minute time frame for rising in a walk along the Sea…
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Pesachim 45: The Dregs of Chametz
Marking a (solar) year of daf yomi. || When dough gets into the cracks of your mixing bowl. Is it a kezayit's worth? Does it have value for the bowl itself?…
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Pesachim 44: Time, Amount, Taste: Eating in Halakhah
First, "mayim shelanu"! Now, the time component of eating. Plus the quantity component of eating. And the fact that terumah and non-kodshim do not combine to…
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Pesachim 43: Aren't Women Obligated in Pesach?!
A general rule about grains that become leavened violates the mitzvah of not having chametz on Pesach. And then, on top of the rule, specific examples are…
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Pesachim 42: When in Doubt, Do or Do Without?
Finishing chapter 2... An interpretation of a very common phrase in the Torah. Also: kneading dough with water that must be "rested" water. And making sure…
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Pesachim 41: Don't Add Flour to Your Haroset
The concern of non-chametz food items coming in contact with something that will become chametz. For example, water used by a baker can easily contribute to…
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Pesachim 40: They're Still Figuring It Out
Additional concerns about foods becoming chametz - specifically, soaking barley or wheat kernals, and the moment at which that soaking becomes a problem, even…
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Pesachim 39: Wherefore Horseradish?!
Maror! 5 vegetables that are listed as effective to fulfilling one's obligation of maror. And what kind of preparation (or lack thereof) leaves them still fit…
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Pesachim 38: What's Not Written in the Torah
Matzah that is made from ma'aser sheni produce, an etrog that is ma'aser sheni produce... doesn't work (following the opinion of R. Meir). Albeit for different…
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Pesachim 37: How Thick Is Your Matzah?
How do we ensure that when we bake our bread, we don't end up with chametz? Firstly, no "thick bread." But how thick is thick? Do you need to be an expert to…
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Pesachim 36: So Much Unleavened Bread
"Lechem oni" - what does it mean? Why is it used for matzah? (Several different possible explanations) Followed, of course, but what it means to enrich matzah…
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Pesachim 35: Wheat Is Wheat Is Wheat
Stringencies with regard to kodshim - specifically, as they emerge from the biblical text. Also, what can matzah be made from - to fulfill the mitzvah of…
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Pesachim 34: Planting to Purify
Who's Who: Abba Shaul. Also, terumah that becomes impure - what happens if you replant that terumah? The Gemara focused on the issue of "hesach ha-da'at" - a…
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Pesachim 33: Juicy Fruit
Why can't that which has no value be designated as terumah? Why must terumah have a value - to the recipient? Also - when it comes to squeezing grapes, for…
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Pesachim 32: Value vs. Volume
Chametz that is also terumah (or terumah that is also chametz) - what happens when it is misused? Which is to say, violating a prohibition and also incurring…
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Pesachim 31: Chametz, Chametz, Everywhere
The Gemara's extensive probing of any which place that chametz could be in play. Beginning with chametz being used as collateral in a loan. And ending (this…
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Pesachim 30: Pesach Inflation
More on "ta'am," conveying flavor. Now in the context of a ceramic pot, and chametz after Pesach - use it with food of a different type! Ah, but what if you…
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Pesachim 29: Prohibition Combos
More comparisons between chametz and hekdesh - including the phenomenon of the prohibition of food, and including chametz that is hekdesh on Pesach. Plus…
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Pesachim 28: Dumpster Diving
Rejecting R. Yehudah's conclusion based on his own rationale, in the sharpest of terms. Also: Crumbling chametz and throwing it into the wind or the sea - does…
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Pesachim 27: Extreme Burn
Intermingling of that wish is permitted with that which is forbidden - in complex ways. For example, baking bread with wood from an orlah tree. Or hekdesh…
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Pesachim 26: In the Shadow of the Beit HaMikdash
Getting benefit from something, unintentionally. Abaye's example is a story of R. Yochanan ben Zakkai enjoying shade from the wall of the Beit HaMikdash, as he…
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Pesachim 25: Undesirable Benefits
Milk and meat, as prohibited foods - where does the prohibition against benefit for in, or does it? The comparison to orlah, and why they are different, may be…
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Pesachim 24: The Role of Normalcy in Floggings
Our learning today is in honor of Deborah Spector on her birthday dedicated by her chevruta, Cindy Barnard. || More What's What on "kal va-chomer." Also - when…
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Pesachim 23: The Process of Elimination
More on the prohibitions against eating that counter R. Abahu's claim that a prohibition against benefit comes with the eating prohibition. Hizkiyah chimes in…
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Pesachim 22: Do You Have Any... Filet Mignon?
