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We are more or less done with the daughters of Zelophehad, (though are we ever really done with the daughters of Zelophehad?), but we are continuing with a midrashic sugya dedicated to the sanctification of the month/shabat/the curious holiday of the fifteenth of Av and what that is all about—and it seems to be about a lot of stuff. All in this week's daf.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
On this pod, recorded and uploaded just before Pesach, we are gliding in for a landing on the large Daughters of Zelophehad midrashic run we've had for the past few dapim. Great to go into the seder thinking about the history of standing up to authority, maybe.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Still trying to figure out the patriarchal precedence in inheritance. Zecharyah ben Haqatzav putting up futile resistance to the patriarchal hegemony. A fun little story about a rabbi on rabbi beatdown. And, of course, the gemara is worried about the estate slip-sliding away from the father's tribe/family to the mother's. It's all in this week's daf.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Why was R. Yirmiyah kicked out of the study hall? Another resolution this week, along with imaginary women's anatomy, wine casks on a river, and hiding wine in a vineyard. Ultimately the question is not the question, the question is about authority. 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 many commentaries from Alhatorah.org
Doves or pigeons, at home and away. Posing questions of boundaries and ownership, flight paths, theft, inside and out. The doves, and Rabbi Yirmiyah who is kicked out of the study hall. Join me in this study. 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
We continue urban planning. The mishnah and gemara interrogating the issues between neighbors of walls, windows, dovecotes, and mongeese, bloodletters, and ravens. Is the end of your property actually the end of your property? These issues and more in this week's daf. So...Come on in to the bet midrash/the study hall! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.
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 afficianados come for the Talmud but get hooked by the ads. Responding to the general clamor (okay, I'll admit it wasn't so general nor so very clamorous) for these bite size bits of buffoonery and banter, here are all the ads in one montage.
The world is insane. Here's something you'll laugh at. I hope.
When Sages compete in the war of Torah, does this competition bring in its wake more and greater wisdom? Or more and greater pain? This is perhaps one of the subtexts of this week's daf, woven in and about the question of who has access to the market, and who grants access to that market. So...Come on in to the bet midrash/the study hall! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.
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
The rabbi's central preoccupation, to quote Daniel Boyarin, is reproducing rabbis. Rabbis' sons who went "off the derekh/path" were considered "vinegar son of wine." However, how early does one start to teach the children; the future Sages? Is there any basis to the truism that universal Jewish education was a thing already during the time of the second Temple? (spoiler alert: no.) And what about unfair competition? These are the issues that this week's daf delves into. So...Come on in to the bet midrash/the study hall! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study. And have a wonderful end of Pesach (if you celebrate it).
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
Talmud is an ancient text, a product of late antiquity, but also an artifact of early modernity and burgeoning technology of the printing press, which also brought it into conflict with the Church which controlled the presses to some extent. This week's daf forces us to dip into this also. So...Welcome! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study. And have a wonderful Pesach (if you celebrate it).
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
One of the fascinating characteristics of Talmudic debate and discussion is that it does not distinguish between the material and the spiritual; between the rote and the extraordinary—everything is attended to by the discourse, the give and take, of the Sages. This week's daf is a prime example of a sugya/a discussion which centers and lifts up the seemingly mundane aspects of life from the dung that is used to soften leather to the thin slice of cake resting and rotting on the window pane. If this does not whet your appetite for some Talmud study I know not what will. So … Welcome! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.
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
To what extent should a person's use of her own property be regulated? If my tree's roots grow into your land and ruin your cistern, am I responsible? Or should you take the tree into account before you plant, or dig a cistern? Anyway, these are some of the questions that this week's daf poses. So welcome. Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and lets jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the war of Torah study.
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
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment, Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. This week we start the second chapter of Baba bathra. This chapter deals with interactions, negotiations, arrangements, and potential points of conflict between neighboring properties. The overriding question is: "To what extent am I free to use my land to do whatever I want to?"
