Shabbat, Daf 121

Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat

English - July 05, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 12.1 MB
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Welcome to the Hundred and Twentieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 121. This page in Massechet Shabbat tackles the question of whether there are any circumstances in which we may direct a non-Jew to work on our behalf on Shabbat. The page continues with a discussion of the permissibility of killing dangerous and threatening animals on Shabbat. The slippery but fascinating issues of intention and appearances make their way into the ancient Rabbis deliberations.

Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar Communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, a groundbreaking suburban network of small, inclusive, and accessible Jewish communities connected by a broad vision of Jewish renaissance. An entrepreneur in her rabbinate, Rabbi Lewittes earlier founded Congregation Kol HaNeshamah in Englewood, New Jersey, and served as the first female Assistant Dean of the Rabbinical School at JTS during which time she participated in the rethinking and restructuring of the program’s curriculum.

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.