Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so
122 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of the daf yomi speedway—I invite you to daf shvu'i, a weekly page of Talmud. In about 40-50 minutes you can learn a page of Talmud. No previous experience required.
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 73a-73b
August 27, 2021 21:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBThree hundred foot talking waves? Yes sir. Humongous charging bison doing balancing tricks on the city's battlements? Yes ma'am. We have it all in this week's daf, as we start the fifth chapter and delve into the Talmud's version of Sinbad the Sailor—Rabbah bar bar Hannah. This week's daf can be found in the following places: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 72a-73a
August 12, 2021 23:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBSo this week we finish the fourth chapter!! Turns out its harder to force a bunch of Tannaitic and Amoraic statements into a stammaitic framework than you would have thought. But we crack it. So, come along for the ride, and for the hadran. This week's daf can be found in the following places: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, c...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 71a-71b
July 23, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBShort and sweet. More on what do you sell when you sell a field? or when you gift it? or when you dedicate it? We look behind the curtains a bit this week. This week's daf can be found in the following places: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected] Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf is ...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 70a-71a
July 09, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBGetting back in the weeds this week with "What do you mean to sell when you sell the field?" Some significant variant readings. A little side-eye between rishonim. And a whole piece of the sugya which doesn't seem to belong here. All in this week's daf! This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, o...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 68b-70a
June 25, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week we confront and embrace the Talmud's translation of the mishnah. What is translation locally? and what is it globally? Also when Abraham bought a plot for Sarah, little did he know that he was setting legal precedent for acquisition of property for ever. All in this week's daf! This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in tou...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 68a-68b
June 18, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBSo what happens when you buy a CITY? Okay well not really a city but a large estate with houses and wells and fields and stuff. What have you actually bought? This is a question that I know troubles all or our imaginations, and it is the central question of our daf this week. (Along with an excursus on slavery in Sassanian Persia and other stuff.) So, grab a chair and a cold one, and join us. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 67a-68a
June 12, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBWe continue our conversation about what it is that you buy when you buy something. However, we also peek behind the curtains a bit to ask after the construction of this sugya. So, grab a chair and a cold one, and join us. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at thewidowandthebro...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 65b-67a
June 04, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBMore on the great Rabbi Eliezer - Sages debate over things which are attached to the land (are they considered land?) and how that intersects with the Rabbi Aqiva - Sages debates about what you are selling when you sell (everything, or you can retain something). All in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 64b-66a
May 28, 2021 21:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBSticking with the debate over how much you sell when you sell, we start off with a debate about the debate, and actually two versions of that debate (one in the Bavli and one in the Yerushalmi). Its a little bit of pulling back the curtains of the conversation and going behind the daf. Come join us! This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Plea...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 64a-64b
May 12, 2021 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBWhen a seller sells what does he sell? What is his intention in his sale? This is the question for this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected] Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf is listed in Feedspot's Top 60 Jewish Podcasts. (We are at #24. Not...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 63a-64a
April 30, 2021 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBCan you buy or refuse to sell the air rights and/or subterranean rights to your property? Can you buy "futures"? Well these are the questions that are dealt with in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected] Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf i...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 61b-63a
April 22, 2021 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBLegalese. Its a problem in English and its also a problem in Aramaic. How do we deal with ambiguous contract language? To what extent do we trust each other? All in this week's daf: This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected] Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf i...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 61a-61b
April 08, 2021 01:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBWE BEGIN THE FOURTH CHAPTER! This chapter begins with an investigation into sales and by way of that, an investigation into legal definitions, and the accuracy of legal language, and the question of what really is a house? All in this week's daf: This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witt...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 59b-60b
March 23, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40.6 MBWe are finishing off the third chapter with a BANG! More privacy law, more discussion of impacting ownership, and then are we mourning for the Temple too much? too little? All in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 58b-59b
March 12, 2021 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBMore in the Babylonian Talmud's series on "won't you be my neighbor? no you are using my property!" Answering questions like: How much of my property do I not actually control? How much of your property do I have control of? What about privacy rights? All in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any c...
Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 58a-58b
March 03, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBI'm pretty excited about this week's daf. It is basically stories of R. Bena'ah, a Palestinian Sage, and his encounters with Abraham, and Adam, while marking gravesites. Also bit of a tussle between a dead rabbi and a Magian who wants to move him. And R. Bena'ah again as the Solomonic answerer of riddles. Its all in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many com...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 56b-58a
February 19, 2021 01:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBMore conspiring witness! More ways of acquisition / or not! The estates of converts! And, finally, Sages leering or not at women doing laundry down at the river. Its all in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 55b-56b
February 12, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBMore conversation about boundaries - boundaries between spaces, boundaries in intentions, crossing boundaries. We also start on a whole new conversation about conspiratorial witnesses/eidim zomemim. Its all in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at thewidowan...
Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 45a-45b
February 05, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBDina deMalkhuta Dina. The law of the State [lit. the kingdom] is the law. What are the legal and cultural implications of this law? Is it a law or a general principle? Is this an ideology that is new to the Sassanian/Babylonian context? Or, is this an older trend that is perhaps articulated here for the first time? All this in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic wi...
Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 55a-55b
February 05, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBDina deMalkhuta Dina. The law of the State [lit. the kingdom] is the law. What are the legal and cultural implications of this law? Is it a law or a general principle? Is this an ideology that is new to the Sassanian/Babylonian context? Or, is this an older trend that is perhaps articulated here for the first time? All this in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic wi...
Daf Shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 53b-55a
January 28, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBWe continue a conversation about acquiring things. Some stories about how the system runs up against some folks, and how the outcomes are gendered. And we begin a conversation about dina demalkhuta dina / the law of the land or kingdom is the law. Its all in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 52b-53b
January 19, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week we unpack both textual/historical and philosophical or ideological questions in order to understand a conversation which explores, defines, and highlights the possibly porous boundaries of the Jewish community around converts. All this and more in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any c...
Daf Shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 51b-52b
January 12, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBWe delve deeper into the thorny issue of who can give what to whom and who can accept what from whom? Who has the authority to be an owner or to convey ownership? Also how do we deal with the thorny issue of family money? Can one person go solo buying and selling? Then what? All this and more in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhato...
Daf shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 50b - 51b
January 01, 2021 03:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBLast daf podcast of the year! What is the status and legality of commercial relationships between romantic partners? That is the central question that this week's daf struggles with. Come and find respite in the bet midrash in the closet! This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 49b-50b
December 21, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBProperty. Husbands. Wives. Enslaved people. The way these interact and intersect can drive you crazy and yet this too is Torah. All in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 48b-50a
December 08, 2020 06:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWe finish one conversation about contract and coercion, and we start another one about property and coercion and marriage. All in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 47b-48b
November 26, 2020 21:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIf a coerced contract is enforceable, how do we think about contracting in general? Are all forced contracts enforceable? What about marriage contracts? Divorce contracts? What does contracting mean at the end of all this? These are questions that raised by this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any co...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 46b-47b
November 17, 2020 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBIf at its heart commerce is about communication, how do we effect commercial transactions when we cannot trust each other? This is one of the questions that is raised by this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 46a-46b
November 06, 2020 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBWhat do you do when you forgot your pie pan at the potluck and somebody else takes it home? Is somebody responsible? Also tenant farmers. And dishing on Pumbeditha. In this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 44b-46a
October 27, 2020 22:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBSelling stuff. Buying stuff. Lying? Fraud? Jews and nonJews. Its all here in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 44a-44b
October 16, 2020 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBSo many questions. What responsibility does a seller have to the buyer of her property? How does one work through the web of ownership in the case of a stolen piece of property which is also sold? What claim does a lender have on the borrower—does that claim extend beyond the borrower to the buyer of the borrower’s property? Can I put under lien stuff that I might buy in the future? Can property be stolen? This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 42b-43b
October 09, 2020 02:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBConflicts of interest, defaults on loans, shady real estate deal. This is what's happening this week when we study Shmuel's statement as a mishnah! It's all so exciting! So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: 41b-42b
September 25, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBThis has been some week even in a year in which every week seems to have lasted a few months. Whew! Lets learn some Torah in the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Breonna Taylor. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, cri...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 41a-41b
September 18, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBFour stories of ownership, claims of ownership, false claims of ownership, and disputed property. Narratives about the narrative of owning. All in this week's daf. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witt...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 39b-40b
