West Deal Torah Center
by Magen David of West Deal Synagogue
Congregation Magen David of West DealSpreading the Torah of our beloved Rabbis through our online Torah Center. Sharing daily classes on Mishna, Gemara, Parasha, Halacha, and more from all corners of our Beit Midrash.Interested in sponsoring one or more classes? Reach out to us at [email protected]. Thank you so much for supporting our Synagogue!
Episodes
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Rabbi Moshe Tobal – Perasha Chayei Sara | Weekly Parasha
Rabbi Moshe Tobal hosts classes daily at 6:30 AM at West Deal Shul. Parashat Chayei Sara holds two negotiations: Avraham securing a burial place for Sarah, and Eliezer seeking Rivka for Yitzchak. Eliezer prays before he acts, while Avraham negotiates first and thanks Hashem afterward - why the...
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Daily Mishna #73: Peah 3:5
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 3:5 moves from physical separations to legal ones. A single-looking field owned by two people counts as two fields, and each owner gives peah separately. Brothers who inherit land…
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 62a, Zaken Ve'Savea | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Pesahim 62a opens with Rav Ashi reframing the entire sugya: the dispute is not about slaughtering the korban Pesach for the uncircumcised, but about shinui baalim, redirecting the sprinkling of the blood from the original owners to...
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Daily Mishna #72: Peah 3:4
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 3:4 continues the laws of onions. First, "mother onions" left in the ground long past ripeness until they produce seed: the Sages obligate peah on them because the onion species is...
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Daily Mishna #71: Peah 3:3
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 3:3 asks whether a crop harvested in two stages counts as one harvest or two. The Mishnah rules that a farmer who plucks the moist onions to sell in the market and keeps the dry…
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Daily Mishna #70: Peah 3:2
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 3:2 considers a field harvested in patches as some stalks ripen before others. Rabbi Akiva requires peah from each harvest, while the Sages view it as one extended harvest and allow...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 61b-62a, Arelim and Shinuy Baalim | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class finishes Rashi's explanation of pigul from the day before: a pigul thought is only fixed once the service is completed at zerika without another invalidating thought. The Gemara then asks whether "vechol arel" means all…
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 61b, Orlah, Tumah and Pigul | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Continuing the dispute over intent for arelim at zerika, the class follows a baraita that compares orlah with tumah and pigul to ask whether partial invalid intent affects the whole Korban Pesach. The words "vechol arel" and "zot"...
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Daily Mishna #69: Peah 3:1
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 3:1 asks whether olive trees divide neighboring squares of grain into separate fields for peah. Bet Shammai requires peah from each square, while Bet Hillel treats the grain as one...
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Daily Mishna #68: Peah 2:8
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:8 reverses the previous Mishnah's case: robbers harvest the first half of a field, and its owner finishes the second half. The owner must leave peah from what he harvested…
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Daily Mishna #67: Peah 2:7
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:7 teaches that the obligation of peah falls only on a harvest the owner cuts by his own will. Expounding "when you cut down the harvest of your land," the Sages derive that if the...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 61a-61b, Machshevet Arelim Bazrika | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class opens with the Mishna's cases: a Korban Pesach slaughtered exclusively for non-eaters or the unregistered is pasul, mixed intent is kasher, and the Gemara derives both rules from one pasuk - "bemichsat tachosu" - whose...
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Daily Mishna #66: Peah 2:6
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:6 grounds the previous Mishnah's hybrid rule in a received tradition. A man from Mitzpa planted two types of wheat and came to Rabban Gamliel to ask how many peah corners he owed;...
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Daily Mishna #65: Peah 2:5
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:5 weighs what makes a field one field for peah: the species or the harvest. One species harvested in two separate shifts still counts as a single field, and one peah covers it all…
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 61a, Shinui Baalim | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class takes up the question of shinuibaalim: a Korban Pesach slaughtered year-round for the wrong owners, and whether that mistake rescues it into a valid shelamim the way shinuikodesh does. Rav Pappa argues the analogy before...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60b-61a, Nisayon Midrash Hiddush | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class opens by completing Friday's discussion of nisayon: the Rambam's three justifications for why Hashem tests the righteous, and a hiddush aligning the Midrash's three meshalim - the flax grower, the potter, and the farmer...
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Daily Mishna #64: Peah 2:4
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:4 gives exceptions where even a fence does not split a field. Carob trees, planted far apart and towering above any fence, count as one field as long as each tree is visible from...
