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Hullin 41: Shechitah on a Ship
Hullin 40: Not in the Name of the Mountain, the River, the Sea!
Hullin 39: Pigul, Divorce, Slaves, and Their Parallels to Shechitah
Hullin 38: When an Animal Wiggles Its Ears
Hullin 37: At Death's Door (before Shechitah)
Hullin 36: What Resh Lakish Knew
Hullin 35: Susceptibility to Impurity
Hullin 34: How Impure Is Your Meat?
Hullin 33: Impure Hands, More and Less
Hullin 32: Invalid Shechitah
Hullin 31: The Question of Intent - Again
Hullin 30: The Many Paths to Shechitah
Hullin 29: The Impact of the Collective on 50/50
Hullin 28: Making the Best of an Imprecise Mechanism
Hullin 27: Ritual Slaughtering
Hullin 26: Servitude, Seduction, Refusal, Halitzah, and Havdalah
Hullin 25: Snippets of Caveats
Hullin 24: Staying Youthful by Standing on One Foot
Hullin 23: In Between
Hullin 22: Doves and Young Pigeons
Hullin 21: Imparting Impurity from the Death Throes
Hullin 20: The Mitzvah of Melikah
Hullin 19: When the Animal's Life Departs
Hullin 18: Serration, Cartilage, and the Stringencies of Babylonia
Hullin 17: Knives Out
Hullin 16: Machine Shechitah
Hullin 15: Shechting and Cooking on Shabbat: A Decree against Temptation
Hullin 14: What Is the Purpose of Animals?
Hullin 13: What Isn't a Good Shechitah
Hullin 12: Can You Trust the Shochet?
Hullin 11: Majority Rules
Hullin 10: The Possibly Non-Kosher Shechitah of 13 Animals
Hullin 9: Presumptions, Prohibitions, and Danger
Hullin 8: Kosher Shechitah
Hullin 7: A Righteous Donkey (and Animals of the Righteous)
Hullin 6: Who Is an Ignoramus? One Who Does Not Know Much
Hullin 5: God Is Looking Out for You (Or: Elijah and the Ravens)
Hullin 4: Can We Trust Jezebel's Kashrut?
Hullin 3: Kosher Slaughter - What's Ideal? What Works Anyway?
Hullin 2: Everyone Can Shecht, Except for Those Who Should Not
Menahot 110: Is Torah Study More Valuable Than Temple Sacrifice?
Menahot 109: The Temple of Onias
Menahot 108: Keeping Track of What You've Vowed to Sacrifice
Menahot 107: The 6 Horns for Collecting Donations
Menahot 106: More Covering of Forgotten Vows
Menahot 105: To Cover All Your Bases
Menahot 104: Wine and Oil, Redux
Menahot 103: Casual Speech, Casual Measures (Not Recommended)
Menahot 102: Consecration, Impurity, and Unfulfilled Vows
Menahot 101: Redeeming the Impure and the Pure
Menahot 100: The Impact of Shabbat on the Breads
Menahot 99: On Honoring Torah and the Influence of the Sages' Own Experiences
Menahot 98: When King Solomon Furnished the Temple
Menahot 97: What's a Cubit? An Imprecise Mishnah
Menahot 96: All the Technical Details You Ever Wanted about the Shewbread
Menahot 95: The Traveling Shewbread
Menahot 94: Fresh Bread Baking
Menahot 93: The Metaphysical Side of Sacrifices
Menahot 92: The Atonement of the Laying of Hands
Menahot 91: Specifying the Korban Olah (Burnt-Offering)
Menahot 90: More on the Holy Measuring Cups
Menahot 89: On Lighting the Menorah and Libations
Menahot 88: Measuring Oil
Menahot 87: Sourcing Wine
Menahot 86: EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
Menahot 85: An Olive Travelogue (Beginning with Tekoa)
Menahot 84: The First Fruits of the 7 Species
Menahot 83: The Timing of the Pesach Offering
Menahot 82: Sacrifice Expenses
Menahot 81: In Exchange
Menahot 80: 40 Loaves and Replacement Sacrifices
Menahot 79: Thanksgiving Disqualifications
Menahot 78: The Inexperienced Kohen
Menahot 77: Bakery Conversions
Menahot 76: Refining the Flour - Again and Again and Again
Menahot 75: Oil, Folding, Breaking: Terms of the Various Grain-Offerings
Menahot 74: The Sinner's Grain-Offering
Menahot 73: Idolators' Temple Offerings (Yes, Really)
Menahot 72: Overriding Shabbat
Menahot 71: Reaping What You Sow
Menahot 70: The 5 Grains of Chametz and Matzah
Menahot 69: Elephants, Wolves, and the Things They Swallow Whole
Menahot 68: More Omer and the Decrees of R. Yohanan ben Zakkai
Menahot 67: When the Answer Came to Rava in a Dream
Menahot 66: The Omer in the Temple and Now
Menahot 65: How a Boethusian Heretic Counts the Omer
Menahot 64: The Land of Israel Shuddered in Dismay
Menahot 63: Pots and Pans
Menahot 62: Hashem Is Here, Hashem Is There
Menahot 61: The Wave
Menahot 60: Bringing the Grain-Offering Near and/or Waving It
Menahot 59: Oil, Frankincense, and More Grain-Offerings
Menahot 58: Honey on the Altar (and Muzzling)
Menahot 57: Chametz (Leaven) on the Altar
Menahot 56: Upon the Head of the Goat
Menahot 55: The Grain-Offering Cookbook
Menahot 54: A Fistful of Dough
Menahot 53: Menahot Are Matzah (with 2 exceptions)
Menahot 52: Measuring Flour and Frankincense
Menahot 51: How Good Was the Griddle-Cake?
Menahot 50: The Kohen's Grain-offering: Minhat Havitin
Menahot 49: Managing Sacrificial Shortfalls
Menahot 48: The Parallel of the Voluntary Peace-offering
Menahot 47: Shavuot Offerings: Consecration and Intent
Menahot 46: The Loaves and Lambs of Shavuot
Menahot 45: Explaining Ezekiel
Menahot 44: The Prostitute, the Sage, and His Tzitzit
Menahot 43: Should Women Be Wearing Tzitzit After All?
Menahot 42: Strings Hang Down
Menahot 41: An Angel's Halakhic Reproof
Menahot 40: Fraudulent Blue
Menahot 39: Strings and Knots in Blue and White
Menahot 38: Tekhelet: The Blue String among White Strings
Menahot 37: The Impossible Two-Headed Tefillin-Wearer
Menahot 36: I Wear My Tefillin at Night
Menahot 35: What If Tefillin Were Blue?
Menahot 34: Moving on to Tefillin...
Menahot 33: Mezuzah Placement
Menahot 32: Elijah the Prophet and the Halitzah Shoe
Menahot 31: Torn Torah Scrolls and Poetic Mezuzahs
Menahot 30: Mourning Moshe
Menahot 29: The Crowns on the Torah's Letters
Menahot 28: The Menorah
Menahot 27: The Sum of the Parts
Menahot 26: The Fistful of Grain
Menahot 25: The Tzitz: The Garment That Handles Impurity in the Grain
Menahot 24: The Value of a Teiku Conclusion
Menahot 23: When Are Grain-offerings Not Like Animal Sacrifices?
Menahot 22: They Go Together Like... Things That Go Together
Menahot 21: Salt from Sodom and Temple Salt
Menahot 20: The Essential Salt
Menahot 19: Laws, Statutes, and Biblical Repetition
Menahot 18: Tannaitic Drama and 15 Tasks of the Menahot
Menahot 17: Consumption - Eating and Burning
Menahot 16: Permitting Factors Mitigating against Pigul
Menahot 15: Thanksgiving and Shavuot
Menahot 14: Partial Pigul
Menahot 13: When Grain Is Like Blood
Menahot 12: The Toll of an Olive's Measure
Menahot 11: A Fistful of Grain, with Frankincense on the Side
Menahot 10: Right- and Left-handed Kohanim
Menahot 9: Explicitly Left-handed
Menahot 8: The Kohen Gadol's Bag-Lunch
Menahot 7: The Shewbread
Menahot 6: Mishnah vs. Amora
Menahot 5: Gemara Mechanics - Comparative Cases
Menahot 4: Grain-Offerings That Pave the Way for Other Things
Menahot 3: Torat Ha-Minhah, the Law of the Grain-Offering
Menahot 2: Switching to Grain
Zevahim 120: The Grand Finale (wait, no it's not)
Zevahim 119: The Inheritance of Shilo and Jerusalem
Zevahim 118: The Growth of Worship as a Nation
Zevahim 117: How Sacrifices Worked from the Beginning of Time
Zevahim 116: To Keep the Seed Alive
Zevahim 115: Before the Kohanim... There Were the First-Borns
Zevahim 114: Premature Offerings
Zevahim 113: How Did the Huge Animals Manage Noah's Ark?
Zevahim 112: Some Offerings Belong Outside the Temple Courtyard
Zevahim 111: Birds and the One-Cup, Two-Cup Blood Scenarios
Zevahim 110: More Offerings Outside
Zevahim 109: Pesky Pigul Thoughts
Zevahim 108: Some Ways an Offering Can Go Wrong
Zevahim 107: How Holy Is the Holy City (without a Temple)?
Zevahim 106: Outside of the Temple
Zevahim 105: A New Kind of Impurity
Zevahim 104: Disqualifications and the Ash Heap
Zevahim 103: Sacrificial Hides
Zevahim 102: Was Moses King?
Zevahim 101: Moshe, Aharon, and Inaugurating the Mishkan
Zevahim 100: When a Kohen Mourns
Zevahim 99: Kohanim Are People Too
Zevahim 98: Ending on a "Teku"
Zevhaim 97: Is a Mishnah Missing Words?
