Shabbat, Daf 21
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
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Welcome to the Twentieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 21. In the middle of the Talmud’s discussion on wicks and waxes, Chanukkah appears! The debate between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai about the number of candles to light reflects a centuries-long debate on the […]
Welcome to the Twentieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 21. In the middle of the Talmud’s discussion on wicks and waxes, Chanukkah appears! The debate between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai about the number of candles to light reflects a centuries-long debate on the role of the Temple in Jewish life. How long should our mourning of its destruction continue?
Rabbi Abby Sosland is the Morah Ruchanit (Spiritual Advisor) for the high school at Solomon Schechter Westchester, where she teaches Talmud, Bible, Philosophy and Prayer. Her chapter “Crime and Punishment” — about the laws of capital punishment and incarceration— appears in The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews (Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, Rabbinical Assembly, 2012). She runs a free High Holiday service at Town and Village Synagogue in downtown Manhattan.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.