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Daily Mishna #63: Peah 2:3
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. The previous mishnayot listed the features - canals, roads, paths - that split a field into two, each requiring its own peah. Peah 2:3 limits that rule: those separations apply only to...
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Daily Mishna #62: Peah 2:2
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. The previous Mishnah treated any stream or irrigation canal running through a field as an automatic split, requiring peah on each side no matter its size. Peah 2:2 records Rabbi Yehuda's...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Vayera: Opening the Gates of Heaven With Love | Breakfast Class
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Parashat Vayera opens with Avraham sitting at the entrance of his tent, receiving nevuah - and then interrupting his conversation with Hashem to greet three passing travelers. Rashi brings two readings of Avraham's word "Adonai":...
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Daily Mishna #61: Peah 2:1
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. The Torah commands lo techalleh pe'at sadecha - do not finish off the corner of your field when harvesting, but leave peah for the poor. From the word "your field," the sages derive that...
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Rabbi Moshe Tobal – Perasha Vayera | Weekly Parasha
Rabbi Moshe Tobal hosts classes daily at 6:30 AM at West Deal Shul. Parashat Vayera finds Avraham Avinu sick and recovering, yet running to greet three passing travelers and bowing before them - this, Rashi taught us last week, after the nations of the world had gathered and made him king over…
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60b, Akeda proof of nevuah | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Continuing in Pesahim 60b, the class takes up Rava's ruling on a year-round animal slaughtered both for its own sake and for the sake of shelamim: the shelamim intention pulls it out of pesach status and it is kosher. The Gemara...
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Mr. Sammy Saka – Pirke Abot 3:11 “The True Meaning of the Fear of Hashem”
Mr. Sammy Saka hosts classes on Zoom Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30PM. Contact Jacob Betesh to be added to the chat. In Pirke Abot 3:11, Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa - the poor tzadik for whom miracles were done, like the vinegar that burned as Shabbat candle oil - teaches that when a person's fear of…
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Daily Mishna #60: Peah 1:6
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 1:6 addresses the farmer who harvested his entire field and forgot to leave peah. He must still separate one-sixtieth of the cut produce for the poor, and that gift does not count...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60b | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class works through the Gemara's unresolved question on Pesahim 60b: a korban Pesach slaughtered year-round with mixed intent, both lishmo and shelo lishmo. Rav Dimi reports Rabbi Yochanan's answer that mixed kavana never works…
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Vayera: Sedom and the Greatness of Israel | Breakfast Class
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Why was Sedom destroyed so completely - fire and brimstone, a lush region turned barren - when so many wicked nations in history were spared? The Ramban's answer is the greatness of Eretz Yisrael itself: Sedom stood within the...
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Rabbi Moses Hidary – Shaar Habitachon Perek 4 (16) | Mussar
Rabbi Moses Hidary hosts classes every Monday at 8:00 PM at West Deal Shul. The class continues in Chovot HaLevavot, Shaar HaBitachon perek 4 (page 204), asking why the Torah says so little about Olam Haba. Mitzvot alone do not earn the World to Come: a person must also bring others along…
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Daily Mishna #59: Peah 1:5
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Masekhet Peah, perek alef, Mishna heh. Following the five conditions that obligate produce in Peah from the previous Mishna, Rabbi Dana lists the trees that qualify: the sumac and the...
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Daily Mishna #58: Peah 1:4
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 1:4 sets out a rule: a crop is obligated in peah only when it meets five conditions. It must be food, excluding plants grown mainly for dye. It must be owned, since a person cannot...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Vayera: Rambam on Akedah & Nevuah | Breakfast Class
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The climax of Parashat Vayera is Akedat Yitzchak, and the Rambam draws from it a foundational lesson beyond Avraham's devotion: the absolute truth of prophecy. Had Avraham harbored even a doubt about what he heard, he could never...
