The Daily Mishnah with Benedict

Introduction to forbidden and permitted marriages, and to the tractate! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatYevamot For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Because we trust the common people, we purify the Temple vessels on the first available day after the festival. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

We trust the common people on matters of purity and impurity, even for the Temple vessels! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Hierarchies of holiness? What about hierarchies of people? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Hierarchies of purity and care? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Separatist views on the date of Shavuot? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Are there issues which we are really forbidden to discuss? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Are parts of the Torah really like "mountains hanging on a hair"? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Can you buy your festival offerings from funds already dedicated to the temple? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Who is obliged to go up to Jerusalem and how much do they need to bring? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatHagigah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

The 15th of Av and Yom Kippur represent antidotes, cures, for the historic mistakes or disasters that we commemorate when we fast on the 9th of Av and the 17th of Tammuz! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What happened on the 9th of Av and the 17th of Tammuz? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Public Torah reading leads to communal wood cutting! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What if the drought breaks and it starts raining and before the fast has ended? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Does prayer work? Two fierce critiques of the theology of the first part of the tractate, one in the Mishnah and one in the Gemara. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What if war comes? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

If rain doesn't fall in our town but it does fall elsewhere, who is responsible? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Price inflation in the time of the Mishnah! Will the rabbis support or oppose it? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

What about people who should not fast, or times when no-one should? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What was the order of the prayers during a drought, on fast days? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

They put ashes on the Ark and the heads of the leaders of the people! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

If mid-November comes and there is no rain, the court decrees three fasts on the community! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Introduction to Fasts - what is the purpose of the process? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatTaanit For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

May we read and translate the whole of the Torah and Tanakh? Let the rabbis decide! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How do we deal with heretics in synagogue? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

There is something universal about Torah reading which sets it aside from all other mitzvot! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Why do we need 10 for a holy act? And why does the Mishnah gravitate so often from reading the Megillah to Torah reading? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Quick diary of annual Torah reading portions? But they're not always like today's! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

"We raise up, we don't level down". If we sell a synagogue then we need to build something better in its place. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Do men and women have equal obligations to read the Megillah? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Can we read the Megillah in English? Can we read it backwards? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Looking back past Jerusalem to Shiloh, from Shushan. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can a Torah scroll really be written in any language? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Who are the ten idlers? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Why, in a tractate focussed on the diaspora, does the Mishnah mention Joshua bin Nun? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMegillah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Closing out the tractate of Moed Katan with the hope that tears of sorrow will will be wiped away. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How are the laws of mourning for a deceased relative connected to those of the intermediate days of festivals? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you wash your clothes or write a contract on the intermediate days of the festival? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you buy a house or shave on the intermediate days of the festival? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you extract olive oil or bottle your wine on the intermediate days of the festival? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Can you re-marry your divorced wife during the middle days of a festival? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you catch a mole during the middle days of a festival? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

What is the difference between the middle days of a festival and the outer days? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatMoedKatan For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Final thoughts on carrying and preparing food, as we close the Mishnah of the Egg. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Differences between Shabbat and Yom Tov? And similarities! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Making fire on the festival? It's a new creation! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

From hollowing out a building to hollowing out a lamp! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

The Mishnah slips from measuring wine to carrying it, then carrying wood, and then chopping wood. It's a chain! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Want to measure stuff out on the festival? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

First-born ox fallen into a pit on the festival? What happens next? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBeytzah For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com