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
This week we dive into a discussion of the idol of Micah which somewhat/somehow clarifies what the importance or significance of inheritance lines is. Then we get back into about who inherits—son or daughter? All in this week's daf. This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. In order to mark and celebrate the completion of the first chapter of Baba Bathra, we invited Prof. Alyssa Gray to discuss her new book Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness. Our conversation illuminates some of the poverty relief material that we saw in the first chapter, in addition to putting that material in a larger context. And then we study a passage together. Its a blast. Pull up a chair, pour a libation, and join the celebration. The text that we studied is on 10a and can be accessed here: 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
(The picture for this week's podcast is the building which housed the printing press of the widow and brothers Romm)
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. This week we explore the end of the Job tale and reflect on what it all means. We reflect on the fact that the rabbis have many pictures or understandings of Job, but no one clear understanding. We finish off the chapter with a riff on various ancestors. 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
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. This week the Talmud grapples with the meanings of the story of Job, that wealthy God-fearer who ended up a pawn in a game of theodicy between God and Satan. Was Job good? Evil? A little bit of both? And what about God? All the answers (okay, some answers) in this weeks episode of Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a 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
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. In this week's daf we meet the council of 10 Sages who were King David's collaborators in writing Psalms; we answer perennial questions like "Who wrote the Book of Ruth?" "Did Ezra really write the book of Ezra?" How did Moses complete the Torah if the Torah says he died before the end of the Torah? And Job. Lots of conversation about Job, and good, and evil, and reward, and punishment; and who was Job? Enjoy!! 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
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. This week's page (Baba Bathra 13b-14b) gives you a DIY primer on make a Torah scroll, which naturally leads into a discussion of the dimensions of the Ark of the Convenant and the broken tablets. The Talmud then slips one of the most radical theological moments in between this discussion and the order of the Jewish bible canon, as the Talmud does. Enjoy!! 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
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. This week's page (Baba Bathra 13a-13b) explores a principle of social/financial intercourse. (How) can two partners arrive at a mutually satisfying division of assets? This, of course leads to talk of slaves, tikkun olam, Scripture and the empty lines between the books. Enjoy! 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
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud. Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me. This week's page (baba bathra 11b-13a) takes on the theory and practice of public claim on private spaces and vice versa, the relative merit of prophet and sage, and the moral challenge remembered as the character of Sodom. Enjoy! This week's daf can found: 1. The Vilna page 2. Sefaria (it's the last paragraph) 3. AlHatorah
I 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. No prior experience necessary.
This week Rabbi Aqiva throws down midrash with a Roman general, as one does, and the "yay tzedakah" discussion continues.
I 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. No prior experience necessary.
This week we continue with what I call masechet tzedakah/the tractate of poverty relief, of the two longest extended discussions of poverty relief. Law, ethics, theology, legend. What's not to like?
I 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.
We are continuing our discussion of who inherits whom, and why is it the male? We also dip our toes into a more spiritual or ethical understanding of inheritance. All in this week's daf.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
I 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. In about 40-50 minutes you can learn a page of Talmud.
It's a new chapter and a new conversation in which the Mishnah and then the Talmud takes on the question of inheritance—where did possession all start? Is that good or bad? Who gets to inherit? (Spoiler alert, on the whole, inheritance is another way to preserve the patriarchal line.) Well, let's get started.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
To 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—the links to the text are below. I am very excited to share this conversation with y'all. So… pull up a chair, pour a libation, and join the celebration. The text we studied is on 20b and then 21b and can accessed here: 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
Rerun of the amazing conversation with Prof. Alyssa Gray
(the original description:) In order to mark and celebrate the completion of the first chapter of Baba Bathra, we invited Prof. Alyssa Gray to discuss her new book Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness. Our conversation illuminates some of the poverty relief material that we saw in the first chapter, in addition to putting that material in a larger context. And then we study a passage together. Its a blast. Pull up a chair, pour a libation, and join the celebration. The text that we studied is on 10a and can be accessed here: 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
This is a hadran episode! We are finishing the seventh chapter and wishing it "see you soon" (what hadran means). This week we continue the conversation about dividing land and how to do that fairly.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Once more unto the breach. Can we nail down what is intended in the sale of a piece of property? How much off the mark can the assessment be before it is fraud? And what about the original division of the Land of Israel? All in this week's daf. This week's daf can 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
Denise Levertov's poem "Making Peace" can be found here.