Zevahim 96: Garments and Vessels
Zevahim 95: The Art of Kashrut: Just One Oven
Zevahim 94: Impurity, Water, and Leather
Zevahim 93: Not Enough Blood to Require Laundering?
Zevahim 92: Laundry Time
Zevahim 91: Wine on the Fire
Zevahim 90: It's for the Birds
Zevahim 89: Halakhic Conflicts -- and Fun Gemara Games
Zevahim 88: New Clothes, Blood, and No Dry Cleaning
Zevahim 87: Sanctified Air Space
Zevahim 86: Before Midnight, Before Sunrise
Zevahim 85: Yes, the Gemara Considers Any and Every Case
Zevahim 84: The Ups and Downs (But Mainly Ups) of the Altar
Zevahim 83: The Altar Itself Sanctifies
Zevahim 82: Metaphysics in the Sacrifices
Zevahim 81: Like the Sin-Offering, So Too the Guilt-Offering
Zevahim 80: Neither Add Nor Subtract from the Mitzvah
Zevahim 79: Two Liquids and Impurity
Zevahim 78: Mixed Blood
Zevahim 77: Mixed-up Limbs
Zevahim 76: Allowing Terumah - Maybe
Zevahim 75: Any Offering Can Be Confused with Another
Zevahim 74: Mediterranean and Dead Seas: How to Lose a Minority Item
Zevahim 73: The Case of the Dried Figs
Zevahim 72: Counting One by One
Zevahim 71: Destroying the Many because of the Few
Zevahim 70: Geese, Chickens, and the Broken Neck of a Goat
Zevahim 69: When "Dead" Doesn't Mean Impure
Zevahim 68: The Red Heifer and the Birds
Zevahim 67: Mixed-up Post-Childbirth Bird Offerings
Zevahim 66: Procedure, Intent, and Consecration - for Bird Offerings
Zevahim 65: Invalid Bird Offerings
Zevahim 64: Bird Offerings - Not for the Faint of Heart
Zevahim 63: A Fistful of Flour
Zevahim 62: The Ashes of Isaac, or Where to Build the Second Temple's Altar
Zevahim 61: The Fire Never Left the Altar - Unless It Did?
Zevahim 60: The Bloody Courtyard
Zevahim 59: Damage, Rejection, and Saving Face in the Temple Courtyard
Zevahim 58: Go North!
Zevahim 57: Who Eats What and When?
Zevahim 56: Sunset Comes Too Soon for an Offering
Zevahim 55: All Sacrifices Are Holy, But Not to the Same Degree
Zevahim 54: The Place for the Beit HaMikdash
Zevahim 53: The Temple's Tribal Lands
Zevahim 52: Blood on the Base of the Altar
Zevahim 51: Binyan Av
Zevahim 50: Analogies, Comparisons, and Inferences
Zevahim 49: Exegetical Teachings
Zevahim 48: Offerings in the Northern Courtyard
Zevahim 47: Holy Intentions
Zevahim 46: Excluding Blood and Being Cut Off - 3 Lessons and 3 Verses
Zevahim 45: An Idolator's Offerings
Zevahim 44: Pigul, Clarified
Zevahim 43: Flour and Frankinscense
Zevahim 42: Again, Bloodwork
Zevahim 41: God Loves the Jewish People
Zevahim 40: The Curtains and the Incense
Zevahim 39: Blood on the Inner Altar
Zevahim 38: When Beit Hillel Turns Stringent and Beit Shammai Lenient
Zevahim 37: Different Interpretations: Meaning and Reading
Zevahim 36: Invalid Offerings
Zevahim 35: A Fetus, Eggs, and the Separation of Animals
Zevahim 34: Pouring and Disposing of the Dregs
Zevahim 33: The Heavy Laying on of Hands
Zevahim 32: The Surprising Leniencies and Leeway of Sacrifices
Zevahim 31: It's a Measure of Time: Half a Loaf of Bread
Zevahim 30: An Olive's Measure of Intent
Zevahim 29: More Ways to Offer Offerings Right
Zevahim 28: Beyond Place, Beyond Time
Zevahim 27: Hindrances to Atonement
Zevahim 26: When a Father Corrects His Rabbi-Son
Zevahim 25: Knife Technique and Troubleshooting
Zevahim 24: Between the Floor and the Foot
Zevahim 23: The Kohen's Frontpiece (Tzitz)
Zevahim 22: Talmudic Science (again); Also, the Elders of the South
Zevahim 21: The Basin
Zevahim 20: Sanctifying the Kohen's Hands and Feet
Zevahim 19: Yom Kippur Purifications
Zevahim 18: Holy Garments
Zevahim 17: Levels of Impurity
Zevahim 16: The People Who Invalidate Offerings
Zevahim 15: When Is Conveying Not Walking?
Zevahim 14: Location, Location, Location
Zevahim 13: Pigul
Zevahim 12: Designate Your Offerings (+ an example of rabbinic unanimity)
Zevahim 11: Jumping the Gun for Pesach
Zevahim 10: A Thin Red Line
Zevahim 9: Switching Korbanot
Zevahim 8: Specifically Purposeful Offerings
Zevahim 7: The Korban Pesach Is Different
Zevahim 6: The Question of Whether the Offering Atones
Zevahim 5: Atoning with Another's Offering
Zevahim 4: Sources of Blood
Zevahim 3: No Changes, No Transfers
Zevahim 2: An Introduction to Sacrifices
Horayot 14: Teiku - There's Always More to Learn
Horayot 13: Hierarchies
Horayot 12: Good Omens
Horayot 11: Cherry-picking Torah and the Anointing Oil
Horayot 10: Ashrei - Fortunate Are Those with Good Intent
Horayot 9: A King's Wealth
Horayot 8: Aspirational Halakhah
Horayot 7: When the Anointed Kohen Errs
Horayot 6: There's No Death for a Congregation and No Swapping Out a Sin-offering
Horayot 5: A Tribal Error
Horayot 4: Only a Child Could Make Such an Error (with all due respect to children!)
Horayot 3: When a Majority Means Jews in the Land of Israel
Horayot 2: Fit to Deliver a Halakhic Ruling
Avodah Zarah 76: Closing the Relationship between Jew and Non-Jew
Avodah Zarah 75: After Non-Jewish Handling: A Process
Avodah Zarah 74: Jews and Non-Jews at the Wine Press
Avodah Zarah 73: Amoraim Agree and Disagree
Avodah Zarah 72: Halakhah Is Not Science: Funnels
Avodah Zarah 71: Soldiers and Merchants
Avodah Zarah 70: Unsupervised Non-Jews
Avodah Zarah 69: Wine Stoppers and Supervision
Avodah Zarah 68: The Ick Factor
Avodah Zarah 67: Enhancing or Destroying the Taste of Food
Avodah Zarah 66: Separating Mixtures
Avodah Zarah 65: Jews and Non-Jews: How Far Can Their Friendships Go?
Avodah Zarah 64: Not All Non-Jews Are Idolaters
Avodah Zarah 63: Commerce Concerns
Avodah Zarah 62: Non-Jews, Non-Idolaters: "Stam Yeinam"
Avodah Zarah 61: Jews and Non-Jews Sharing Wine?!
Avodah Zarah 60: Falling into the Vat
Avodah Zarah 59: When Is a Convert Not (Yet) a Convert?
Avodah Zarah 58: The Time the Non-Jew Shoved His Arm into a Wine Vat
Avodah Zarah 57: When Intent Doesn't Matter
Avodah Zarah 56: You Can't Make a Libation with Your Feet
Avodah Zarah 55: Suffering Personified
Avodah Zarah 54: God Doesn't Interfere
Avodah Zarah 53: When an Object of Idolatry Can Be Used After All
Avodah Zarah 52: "Onias Worship": Not Idolatry, But Not Acceptable Either
Avodah Zarah 51: Not the Way It Was Done in the Temple
Avodah Zarah 50: Not a Carpenter, Nor the Son of a Carpenter
Avodah Zarah 49: No Financial Redemption for Idolatry
Avodah Zarah 48: The Asherah
Avodah Zarah 47: A Lulav, a Rock, and the Privacy of the Bathroom
Avodah Zarah 46: Attached to the Ground
Avodah Zarah 45: Mountains, Hills, and the Leafy Trees of Idolatry
Avodah Zarah 44: The Bathhouse of Aphrodite
Avodah Zarah 43: Here There Be Dragons
Avodah Zarah 42: The Destructive Power of the Dead Sea
Avodah Zarah 41: Idols, Graven Images, and Worshipped Sculpture
Avodah Zarah 40: Permitted Foods, from Fish to Apple Wine
Avodah Zarah 39: Gone Fishing
Avodah Zarah 37: The Not-So-Permissive Court
Avodah Zarah 38: A King's Table
Avodah Zarah 36: "Bishul Akum" and Jews Separating from Non-Jews
Avodah Zarah 35: Rolling Out Decrees
Avodah Zarah 34: When Rabbi Akiva Didn't Know Everything
Avodah Zarah 33: Correctives (or not) for Idolatrous Encounters in Daily Life
Avodah Zarah 31: If a Tree Bears Fruit in a Forest...
Avodah Zarah 32: How to Make the Very Best Wine
Avodah Zarah 30: Wine, Beer, Snakes, and Intermarriage
Avodah Zarah 29: At the Barbershop
Avodah Zarah 28: Shabbat Healing: Eyes and Ears and Mouth...
Avodah Zarah 27: To Trust a Heretic
Avodah Zarah 26: Breaking Halakhah on Purpose - But Why?
