Shows
The Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 8:3-5What is it that makes you a partner?
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2023-02-2713 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 7:11-8:2Partnership and agency in setting up different kinds of eruv.
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2023-02-2616 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 7:9-11Why do we need the eruv? So that the children will learn!
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2023-02-2310 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 7:6-8What do we need to do to create a partnership?
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2023-02-2212 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 7:3-5Joining or separating courtyards? Bridges or bales of hay?
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2023-02-2108 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 6:10-7:2Joining or separating courtyards?
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2023-02-2012 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 6:7-9Partners and geographies. Courtyards within courtyards.
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2023-02-1916 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 6:4-6What is it that makes a partnership and do partners need to make an eruv?
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2023-02-1611 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 6:1-3How do we actually create the eruv for a courtyard? What if one of the residents does not agree? What if one of the residents is not Jewish?
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2023-02-1515 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 5:7-9Measuring the shabbat limit - with a wrinkle in halakhic space-time.
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2023-02-1415 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 5:4-6How do we measure the 2,000-cubit limit around the town?
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2023-02-1311 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 5:1-3Measuring around the town!
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2023-02-1213 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 4:10-11More games with space, boundaries and intentions!
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2023-02-0912 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 4:7-9More games with space and intention! 4,000 amot round or square?
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2023-02-0813 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 4:4-6Playing games with intention and situation and knowledge.
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2023-02-0713 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 4:1-3Leaving the shabbat boundary, involuntarily? By ship or kidnapping or mental breakdown?
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2023-02-0613 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 3:7-9Two days or one? The Mishnah shifts from Eruvin into Rosh HaShanah!
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2023-02-0509 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 3:4-6Playing in time and space - letting us go further on Shabbat.
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2023-02-0215 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 3:1-3Finally, in Chapter 3, we learn how make an eruv! Or, at least, where we can make it - in a cemetery? And what we can make it out of - bread and salt?
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2023-02-0116 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 2:4-6Wells and roads and area calculations, with more on creating private spaces.
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2023-01-3113 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 2:1-3Bulls and cows and wells. Watering animals and creating private spaces.
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2023-01-3015 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 1:8-10Camping in the desert and games with geometry.
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2023-01-2914 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 1:5-7Poles, beams and mathematics. Did the rabbis know the value of Pi and can you write a legal document on a cow?
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2023-01-2612 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 1:2-4Poles, beams and bricks. Psychological boundaries between the public and the private.
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2023-01-2511 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictEruvin 1:1The tractate of Eruvin begins with definitions of "private"and "public" which are, intriguingly, slightly different from the legal definitions of "private" and "public" that we would recognise today.
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2023-01-2411 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 24:4-5The tractate of Shabbat closes with a discussion of acts which are required for the purposes of a mitzvah but are not, strictly speaking, acts of creation in line with the 39 archetypal categories of "work" outlined in Chapter 7.
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2023-01-2112 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 24:1-3Taking care of our animals on shabbat!
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2023-01-2111 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 23:4-5As we approach the end of the tractate of Shabbat, we consider questions of life and death. Interestingly, the tractate of Berachot does the same at its close.
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2023-01-1911 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 23:1-3Business on shabbat? Check out activities which are close to the edge.
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2023-01-1812 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 22:4-6Water, water! More questions on the use of water on Shabbat, for cooling, heating or bathing.
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2023-01-1712 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 22:1-3Liquids! Squeezing fruit, letting it ooze, breaking a jug to get out the contents, using hot water to heat up food.
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2023-01-1614 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 21:1-3Moving stones on Shabbat? Anyone interested in picking up a a stone to throw it on Shabbat should definitely learn this Mishnah!
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2023-01-1514 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 20:4-5Moving stuff around on Shabbat. Feeding animals. Pressing clothes.
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2023-01-1211 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 20:1-3Making food on Shabbat. Filtering. Setting up gear. Sorting. Feeding animals.
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2023-01-1112 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 19:4-6Circumcision on shabbat? What if we get the day wrong or circumcise the wrong baby?
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2023-01-1013 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 19:1-3Circumcision on shabbat? What if we need to bathe the baby? Or make a fire to forge the knife?
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2023-01-0914 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 18:1-3Clearing out space that we need on Shabbat - for guests or for Torah study equally. Giving birth. Circumcision.
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2023-01-0814 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 17:5-8More about moving and using stuff on Shabbat! Broken things, things that aren't even a thing. What can we do?
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2023-01-0512 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 17:2-4Moving and using stuff on Shabbat! What can we do?
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2023-01-0410 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 16:7-17:1Fire on shabbat! Scorpions! Assistance from Gentiles! And some stuff that you would or wouldn't touch.
