Daily Daf Differently
940 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsJoin a wonderful group of liberal rabbis and teachers as we take part in the cycle of the Daf Yomi. Each week a different teacher presents short episodes on the daily daf “differently”.
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Yevamot, Daf 8
March 15, 2022 14:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joel Levy looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 8. Today we look at the dangers of religion. Rabbi Levy considers why he needs to be taught not to sleep with his daughter. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album […]
Yevamot, Daf 7
March 14, 2022 14:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Gail Diamond looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 7. In this podcast, Rabbi Gail Diamond talks about how this difficult first sugya of Yevamot shows the creativity of our sages in developing Jewish law. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The […]
Yevamot, Daf 6
March 13, 2022 14:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Daniel S. Kaiman looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 6. This episode (and daf) is still dealing with whether a positive mitzvah can override a negative prohibition, let’s see how heksher mitzvah impacts this debate. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from […]
Yevamot, Daf 5
March 12, 2022 15:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Daniel S. Kaiman looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 5. Today we continue the exploration of if a positive mitzvah can override a negative prohibition. How do we balance a system that feels fragile? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The […]
Yevamot, Daf 4
March 11, 2022 12:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Jeremy Tabick looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 4. Too much emphasis is placed too often in the study of midrash on the literary methods our sages use in order derive the halakhah from the Torah. But today’s daf reveals a crucial argument between Ben Azzai and […]
Yevamot, Daf 3
March 10, 2022 12:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Avi Killip looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 3. In this daf, Abba Shaul give us his opinion of two biblical rituals: “Yibum” and “Chalitza.” The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead. This podcast is a collaboration […]
Yevamot, Daf 2
March 09, 2022 12:00 - 5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Avi Killip looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 2. Today we begin Seder Nashim with Tractate Yemavot. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead. This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Chagigah, Daf 27
March 08, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 27. Today we end the massekhet with the conclusion of sugya about the basis for the altars in the Temple not being susceptible to ritual imourity. Concluding sugya comparing the fire of the sacrifices with the fire of […]
Chagigah, Daf 26
March 07, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 26. Today we have additinal sugyot about who and where one can rely on claims of ritual purity. Sugya on the purity of keilim in the Temple. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from […]
Chagigah, Daf 25
March 06, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.2 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 25. Today’s episode includes more sugyot about the relationship between chaverim and ammai ha’aretz and when the am ha’aretz can be trusted or not with regard to purity law. The opening and closing music for this podcast is […]
Chagigah, Daf 24
March 05, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 9.02 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 24. This episode includes the remaining talmudic discussion on the last few of the 11 rabbinic stringencies introduced to purity law in the opening mishnah of chapter 3. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros […]
Chagigah, Daf 23
March 04, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.66 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 23. Today we will explore how an actual event shapes purity law regarding carrying midras at the same time as qodesh. An investigation of why a vessel which has just been finished requires immersion. How this case is […]
Chagigah, Daf 22
March 03, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 22. This episode begins with the conclusion of discussion of the difference between Rava and R. Illa. The tracing of this dispute back to the tannaitic period.. How the relations between chaverim and ammai ha’aretz [the knowledgeable and […]
Chagigah, Daf 21
March 02, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 5.46 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 21. This episode begins with the conclusion of mishnah from previous daf. Discussion of how to understand 2 cases which seem to teach the same issue, interposition. R. Illah believes it is interposition in both cases and both […]
Chagigah, Daf 20
March 01, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 20. We ask “can hullin, which is treated as if it were qodesh, become like qodesh and transmit impurity to other objects or people?” We then focus on the role of guarding in keeping objects ritually pure and […]
Chagigah, Daf 19