Avodah Zarah 25: When the Sun Stood Still
Avodah Zarah 24: The Honorable Dama ben Netinah
Avodah Zarah 23: What We Can Assume
Avodah Zarah 22: How Common Was Idolaters' Immorality Really?
Avodah Zarah 21: Protecting the Homes and Fields of the Land of Israel
Avodah Zarah 20: No Mercy, No Favors
Avodah Zarah 19: Learn the Torah That Delights You
Avodah Zarah 18: Rabbi Haninah, Rabbi Meir, and Beruriah
Avodah Zarah 17: Heresy and Faith under Rome
Avodah Zarah 16: A Lion Is Not a Work-Horse
Avodah Zarah 15: What Wil the Buyer Do?
Avodah Zarah 14: White Roosters
Avodah Zarah 13: Tax Reductions for Wreaths of Roses
Avodah Zarah 12: Traveling and Leniencies
Avodah Zarah 11: How Rome Falls to Onkelos
Avodah Zarah 10: Circumcision under the Romans
Avodah Zarah 9: The Timeline of the Universe
Avodah Zarah 8: Saving Torah's Penalties
Avodah Zarah 7: Was the Mishnah Written Out of Order?
Avodah Zarah 6: Pre-Holiday Business
Avodah Zarah 5: Repentance Leaves Sin in the Dust
Avodah Zarah 4: When God Is Indignant
Avodah Zarah 3: God's Special Jewish People and Their God
Avodah Zarah 2: Preventing Non-Jewish Celebration
Shevuot 49: Guardian Oaths
Shevuot 48: Collecting Debts (and Their Disputes)
Shevuot 47: No Oaths? Divide the Funds
Shevuot 46: Workers' Rights
Shevuot 45: Rabbinic Oath-taking
Shevuot 44: The Role of Collateral
Shevuot 43: Snippets from the Mishnah - including Lending on Collateral
Shevuot 42: Promissory Notes and Imposing an Oath
Shevuot 41: Suit and Countersuit
Shevuot 40: You're Right, But Only in Part
Shevuot 39: Sinners, Punishment and Righteous Oaths
Shevuot 38: Partial Claims
Shevuot 37: Swearing Falsely with Intent for the Oath of Deposit
Shevuot 36: More Curses - and Oaths for Monetary Matters
Shevuot 35: In the Name of God
Shevuot 34: Mocking Rabbi Shimon
Shevuot 33: Monetary Cases vs. Status Cases
Shevuot 32: Simultaneous Denial
Shevuot 31: Distance Yourself from Falsehood
Shevuot 30: Men Swearing on a Stack of Bibles
Shevuot 29: Flying Camels
Shevuot 28: Learning Shevuot in the Beit Midrash
Shevuot 27: An Uttered Oath or an Oath in Vain
Shevuot 26: So Much Forgetting of Things
Shevuot 25: Formulating Oaths
Shevuot 24: When Is Eating Not Eating?
Shevuot 23: How Precise an Oath
Shevuot 22: Talking and Eating and Talking about Eating
Shevuot 21: Don't Take God's Name in Vain
Shevuot 20: Why Women Making Kiddush Matter to Oaths in Vain
Shevuot 19: Two Paths Diverged (in a Wood)
Shevuot 18: Meriting Sons
Shevuot 17: Access Paths Out of the Temple
Shevuot 16: Everlasting Sanctity - Or Not?
Shevuot 15: Expanding Jerusalem
Shevuot 14: Hidden Impurity
Shevuot 13: Does Yom Kippur Atone for Violating Yom Kippur?
Shevuot 12: Dessert on the Altar
Shevuot 11: The Red Heifer and Unconditional Sanctity
Shevuot 10: Even More Goats
Shevuot 9: More Goats
Shevuot 8: Atonement or Suspended Punishment on Yom Kippur?
Shevuot 7: Offerings and Atonement
Shevuot 6: White on White
Shevuot 5: Pathways of Interpretation
Shevuot 4: Mishnaic Authorship -- and Lashes
Shevuot 3: Sacrifices on a Sliding Scale
Shevuot 2: Two That Are Four
Makkot 24: The Promise of the Foxes
Makkot 23: The Heavenly Court Supporting the People (Even King Solomon)
Makkot 22: Not 40 Lashes, But 39 - And More Difficult Details
Makkot 21: The Tattoo Taboo
Makkot 20: Real (Jewish) Men Don't Shave (in Mourning)
Makkot 19: Why Ma'aser Sheni Needs the Temple
Makkot 18: When Offerings Are Invalid for Kohanim to Eat
Makkot 17: Everyone Should Have a Child Like Rabbi Shimon
Makkot 16: 8 Foodie Prohibitions
Makkot 15: When a Positive Commandment Corrects a Violation
Makkot 14: Generational Violations
Makkot 13: And Now... Lashes
Makkot 12: Timing Matters
Makkot 11: The Mothers of the High Priests
Makkot 10: Not Too Big, Not Too Small
Makkot 9: Is Ignorance of the Law a Good Defense?
Makkot 8: The Eternal Torah, and the Time It Was Given
Makkot 7: Murder and Degrees of Unintentional Killing
Makkot 6: Basics of Witness Testimony (and some quirky cases)
Makkot 5: How Bad Conspiring Witnesses: Unto 100 Rounds
Makkot 4: Well Water in the Sea
Makkot 3: Talmudic Actuary Tables
Makkot 2: Introducing the Lashes of Conspiring Witnesses
Sanhedrin 113: Wickedness Brings Anger; Righteousness Brings Joy
Sanhedrin 112: Destroying Consecrated Property
Sanhedrin 111: Destroying a City of Idolaters
Sanhedrin 110: Mrs. Korach, Mrs. On, and Moshe's Authority
Sanhedrin 109: Sins of the People of Genesis
Sanhedrin 108: Animal Rescue
Sanhedrin 107: Jesus Leaves the Jewish Path
Sanhedrin 106: The Wicked Moabite and the Wicked Edomite
Sanhedrin 105: Why the "Wrong" Reasons Are the Right Reasons
Sanhedrin 104: The Blind Camel
Sanhedrin 103: No, the Wicked Kings Were Really That Bad
Sanhedrin 102: Maybe the Wicked Kings Weren't So Bad
Sanhedrin 101: Good in This World, Good in the World to Come
Sanhedrin 100: Rabbinic Disrespect - and the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Sanhedrin 99: Sing Every Day
Sanhedrin 98: In Every Generation, Every Day
Sanhedrin 97: Not Everyone Lies
Sanhedrin 96: When Evil Prospers
Sanhedrin 95: Stories of War and a Hidden Message of Hope
Sanhedrin 94: The Writing of the Verses of Biblical History
Sanhedrin 93: Who Will Say He Is the Messiah?
Sanhedrin 92: Bringing Back the Dry Bones
Sanhedrin 91: Cleopatra and Antony
Sanhedrin 90: The World to Come
Sanhedrin 89: When God Hides His Reasons
Sanhedrin 88: Accepting Majority Rule
Sanhedrin 87: Disagreeing Rabbis Aren't Rebellious Elders (unless they cross that line)
Sanhedrin 86: Retranslating the Ten Commandments
Sanhedrin 85: The Prohibition against Hitting One's Parents: Extra Ramifications
Sanhedrin 84: Sentenced to Strangulation
Sanhedrin 83: The Amora Who Was Like a Tanna
Sanhedrin 82: Zealotry
Sanhedrin 81: When the Court Can't Execute Those Who Deserve It
Sanhedrin 80: Talmudic Forensics (and Word Problems)
Sanhedrin 79: Force, Intent, and What It Takes to Convict
Sanhedrin 78: Killing a Dead Man
Sanhedrin 77: Indirect Ways of Killing - a Manual
Sanhedrin 76: Examples of Extreme Death Sentencing
Sanhedrin 75: Burning Incest
Sanhedrin 74: Sin and Save Your Life (with Exceptions)
Sanhedrin 73: To Prevent the Sinner from Sinning
Sanhedrin 72: A Homeowner's Defense
Sanhedrin 71: Narrowing the Possibility of a Ben Sorer u-Moreh
Sanhedrin 70: Wine That Gladdens, Wine That Destroys
Sanhedrin 69: The Very Young Generations of King David's Family
Sanhedrin 68: The Loss of Rabbi Eliezer
Sanhedrin 67: How the Frog Covered the Land of Egypt
Sanhedrin 66: The Death Sentence of the Betrothed Adulteress
Sanhedrin 65: How Do You Prove That Shabbat Is Shabbat?
Sanhedrin 64: The Propensity of People to Do Evil
Sanhedrin 63: Pronouncing the Names of Idolatries
Sanhedrin 62: Violations while Unaware: Shabbat and Idolatry
Sanhedrin 61: Idolatry Loopholes: Intent and Practice
Sanhedrin 60: Casual Blasphemy, a Historical, Habitual Practice
Sanhedrin 59: Not the Sciatic Nerve or a Limb from a Live Animal
Sanhedrin 58: How Violence Destroys Holiness
Sanhedrin 57: Can a Non-Jew Be Subject to Jewish Law?
Sanhedrin 56: Blessing God: The Need for Euphemism
Sanhedrin 55: The Role of Shame
Sanhedrin 54: 'In the Way One Lies with a Woman'
Sanhedrin 53: Stoning or Sin-Offerings
Sanhedrin 52: Dignity Even in Being Put to Death
Sanhedrin 51: The Bad End of the Kohen's Daughter
Sanhedrin 50: Why Ranking the Severity of the 4 Executions Matters
Sanhedrin 49: A Hierarchy of Deaths
Sanhedrin 48: Kingly vs. Courtly Executions
Sanhedrin 47: The Curative Graves of the Sages
Sanhedrin 46: From the Executed to the Mourners
Sanhedrin 45: Even the Worst Sinner Is Human
Sanhedrin 44: Brazen before God
Sanhedrin 43: Confessions
Sanhedrin 42: Acquittal and Convicted
Sanhedrin 41: The Women Who Knew Halakhah
Sanhedrin 40: The Importance of Witnesses
Sanhedrin 39: The Comeuppance of the Wicked: What Does God Think?
