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Eruvin 49: The Moral Lesson of Eruv
The traits of Sodom. And other ways that eruvin may or may not take hold, but aren't really in the spirit of eruvin: one who doesn't allow others to eat from…
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Eruvin 48: The Forearm of Og, King of the Bashan
Some inner workings of the beit midrash: Amoraim on tannaitic statements - a need to separate a residential area and a water-cooled ditch. And then R. Yosi bar…
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Eruvin 47: Those Red-blooded Young Men of Judea
The halakhah discussion that is framed by the methodology question of rules of thumb of whose p'sak holds away. Cases pertain to women who were required to…
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Eruvin 46: When the Many Dispute the One, and the One Wins
How did the Amoraim view the Tannaim, and the process of halakhic development? Transmission from the previous generations, or inference? The Halakhah is…
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Eruvin 45: If Enemies Come to Kill You, Defend Yourself
Dedicated in memory of Chava bat Eliezer v’Sarah, Rabbanit Chava Schindler Oles on 5 Tishrei. || Who's Who: Rabban Gamliel the Elder. Regarding those whose…
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Eruvin 44: A Willingness to Help
Can you use living creatures as a partition? What if those creatures are human beings? Can a person become part of a wall of the sukkah? What if the person…
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Eruvin 43: When We're Too Busy to Welcome the Messiah
Does the concept of techum apply to a space that's over 10 tefachim? Again the overlap with eruv chatzerot, and so on. Seven teachings were taught twice, first…
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Eruvin 42: Blurring Eruv Techumin with Eruv Chatzerot
THIS IS SUNDAY'S DAF. Eruv techumin vs. Eruv chatzerot - note that they're really different (which means that there's no carrying for the distance of eruv…
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Eruvin 41: Fast Days, Feast Days, and When They Meet
THIS EPISODE IS SATURDAY'S DAF. What happens when Tisha B'Av falls out on Friday (which cannot happen in the era of a fixed calendar)? Namely, nobody should…
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Eruvin 40: Taking Time Seriously
On R. Dosa's statement that the person who davens on behalf of the congregation should pray conditionally, depending on the true date. The sages had gathered…
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Eruvin 39: When Rosh Hashanah Falls on Rosh Chodesh
The establishment of Rosh Chodesh, based on witness testimony, and the implications of that for Rosh Hashanah, which, by definition, falls out on Rosh Chodesh…
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Eruvin 38: One Kedushah, Two Kedushah
When yom tov is next to Shabbat... Making one eruv going to the west, and another one going to the east. From there, he follows the procedure for two days of…
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Eruvin 37: Retroactive Designation
Terminology/What's What: Bereirah. Can an eruv techumin kick in retroactively, as determined by whether it is used? This kind of planning and thinking ahead…
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Eruvin 36: Wherefore Eruv Techumin?
How accessible does the food in the eruv need to be? What if you're a kohen, and you know that some of your food is terumah, and some is terumah that has been…
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Eruvin 35: If You Come to Move It, Move It
A detour: When someone becomes a "zav" and is impure, that impurity can be transferred to an item simply by moving the item. But only if it's a kli, utensil…
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Eruvin 34: Accessing the Physical Eruv (Or Not)
Do you really need to bring the eruv techumin to the place where you want to set up the eruv? (In the case where Shabbat follows yom tov) Perhaps the concept…
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Eruvin 33: Oh, Go Hang Your Eruv in a Tree
If you put your eruv good low in a tree, note that if it within 3 tefachim of the ground, it's as if it were on the ground itself. What if you put the eruv…
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Eruvin 32: Trusting the System
Following from the discussion of shlichut, sending an emissary - when can you trust that the system will function the way you've set it up to run? When you…
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Eruvin 31: Letting Yourself Off the Mitzvah Hook
The case of an eruv for a kohen who can eat the terumah (which is pure), and he himself is pure, but the location for the eruv is on a grave (which is impure)…
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Eruvin 30: Not Everyone Agrees that the Loopholes Work
When the eruv meal is made on food that the person using the eruv cannot eat (a Nazir and wine, a Yisrael and terumah). That's acceptable to Beit Hillel, but…
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Eruvin 29: Wine, Beer, and Food Coloring
How much of certain foods do you need for them to be part of the meal upon which an eruv is established? 2 meals worth of the given food, now jointly owned…
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Eruvin 28: That Food Isn't Food, But Isn't That Food Food?