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This week we delve into another case of saying things with words, and then finding out that perhaps it is not the words but the possession. We also look at an example of the artistry of the stam. Its wild; and its all in this week's daf. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
And … we're back. We're still talking about what the language of buying and selling means. When is a little more or less land in a deal a mistake or a fraud? Its all in this week's daf.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
There's more to talk about and learn about. The seemingly endless tale of the daughters of Zelophehad and Moshe. Including in this week's episode—what happened in the study hall? All in this week's daf. This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Its a new chapter! Its more of the same amazing conversation! What do words mean? Legally? Is a kur a kur? Is the hole part of the field? Part of the whole? Its all in this week's daf. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
We finish the Sixth Chapter this week in a discussion of found graves and abandoned graveyards. We also start the seventh chapter. just a bit. All in this week's daf. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Burial caves, the space of death, ground zero of space and place, in this week's daf. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
We continue this week with an interesting discussion of the ways that the people's perogatives impinge on private property. And the final space—the grave. All in this week's daf.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
This week we conclude the conversation about the magical, mystery ark and cherubs. Then we are back with a discussion of place and ownership, and whether or not and how individual ownership intersects with or confronts public claims. All in this week's daf. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
One more conversation about wine fragility, at least in market exchanges. Who is responsible for my wine going bad? A surprising mussar interjection from the Meiri, and Ben Sira also makes an appearance as we move away from wine and toward place and space. All in this week's daf. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
So this week we continue asking after what makes wine, wine and not water. Water into wine being a seasonal theme and all. We also ask after the thingness of wine. And other stuff. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Wine, gross wine, and really gross wine, and its historical or, at least legal implications. We continue our discussion of buying, and defining wine, and asking whether it is the fault of the stars that wine spoils. It'll be a blast. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
We are continuing with our conversation about how much stuff which isn't the stuff i bought should I be expected to accept along with the stuff I bought. When we finish with that we move on to discuss the knotty problem of what level of wine do I expect when I buy wine. (Also Rashbam is up in his feels about store bought wine…) Its a hoot. Trust me. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
Hey, we're back. Missed y'all. In this week's daf we ask the evergreen question: "How much crap can you put in my wheat and I'll still pay full price it?" Its a question that will take us through a discussion of definitions and boundaries. Buckle up, grab a beverage and join us. 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
We're still working through the halakhic details of the case of the daughters of Zelophehad, and we've added working through the details of the Josephites and their claim for more land, and others who were denied a portion in the Land of Israel. Fascinating stuff here. All in this week's daf. Join us.
This week's daf can 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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
One last daf before Rosh Hashanah. We continue to interrogate the tension between rov/majority and hazaqah/the assumption of fact. And we end up with a couple of interesting principles of hosting. Its all in this week's daf.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
This week we finish the fifth chapter and start the sixth. The fifth chapter ends as it started with a midrashic flourish, and the sixth chapter begins diving in right away with the parameters of legitimate commerce.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
This week we follow the logic of guarding against criminal overcharging - taking advantage of drought conditions - (not) selling basic necessities - is wine a basic necessity? - exporting foodstuffs out of the Land of Israel - all the characters in the Ruth story - and in the "news you can use" category, what was Abraham's mother's name? All in this week's daf.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
This week we go further into the weeds of measures, measurements, and measuring implements and then take a step back to talk about how the "just scales" of Rabbinic discourse is different than the "scales of justice" of contemporary discourse. Its all in this week's daf.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com
This week we dive into and interrogate the slippery idea of accurate weights and measure, and fair trade in the marketplace.
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 thewidowandthebrothers@gmail.com