Sanhedrin 38: What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?
Sanhedrin 37: The Goodness of the Jewish People
Sanhedrin 36: A Hierarchy of Judges - and Torah Scholars
Sanhedrin 35: Competing, Contradictory Mitzvot - Which Wins?
Sanhedrin 34: A Blind Judge
Sanhedrin 33: Default Innocence
Sanhedrin 32: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue
Sanhedrin 31: New Evidence
Sanhedrin 30: Combined Testimony
Sanhedrin 29: Witness Hazing - But in a Good Way
Sanhedrin 28: Yevamot for Witnesses
Sanhedrin 27: Disqualified for Being Family
Sanhedrin 26: Wrinkles in Intercalating the Year
Sanhedrin 25: Interest and Pigeons
Sanhedrin 24: Respect, Disrespect, and Disqualifiers
Sanhedrin 23: Judge Selection
Sanhedrin 22: Matchmaking and the King's Coiffure
Sanhedrin 21: The Pitfalls of Knowing Reasons for the Mitzvot
Sanhedrin 20: Moral Paragons
Sanhedrin 19: Challenges of Raising Children
Sanhedrin 18: Limitations on Who Can Be a Judge
Sanhedrin 17: The Odd Verdict in a Unanimous Vote to Convict
Sanhedrin 16: The Court of 71
Sanhedrin 15: Judge the Snake with 23
Sanhedrin 14: Rabbi Yehudah ben Bava and Rabbinic Authority
Sanhedrin 13: Seasons in Their Time
Sanhedrin 12: Rome's Impact on the Calendar
Sanhedrin 11: Sages: Pious and Human
Sanhedrin 10: Lashes and Leap Months
Sanhedrin 9: When Is a Monetary Case a Capital Case?
Sanhedrin 8: A Count of 3
Sanhedrin 7: Bringing Justice into the World
Sanhedrin 6: In Praise of Compromise as Blasphemy
Sanhedrin 5: Eggs, Marsh Water, and Halakhic Leadership (Oh my!)
Sanhedrin 4: Text vs. Tradition
Sanhedrin 3: Does the Great Court Need 141 Judges?!
Sanhedrin 2: The Number of Judges
Bava Batra 176: A Halakhic Way of Thinking
Bava Batra 175: The Torah Effect
Bava Batra 174: Faulty Ethics, or Why 'Poverty Follows the Poor'
Bava Batra 173: Signing on to Be a Guarantor Is Real
Bava Batra 172: What to Do about Imprecise Documents
Bava Batra 171: Shabbat-Dated Documents
Bava Batra 170: Practical Cases of Contested Loans (plus)
Bava Batra 169: In the Absence of a Guarantee
Bava Batra 168: The Selfish Trait of Sodom
Bava Batra 167: How Far People Go to Commit Fraud
Bava Batra 166: The Need for Lawyers
Bava Batra 165: Terms of Agreements
Bava Batra 164: New Ways of Forging: Erasures and Dates
Bava Batra 163: Empty Lines Invite Forgery
Bava Batra 162: Empty Space
Bava Batra 161: Room for Fraud
Bava Batra 160: Securing Your Land for the Babylonian Exile
Bava Batra 159: New Parameters in Inheritance Cases
Bava Batra 158: Collapsing Case Studies
Bava Batra 157: The Order of Inheritance
Bava Batra 156: Old Enough to Get Married, But Not to Sell Inheritance
Bava Batra 155: Old Enough for Business Sense
Bava Batra 154: Sick-bed Giving (Or: Not Every Ill Person Is on His Deathbed)
Bava Batra 153: Cursing Rava
Bava Batra 152: Deathbed Changes to a Deathbed Will
Bava Batra 151: A Soap Opera Daf
Bava Batra 150: Some Significance of Movable Property
Bava Batra 149: A Convert, a Slave, Rava, and a Man on His Deathbed
Bava Batra 148: Where's the Miracle? Deathbed Recoveries
Bava Batra 147: The Farmer's Talmudic Almanac
Bava Batra 146: Gifts to the Bride's Father's House - Temporarily?
Bava Batra 145: Wedding Presents
Bava Batra 144: Forced Service to Rome
Bava Batra 143: The Donkey and the Five Women
Bava Batra 142: The Fetus Does Not Inherit
Bava Batra 141: It's Surely Worse to Be a Woman, But Go Support Your Daughters
Bava Batra 140: Those Poor Disadvantaged Males
Bava Batra 139: The Strength of an Undocumented Loan
Bava Batra 138: More Deathbed Utterances
Bava Batra 137: A Woman and Her Date Palm
Bava Batra 136: What Can an Heir Do with an Early Bequest?
Bava Batra 135: Ineffectual Deathbed Documents
Bava Batra 134: The Greatness of Hillel the Elder's Students
Bava Batra 133: Giving Gifts Instead of Inheritance: What Does It Really Mean and How Bad Is it?
Bava Batra 132: A Woman Receives Property, Apparently with Limits
Bava Batra 131: Appointing an Administrator for One's Estate
Bava Batra 130: You Can Only Judge the Case before You
Bava Batra 129: Gifting Inheritance
Bava Batra 128: Rabbi Abba's 7 Inquiries
Bava Batra 127: When Is a Male Not Male? When Is a First-born Not First-Born?
Bava Batra 126: Double Portion Tension
Bava Batra 125: The Case of the Great-Grandmother
Bava Batra 124: When the First-born Does Not Get a Double Portion
Bava Batra 123: The Double Portion
Bava Batra 122: Dividing the Land
Bava Batra 121: Tu B'Av: The Maidens and More
Bava Batra 120: A Miracle for Yocheved
Bava Batra 119: What Moshe Didn't Know
Bava Batra 118: The Righteous Shall Inherit the Land
Bava Batra 117: Biblical Portions
Bava Batra 116: Student Heirs
Bava Batra 115: Prioritizing Sons - and Rabbinic Halakhah
Bava Batra 114: Limiting a Son's Maternal Inheritance
Bava Batra 113: Making Sense of Inheritance Genealogies
Bava Batra 112: Inheriting within the Tribe
Bava Batra 111: The Daughters Won't Inherit the Earth
Bava Batra 110: Biblical Heiresses
Bava Batra 109: Inheritance Hierarchy
Bava Batra 108: Inheriting the Land: We Don't Start with Calamity
Bava Batra 107: "So Animals Can't Jump Over the Fence": Dividing Property
Bava Batra 106: Inheritance by Lottery
Bava Batra 105: How to Pay for a Leap Month of Rent
Bava Batra 104: To the Seller's Advantage
Bava Batra 103: Crevices and Rocks
Bava Batra 102: A Quick Burial
Bava Batra 101: Catacombs
Bava Batra 100: The Ceremony on the Cemetery Road
Bava Batra 99: The Keruvim
Bava Batra 98: The Customer Isn't Always Right
Bava Batra 97: Consecrations and Kiddush
Bava Batra 96: Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine... Vinegar
Bava Batra 95: Wine into Vinegar
Bava Batra 94: A Quarter Kav of Dirt
Bava Batra 93: The Seller's Obligation in Making the Sale
Bava Batra 92: Let the Buyer Beware (Or Not?)
Bava Batra 91: Theological Holes in the Story of Ruth
Bava Batra 90: Hoarders, Market Demand, and Food Scarcity
Bava Batra 89: Criminal Minds - and the Torah Scholars Who Know Them
Bava Batra 88: Honest Shopkeepers
Bava Batra 87: A Child Breaks an Oil Flask and the Storekeeper Is Liable (Maybe)
Bava Batra 86: Kinyan Meshicha
Bava Batra 85: The Point of No Reneging
Bava Batra 84: All the Colors of the Sun
Bava Batra 83: The Right to Renege
Bava Batra 82: Branches, Roots, and the Palm Tree's Smooth Trunk
Bava Batra 81: This Land Is Your Land
Bava Batra 80: Honey and Honeycomb
Bava Batra 79: Consecration
Bava Batra 78: Selling Donkeys
Bava Batra 77: If You Buy the Wagon, Do You Buy the Mules?
Bava Batra 76: The Largest Movable Object That Is Not Alive
Bava Batra 75: The Lights of the Leviathan and Jerusalem
Bava Batra 74: The Leviathan and the Question of Magic
Bava Batra 73: The Esoteric Tales of a Jewish 'Sinbad'
Bava Batra 72: Consecrated and Ancestral Lands
Bava Batra 71: What's the Difference between a Sale and a Gift?
Bava Batra 70: Fulfilling One's Contract Terms - Or Not
Bava Batra 69: A Good Idea to Specify the Trees
Bava Batra 68: Bright Lights Big City
Bava Batra 67: Sales without Specification
Bava Batra 66: Attached to the Ground
Bava Batra 65: Do You Get the Keys When You Buy the Door?