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Daily Mishna #57: Peah 1:3
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 1:3 defines the beginning and end of a field by where the harvest starts and where it finishes, then records three opinions on where the peah may be left. The Tana Kama allows peah…
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Mr. Sammy Saka – Pirke Abot 3:10 “The Responsibility to Review”
Mr. Sammy Saka hosts classes on Zoom Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30PM. Contact Jacob Betesh to be added to the chat. In Pirke Abot 3:10, Rabbi Dostai bar Yannai teaches in the name of Rabbi Meir that one who forgets anything of his Torah learning is considered as if he bears guilt for his soul -...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60a-60b | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class completes the Gemara's fourth attempt to determine whether the two thoughts of our Mishnah, for its own sake and not for its own sake, occurred during a single service or were spread across two. Working through the case…
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Daily Mishna #56: Peah 1:2
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Mishnah Peah 1:2 sets the rabbis' minimum for peah at one-sixtieth of the crop, even though on a Torah level any amount fulfills the mitzvah. But the Mishnah insists that one-sixtieth is...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60a (continued) | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The shiur picks up at the bottom third of Pesahim 60a with the Gemara's third and fourth attempts to settle whether the Mishnah's mixed-intention cases describe one avodah or two. First the class previews the next Mishnah's...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Vayera: Rambam & Ramban On Nisyonot | Breakfast Class
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. In this breakfast class on Parashat Vayera, Rabbi Ike Hanon explores why Hashem tests people, through the Rambam and the Ramban on the Akeidah. The Rambam rejects the idea that tests exist to make us suffer for extra reward: a...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60a | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The shiur continues Pesahim 60a, where the Gemara tries to pin down whether the Mishnah's cases of a korban Pesach offered with mixed intentions describe a breakdown within a single avodah or across two avodot, and whether the...
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Daily Mishna #55: Peah 1:1
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Mishnah Peah 1:1 opens the new masekhet with the mitzvot that have no fixed measure: peah, the corner of the field left for the poor, where even one stalk fulfills the Torah obligation;...
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Daily Mishna #54: Berachot 9:5
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Mishnah Berachot 9:5 teaches that just as a person blesses Hashem for good news, he must bless Him for the bad, with the same wholehearted recognition that God runs the world - "with all...
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Daily Mishna #53: Berachot 9:4
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Mishnah Berachot 9:4 teaches that entering a city calls for prayer: one tefillah on the way in and one on the way out, asking Hashem for safe passage through an unfamiliar and sometimes...
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Daily Mishna #52: Berachot 9:3
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Rabbi Dana learns Berachot 9:3. A person who buys a new home or new clothes says shehecheyanu, thanking Hashem for keeping him alive and bringing him to this moment. The Mishnah then...
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Daily Mishna #51: Berachot 9:2
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Rabbi Dana learns Berachot 9:2, the Mishnah of berachot said over the forces of nature. On seeing shooting stars, comets, earthquakes, lightning, thunder, or hurricane winds one says...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 59b-60a | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class begins the new Mishnah at the bottom of Pesahim 59b: a Korban Pesach slaughtered shelo lishmah - without the proper intention - is invalid, whether the wrong intention ran through the whole service or only part of it.…
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Daily Mishna #50: Berachot 9:1
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Rabbi Dana opens Perek 9, the chapter of berachot said over the good we encounter. On seeing a place where miracles were done for the Jewish people - like the splitting of the sea or the...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Lech Lecha: The Future Over the Past | Breakfast Class
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. In this breakfast class on Parashat Lech Lecha, Rabbi Ike Hanon asks why the Torah introduces Noah with his full resume - "ish tzaddik tamim," who walked with God - while Avraham is chosen with no word of what he did to deserve it....
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 59b - Noah | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Rabbi Hanon continues Pesahim 59b with the challenge to Rav Pappa's overnight solution: the kohanim may not eat until the fats are burned, and the owner has no kapara until the kohanim eat - so what good is an animal left on the...
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Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 59a-59b | Weekday Gemara
Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Rabbi Hanon continues Pesahim 59a-59b with the defense of Ravina's answer: the late korban was a bird chatat, whose blood alone touches the mizbeach. The Gemara presses from every side - the metzora also owes an asham and an olah,...
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Daily Mishna #49: Berachot 8:8
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Rabbi Dana learns Berachot 8:8: when wine is brought after the meal but before Birkat HaMazon and only one cup is available, Bet Shammai lets a person bless and drink it right away while...
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Daily Mishna #48: Berachot 8:7
Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Mishnah 8:7 teaches that Birkat HaMazon must be said in the place where one ate. If a person forgot and already left, Bet Shammai says he must return to his original spot, while Bet…
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Congregation Magen David of West DealSpreading the Torah of our beloved Rabbis through our online Torah Center. Sharing daily classes on Mishna, Gemara, Parasha, Halacha, and more from all corners of our Beit Midrash.Interested in sponsoring one or more classes? Reach out to us at [email protected]. Thank you so much for supporting our Synagogue!
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