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Gemara is FUN! DYK Torah Journal is your window to the most intriguing and fascinating topics covered in Talmud Bavli and its classic commentators. An occasional rant about how Judaism is being corrupted by Torah outsiders...
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A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (opens the original)
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I was going to save this one for last, but since the chag is winding down and this a very practical topic, I’m skipping to get to it now.A Spaced-out Mind Is a Dangerous ThingThere is a very controversial Biur Halacha in Siman 60 which says there is a huge problem with wearing a tallis or eating in a sukka without any kavana to fulfil the mitzvah. He bases his opinion on a famous shitta of the Bach which says certain m
Sukkos is here, and it’s time to get ontological! (opens the original)
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Reb Chaim’s classic distinction between creating a רשות היחיד of Shabbos and דפנות of SukkaWe’ll start with Rav Chaim Soloveitchik’s well-known chiddush that to make a reshus hayochid, the mechitzah only needs to delineate an area as being separate from its’ larger surrounding area. It doesn’t need to be physically enclosed by a barrier. This is an intuitive distinction because the proper translation of “reshus” is “domain”. And a domain doesn’t have to be physically enclosed in order to m
Kill Her! Now!! (opens the original)
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We will now continue (finally!) with comparing and contrasting the sugya in Sanhedrin with the sugya in Arachin.To review: The sugya in Sanhedrin gamed out three scenarios:The fetus was present in the mother at the time of the mother’s crime. The fetus shares the fate of the mother because it participated in the crime jointly with its mother. Many Rishonim assert this is true whether we are holding עובר ירך אמו and even עובר לאו ירך אמו. The problems
The Torah Teaches Us History! I Repeat, The Torah Teaches Us... (opens the original)
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More Mabul-myth bustingEach one of these quotations—from the pesukim of the Torah, to Chazal, to Rishonim, all scream out to us to learn lessons from the actual events in the Chumash that transpired.It should go without saying that you don’t learn about G-d’s strict justice and His real capacity to destroy entire civilizations from mythical stories about fake civilizations being destroyed in an allegorical way. Subscribe nowBelow is from Parshas Ha’azinu and it clearl
The Real NPC’s, Mabul-Myth-busting, and other pre-and post-Rosh Hashana thoughts (opens the original)
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