Bava Batra 64: When You Need to Fly to Reach Your Property
Bava Batra 63: From the Depths of the Earth to the Height of the Sky
Bava Batra 62: Boundary Charts and Graphs
Bava Batra 61: Annexes and Cisterns
Bava Batra 60: Those Who Mourn Jerusalem Will Merit to See It Rebuilt
Bava Batra 59: Forcing People to Be Considerate
Bava Batra 58: The Visions of Rabbi Benaya
Bava Batra 57: The Modesty of Men
Bava Batra 56: Combining Witnesses
Bava Batra 55: Sea Quill Boundaries
Bava Batra 54: Dina de-Malkhuta Dina (Again)
Bava Batra 53: Adding the Doors to Palaces
Bava Batra 52: Not All Families Get Along
Bava Batra 51: Hidden Money
Bava Batra 50: Handling Quasi-Joint Property in Marriage
Bava Batra 49: Can a Wife Be forced to Sell Land to Her Husband?
Bava Batra 48: Tavi, Paphi, and the Kinara
Bava Batra 47: Thieves and Their Rights to Ownership
Bava Batra 46: The Dry Cleaners' Wrong Clothes
Bava Batra 45: Witnesses vs. Chazakah
Bava Batra 44: An "Apotiki" Lien on Movable Property
Bava Batra 43: Bias!
Bava Batra 42: When Can Joint Owners Establish a Chazakah?
Bava Batra 41: The Need for a Claim
Bava Batra 40: Hidden Gifts
Bava Batra 39: The Owner's Protest (Details)
Bava Batra 38: Rough Travels
Bava Batra 37: Uproot Your Trees and Go!
Bava Batra 36: No Presumption of Ownership for Slaves (or Livestock)
Bava Batra 35: A Sharecropper Is Not an Owner
Bava Batra 34: It's Mine! Or Using Oaths or the Court to Your Own Ends
Bava Batra 33: Back When There Was No Paper Trail
Bava Batra 32: A Counterfeit IOU
Bava Batra 31: Chazakah Testimony
Bava Batra 30: Again, the Burden of Proof
Bava Batra 29: Using the Stuff You Own
Bava Batra 28: Presumptive Ownership
Bava Batra 27: Halfsies
Bava Batra 26: When the Wind Blows the Chaff
Bava Batra 25: "Hashem is truly everywhere"
Bava Batea 24: Are Trees Beautiful?
Bava Batra 23: Bye Bye Birdie
Bava Batra 22: Rav Adda bar Abba
Bava Batra 21: Jewish Education
Bava Batra 20: Tumah Blockers
Bava Batra 19: And/Or
Bava Batra 18: The Refutation of Rava
Bava Batra 17: Keep Your Distance
Bava Batra 16: Who Is the Satan?
Bava Batra 15: Dead Men Can't Tell Tales
Bava Batra 14: Who Wrote the Bible
Bava Batra 13: A Bathhouse, an Olive Press, and Sacred Scrolls
Bava Batra 12: Rabbi Prophets
Bava Batra 11: When You Can't Divide and Conquer
Bava Batra 10: Rabbit Chanina ben Tryadon’s Tzedakah
Bava Batra 9: Tzedakah
Bava Batra 8: Rabbinic Exemptions
Bava Batra 7: Why Elijah Stopped Visiting
Bava Batra 6: Talmudic Building Code - Take 2
Bava Batra 5: Ravina vs. Ronya
Bava Batra 4: The Last Hasmonean, Preserved in Honey
Bava Batra 3: Talmudic Building Code
Bava Batra 2: A Partition or a Division
Bava Metzia 119: Roots and Leaves
Bava Metzia 118: Public Damages
Bava Metzia 117: I Did Not Sign Up for This
Bava Metzia 116: Upstairs Downstairs
Bava Metzia 115: The Milestone
Bava Metzia 114: A Graveyard visit with Eliyahu
Bava Metzia 113: One Bed Two Bed
Bava Metzia 112: Craftspeople Deserve Their Wages
Bava Metzia 111: Oshek and Gezel
Bava Metzia 110: Payday
Bava Metzia 109: Down By the Sycamore Tree
Bava Metzia 108: Bar Meitzra
Bava Metiza 107: How Do You Take Your Morning Bread?
Bava Metzia 106: Crop Failures and Their Many Consequences
Bava Metzia 105: Little House on the Prairie and Unsuccessful Crops
Bava Metzia 104: Lashon Hedyot
Bava Metzia 103: Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers
Bava Metzia 102: Shiluach HaKan
Bava Metzia 101: Uprooted Trees and Evicted Homes
Bava Metzia 100: Oath-taking to Establish a Sale (except for slaves)
Bava Metzia 99: 50 Dates Minus 1
Bava Metzia 98: Liable for a Partial Admission
Bava Metzia 97: When the Mice Unite against a Cat
Bava Metzia 96: Rami Bar Chama Pushes the Halakhic Boundries
Bava Metzia 95: The Borrower
Bava Metzia 94: Stipulations on the Torah's Conditions
Bava Metzia 93: The Shomers
Bava Metzia 92: The Cost of a Cucumber
Bava Metzia 91: The Problem of Dairy Bread
Bava Metzia 90: Muzzle It!
Bava Metzia 89: How Do You Like Your Grapes?
Bava Metzia 88: When Ma’aser begins
Bava Metzia 87: Abraham and Sarah, in Midrash
Bava Metzia 86: Letters from the Sky
Bava Metzia 85: How Great Was Rabbi Hiyya!
Bava Metzia 84: Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish
Bava Metzia 83: Caring for the Workers
Bava Metzia 82: Watching Lost Objects
Bava Metzia 81: Put It Down!
Bava Metzia 80: Rental Agreements Gone Wrong
Bava Metzia 79: Rent-a-Donkey (or a Boat)
Bava Metzia 78: River Deep Mountain High
Bava Metzia 77: Labor Law
Bava Metzia 76: A Nes Nistar daf 76 on Israel’s 76 birthday!
Bava Metzia 75: The Halacha of Hillel
Bava Metzia 74: Grapes, Olives, and Clumps of Clay
Bava Metzia 73: Placing Your Wine Orders Early
Bava Metzia 72: Forward Contracting
Bava Metzia 71: When Lending with Interest Seems OK, Maybe
Bava Metzia 70: Charging Interest Non-Jews
Bava Metzia 69: Covering Costs
Bava Metzia 68: Iska
Bava Metzia 67: The Dust of Interest
Bava Metzia 66: Asmachta
Bava Metzia 65: Higher and Partial Payments
Bava Metzia 64: Looking a Lot Like Interest
Bava Metzia 63: Paying It Forward
Bava Metzia 62: Market Rates
Bava Metzia 61: Only God Knows the Truth
Bava Metzia 60: Deceptive Selling
Bava Metzia 59: Tanur Shel Akhnai
Bava Metzia 58: God Owns the Consecrated Animals
Bava Metzia 57: The Temple Won't Take Advantage (Because It's Allowed)
Bava Metzia 56: When Onaah Does Not Apply
Bava Metzia 55: Worth a Perutah, Need a Fifth
Bava Metzia 54: The Fifth
Bava Metzia 53: Deconsecrating Maaser Sheini
Bava Metzia 52: Eroded Coins
Bava Metzia 51: Who Can Claim Fraud
Bava Metzia 50: Fraud at a Sixth
Bava Metzia 49: A Halakhic Better Business Bureau
Bava Metzia 48: Divine Retribution
Bava Metzia 47: The Significance of a Handkerchief
Bava Metzia 46: The Exchange Without the Stock
Bava Metzia 45: The Power of Exchange
Bava Metzia 44: Commodity vs. Currency
Bava Metzia 43: Drinking the Stash
Bava Metzia 42: To Be a Proper Guardian
Bava Metzia 41: Moving the Barrel
Bava Metzia 40: Shrinking Produce
Bava Metzia 39: Apotropos - Guardian and Custodian
Bava Metzia 38: The Property of Captives
Bava Metzia 37: The Thief Who Admits He Stole
Bava Metzia 36: When a Guardian Hands Off to Another Guardian
Bava Metzia 35: Of Jewels and Cows and Land Transactions
Bava Metzia 34: HaMafkid
Bava Metzia 33: Your Father, Your Teacher
Bava Kamma 32: The Ban on Animals' Suffering
Bava Metzia 31: You Can Say That Again
Bava Metzia 30: Taking Care with Others' Stuff
Bava Metzia 29: Lost Tefillin and More
Bava Metzia 28: Lost & Found
Bava Metzia 27: Returning Lost Objects Is a Mitzvah (But Not Quite Always)
Bava Metzia 26: A Few Considerations
Bava Metzia 25: Dropped Coins
Bava Metzia 24: Be Nice and Give It Back
Bava Metzia 23: Incidental Simanim
Bava Metzia 22: Hospitality
Bava Metzia 21: Ye'ush and Siman
Bava Metzia 20: Lost & Found: The Documents Edition
Bava Metiza 19: What is the Norm?
Bava Metzia 18: Lost (and Found) Documents
Bava Metiza 17: Can a Ketubah Be a Get?
Bava Metzia 16: People Share the World... And Stuff Happens
Bava Metzia 15: So Much Unfairness of a Robber's Payback
Bava Metzia 14: Protecting Your Property Purchases
Bava Metzia 13: When Promissory Notes Don't Clarify Matters
Bava Metzia 12: Household Acquisition
Bava Metiza 11: The Will to Acquire
Bava Metzia 10: Falling On What You Want to Acquire
Bava Metzia 9: Don't Push a Donkey
Bava Metzia 8: Taking Ownership from Someone or No One
Bava Metzia 7: Hekdesh and Reshut
Bava Metzia 6: The Burden of Proof
Bava Metzia 5: Why We Don't Trust Shepherds
Bava Metzia 4: Determining Facts on the Ground
Bava Metzia 3: Oaths vs. Testimony
Bava Metzia 2: It's Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine!
Bava Kamma 119: Holding on to What Is Yours (Or Not)
Bava Kamma 118: Count Your Sheep!
