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Pesachim 5: Such Need for the Biblical Text
Pesachim 5: Delving into Midrash Halakhah - on the verses that address the prohibition of chametz being found in one's home on Pesach, together with the…
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Pesachim 4: If a Women Says a House Is Chametz-free, Do We Believe Her?
Pesachim 4: Who's Who - Rabbi Hiya. Another example of using euphemism for more refined speech. Also, everyone agrees that "Or le-14" means the evening, but…
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Pesachim 3: The Mic Is Live
Pesachim 3: The Gemara finally asks - why didn't the mishnah just say "night"?? Using the positive version of negative words (tahor (pure) and eino tahor (not…
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Pesachim 2: When Day Is Really Night
Why the plural, "pesachim"? There are several components to Pesach, including the time before Pesach that is necessary for preparation. And so we start with…
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Eruvin 105: The Value of the Loophole: Eruvin Revisited
Wrapping up! Impure creepy-crawlies in the Beit HaMikdash - what's a kohen to do? How is one to remove it? Raising questions on how space is allocated within…
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Eruvin 104: Somebody's Knocking (Should You Let Him in?)
Scatter salt on the ramp in the Beit HaMikdash, to make sure that the priests don't slip. Also, several places to draw water on Shabbat. There's a beraita that…
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Eruvin 103: Temple Space and the Power of the Group
The instruments in the Beit HaMikdash on Shabbat did sometimes need repair. Was that allowed? If so, when and how? How integral was the music to the service?…
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Eruvin 102: The Man Who Mistook His Hat for a Tent
Bolts - how they need to attached, and how the requirements for them differ in the Temple as compared to everywhere else. Also, the significance of Mehoza…
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Eruvin 101: The Walled City of Jerusalem Sleeps
Dedicated in memory of Lester Osband, Eliezer ben Avraham Nechemiah, Yardaena's grandfather a"h, whose yahrzheit is 2 Kislev. || A series of mishnayot checking…
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Eruvin 100: The 10 Curses of Eve
When a tree reaches low to the ground, if as low as 3 tefachim from the ground, you can carry under them. If you actually can. Plus: Halakhic mention of "shev…
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Eruvin 99: Polite Company
One who urinates or spits from the private domain to the public domain seems to need to bring a sacrifice. But how does this act of transfer include both…
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Eruvin 98: Bodily Fluids and the Public Domain
3 mishnayot - 1. One reading from a book (a scroll), and the book unfurls because of an incline, he can pull it back, because he's still holding onto it. But…
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Eruvin 97: Old-New Tefillin
What happens when you have found tefillin - a machloket between R. Meir and R. Yehudah, specifically regarding new tefillin. How you know you have old tefillin…
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Eruvin 96: The One about Michal bat Shaul and Her Tefillin
On whether Shabbat is a time for tefillin - and how the need for intent (or lack thereof) has impact on the question of how or whether you bring in the found…
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Eruvin 95: The Limits of Carrying
Yes, it's a long one. The daf itself closes off the "eruvin" part of Masekhet Eruvin, and moves into the final stretch, which includes other concerns about…
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Eruvin 94: Turning Away, Out of Respect and Principle
What happens when Rav and Shmuel get together, and disagree about a real-life situation in their midst? Also - 2 mishnayot that appear to be speaking broadly…
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Eruvin 93: Our Human Manipulation of Space
When partitions delimit the space and make it more difficult to establish eruvin in that specific space. These kinds of mechitzot do not make one's life…
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Eruvin 92: Big Roof, Little Roof
More on R. Shimon and his opinion. Property with no owner that's near your own... Which discussion is fundamentally an answer to R. Shimon's opinion from the…
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Eruvin 91: Not Anything Goes
More on the situations that don't have eruvin - for example, the rooftops that are one domain do not join with other areas that don't have an eruv. Though you…
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Eruvin 90: Rebuke and Playing Nicely Together
Who's Who: Rami bar Hama. In the context of the case of carrying from what amounts to a private domain to a karmelit. Which is a pretty basic case, yet Rami…
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Eruvin 89: A Whole New World... of Rooftops
A new chapter - no-eruv eruvin. All the roofs of the city - one domain, or many? (R. Meir vs. Rabbanan) Certainly, the home itself is not the same domain as…
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Eruvin 88: Bring Your Towel
Regarding the leniency to use a towel on Shabbat - leave it to dry over a windowsill. The main concern is for wringing it out - and that isn't such a concern…
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Eruvin 87: Drawing Water in the Galilee