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2023-01-0312 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 16:4-6Your house is burning down on Shabbat! Can you put out the fire? Can your non-Jewish neighbour help you? What can you save?
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2023-01-0212 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 16:1-3Your house is burning down on Shabbat! What do you save first?
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2023-01-0114 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 15:1-3Tying knots on shabbat? Preparing for shabbat on Yom Kippur?
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2022-12-2911 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 14:2-4Taking medicine on shabbat? Is curing hide like grinding a drug?
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2022-12-2811 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 13:7-14:1Trapping animals and creepy-crawlies. Injuring them? If two people block a doorway, with an animal inside, has either of them carried out a creative act?
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2022-12-2811 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 13:4-6Combing wool or carding or dying on shabbat? Trapping? Is shutting the door on our house, with an animal inside, an act of creation?
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2022-12-2611 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 13:1-3Making clothes on shabbat? Or tearing clothes? Is psychological healing a act of creation?
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2022-12-2511 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 12:4-6The pen is mightier than the sword and the rabbis spend more than half of the twelfth chapter of Shabbat on the question of writing - what works and what does not work to trigger liability?
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2022-12-2210 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat:12:1-3Building, ploughing, weeding, gathering, writing. Which one do you think will interest the rabbis most?
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2022-12-2112 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 11:4-6What if we throw something in the sea? From a boat? Without remembering that it was shabbat?
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2022-12-2009 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 11:1-3What if we throw something on shabbat? From a public space into a private one? Over a public space? Do the air rights count?
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2022-12-1911 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 10:4-6Someone who completes carries with a partner or carries a human being or carries in an unusual way? Is this "carrying" for the purpose of keeping shabbat?
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2022-12-1812 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 10:1-3Boundary cases - someone who changes his mind, who only completes half an action or who completes it in an unusual way. Are they carrying on shabbat?
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2022-12-1510 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 9:5-7Today's Daily Mishnah goes back to minimal quantities for carrying on shabbat - pepper, spices, detergent and fuel, ending up with a children's toy.
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2022-12-1412 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 9:2-4How do we know that we are keeping the right halakha? Do we rely on tradition, on reason or on Biblical exegesis? In-between clarifying the quantities that are significant for carrying on Shabbat, the Mishnah brings a group of seven teachings that can each be associated with a verse from Tanach. Themes of holiness, impurity, and fertility run through them.
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2022-12-1313 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 8:6 - 9:1How do we know that we are keeping the right halakha? In-between teaching quantities that are significant for carrying on Shabbat, the Mishnah takes a surprising turn.
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2022-12-1212 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 8:3-5Thinking of carrying eye-shadow on shabbat? Or sand? Or earth? What is the minimal critical quantity that is needed to define the archetypal creative act of "carrying in the public domain"?
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2022-12-1110 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 7:4-8:2Thinking of carrying pea-stalks on shabbat? Or eye-wash or ears of wheat?
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2022-12-0810 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 7:2-3What are the 39 core activities that we refrain from carrying out on Shabbat?
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2022-12-0714 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 6:9-7:1Comfort objects? Bells? Foxes' teeth? What other kinds of things can be carried on Shabbat?
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2022-12-0611 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 6:6-8Girls with pierced ears, women with cloaks and men with prosthetics. What do they do on shabbat?
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2022-12-0512 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 6:3-5What kind of things can we go out with on Shabbat? Spice-jars? Weapons? Garters? Find out more!
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2022-12-0409 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 5:4-6:2The Mishnah finishes its discussion of animals carrying on shabbat with a hint at the responsibilities of leaders to support moral standards in their communities. Then it moves to the kind of adornments that humans used to go out with in the time of the Mishnah.
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2022-12-0113 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 5:1-3Animals need to rest too! How do they go out on Shabbat? The Mishnah teaches us about animals before it teaches about humans.
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2022-11-3011 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 3:6-4:2Today's Daily Mishnah examines how to keep food hot on shabbat and introduces the concept of "muktzeh", stuff that we don't handle on shabbat.
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2022-11-2914 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 3:3-5Taking food and drink away from a stove or a heater on shabbat.
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2022-11-2810 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 2:7-3:2Lighting the light, and putting food on a burning stove before shabbat.
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2022-11-2812 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 2:4-6Fuelling the light, and questions of life and death.
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2022-11-2410 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 2:1-3How do we light on shabbat and why are some wicks or some fuels forbidden?
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2022-11-2313 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 1:10-11Roasting on shabbat? In principle, processes that we might set running before shabbat can continue to operate during it, but perhaps not roasting? As ever, there are exceptions.
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2022-11-2211 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 1:7-9After coming to blows at the entrance to the beit midrash, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel continue their debates about processes that we might set running before shabbat but which continue to operate during it. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.