Bava Kamma 117: Comeuppance for R. Yochanan and the Resurrection of R. Kahana
Bava Kamma 116: The Laws of Caravans
Bava Kamma 115: The Law of the Marketplace
Bava Kamma 114: Go Tell the Bees That They Are Home
Bava Kamma 113: Excommunication
Bava Kamma 112: Merciful Halakhah
Bava Kamma 111: Never Ever Ever Getting (It Back)
Bava Kamma 110: A Robbed Convert Without Heirs
Bava Kamma 109: Principal and Chomesh
Bava Kamma 108: Who Asks a Negligent Guardian to Watch Their Stuff Again?
Bava Kamma 107: How Can the Torah's Words Be Out of Order?!
Bava Kamma 106: Hekeish
Bava Kamma 105: Rava’s teaching
Bava Kamma 104: Paying the Fifth
Bava Kamma 103: Much Ado about a Bunch of Flax
Bava Kamma 102: Studying vs. Writing the Mishnah
Bava Kama 101: Defining the Art of a Craft
Bava Kamma 100: Red and Black
Bava Kamma 99: The Expert Slaughterer
Bava Kamma 98: Indirect Damages: Who Is Liable?
Bava Kamma 97: Worthless Coins
Bava Kamma 96: When Is a Palm Tree No Longer a Palm Tree?
Bava Kamma 95: Rebbi’s Meir and shinui koneh
Bava Kamma 94: Rebbe’s Takana for Teshuva
Bava Kamma 93: Making Something Your Own
Bava Kamma 92: Pray for Mercy on Others' Behalf
Bava Kamma 91: When an Object Becomes a Weapon
Bava Kamma 90: What Judge Recreates the Cases He Judges?!
Bava Kamma 89: Back in Ketuvot
Bava Kamma 88: A=B=C
Bava Kamma 87: Personal Injuries
Bava Kamma 86: Boshet (Humiliation)
Bava Kamma 85: Repui and Boshet
Bava Kamma 84: An Eye for an Eye
Bava Kamma 83: If You Learn Greek, Must You Think Greek Thoughts?
Bava Kamma 82: Ezra’s Ten
Bava Kamma 81: The Ten
Bava Kamma 80: The Curative Properties of Goat Milk
Bava Kamma 79: How Much Chutzpah? Ignoring God vs. Ignoring People
Bava Kamma 78: Kilayim animals
Bava Kamma 77: Meat - Holy and Treif
Bava Kamma 76: Answers from Eretz Yisroel
Bava Kamma 75: Can a Thief Get Out of Penalties by Coming Clean?!
Bava Kamma 74: 70a vs. 74b
Bava Kamma 73: Contradictions as the Beginnings of Conspiracy Theories
Bava Kamma 72: The Moment of Shehitah
Bava Kamma 71: Cooking on Shabbat
Bava Kamma 70: Rabbinic Power of Attorney
Bava Kamma 69: Discreet Efforts against Thievery
Bava Kamma 68: The Timeline of Despair
Bava Kamma 67: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Bava Kamma 66: Despair
Bava Kamma 65: When the Thief Wins
Bava Kamma 64: Getting Out of Paying the Fine
Bava Kamma 63: Thievery vs. A Claim of Thievery
Bava Kamma 62: Hidden Responsibilities and the Penalties for Theft
Bava Kamma 61: It's No Surprise That Buildings Contain Things
Bava Kamma 60: Who By Fire
Bava Kamma 59: How Mourning the Temple Is Relevant to Damages
Bava Kamma 58: When an Animal Gives Birth on Another's Property
Bava Kamma 57: Shomer Sacher vs Shomer Chinam
Bava Kamma 56: When the Heavenly Court Steps In
Bava Kamma 55: Everlasting Good for the Jewish People
Bava Kamma 54: When an Ox is More than an Ox
Bava Kamma 53: When the Ox and Pit Damage Together
Bava Kama 52: Good Enough for an Ox, But Not for a Camel
Bava Kamma 51: Injured Animals, Cisterns, and Water
Bava Kamma 50: Nechunya’s Pits
Bava Kamma 49: Not Just Piles of Money
Bava Kamma 48: Crouching Ox, Hidden Pit
Bava Kamma 47: Eating Poison
Bava Kamma 46: Dividing Disputed Property
Bava Kamma 45: The Only Sure Protection against a Goring Ox
Bava Kamma 44: The Intent of Animals
Bava Kamma 43: Unintentional Death
Bava Kamma 42: A Prospective Asset
Bava Kamma 41: The Killer Ox
Bava Kamma 40: Atoning for a Goring Ox
Bava Kamma 39: Stadium Oxen
Bava Kamma 38: Fulfilling Your Role on Earth
Bava Kamma 37: Selective Goring
Bava Kamma 36: How Many Oxen Can An Ox Gore
Bava Kamma 35: The Burden of Proof
Bava Kamma 34: How Much Is That Ox Worth?
Bava Kamma 33: If Your Ox Gores My Ox...
Bava Kamma 32: Damages and Unexpected Parallels
Bava Kamma 31: Pileup
Bava Kamma 30: Everyone Has a Portion in the Land of Israel
Bava Kamma 29: Ownerless objects
Bava Kamma 28: Don't Take the Law into Your Own Hands
Bava Kamma 27: Left Objects
Bava Kamma 26: When the Logic Doesn't Apply
Bava Kamma 25: Sufficient Logic
Bava Kamma 24: When an Animal You Don't Own Is Your Weapon
Bava Kamma 11: Ulla x 7
Bava Kamma 23: Big Mouth
Bava Kamma 22: How By Fire
Bava Kamma 21: Dog on a Hot Tin Roof
Bava Kamma 20: Squatter's Rights
Bava Kamma 19: Wag the Dog
Bava Kamma 18: Don't... Excrete Where You Eat
Bava Kamma 17: Can Chickens Break a Bucket?
Bava Kamma 16: Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!
Bava Kamma 15: Why 3?
Bava Kamma 14: 4 or Maybe 3
Bava Kamma 13: Kodshim as a Damager
Bava Kamma 12: Rabbi Yossi HaGilili and Kodshim Kalim
Bava Kamma 10: Partial Damager
Bava Kamma 9: Inheriting Debt
Bava Kamma 8: Land Equity
Bava Kamma 7: Valuation
Bava Kamma 6: The Best if His Field
Bava Kamma 5: Damage Through Speech
Bava Kamma 4: How Many Damages Can You Count?
Bava Kamma 3: Ma’veh
Bava Kamma 2: The First Gate
Kiddushin 82: The Hope of Torah
Kiddushin 81: Temptation
Kiddushin 80: Chazakot
Kiddushin 79: Who’s who
Kiddushin 78: What Can I Tell You about My Son?
Kiddushin 77: Widow, Widow, Widow
Kiddushin 76: Background Checks
Kiddushin 75: Shetuki and Beduki
Kiddushin 74: Marrying In
Kiddushin 73: Shetuki and Asufi
Kiddushin 72: The Sun Rises, the Sun Sets
Kiddushin 71: The Pure Babylonians
Kiddushin 70: Drama at the Deli
Kiddushin 69: The Inclusive Jewish People
Kiddushin 68: Matrilineal Descent
Kiddushin 67: Really Mixed Marriages and Their Children
Kiddushin 66: The World of Shimon Ben Shetach
Kiddushin 65: Marital Dispute
Kiddushin 64: Permissive Halakhah
Kiddushin 63: Wanting His Father's Approval, and Other Conditions
Kiddushin 62: That Which Does Not Yet Exist
Kiddushin 61: If Yes, If No
Kiddushin 60: The Moneylender's Money
Kiddushin 59: Underhanded Betrothal
Kiddushin 58: The Benefit of Terumah
Kiddushin 57: That Little Hebrew Word "Et"
Kiddushin 56: Holy Economics
Kiddushin 55: When Animals Wandered the Jerusalem Countryside
Kiddushin 54: The Holy Stones of Jerusalem
Kiddushin 53: Designated for God, and Not for Betrothal
Kiddushin 52: The Vexatious Students of Rabbi Meir and Their Defense
Kiddushin 51: Consummating Betrothal
Kiddushin 50: So Many Ways Kiddushin Doesn't Work
Kiddushin 49: If I Were a Rich Man
Kiddushin 48: False Pretenses
Kiddushin 47: How a Woman's Sensibility Affects Kiddushin
Kiddushin 46: The Amoraim Don't Understand the Mishnah!
Kiddushin 45: A Glass of Wine, a Bundle of Vegetables, and the Marketplace
Kiddushin 44: Missing a Day in the Beit Midrash
Kiddushin 43: Is the Hitman Liable or Is the One Who Hires Him?
Kiddushin 42: When Is an Agent Not an Agent? (For Sin)
Kiddushin 41: Better Not to Be Alone
Kiddushin 40: Torah Study vs. Doing Mitzvot
Kiddushin 39: Reward, Punishment, and the World to Come
Kiddushin 38: The Birthdays of the Righteous
Kiddushin 37: Settling the Land - with Mitzvot
Kiddushin 36: Children of God
Kiddushin 35: The Bearded Lady
Kiddushin 34: The Path to Women's Exemptions
Kiddushin 33: The Ear of Rabbi Yosef's Donkey
Kiddushin 32: "Sit, Sit, No Need to Stand"
Kiddushin 31: The Poster Child for Honoring One's Parents
Kiddushin 30: Sink or Swim
Kiddushin 29: Teach Your Sons (er, no, not your daughters)
Kiddushin 28: Bartering vs. Purchasing
Kiddushin 27: Agav Continued
Kiddushin 26: Agav
Kiddushin 25: Is Castration an Incapacitating, Go-Free Injury?