More on the food that is not just food, when it comes to establish an eruv. Greens, herbs, however they are identified by the Gemara's names (which Anne…
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Eruvin 27: Don't Take the Language of the Mishnah Too Literally (says the Gemara!)
The 3rd perek of Eruvin - beginning with a mishnah that ranges many topics. A joined meal to establish an eruv, also for Eruv Techumin (to extend one's city…
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Eruvin 26: When the Sages Do Well (and When They Do Not)
Terminology: Karpef! (finally). Also, the case if the karpef near the home of the Resh Galuta. Who, in the end, has harsh words for the sages Andrew their…
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Eruvin 25: Hosting in Your Pavilion on Shabbat
More on the karpef. What if you demarcate the space with another partition, in addition to the original partition that demarcates it. Also, the inheritance…
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Eruvin 24: Seeing the Water for the Trees
"New faces": More on the courtyard garden area - set up to be part of one's residence, where people may we'll need to carry. What if you take one amah at a…
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Eruvin 23: When a Mishnah Steers You Wrong
The focus on the cisterns and wells. Plus, the new mishnah - including 3 unusual statements that are not the halakhah, but are in the mishnah, giving us a…
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Eruvin 22: A Road Runs through It
One who makes himself cruel for the sake of Torah, or Torah study... isn't doing the right thing, which of course should be obvious, but the fact that…
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Eruvin 21: The Infinite Oral Torah
Extending the private domain via the boards around the well, which fundamentally come to include it - and the limitations on this extension. There's a need for…
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Eruvin 20: Watering the Animals
Note: Apologies for the interference from Yardaena's outdoor setting to record. Setting an enclosure around a well from before Shabbat - what if it dries up…
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Eruvin 19: The Jewish Hell
More aggadot. The gold on the gold-plated altar did not melt in all the years of sacrifices. So too the nature of the Jewish people, who may sin, but have…
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Eruvin 18: If She Walks in Front of You, You May Not Follow
A small portion of a long mishnah: the case of arranging boards as an enclosure around a well, where 4 boards look like 8, or 8 that look like 12. The key…
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Eruvin 17: A Permit to Carry on Shabbat
What happens if the terms by which you established your eruv change over that Shabbat? Also: The mishnah that closes the chapter - 4 exemptions for those…
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Eruvin 16: A Wall Made of 3 Ropes and Air
Terminology: Parutz, breach. The case of "Parutz ke-omed," when the breached part and the wall part are equal - as disputed by R. Papa and R. Huna. Where the…
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Eruvin 15: Live Animals May Wander Away
What if the lechi was there, in the right spot, with the necessary dimensions, naturally? What if that naturally occurring architecture element can be used as…
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Eruvin 14: Rabbinic Geometry Represent!
