The Daily Mishnah with Benedict: Recent Episodes
Benedict Roth
Ten minutes of daily Mishnah in clear, simple English, focussing on the content and the structure of the text.
We are following the global cycle with the aim of finishing the entire Mishnah in January 2028. Running five days/week, the series covers between two and four Mishnayot on every episode. For source sheets and materials, go to www.thedailymishnah.com.
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Public water running through a private domain. Can we drink?
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What is it that makes you a partner?
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Partnership and agency in setting up different kinds of eruv.
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Why do we need the eruv? So that the children will learn!
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What do we need to do to create a partnership?
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Joining or separating courtyards? Bridges or bales of hay?
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Joining or separating courtyards?
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Partners and geographies. Courtyards within courtyards.
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What is it that makes a partnership and do partners need to make an eruv?
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How 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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Measuring the shabbat limit - with a wrinkle in halakhic space-time.
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How do we measure the 2,000-cubit limit around the town?
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Measuring around the town!
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More games with space, boundaries and intentions!
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More games with space and intention! 4,000 amot round or square?
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Playing games with intention and situation and knowledge.
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Leaving the shabbat boundary, involuntarily? By ship or kidnapping or mental breakdown?
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Two days or one? The Mishnah shifts from Eruvin into Rosh HaShanah!
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Playing in time and space - letting us go further on Shabbat.
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Finally, 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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Wells and roads and area calculations, with more on creating private spaces.
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Bulls and cows and wells. Watering animals and creating private spaces.
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Camping in the desert and games with geometry.
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Poles, 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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Poles, beams and bricks. Psychological boundaries between the public and the private.
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The 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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The 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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Taking care of our animals on shabbat!
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As 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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Business on shabbat? Check out activities which are close to the edge.
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Water, water! More questions on the use of water on Shabbat, for cooling, heating or bathing.
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Liquids! Squeezing fruit, letting it ooze, breaking a jug to get out the contents, using hot water to heat up food.
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Moving 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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Moving stuff around on Shabbat. Feeding animals. Pressing clothes.
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Making food on Shabbat. Filtering. Setting up gear. Sorting. Feeding animals.
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Circumcision on shabbat? What if we get the day wrong or circumcise the wrong baby?
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Circumcision on shabbat? What if we need to bathe the baby? Or make a fire to forge the knife?
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Clearing out space that we need on Shabbat - for guests or for Torah study equally. Giving birth. Circumcision.
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More about moving and using stuff on Shabbat! Broken things, things that aren't even a thing. What can we do?
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Moving and using stuff on Shabbat! What can we do?
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Fire on shabbat! Scorpions! Assistance from Gentiles! And some stuff that you would or wouldn't touch.
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Your 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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Your house is burning down on Shabbat! What do you save first?
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Tying knots on shabbat? Preparing for shabbat on Yom Kippur?
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Taking medicine on shabbat? Is curing hide like grinding a drug?
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Trapping 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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Combing 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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Making clothes on shabbat? Or tearing clothes? Is psychological healing a act of creation?
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The 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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Building, ploughing, weeding, gathering, writing. Which one do you think will interest the rabbis most?
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What if we throw something in the sea? From a boat? Without remembering that it was shabbat?
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What 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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Someone 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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Boundary 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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Today'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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How 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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How 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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Thinking 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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Thinking of carrying pea-stalks on shabbat? Or eye-wash or ears of wheat?
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What are the 39 core activities that we refrain from carrying out on Shabbat?
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Comfort objects? Bells? Foxes' teeth? What other kinds of things can be carried on Shabbat?
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Girls with pierced ears, women with cloaks and men with prosthetics. What do they do on shabbat?
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What kind of things can we go out with on Shabbat? Spice-jars? Weapons? Garters? Find out more!
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The 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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Animals 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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Today'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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Taking food and drink away from a stove or a heater on shabbat.
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Lighting the light, and putting food on a burning stove before shabbat.
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Fuelling the light, and questions of life and death.
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How do we light on shabbat and why are some wicks or some fuels forbidden?
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Roasting 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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After 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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Swords and spears in the beyt midrash? Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel come to blows. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Shammai.
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The 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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Find out about gender-fluidity, human rights and gender-inderminacy in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
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Find out about gender-fluidity in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
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How are bikkurim like a sefer torah? How important is the Land of Israel?
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Questions 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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Even King Agrippas walks with his own first-fruits on his shoulder. Find out about how the ceremony works!
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Find out about how we brought first-fruits into the temple: the procession, the flutes, the reception in Jerusalem.
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More 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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Moving 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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More 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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Time-out for analysis: the Mishnah reminds itself of the similarities and differences between first-fruits, tithes, and terumah.
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Can you bring bikkurim twice? Can you bring bikkurim from across the Jordan?
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What 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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Does a convert bring first-fruits? Is a convert connected to the Land? What about a woman or a hermaphrodite?