Kiddushin 24: An Eye for a Slave's Eye, a Tooth for a Slave's Tooth
Kiddushin 23: The Slave's Simultaneous Freedom and Ownership
Kiddushin 22: There's Only One Master of the Universe
Kiddushin 21: Retziah
Kiddushin 20: When Poverty Happens to Good People
Kiddushin 19: From Slavery to Marriage
Kiddushin 18: How to Read a Verse
Kiddushin 17: How to Calculate Severance
Kiddushin 16: Severance Gifts
Kiddushin 15: Cross-generational Talmudic Debate
Kiddushin 14: Protective Servitude?
Kiddushin 13: Could Women Have Known the Halakhot?
Kiddushin 12: When Is Less Than a Perutah Like a Perutah?
Kiddushin 11: The Value of Money
Kiddushin 10: The Gemara Isn't Blushing
Kiddushin 9: Kiddushin Is Not a Bill of Sale
Kiddushin 8: The Value of 5 Selaim
Kiddushin 7: A Wife as Property and as Not-Property
Kiddushin 6: Chit-chat and the Benefit of a Loan
Kiddushin 5: A Wedding Canopy Can't Effect Betrothal
Kiddushin 4: Betrothal with Money
Kiddushin 3: From Her Father's House to Her Husband's House
Kiddushin 2: Buying a Wife
Gittin 90: When Not to Stay Married
Gittin 89: The Moonlight Spinners
Gittin 88: Generation to Generation
Gittin 87: Signatures in Both Directions
Gittin 86: Handwriting, Witnesses, and a Common Get
Gittin 85: What IS a Get, Anyway?
Gittin 84: Absurd Conditions for Divorce
Gittin 83: In Rabbi Eliezer's Wake
Gittin 82: Exceptions That Seem to Break the Rules
Gittin 81: Rumors
Gittin 80: So May Ways to Invalidate a Divorce
Gittin 79: Pitching to the Rooftops
Gittin 78: Bound and Sleeping
Gittin 77: When Your Property Accepts Your Get
Gittin 76: Proactive Conditional Divorce
Gittin 75: The art of negotiations
Gittin 74: When a Woman Pays for Her Own Get
Gittin 73: If a Lion Eats a Man Who Has a Conditional Get
Gittin 72: If He Dies before He Wakes, There's a Get for Her to Take (not really)
Gittin 71: When Deaf Is Not Deaf-Mute
Gittin 70: Don't Eat Standing Up
Gittin 69: More Than Old Wives' Tales
Gittin 68: King Solomon and the Demon
Gittin 67: The Ways of the Sages
Gittin 66: Demons and Shadows
Gittin 65: Stipulations That Work and Some That Don't
Gittin 64: Old Enough for a Get
Gittin 63: A Messenger to Accept a Get
Gittin 62: Shalom, Shalom!
Gittin 61: Trusting Your Fellow Jew
Gittin 60: Writing Down the Torah (Or Not)
Gittin 59: Moshe Rabbenu, Rebbi, and Rav Ashi
Gittin 58: The Depths of Jewish Identity and the Depths to Which We Sink
Gittin 57: Titus, Balaam, Jesus, and Rome
Gittin 56: R. Yochanan ben Zakkai vs. Rome
Gittin 55: Bar Kamtza and Rabbinic Apathy
Gittin 54: Intent
Gittin 53: Unrecognizable Damages
Gittin 52: The Responsibilities of an Apotropos
Gittin 51: Swearing to Prove One's Honesty
Gittin 50: Settling Debts
Gittin 49: Women Want to Get Married
Gittin 48: Owning an Ancestral Field l
Gittin 47: Resh Lakish's Last Day among the Gladiators
Gittin 46: 'Your Silence Is Better Than Your Speech'
Gittin 45: Rabbi Nachman's Righteous Daughters
Gittin 44: Selling Slaves to Non-Jews, Despite the Penalty
Gittin 43: Penalizing the Seller of Slaves
Gittin 42: Terumah via the Slave's Owner
Gittin 41: Freeing Slaves for Tikkun Olam
Gittin 40: Jangling Coins to Freedom
Gittin 39: Why It Takes a "Get" to Free
Gittin 38: Slavery and Its Discontents
Gittin 37: Prozbul Part 2
Gittin 36: Prozbul
Gittin 35: A Widow’s Vow
Gittin 34: Rabbinic Will
Gittin 33: Tikkun Olam
Gittin 32: Voiding the Get
Gittin 31: An Easterly Wind Blows
Gittin 30: You Can Assume People Stay Alive
Gittin 29: Verifying a Shaliach
Gittin 28: Schrodinger's Get
Gittin 27: A Shaliach's Worst Nightmare?
Gittin 26: "Because of the Decree"
Gittin 25: Retroactive Clarification
Gittin 24: When a Woman Is Her Own Shaliach
Gittin 23: Is R. Sheshet Too Harsh on Why Blind People Can't Deliver a Get?
Gittin 22: The Case of Carrying Hide on Shabbat to Write a Get on It
Gittin 21: Practical Get
Gittin 20: Divorce: In Gold or on a Slave
Gittin 19: The Advantages of Gall Ink
Gittin 18: Travel Time
Gittin 17: When the Sun Sets on a Document's Date
Gittin 16: When Is the Mikveh Like a Divorce?
Gittin 15: The Writing and the Signing
Gittin 14: When Is Taking Not Acquiring?
Gittin 13: From Divorces to Debts
Gittin 12: The King's Daughter's Glory: In the Palace - and the Workplace
Gittin 11: Benefit to Others in Their Absence
Gittin 10: When Mishnayot Need Help from Gemara
Gittin 9: Death-bed Contracts
Gittin 8: Severing a Relationship
Gittin 7: If and When to Turn to Secular Authorities
Gittin 6: But What About Bavel
Gittin 5: We Don't Look to Create Mamzerim
Gittin 4: Who Knew the Law?
Gittin 3: Can a Woman Witness Her Own Get?
Gittin 2: Divorce and the Borders of the Land of Israel
Sotah 49: What We Lost
Sotah 48: Cancelling Mitzvot
Sotah 47: Jesus, Uncensored
Sotah 46: Did the Gemara Just Take a Position on Gun Violence?!
Sotah 45: Head and Body
Sotah 44: When War Is a Mitzvah
Sotah 43: Every New Homeowner Has a Housewarming
Sotah 42: Priest of War, Man of War
Sotah 41: Corrupting Flattery
Sotah 40: You Don't Say 'Amen' in the Beit HaMikdash
Sotah 39: An Infinite Circle of Blessing
Sotah 38: Priestly Blessings
Sotah 37: Mathematical Gymnastics
Sotah 36: The Punishing Hornet and God's Righteous Name
Sotah 35: Bad Reporting
Sotah 34: Spying the Land
Sotah 33: Do the Angels on High Need Our Prayers?
Sotah 32: Blessings and Curses and Sharing One's Pain
Sotah 31: Love and Fear
Sotah 30: Responsive Singing at the Sea
Sotah 29: Logic vs. Verses
Sotah 28: Belly and Thigh
Sotah 27: All in a Single Day's Work
Sotah 26: Innocent, But Ill: Reacting to the Bitter Waters
Sotah 25: What's the Good of Warnings?
Sotah 24: Women Who Don’t Drink
Sotah 23: Men and Women on Display
Sotah 22: With Great Knowledge Comes Great Responsibility
Sotah 21: A Woman's Merits and a Pious Fool
Sotah 20: Women and Learning Torah
Sotah 19: Waving
Sotah 18: When There's No (Apparent) Rabbinic Will
Sotah 17: What's in a Scroll?
Sotah 16: The Power of Tradition
Sotah 15: Meal-Offerings
Sotah 14: Mimicking God, and Protecting the Sotah
Sotah 13: Burying the Great Ones
Sotah 12: Moshe's Special Birth
Sotah 11: In the Merit of Righteous Women
Sotah 10: Tamar, as Foil to the Sotah
Sotah 9: Nearly Guilty until Proven Innocent
Sotah 8: Fear and Trembling
Sotah 7: Journey to Jerusalem
Sotah 6: Adultery in the Temple (wait, really?!)
Sotah 5: A Tiny Bit of Arrogance
Sotah 4: Tracking Time
Sotah 3: Protecting Our Relationships
Sotah 2: There Is Smoke. Is There Fire?
Nazir 66: The Prophet Samuel - Nazir or No?
Nazir 65: An Unknown Graveyard
Nazir 64: Floating Impure Mush
Nazir 63: The Matter Has Legs
Nazir 62: Not Placing a Value on Non-Jews
Nazir 61: The Mesorah of Nazir
Nazir 60: 4 Cases of Purification
Nazir 59: Women Who Wear Trousers
Nazir 58: The Fringes, the Garment, and Hair Removal
Nazir 57: Am I Impure, or Is That You?
Nazir 56: Links in the Chain
Nazir 55: When Do you Need a Haircut?
Nazir 54: When the Land Is Impure
Nazir 53: Did the Halakhah Change?
Nazir 52: What's Worse Than Finding a Worm in an Apple?
Nazir 51: Dust to Dust
Nazir 50: Melt the Fat Away
Nazir 49: What Will Become of the Torah?!
Nazir 48: Parallels, Logic, Necessary Cases, and Drama
Nazir 47: Miriam the Nezirah
Nazir 46: Nezirut and Impediments to Completing It
Nazir 45: The Lesson of Eyeliner and Blush
Nazir 44: Shaving for Purity
Nazir 43: The Beheaded Kohen
Nazir 42: If a Nazir Is Bald, Can He Shave?
Nazir 41: The Other Side
Nazir 40: A Nazir, a Metzora, and a Levite Walk into a Barbershop
Nazir 39: Does Hair Grow from the Tip or the Root?
