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Lets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 49New Chapter 6 - Bais Shamai
A machlokes we have mentioned many times, if hefker can target poor people or not.
Bais Hillel says no - it must be like shemita which is indiscriminate -
The gemara seems to indicate shemita is for all people of all nationalities, rich or poor, man or animal.
Reb Yochanan and Rish Lakish explain the two sides of the machlokes but this ends up having differences of it's own.
Have a great Yom Tov and we'll see you back on chol hamoaid IY"H.
2023-04-0616 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 48Detailed discussion of what constitutes shikchah, Is it enough for the workers to forget the sheaves in the field or does the owner also play a role.
Complex ccases of shikcha where the field os covered in straw. A comparison to another case of shikcha borught in the tosefta.
Finally, the perek ends telling us the shikcha must take place just prior to the gmar melacha.
2023-04-0541 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 47Partners sharing maaser oni, maaser sheni.
Treating father properly.
not giving advantages to one poor man over another.
Discussion of Ruth.
2023-04-0435 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 46Halacha gimel When do we allow the interests of the owner to supersede the interests of the poor and do they compensate for it?
Halacha dalet Traveling without the American Express card can put you into a distressful situation and if you run out of money you can take leket shikcha and peah and even maaser oni!
What happens when you get home - do you have to pay it back? Machlokes -
Partner Arisus can have it's advantages.
2023-04-0329 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 45How to designate a lost leket stalk in a mixture of other stalks.
A complicated discussion of making the one who has not taken possession as if they had.
2023-04-0324 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 44Cases of shikcha - 5 sheaves or 6 sheaves will determine if you need to physically remove sheaf 5 or not.
Can you forget something twice?
2023-04-0323 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 43Halacha bais - according to most meforshim besides Rambam - we deviate from leket and discuss shikcha.
Proximity to standing grain will save if it reaches and can be cut together with nearby grain.
What happens if a leket gets mixed into your private stock?
Shikcha by olive trees.
2023-04-0335 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 42Proof that hefker bais din is hefker
Things grow differently nowadays then in the olden days with wheat coming of age in the summer rather than in the early spring.
Therefore, bais din can declare a post shemita year a leap year.
A machlokes how much is kdei nefila.
2023-04-0326 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 41Describes the reasoning behind Reb Meir and the Tana Kama as to why the green kernels of grain would not belong to the owner.
New Perek 5 starts off with a knas to someone whose piles are placed on top of an area which has not been visited yet by the crowd.
2023-03-2920 min2023-03-2828 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 40A discussion of what the parameters are for ain kinyan lakum.
Halacha zayin - discusses what leket is and kernels found in the ant holes.
2023-03-2834 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 38Halacha 6: Picking up Peah for someone else: machlokes Reb Eliezer and Chachamim and other places this machlokes manifests itself.
2023-03-2624 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 37The rope trick, 5 reasons for Peah to be given at the end of the harvest, Halacha dalet: Converting in the middle of the harvest and it's impact on the harvest mitzvot.
37b - Halacha 5 - Milestones in the harvest process such as hekdesh, milestones in the growth process.
2023-03-2636 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 36 (delivered By Reb Menachem Zomber)Does a person need to make a declaration to use the kinyan of dalet amot or not?
Can dalet amot work by all kinyanim or only by gitin vkidushin?
What if a malveh says throw me the money and you get off the hook?
Halacha gimel - no sharp utensils used to cut Peah. (Safety of the poor people is very much taken into account)
And three designated time periods for collection. More or Less.
2023-03-2427 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 35 given by Reb Avraham SchwartzDiscussion about making or not making a bracha on giving Peah.
The necessity to follow the advice of chazal particularly when there is a sakana.
Overly aggressive aniyim lose in the end. Be a mentch even if you are desperate.
35b brings interesting source from Dovid Hamelech in how he describes himself as a poor person in his quest to have some part in building the bais hamikdash.
Included is a discussion of how badly we punish the overly aggressive ani.
2023-03-2329 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 34 given by Rav Avraham SchwartzWhen Peah is too high for the average person to harvest, who is obligated to do it for us.
When is Peah left out free for all to take at will and when is it handed out like Yoseif in Mitzrayim.
2023-03-2227 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 33 - narrated by Reb Avraham SchwartzToday's daf elaborates on details of the divrei shciv mera keksuvim umesurim damya.
What happens if he leaves over metaltlin, what if he changes his mind, who gets it first guy or second.
2023-03-2129 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 32 - narrated by Reb Menachem ZomberStories that showed that Hashem watches over the homes when they were away for the Holidays.
Other details having to do with kinyam agav
2023-03-2028 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 31Halacha 6 and 7 - how much land must one own to be obligated in Peah.
Rambam rules like Reb Akiva kol shehu - any amount.
Halacha 7 lists other halachos impacted by a small amount of land.
Discussion of Shechiv mera on death bed and rules of dissemination of property with and without reservation
Impact to the kesuba lien also is discussed.
2023-03-1918 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 301. Cutting corners pun intended.
2. Halacha 5 - selling young trees bearing fruit - whose obligation is it to give the peah
3. Comparing Reb Yehuda to the halacha of selling fleece
2023-03-1934 min2023-03-1726 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 27Continuation of the comparison of Reb Meir by shachas and Reb Akiva, are they necessarily dependent on one another.
Discussion of why mustard is different than grain.
27b Halacha Bais - Selecting fresh onions to market and leaving others to dry in the ground require two peos.
2023-03-1525 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 26Peah 26 limits the machlokes Bais Shamai and Bais Hillel to a very narrow set of circumstances.
There is a brief discussion of the leopard harvest.