February 28, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 19. Today we ask “is intention necessary for immersion in the miqvah to be effective for the eating of hullin?” Then we look at the principles of gud achait and gud asaiq as they pertain to the requirements […]
Chagigah, Daf 18
February 27, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 18. This episodes contains the conclusion of discussion of the derivation of compensation sacrifices for Shavuot. Ma’aseh in which Jews were not permitted to eulogize on the Day of Slaughterhing which seems to contradict the mishnah on the […]
Chagigah, Daf 17
February 26, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 17. Today we focus on a mishnah with disagreement between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai regarding the propriety of offering sh’lamim sacrifices and olot r’iyah on the Holiday and whether one may do s’micha, the laying on of […]
Chagigah, Daf 16
February 25, 2022 12:00 - 7 minutes - 7.08 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 16. Today we’ll learn a little bit about Angels and Demons (with apologies to Dan Brown). Then we will return to law, as we pick up on what may well have been the very first dispute in rabbinic […]
Chagigah, Daf 15
February 24, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.96 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 15. Rabbi Elisha Ben Abuya is one of the tragic figures of rabbinic literature- he entered the realm of esoteric knowledge and was drawn into heresy, becoming “Acher”- “the other.” More recently, there has been new interest in […]
Chagigah, Daf 14
February 23, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.45 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 14. Four entered the Pardes, the orchard of enlightenment, and only one emerged whole. How did Rabbi Akiva do it? What’s the real danger of mystical exploration? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from […]
Chagigah, Daf 13
February 22, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.49 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 13. The sages forbad study of Ma’aseh Merkavah- Ezekiel’s vision of the divine chariot. Why did he picture God surrounded by strange, 4-faced beasts? We’ll find answers from ancient archeology and later mysticism. But be careful, one person […]
Chagigah, Daf 12
February 21, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.32 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 12. Don’t listen to today’s podcast. It’s forbidden by Jewish law. If you must, make sure you do it alone, and not with another person, and you’ll learn about some of the basics of Jewish mysticism, what would […]
Chagigah, Daf 11
February 20, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 11. You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! There are areas of knowledge that are too dangerous to be taught in public? I can understand why esoteric mystical knowledge might fall into that category, but why […]
Chagigah, Daf 10
February 19, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.72 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 10. Some laws are floating in the breeze, some are hanging by a thread! Are all Jewish observances based in Biblical law, or are some the product of rabbinic creativity? How do we feel about the answer to […]
Chagigah, Daf 9
February 18, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 9. Qohelet says that “the crooked cannot become straight,” which the Sages understand to mean that some mistakes cannot be repaired. For example, missing out on an entire holiday. And worse, an act of incest or adultery, or […]
Chagigah, Daf 8
February 17, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.37 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 8. Vegetarians be warned! The Sages say you can “be happy on your holiday” only when eating red meat, since that was the type of festive offering. Rav Ashi says this is obvious–only red meat satisfies. This leads […]
Chagigah, Daf 7
February 16, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.81 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 7. In tractate Peah we learn that some mitzvot have no fixed measure–any amount is good, and no amount is ever too much. One of those is the appearance offering, yet our Mishnah sets an amount. Rabbi Yohanan […]
Chagigah, Daf 6
February 15, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.86 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 6. Back in the Mishnah we heard of a debate between the schools of Shammai and Hillel on which class of festival sacrifice deserved priority–the burnt offering or the whole offering. In the Gemara we learn arguments to […]
Chagigah, Daf 5
February 14, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.4 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 5. Continuing the theme of weeping sages, we learn of Rabbi Yohanan’s sorrow that God holds Israel responsible even for minor mistakes, and not only for intentional crimes. For example, gross behavior like smashing a bug or spitting […]
Chagigah, Daf 4
February 13, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 4. Gender identity and roles are contentious topics in contemporary society, but we assume that the ancients had a simpler sense of male and female. Actually, it seems that they knew about various intersex genders, and debated the […]
Chagigah, Daf 3
February 12, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.93 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 3. How is a Talmudic page organized? Sometimes the editor explains the Mishnah systematically, but sometimes it is more like a string of associations, recording numerous sayings of a single sage, or examining similar expressions from different angles. […]