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2022-11-2110 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 1:4-6Swords and spears in the beyt midrash? Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel come to blows. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.
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2022-11-2011 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictShabbat 1:1-3The tractate of Shabbat opens with laws which seem completely obscure - carrying into and out from a private residence, reading by a light, teaching children. We'll see that it is setting out a framework to approach the broader topic.
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2022-11-1713 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 4:4-5Find out about gender-fluidity, human rights and gender-inderminacy in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
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2022-11-1613 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 4:1-3Find out about gender-fluidity in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
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2022-11-1509 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 3:10-12How are bikkurim like a sefer torah? How important is the Land of Israel?
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2022-11-1411 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 3:7-9Questions of social status are followed by questions of intellectual and financial status, as we move towards the conclusion of the Mishnah of Bikkurim.
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2022-11-1307 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 3:4-6Even King Agrippas walks with his own first-fruits on his shoulder. Find out about how the ceremony works!
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2022-11-1007 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 3:1-3Find out about how we brought first-fruits into the temple: the procession, the flutes, the reception in Jerusalem.
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2022-11-0910 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 2:10-11More on the "koy", perhaps a relative of the goat or deer or mountain goat families, which is neither a true wild animal nor a true domestic. Perhaps to remind us that we never truly own the lands that we cultivate - one of the big themes of the order of Seeds that we are close to finishing.
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2022-11-0811 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 2:7-9Moving from etrogs to bipeds to a weird animal called a "koy", perhaps a relative of the goat or deer or mountain goat families, which does not exist any more.
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2022-11-0711 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 2:4-6More analysis: the Mishnah reminds itself of the similarities and differences between first-fruits and other offerings, and then goes sideways into differences between etrog trees and other trees.
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2022-11-0613 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 2:1-3Time-out for analysis: the Mishnah reminds itself of the similarities and differences between first-fruits, tithes, and terumah.
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2022-11-0310 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 1:9-11Can you bring bikkurim twice? Can you bring bikkurim from across the Jordan?
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2022-11-0210 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 1:6-8What if you no longer own the field where the first-fruits grew? What if the well has dried up? Can the subsequent owner bring the first-fruits
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2022-11-0111 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 1:4-5Does a convert bring first-fruits? Is a convert connected to the Land? What about a woman or a hermaphrodite?
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2022-10-2711 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 1:1-3Who is eligible to bring the first-fruits? Turns out that you need to be rooted on the land and, perhaps not by coincidence, the first mishnah does talk about roots.
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2022-10-2612 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictBikkurim 1:1How do we deal with the first-fruits? Tune in here for an introduction to the tractate of Bikkurim
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2022-10-2510 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictHallah 3Summary of Chapter 3 of Hallah - taste, timing, life and death.
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2022-10-0310 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictHallah 2Summary of Chapter 2 - where does Hallah apply and what are the important quantities?
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2022-10-0211 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictHallah 1:8-9What about dog-food? Do we need to take hallah from it? And how is hallah similar to teruma?
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2022-09-2912 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictHallah 1:5-7How do mixtures of ownership or mixtures of oil and flour and water affect the mitzvah of hallah?
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2022-09-2811 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictHallah 1:2-4Today's Daily Mishnah explores the nature of the five species of grain and focuses on parallels between Pesach, maaser, and Hallah.
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2022-09-2209 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 5:15 and Hallah 1:1The final section of Maaser Sheni presents an historical update from the times of the Hasmoneans and then moves seamlessly into the new tractate of Hallah.
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For a set of slides which summarises the principles of tithes, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/MaaserSheniSlides, scrolling to the end.
2022-09-2112 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 5:12-14Turning halakha into poetry, the final sections of Maaser Sheni present a midrash from the Sifrei on the "confession of the tithes" in Deuteronomy 26:12-15.
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2022-09-2013 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 5:9-11Can we transfer ownership over commodities at a distance? Find out how the rabbis traded commodities while on a long sea voyage.
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2022-09-1911 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 5:6-8How does the "removal" of tithes in the fourth and seventh years of the cycle work?
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2022-09-1810 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 5:3-5What are the differences between fourth-year trees' fruit and maaser sheni?
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2022-09-1511 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 5:1-2In its fifth chapter, the tractate suddenly changes direction towards "orlah", the law that prohibits eating freely from trees that are less than five years old. But, in the fourth year, the trees' fruit is taken to Jerusalem to be eaten there. Find out how!
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2022-09-1411 minThe Daily Mishnah with BenedictMaaser Sheni 4:10-12What if we name something with an abbreviation? Or name it in error? Or if we are unclear? The sages argue about the status of the object.
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