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Who 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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How do we deal with the first-fruits? Tune in here for an introduction to the tractate of Bikkurim
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Summary of Chapter 3 of Hallah - taste, timing, life and death.
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Summary of Chapter 2 - where does Hallah apply and what are the important quantities?
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What about dog-food? Do we need to take hallah from it? And how is hallah similar to teruma?
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How do mixtures of ownership or mixtures of oil and flour and water affect the mitzvah of hallah?
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Today'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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The 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.
Turning 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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Can 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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How does the "removal" of tithes in the fourth and seventh years of the cycle work?
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What are the differences between fourth-year trees' fruit and maaser sheni?
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In 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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What 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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How important is it to name an action? Designating your tithes, divorcing your wife, marrying your girl-friend. As usual, the sages disagree.
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If you redeem maaser sheni - second tithe - that you own then you need to pay a 25% charge. If you redeem someone else's, there is no charge. What kind of behaviours could this feature of the regulations create?
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If the second tithe, the maaser sheni, cannot be transported to Jerusalem to be eaten then it can be exchanged for money.
Pilgrims would then go to Jerusalem and spend the money there. What kind of issues does this raise?
Find out in the fourth chapter of the tractate, starting here. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MaaserSheni
For a set of slides which summarises the principles of tithes, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/MaaserSheniSlides, scrolling to the end.
What about the jars in which Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe, has been stored? Do they become Maa'ser Sheni? Find out here!
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What if Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe, becomes unclean? What can we do with it? Find out here!
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Can we bring Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe, in and out of Jerusalem? Find out here!
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Can we barter with Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe? Find out here!
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More money-changing transactions with Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe! Find out how they work!
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Money transactions with Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe! Find out how they work in only ten minutes!
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What can you do with Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe? Find out in only ten minutes!
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What are the key principles of the tractate of Ma'aser Sheni, the second tithe? Find out in only ten minutes!
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Learn the key principles of the tractate of Maasrot, distilled into three mishnayot and ten minutes!
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A key principle of taking maaser, or tithes, is that the produce needs to be ready for market, or 'on the threshing floor', in the words of the Mishnah. For grain this is obvious because it passes through the threshing floor on its way to market. But what about vegetables and fruit?
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What are the basic principles of taking maaser, or tithes?
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Can we destroy terumah? And for what purposes? The tractate closes with a return from the world of the temple to the world of the synagogue, the hospital, the street and the study hall. It turns out that terumah can be burnt for the public good, as it can in a house or mourning or a house of celebration.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a set of slides which summarises the Mishnah, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot, scrolling to the end.
The tractate of Terumot closes off with more closing-off and boundary issues: what to do with leftovers, how to clean up liquid in barrel, how to deal with food which is neither human nor animal when feeding a cow which does not exactly belong to a Cohen but is not quite Yisrael either.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
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The tractate of Terumot closes off with closing-off issues: what to do with leftovers, how to clean up grain in a silo.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a set of slides which summarises the Mishnah, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot, scrolling to the end.
Moving seamlessly from pressed figs in fish to boiling wine, the Mishnah closes with an enumeration of the special qualities of the grape and the olive.
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Cooking and pickling are the same actions! And the Mishnah is still interested in what the result tastes like - taste is everything - and which kinds of food have enough taste or enough moisture to transmit their essence to other foods or to absorb from them.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a set of slides which summarises the Mishnah, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot, scrolling to the end.
What about pickling different kinds of food together? The Mishnah is still interested in what the result tastes like - taste is everything - and in which kinds of food have enough taste or enough moisture to transmit their essence to the other pickles in the bucket.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a set of slides which summarises the Mishnah, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot, scrolling to the end.
What if we pickle terumah with ordinary food or drop terumah flavouring into wine? The Mishnah is mainly interested in what the result tastes like - taste is everything.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a set of slides which summarises the Mishnah, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot, scrolling to the end.
What if we cook terumah with ordinary food? It turns out that the rabbis, like some aesthetes today, are mainly interested in what the result tastes like.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a set of slides which summarises the Mishnah, go to the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot, scrolling to the end.
Not all plants are alike and planting out terumah is not always a problem. Chapter 9 closes by identifying which plants have which consequences.
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What happens if we plant out terumah? Are the resulting crops terumah too? And what if the harvest is planted out in turn? Does the cycle ever stop?
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When confronted with two less-than-ideal choices, in a life-changing situation, what should we do? Chapter 8 of Terumot suddenly shifts focus from uncertainty about the status of a cask of wine to uncertainty about an attack by Gentile marauders.
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The eighth chapter of Terumot flip-flops between existential uncertainty and questions of life and death. When confronted with two less-than-ideal choices, what do we do?
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What if our terumah has been sipped by a snake? The eighth chapter of Terumot closes with questions of life and death and gives us, along the way, a fascinating insight into Mishnaic medicine and zoology.
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Today's Daily Mishnah opens the eighth chapter of Terumot with more questions of existential uncertainty: what if the cohen is not a cohen, or a slave is no longer a slave?