Chagigah, Daf 2
February 11, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 2. We open our study of Tractate Hagigah, the 12th and final volume of Seder Mo’ed, with a discussion of the two sacrifices brought by individuals on the festival–the “face time” burnt offering, and the “happy meal” whole […]
Moed Katan, Daf 29
February 10, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.69 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 29. This short daf completes Tractate Moed Katan. We learn what a person should say when departing from a dead person and what he should say when departing from a live person. Learn this daf carefully and […]
Moed Katan, Daf 28
February 09, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 28. Is death meaningful? That’s one of the questions this daf asks. What I mean by this is can one observe how a person died, quickly or slowly, at an old age or at a young age, […]
Moed Katan, Daf 27
February 08, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 27. Burials and funeral can be expensive procedures. They can also be a moment where members of the community use the opportunity to show off their wealth. This happened during Talmudic times and it still happens today. […]
Moed Katan, Daf 26
February 07, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 26. Everybody knows that if a Torah falls to the ground people have to fast. Correct? But there is no source for this custom in the Talmud. Today we shall see the source in the Talmud that […]
Moed Katan, Daf 25
February 06, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 25. Today’s rather long daf contains a series of stories of rabbis’ funerals, how the burial processions were conducted, what eulogies were recited and other various tidbits. In the podcast we’ll tell the fascinating story of the […]
Moed Katan, Daf 24
February 05, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 24. There are several passages in the tractate about mourning on Shabbat and opinions vary. Some sages hold that on Shabbat all mourning customs are suspended, whereas other sages hold that only some mourning is suspended, but […]
Moed Katan, Daf 23
February 04, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 23. One issue addressed on this daf is remarriage after the death of close relative. Here we see an interesting difference between the death of most relatives, even father or mother, and the death of a spouse. […]
Moed Katan, Daf 22
February 03, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 22. When a parent dies, the mourning practices are more stringent than when another person dies. This daf lists such differences. Specifically we will examine the issue of attending a celebratory feast–how long must one refrain from […]
Moed Katan, Daf 21
February 02, 2022 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 21. A mourner is not allowed to study Torah. In today’s Daily Daf we look at some rabbis who despite this prohibition continued to teach Torah even when their own children dies. What does this teach us […]
Moed Katan, Daf 20
February 01, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 20. In today’s daf we will explore the history of the halakhah that if one observes only one hour of shiva before the festival begins, there is no more shiva after the festival. This is one of […]
Moed Katan, Daf 19
January 31, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 19. Today we will look at a mishnah which finally gets into the laws of mourning, which are the main topic of the rest of the tractate. The Mishnah begins with the intersection of mourning and a […]
Moed Katan, Daf 18
January 30, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 18. In this daf we explore the fascinating topic of determinism. Is what happens to us determined by our actions and our initiatives? Do we create our own destiny? Or is what happens to us dictated by […]
Moed Katan, Daf 17
January 29, 2022 12:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 17. Today we look at a fascinating aggadah concerning a rabbi who seems to have engaged in some misconduct, perhaps even sexual misconduct. Does his leadership role in the rabbinic community gain him a pass for his […]
Moed Katan, Daf 16
January 28, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 16. It is often difficult to use the Bavli to see how Jews/rabbis actually lived their lives during the Talmudic period. Today’s daf gives us the opportunity to see how the sages used the power to excommunicate […]
Moed Katan, Daf 15
January 27, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 15. This daf lists fourteen practices of mourning, and compares them with laws related a person who has been excommunicated or a person with skin disease (tzaraat). Most of these mourning practices either deprive the person of […]
Moed Katan, Daf 14
January 26, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 14. Today’s daf is the first daf of the third chapter, a chapter which is concerned mostly with the laws of mourning. The passage upon which I focus today deals with the issue of standardization of halakhah. […]
Moed Katan, Daf 13
January 25, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.99 MBWelcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Moed Katan Daf 13. Should the sins of the fathers be visited upon the children? Theologically, perhaps, but the rabbis have a different understanding of how things should work–practically and ritually– in the world of here and now. The opening […]