Who's Who: Hananya ben Akavya. What's What: Avel and Tzipori (towns). The case of a water channel that crosses one's property - do you need another partition?…
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Eruvin 86: Torah Is Not a Commodity
Make way for the wealthy! Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi (and R. Akiva) each showed respect to those who were wealthy. And also thought they should toe the line of a…
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Eruvin 85: Friday Brunch (as it were)
The case of 2 homes that separated by 3 ruins. Each can dump things into the ruin closest to them, respectively, but they are prohibited from using the middle…
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Eruvin 84: The Sages as World Travelers
When the Gemara not only interprets, but reinterprets the Mishnah. Specifically, the two-story homes, and those who live in the upstairs homes. "To the…
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Eruvin 83: Up the Down Staircase
Standardized measurements are not yet in place in the time of the Talmud. So what size is a se'ah? There's a range presented on the daf, in a bit of a…
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Eruvin 82: Developmental Milestones in Eruvin
Whenever there's a mishnaic statement that includes R. Yehudah's opinion, and it I closed the wording of "aimatai," he's clarifying not arguing -- when does…
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Eruvin 81: Gourmet Bread Not Fit for a Dog
What foods work to make an eruv? Not salt and water, and possibly a whole loaf of bread. Why pieces of bread would not be sufficient - because of enmity, no…
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Eruvin 80: Behind the Husband's Back
First, mention of eruv tavshilin. Then: A disagreement between Rav and Shmuel whether one needs to take possession of the eruv. And then that comes to a head…
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Eruvin 79: Learning from the 3 Little Pigs
3 mishnayot on things that can come between courtyards and change the need for eruvin: 1. A ditch between two courtyards. The Gemara delves into the authority…
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Eruvin 78: A Lion Crouches at the Entrance
A ladder that is dug out if the wall - handholds - must cover the whole height of the ladder. Which leads into the next case, that isn't quite a ladder…
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Eruvin 77: Something There Is That Loves a Wall
The case of a wall between courtyards, and that wall changes - whether because the ground changes or the wall changes. For example, if you have a basin right…
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Eruvin 76: The Optional Cooperative
When you have an outer house and an inner house, is the outer house a gatehouse, which would have implications for eruvin - in some ways, a study on how…
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Eruvin 75: Rav Yosef's Loss
The case of a courtyard inside a courtyard - what happens if the inner people established an eruv, but the outer people did not? Or the reverse? Or if they…
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Eruvin 74: The Solitary Home of Ivut bar Ihi
In the context of the alleyway cooperative and the courtyard cooperative, and the minimum requirements for the number of people participating: is one house on…
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Eruvin 73: From the Rabbi's House
How do eruvin reflect the relationships of the people joining together in the eruv? For example, students who eat out and about (literally, in the fields), and…
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Eruvin 72: Where You Lay Your Head Down
A dad of two mishnayot. 1. The case of several groups in a large hall... A dispute whether every group would need to contribute to an eruv in that space or…
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Eruvin 71: Oil and Wine Don't Mix (Usually)
If you have a partnership with those who live on the same courtyard - where everyone owns wine, for example - that precludes the need for an eruv. But what if…
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Eruvin 70: Shabbat Status Quo
The case of 5 homes on a courtyard, where one forgot to join in the eruv, and he therefore renounces his rights to the courtyard, so that everyone else can…
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Eruvin 69: Home Hospitality
A person who goes out with a coral ring and hides it from the eyes of R. Yehudah HaNasi on Shabbat, so as not to be obviously carrying on Shabbat -- that kind…
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Eruvin 68: The Race to the Courtyard
The case of the need for warm water for a baby to be circumcised, in the absence of an eruv. Abaye explains why neither he nor Rava were up on the home's…
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Eruvin 67: The Advantage of a Private Second Entrance
When there's a non-Jew who lives on the same courtyard or alleyway as Jews, and the non-Jew has another exit from his house, out to a valley... which door gets…
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Eruvin 66: Non-Jews on the Courtyard
What it means to negate other people's ability to carry within an eruv chatzerot - how that happens, when one potential participant in the cooperative doesn't…
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Eruvin 65: Night Was Created for Sleep
R. Sheshet says he can exempt the entire world from responsibility for any sin that anyone may have done - because of the verse that equates mourning for the…
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Eruvin 64: "What an excellent halakhah!"