September 11, 2020 21:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBRava teaches R. Nahman's Torah. (How) Can one be forced to sell something? How might one undermine a contract written under duress? Two stories: one about a buyer behaving badly; one about a demanding lover and jilted adult son. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhator...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 38b-39b
September 04, 2020 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBContinuing our discussion of hazakha/ownership. We digress into the difference between wronging and crime. Property ownership as a communicative act. Its all here in this week's daf. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 37b-38b
August 28, 2020 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBLand, territory, and claims of ownership. Presence, distance, and the commutative principle of Jewish communication. These are all in the introductory sugyot to the second mishnah in the third chapter which we start this week. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 36b-37b
August 21, 2020 20:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBLet's say you buy the trees but not the land that they are planted in. Lets say someone else buys that land without the tree. When you sell, is the legal assumpltion that you are intending to sell generously or stingily? What does that mean? Come and join us as we continue to figure out what it means to own property. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from ...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 35b-36b
August 14, 2020 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBThis week's daf exists under the shadow of slavery and slave owning. What did the rabbis have to say about owning slaves? Why didn't they say different things? More things? And how do we move ahead with studying this material without resolving these issues? Important questions. Join us for the journey. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 34b-35b
August 06, 2020 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBWhat is the extent of judicial discretion when there is little alternative? What are the drawbacks of compromise? We ask some final questions about cases where there seems to be equal evidence on both sides. Then we start looking at the mishnah and presumptive ownership all over again. Please grab your favorite Tu b'Av beverage and join us! This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with ...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 33b-34b
July 31, 2020 21:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week we finish Raba's casebook and ask: What was that? Also, the one who is stronger wins? Not what you usually hear in those pearls of Judaism classes… In any event, this week's daf is totally worth it. So, grab your favorite Shabbat Nahamu beverage, kick back and join us in the daf shvui bet midrash. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf Shvui/Weekly daf: Baba bathra 32b-33b
July 24, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBRaba bar Sharshum thinks he is a good guy, and a smart guy. Turns out he's not. Yes, he did use the produce of the orphans' fields when we shouldn't have. We are continuing with the legal and ethical conversation around ownership and testimony and believability. So, come join us in the safer at home bet midrash. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhat...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Batra 31b-32b
July 17, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBThis week we confront head on the issue of the finality of a judicial decision. Can you just keep coming back with more evidence? Also, dramatic cases with evidence whispered into Rava's ear. Is somebody who produces a forged deed really all that bad? Please join us. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 31a-31b
July 10, 2020 02:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBWhat is the relationship between truth and law? Is it the job of the court to decide epistemological truth or ontological truth, or legal truth? Is there a difference between those two truths? We continue with law school a la Rava, in this week's daf. Please join us. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 29b-30b
July 03, 2020 15:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week we delve into Rava's casebook of disputed ownership. It is the Law and Order of private property dispute—less the bodies and the pithy opening scenes. So please, come in and take shelter from the storm. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org new logo by Shachar Cohen-Hodos
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf SPECIAL EPISODE: A Conversation with Charlotte Fonrobert
June 26, 2020 01:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBTo celebrate the completion of the second chapter of Baba Batra, I invited Charlotte Fonrobert, a professor in the Religious Studies department at Stanford University whose current research focuses on the rabbinic eruv, or Shabbat boundary, and the way that the laws and culture of eruv define Jewish identity. Our wide ranging conversation delved into the 2000 plus years of eruv—from the Qumran community to the Hamptons and the Daily Show. Following the conversation we study together a bit—th...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 28b-29b
June 17, 2020 22:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBAnd we are still grappling with the question of possession. How does one come to own something that cannot be moved? Why are the rabbis talking about enslaved women? What is the story with land that lies fallow? Do the fallow years count? All in this week's daf. So … join me in the "safer at home" bet midrash. Shelter in Torah for a bit. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with man...
Daf Shvu'i/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 28a-28b
June 11, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week we start on the third chapter of Baba Bathra. What does ownership mean? How does it happen? So … join me in the "safer at home" bet midrash. Shelter in Torah for a bit. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 26b-27b
June 04, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBSo this week we finish the second chapter of Baba Bathra. This episode we get an anthropomorphized tree, math, and the continued discussion of the edges and boundaries of ownership. So… join me in the "safer at home" bet midrash. Shelter in Torah for a bit. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org 3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Daf Shvu'i/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 25b-26b
May 28, 2020 21:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBMore discussion in this week's daf of negotiating property rights with neighbors. Stories of rabbis who were and were not good neighbors. And if the public uses the edge of your property over time does it become public property? These questions and some looking behind the scenes and under the hood of the text in this week's daf. So… join me in the "safer at home" bet midrash. Shelter in Torah for a bit. This week's daf can be found: 1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org 2....