2023-03-1429 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 25Last side of second perek ends with a blast - Reb Pinchas questions Peah from Chutz Laaretz what is the din?
A plethora of peshatim are given to try to understand what his question was. We cover some of them. We mentioned that the Gra was reported to have purchased a field in Vilna and gave leket shikchah and peah - midrabanan. (In line with shitas Rambam).
Third chapter begins on 25b. The Halacha discusses blocks of grain growing with olive trees interfering with each block.
Machlokes Bais Shamai and Bais Hillel.
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2023-03-1321 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 24Discusses when do you begin to own the harvest when working for someone else. Sharecropper arrangements are discussed and their differences.
2023-03-1219 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 23Peah 23 discusses the source of all torah being from sinai even what people are mechdaish. There is a great deal of discussion about from what parts of torah one can learn halacha from. We presented a responsa from the Nodah Beyehuda Mahadura Tinyana 161 who discusses a tehuvas harashba and a Tosofos Yom Tov brachos perek 5 mishnah 4. The gemara discusses at length if one can or cannot compare cases to a halacha l'moshe misinai.
Halacha 5 - discusses cases where the owner did not cut the harvest himself or if the hearvest was started by himself but finished by...
2023-03-1235 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 22Peah 22 discusses theoretical cases of two types of wheat where you change your mind in the middle of the job.
22b discusses various ways of understanding the pasuk in Hoshea 8:12 where the pasuk references writing down most of the torah.
2023-03-1214 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 21Discussed the relationship of trees to a dividing wall.
Started Halacha dalet - harvesting multiple times and it's impact on Peah
2023-03-0924 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 20Halacha bais and gimel covered tonight. Discussion of what constitutes a break in a field when there is a body of running water.
Reb Yehuda may or may not argue on First Mishnah - see Rambam and Kesef Mishnah with Tosfos Yom Tov on why Rambam paskened like Reb Yehuda.
Halacha gimel discusses orchards that are not impacted by the breaks of the first Mishnah and require a fence of ten tefachim to divide the orchard for Peah purposes. Exceptions are Carob and Olive trees for the reasons we quoted.
2023-03-0821 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 19Connection between Reb Meir of Peah fame to Reb Yehuda of Menachos Omer fame
2023-03-0722 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 18Why did the Mishnah list both small and large size paths as breaks. Difference between a canal and a stream and the machlokes Rav and Rav Yochanan regarding another species.
2023-03-0629 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 16b-17Start of a new Perek discussing what constitutes a break in a field to consider it two fields requiring separate Peot for each field.
This added some input to the discussion regarding the tziruf of people on two sides of a path, can they be mitztareif to a minyan or not. Pri Megadim says of there is a reshus harabim, they cannot and presumably got that from our mishneh. Very technical blatt gemara re are the items in the mishneh halacha lmoshe misinai or is the pasuk an asmachta.
2023-03-0544 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 15-16AWe finished the first perek tonight.
Discussed hefker according to bais shamai, the machlokes Reb Akiva and the Chachamim regarding seeds, the special kenasos for kohanim and leviyim for both maaseros and other matnos kehuna, Can a poor person buy tevel l'terumas oni and keep the maasre ani for himself?
2023-03-0330 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 1414B - new halacha that discusses the methodology of being mafrish Peah after mericha
Miruach implications for variety of halachos
Shiur continues into 15a.
2023-03-0228 min2023-03-0123 min2023-02-2830 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 11Three positions on how to calculate and place the one sixtieth in a field.
Discussion of Rambam Matnas Aniyim 2:12 paskening like Reb Shimon who is dorish taama dikra in specific instances.
2023-02-2732 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 1010a - discusses the specifics of how Hashem tilts the scale.
10b - Halacha 2 - when do we give more than one sixtieth.
2023-02-2630 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 9More about lashon hara, Doaig, the snake, when is machshava considered like maaseh, the weight of certain aveiros in particular in the scale of good and bad deeds.
2023-02-2638 min2023-02-2436 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 7More agadah about kibud av vaim and how it measures up against other mitzvos.
Mentioned the old custom of stopping the davening to resolve disputes.
Finally, a lively discussion about the ability to be kofeh in certain situations of kibud av even though matan sechara kesuva btzida
2023-02-2330 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 6We continue with examples of extreme honor for parents and where sometimes children did not behave properly.
We mention a Taz which explains how the Tur could contradict his father, the Rosh.
2023-02-2223 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 5Continue with derasha of hidur mitzvah, stories of extreme piety in regards to charity and its limitations.
2023-02-2135 minLets Learn The YerushalmiPeah 4We reviewed bottom of 3b to clear up some confusion from yesterday.
We cover some hilchos tzedaka from Rav Chaim's Derech Emunah Matnas Aniyim 7:5.
2023-02-2033 min2023-02-1922 min2023-02-1930 minLets Learn The YerushalmiYerushalmi Peah 1Welcome to the first shiur on Peah.
We left with a question on how exactly these mitzvos differ from all other that can be done repeatedly.
Hashovas Aveidah, for example, can be done afilu meah peamim, yet it is not in the list.
If you have an answer to share , please email me at theyerushalmi@gmail.com.
2023-02-1724 min
Lets Learn The YerushalmiWelcome to the Let's Learn The Yerushalmi Podcast with Shlomo ShulmanHi - this is Shloime Shulman welcoming you to our new Podcast.
This is a kick off page to start our daily Yerushalmi Podcast which will begin Peah this week, Iy"H, Thursday evening at 8:30 PM EST February 16th, 2023.
Please bear with me while I fine tune this effort.
2023-02-1201 min
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