What can you do when a non-Jew lives on your courtyard and doesn't want to contribute to an eruv? Among the solutions suggested are establishing better terms…
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Eruvin 63: Why Joshua Died Childless
Regarding the prohibition of answering halakhah in the presence of one's teacher: R. Eliezer tells his wife, Imma Shalom, that he doubts the one who taught…
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Eruvin 62: No Eruv with Non-Jews
A new perek (#6), a new mishnah... What happens when there's no possibility of carrying, even given the hope of an eruv hatzerot. One who lives on the same…
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Eruvin 61: Getting Drunk on Shabbat
Discussion of the tension regarding the establishment of eruv techumin - where measuring precisely can turn out to be to your disadvantage. Also, the case of a…
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Eruvin 60: The Gemara Is Not Incomprehensible Song Lyrics!
Establishing eruvin for smaller cities and towns - a story of one town (Kankunya) that seeks expertise in calling in someone who knows eruvin. And even so, the…
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Eruvin 59: The Push for Leniencies in Eruvin
Assess the terrain to determine techum Shabbat precisely - using a professional surveyor. If he makes a mistake, we correct the error to have the most expanded…
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Eruvin 58: Techum and Terrain
Measure the techum Shabbat with a rope that was 50 amot long, precisely, as held at the surveyor's heart. And if there's terrain "in the way," the surveyor…
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Eruvin 57: Three Cities and the Precise Distance between Them
A new mishnah - on adding a karpef (the extra space of 70 amot), but when? Depending on the space between two cities, or between three, for that matter... Now…
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Eruvin 56: How to Square a City
Cities that have ascents and descents within it take a toll on their residents. And: The rest of the day is as challenging as we've seen. That is, one way of…
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Eruvin 55: Dwellers of Huts
A final piece of aggadah before going back to the halakhic details of eruvin: the idea that the Torah is not in the heavens - it's right here for the taking…
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Eruvin 54: The Curative Powers of Torah Study
Back to the story of Beruriah. Note that she is in (brief) conversation with a Galilean, and she is presumably a Judean, which shifts the focus of the "women"…
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Eruvin 53: The Eye of a Needle
How do you "me'abrin" - extend the city for the sake of its eruv? If you were to draw a straight line around your city, and the actual footprint is a bit more…
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Eruvin 52: Diminishing Eruv Techumin
A person who sets out of the place where he's establishing his eruv, and he's somehow detained or delayed, he can still continue to that place, but nobody else…
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Eruvin 51: Open Questions
Rava and R. Yosef needed to set up an eruv, so Rava plans to set up a residence under a specific tree. R. Yosef doesn't know which tree, but Rava assures him…
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Eruvin 50: The Time Rav Argued with a Beraita
Rav's statement that one who tries to establish his residence under a tree, with an aim to 4,000 amot, hasn't said anything. Namely, the statement is too…