Parameters needed for a koreh and lechi, and a round koreh, with its circumference and diameter... leads to a tangent... King Solomon's pool that was 10 amot…
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Eruvin 13: Why Beit Hillel Trumps Beit Shammai
Who's Who: R. Meir. Including the differences of interpretive approach by R. Yishmael and R. Akiva, and we we don't always pasken halakhah according to R…
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Eruvin 12: Panels and Posts
Eruvin 12: Terminology: Pas/pasim. R. Eliezer visits his student, R. Yosi ben Preida, and the topic of conversation is the student's need for a second lechi on…
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Eruvin 11: Doorways of... Eruvin
Terminology: Tzurat ha-petach. Pitachei shima'ei. Avkata. The need to visualize, and how that plays out, runs throughout the daf. So, what type of space does…
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Eruvin 10: Of Sideposts, Wide Alleyways, and a Toilet
A sidepost that is visible from the outside, as from within, and R. Yosef says he never heard that halakhah. Who's Who: R. Yosef. Now, the case of a sidepost…
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Eruvin 9: When Like Finds Like
Topics recurring with more development on each pass, like a spiral passing through again, but at a distance reflecting that development (as an observation of…
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Eruvin 8: The Case of the Kahanas
Some thoughts on learning Eruvin. Plus: What happens when a backyard is owned by more than one person... Or when the alleyway runs between sites that are…
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Eruvin 7: How to Not Be Wicked - and Also Not a Fool
What do you do when you want to follow the stringencies of two opinions, and they contradict?! Bottom line principle: Follow Beit Hillel! What if you like Beit…
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Eruvin 6: Lock Up Your City at Night
Terminology: (Mavoi) Mefulash. Also Mavoi Akum. We start with the premise that the in-between status of alleyways as a karmelit will be next to a public…
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Eruvin 5: Creating a Wall Out of Thin Air
Terminology: Gode, Lavud, Lechi, Koreh. And: The crossbeam is there to demarcate the space, distinguishing between the alleyway and the public domain... Or is…
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Eruvin 4: The Seven Species and What They Teach
More on the phrasing of tefachim and amot: they're happy and sad! Also: All those measurements are "halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai." Or are they from the Torah…
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Eruvin 3: Someone Will Take Care of It, Right?
Terminology: Amaltra - cornice. Amah - cubit. The implication of having amaltrot, even as high as 20 amot, in your alleyway (in contrast to a sukkah). The…
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Eruvin 2: A Loophole to Protect Shabbat
Some words of introduction to the tractate. The phenomenon of this loophole that allows us to carry - on the one hand, feels very permissive, and on the other…
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Shabbat 157: Anticlimactic Measuring of Water in a Tub
More on muktzah! "Machmat mi'us" -- you can't handle because it has no purpose, because it's disgusting. When you have debris from your meal on your table, how…
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Shabbat 156: When God Moved Jupiter to Help Abraham
Astrology, and whether the celestial bodies impact our lives. Namely, depending on which day of the week you were born, your traits and/or success will follow…
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Shabbat 155: Camels, Dogs, and Feeding Them
First, in memoriam: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, z"l. Then: how far can you to prepare food (for animals) on Shabbat? You cannot overfeed or force-feed animals on…
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Shabbat 154: Why Rabban Gamliel's Donkey Died
(Again with audio issues - it's all here, but you'll hear the separate recordings we did...) Who's Who: Rav Mari bar Rahel. How one can be not obligated to…
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Shabbat 153: "Repent, for tomorrow ye shall die"
Apologies for audio issues - it turns out that we missed ~20 seconds of Anne, but all the key content from the daf is here || If you do teshuvah every day…
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Shabbat 152: Confronting Human Mortality
A request from the Roman Caesar that R. Yehoshua Ben Chananiah show up at the House of Avidan. Plus: Riddles! Fundamentally, on aging. (Addendum: the Queen of…
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Shabbat 151: King David Can't Do Mitzvot Now
A difficult daf: When someone dies on Shabbat, don't close their eyes; when someone dies on a weekday, don't risk hastening their death. Note that once a…
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Shabbat 150: Going to the Circus on Shabbat
The mishnah reflects two issues: what can we talk about and think about on Shabbat, and what can we plan to do after Shabbat? Tchum Shabbat - how far can one…
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Shabbat 149: The Writing on the Wall
Today, a halakhah section and an aggadah section. First, halakhah: no written lists for that which will appear at the table, lest one erase items off the list…
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Shabbat 148: Better That People Should Sin Less
Financial dealings on Shabbat - or at least goods: borrowing without saying "borrow." If Erev Pesach (in Jerusalem in the time of the Temple) fells out on…
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Shabbat 147: Why We Don't Go Swimming on Shabbat
If you shake crumbs or dust, etc., off your tallit, or garment, that's akin to laundering, and incurs a korban chatat, at least for a new garment. And yet…
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Shabbat 146: A Legacy from the Serpent
(Recorded in advance of Tisha B'Av) The Gemara claims that non-Jews were considered contaminated - why? They never had the contamination from the Garden of…