On R. Abahu's position that every prohibition against eating that is in the Torah carries with it a prohibition against getting benefit from that same food…
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Pesachim 21: Chametz Liability
Anytime that you are allowed to eat chametz, you're also allowed to get benefit from it in a variety of ways (or all ways). What happens in that in-between…
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Pesachim 20: Sprinkling Wine Is a Thing
The case of the needle in the cow. Which brings us to imposing limitations on the case, and establishing the principles of what is susceptible to tumah (hibat…
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Pesachim 19: Pure Spit
What levels of tumah for which kinds of foods (consecrated, terumah, chullin)? And what happens to kadosh (consecrated) items that come in content with…
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Pesachim 18: Back to the Leviticus Source: Text vs. Logic
More on the 7 Machshirim - mnemonics. Now, the biblical verses on this Impurity, which support the discussion of the daf. And to what extent are the details of…
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Pesachim 17: Inside Outside
What's What: The 7 (!) Liquids of Machshirim. More on impurity.... Continuing the discussion of whether the liquids in the slaughter house in the Beit…
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Pesachim 16: Liquid Pure
Impurity, now in the context of liquid. All of which, in the slaughtering part of the Beit HaMikdash, were pure. But is that because they couldn't be impure or…
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Pesachim 15: Purity vs. Impurity - It's Just a Status
One of the less practical elements of the Talmud, in lining up opinions that have already been authorized... Specifically R. Meir, in this case. Also, a…
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Pesachim 14: Entering the World of Tumah and Taharah
The sugya of R. Hanina S'gan ha-Kohanim. Basic principles of tumah and taharah - purity/impurity. Who's Who: Hanina S'gan ha-Kohanim. And, almost a What's…
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Pesachim 13: Why Eliyahu Won't Show Up on Shabbat
Trying to make sense of the halakhah, and how it lines up with the disputants' positions. Which brings us to a discussion of terumah (and kodshim) and how to…
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Pesachim 12: As Clear as Day
People do not confuse night and day, even when they don't know what time it is. Similarly, when the time of day is close to dawn or dusk, you know... The…
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Pesachim 11: Gaps in Time
The previous daf focuses on the time for Bedikat Chametz. On this daf, we delve into some of the rationale underlying the timing, with an eye to making sure…
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Pesachim 10: The Mouse House
The question of a majority and certainty, and how it has impact on the assumptions that determine whether and how one needs to check for chametz. But what if…
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Pesachim 9: Rava Had a Sense of Humor
NOTE: This daf deals with infant loss in a graphic way. From the mishnah, if, after you've done Bedikat Chametz, there's a weasel that brings the food from…
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Pesachim 8: Are Mitzvot a Good-luck Charm?!
Pesachim 8 - How and where to check for chametz during the official check. Does a wine cellar need to be searched? Oil storage? Liquor (or beer)? Fish? Salt?…
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Pesachim 7: Finding the Right Words
Pesachim 7 - When on Passover Eve does the prohibition against owning chametz kick in? And what if you use the items that you would have sold during the time…
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Pesachim 6: Rules of Gemara Logic
Pesachim 6: More interplay between Jews and non-Jews, and ownership of chametz (by a non-Jew) in a Jew's space. Note the historical acknowledgement that Jews…