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Today's Daily Mishnah closes the seventh chapter of Terumot with questions of existential uncertainty: if we have two piles of food, one of terumah and one of ordinary food, and we can't remember which is which, what do we do if there an accident?
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Today's Daily Mishnah opens the seventh chapter of Terumot with a mirror image of the first three mishnayot of Chapter 6. But, whereas Chapter 6 dealt with eating terumah by accident, Chapter 7 will look at eating it on purpose.
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Today's Daily Mishnah continues the sixth chapter of Terumot with accidents and more: what happens if we eat terumah by mistake or steal it or both?
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Today's Daily Mishnah opens the sixth chapter of Terumot with more accidents: what happens if we eat terumah by mistake?
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Today's Daily Mishnah provides more brain-teasers on mixtures and quantities but closes out Chapter 5 of Terumot on the question of intent - noting that what we intend to do is just as important, in the eyes of the halachah, as what we actually achieve. In fact, our knowledge and intention are crucial to the tractate of Terumot as a whole and the question of intent appears repeatedly.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
For a slide which summarises the Mishnah, go to the end of the presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/SlidesTerumot.
Today's Daily Mishnah continues with a set of brain-teasers on mixtures and quantities - when terumah falls into ordinary food, what do we do?
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
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Today's Daily Mishnah opens the fifth chapter of Terumot and focuses on mixtures - when terumah falls into ordinary food, what do we do?
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Today's Daily Mishnah closes the fourth chapter of Terumot and builds on what we've learned about numbers and mixtures - when can terumah fall into ordinary food without tainting it and giving all of it the status of terumah? As ever, opinions differ.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Today's Daily Mishnah builds on what we've learned about numbers and moves into mixtures - how much terumah can fall into ordinary food without giving all the food the status of terumah? As ever, opinions differ.
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Today's Daily Mishnah continues to focus on numbers and looks at the question of how much terumah one is allowed to give - what is the maximum? As usual, there are conflicting views.
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Today's Daily Mishnah begins Chapter 4 of Terumot and begins to look at numbers: how much teruma do we need to take what happens if we take it in stages? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Today's Daily Mishnah continues to focus on the power of intention and speech in designating teruma and looks at the question of whether you need to be Jewish to give teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Today's Daily Mishnah deals with the power of intention and speech in designating teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Today's Daily Mishnah deals with mistakes with teruma, mixtures, partners/agents, and boundary cases. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Finishing the second chapter in the tractate of Terumot and extending the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma to issues of species and quality. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Starting the second chapter in the tractate of Terumot and extending the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma to pure and impure. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Finishing the first chapter in the tractate of Terumot and the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Who can give teruma? Someone with obligation, capacity and knowledge. From what sources? Must be like-for-like - olives for olives rather than for oil, grapes for grapes rather than for wine.
Introduction to the Mishnah of Terumot - it is not possible to give tithes to the priests without knowledge and intent, and so those who lack agency and capacity are invalid.
We close out the tractate of the Seventh Year with a discussion about what is just and what is right. For the sources, check out the source-sheet here and go to the end: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/404495?lang=bi
The prozbul, which permitted lending across the sabbatical year, was one of the most important halachic innovations of the early rabbis. In this episode, find out how it really works. All the sources mentioned can be found at the end of the sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/404495?lang=bi
The tenth chapter in the tractate of the seventh year introduces a radical idea: the release of debts, as well as exploring the tension between kindness to poor in removing their debt burden and kindness to the poor in ensuring that lenders were incentivised to continue to lend through the seventh year so that sources of financing did not dry up.
For the sources, scroll down to the 10th chapter at the bottom of the source-sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/404495?lang=bi
This episode closes out the 9th chapter of the tractate of the 7th year and the idea, running through this chapter, that we must remove any produce that we have stored from our houses into the field if it's no longer freely-available in the fields and orchards. The Mishnah will associate this idea with halla, tzedaka, and more.
For the sources, scroll down to the 9th chapter in the source-sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/404495?lang=bi
If food is growing in the fields in the seventh year, we can take it into our houses and keep it. But as soon as freely-growing food in the fields runs out, we can no longer keep it in our houses - food left in the house must be taken back into the fields and put out for anyone else who might like to come and take it.
This Law of Removal occupies most of the 9th chapter of Shevi'it, the tractate of the 7th year, and today's episode examines the exact dates when removal is required.
Geography is everything! What types of 7th year produce you can trade and with whom, and when the Law of Removal takes effect, depends on local geography.
Today's Daily Mishnah maintains its focus on permitted and forbidden uses for 7th year produce and brings an extreme view (that is rejected) about 'burning the bones' of someone who crosses the line.
How do we treat seventh year produce and what do we do if we get it wrong? Turns out, we can eat our way out of the problem. Source sheet on Sefaria is here - scroll to the end.
Trading and bartering in 7th year produce - what can we do with the proceeds? For the source sheet, click here and scroll to the end.