Nazir 38: A Revi'it of White, a Revi'it of Red
Nazir 37: Meat, Milk, and Grape Products
Nazir 36: A Recipe for Prohibited Soup
Nazir 35: Two Grape-seeds and a Grape-skin
Nazir 34: Grapes: Skins, Seeds, Twigs, and All
Nazir 33: A Page with No Gemara?!
Nazir 32: It's Not the Staff That Sanctifies
Nazir 31: The Black Ox and the White Ox
Nazir 30: Wait for Elijah
Nazir 29: A Father's Vow of Nezirut for His Son
Nazir 28: Revoking a Wife's Vow and Making a Vow for a Son
Nazir 27: Sons and Fathers
Nazir 26: Exceptions Made for the Nazir Offerings
Nazir 25: It Is What It Is
Nazir 24: Interrupting a Woman's Nezirut
Nazir 23: Pure Motives
Nazir 22: The Importance of Tone
Nazir 21: The Conundrum of the Husband Who Joins His Wife's Nezirut
Nazir 20: Overhearing a Vow of Nezirut: Then What?
Nazir 19: Religious Bargaining
Nazir 18: Elegant Exegesis
Nazir 17: A Month in a Cemetery - Nazir or Not?
Nazir 16: A Contradiction in a Nazir's Terms
Nazir 15: To Contradict a Mishnah
Nazir 14: Nazir Teasers (as it were)
Nazir 13: Tips for Taking a Vow of Nezirut
Nazir 12: For the Birds
Nazir 11: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
Nazir 10: The Talking Cow
Nazir 9: People Know What a Nazir Is
Nazir 8: To Be a Nazir Forever
Nazir 7: Until the End of the World
Nazir 6: Growing Your Hair Long
Nazir 5: How Long Nezirut?
Nazir 4: Samson Didn't Vow
Nazir 3: Beauty Is as It Does
Nazir 2: The Vow of the Nazir
Nedarim 91: Signs of an Affair
Nedarim 90: Is Annulment Dependent on Revocation
Nedarim 89: The Vows That Can't Be Revoked
Nedarim 88: Can a Blind Man See?
Nedarim 87: Missing Intel
Nedarim 86: Who Owns a Wife's Body?
Nedarim 85: Swearing Away the Future
Nedarim 84: The Pool of Poor People
Nedarim 83: If It's a Mitzvah, It's No Gift
Nedarim 82: Combination Nedarim
Nedarim 81: Swearing Off Makeup
Nedarim 80: Defining Affliction
Nedarim 79: The Safety Net
Nedarim 78: To Annoy His Wife
Nedarim 77: Did You Nullify Your Vows before Candle-lighting?
Nedarim 76: Defining a Day
Nedarim 75: Preventative Measures
Nedarim 74: Yibum and Revoking Vows
Nedarim 73: Impossible vs. Improbable
Nedarim 72: The Role of Divorce in Upholding Vows
Nedarim 71: 100 Betrothals
Nedarim 70: The Male Claim to the Betrothed Young Woman
Nedarim 69: An Infinity Loop
Nedarim 68: A Father and a Husband
Nedarim 67: Revoking a Young Woman's Vows
Nedarim 66: The Beautiful Daughters of Israel
Nedarim 65: Nebuchadnezzar's Knowledge of Halakhah
Nedarim 64: Guilt Trips
Nedarim 63: Personal Prohibition and the Extreme
Nedarim 62: The Great Rabbi Tarfon
Nedarim 61: Jubilee Celebrations
Nedarim 60: A Vow of Time
Nedarim 59: When Is an Onion an Onion? (yes, still the onion)
Nedarim 58: Onion Is as Onion Does (or Grows)
Nedarim 57: Do Growing and Replanting Remove Foods from a Vow?
Nedarim 56: Inside/Outside
Nedarim 55: It's All According to the One Who Vows
Nedarim 54: Defining "Vegetables"
Nedarim 53: Olive Oil, Winter Grapes, and Asparagus
Nedarim 52: Curds and Whey
Nedarim 51: Awkward Wedding Chitchat
Nedarim 50: Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Yehoshua, and the Beauty of Torah
Nedarim 49: Have Some Carbs with Your Carbs
Nedarim 48: Why Nedarim?!
Nedarim 47: Prohibiting Something That Doesn't Yet Exist
Nedarim 46: Bathhouses and Olive Presses
Nedarim 45: The Smallest Public
Nedarim 44: Hefker Remorse
Nedarim 43: Very Helpful Work-Arounds
Nedarim 42: A Vow of No-Benefit and the Seventh Year
Nedarim 41: 13 Versions
Nedarim 40: The Healing Powers of Visiting the Sick
Nedarim 39: Removing 1/60th of Suffering
Nedarim 38: Wealthy Prophets (No pun intended)
Nedarim 37: Do Daughters Need Safeguarding?
Nedarim 36: Consent and Benefit
Nedarim 35: What Is the Role of a Kohen?
Nedarim 34: Versions
Nedarim 33: Fine-tuning Distinctions
Nedarim 32: The Power and Importance of Brit Milah
Nedarim 31: Labeling People
Nedarim 30: Utterly Extreme Vows
Nedarim 29: Is There a Grace Period for a Vow?
Nedarim 28: The Promises Made in Dire Straits
Nedarim 27: How to Really Mean What You Say
Nedarim 26: (Some) Onions Are Good for the Heart
Nedarim 25: Unwitting, Accidental Vows
Nedarim 24: Circumstances beyond Our Control
Nedarim 23: Abaye Goes Too Far
Nedarim 22: Down with Vows
Nedarim 21: If It Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, It's Still Not Always a Duck
Nedarim 20: Women and the Deli Counter
Nedarim 19: The Burden of Proof
Nedarim 18: Context Matters: Swearing Casually and Its Implications
Nedarim 17: How One Can Be a Nazir Twice at the Same Time
Nedarim 16: Nedarim vs. Shevuot
Nedarim 15: Conditional Vows
Nedarim 14: When Your Vow Doesn't Work
Nedarim 13: Granularity
Nedarim 12: The Breads of the Thanksgiving Offering
Nedarim 11: The Value of "Francis Bacon"
Nedarim 10: Sinner or Saint
Nedarim 9: Righteous People Don't Take Vows
Nedarim 8: Sworn to Do Mitzvot since Sinai
Nedarim 7: A Halakhic Bathroom and a Reversed Excommunication
Nedarim 6: Partial-statement Marriage
Nedarim 5: When Are Inconclusive, Ambiguous Statements Valid?
Nedarim 4: The Prohibition against Dawdling
Nedarim 3: Two Routes to the Same Destination
Nedarim 2: All the Vows
Ketubot 112: Honey, I Shrunk the Fruit
Ketubot 111: The 3 Oaths
Ketubot 110: Forcing Your Family to Make Aliyah
Ketubot 109: She Should Wait for Him until Her Hair Turns White
Ketubot 108: Unfair to the Daughters or the Sons?
Ketubot 107: Shmuel's Difficult Opinion
Ketubot 106: Rising Dust
Ketubot 105: Judges in Jerusalem
Ketubot 104: Praying for an End to Suffering
Ketubot 103: 30 Days of Mourning for R. Yehudah HaNasi
Ketubot 102: Put It in Writing! Or Maybe Not
Ketubot 101: Are We Back In Yevamot?
Ketubot 100: When the Assessor Errs
Ketubot 99: The Responsibility of Representation
Ketubot 98: Widows' Sales
Ketubot 97: The Ketubah as Capital
Ketubot 96: Taking Care of the Widow (Via the Orphans?)
Ketubot 95: A Wife's Role in Her Husband's Real Estate
Ketubot 94: Time-stamping Documents
Ketubot 93: The Complication of Additional Players in Financial Allotment
Ketubot 92: Buyers and Creditors
Ketubot 91: Repossession
Ketubot 90: Inheritance and Debt-Collection
Ketubot 89: Why We Want Paperwork
Ketubot 88: He Said, She Said (or He Said, or They Said)
Ketubot 87: Divorce Court (as it were)
Ketubot 86: Forcing a Debtor to Pay Up
Ketubot 85: To the Rightful Owner
Ketubot 84: When the Sages Disagree (Whom Do We Follow?)
Ketubot 83: A Cucumber Is Better Than a Gourd
Ketubot 82: The Day Resh Lakish Tweaked the Mishnah
Ketubot 81: Mishnaic Good Advice
Ketubot 80: A Deep-Dive into Eating
Ketubot 79: Hiding Property in Plain Sight
Ketubot 78: He Gets the Fruits of Her Property
Ketubot 77: A Chat between God and the Angel of Death
Ketubot 76: The Case of the Extra Toe
Ketubot 75: Women on Display
Ketubot 74: The Doctor and the Wise One
Ketubot 73: When Is a Marriage a Marriage?
Ketubot 72: The Hair-Covering Daf
Ketubot 71: "Place a Finger between Her Teeth"
Ketubot 70: Absurd, Outlandish Vows and the Third-party Loopholes around Them
Ketubot 69: Last of the Tannaim, First of the Amoraim
Ketubot 68: You Don't Have to Be Homeless to Need Help
Ketubot 67: Buffet's Giving Pledge and Talmudic Tzedakah
Ketubot 66: Why a Wife's Humiliation Shames Her Husband
Ketubot 65: Real Wives of Abaye and Rava
Ketubot 64: A Woman's Provisions
Ketubot 63: Rabbi Akiva: Shepherd, Scholar, Husband
Ketubot 62: Those Special Friday Nights
Ketubot 61: Mommy Wars and Whetting a Waiter's Appetite
Ketubot 60: A Mother and Child Reunion
Ketubot 59: A Wife's Responsibilities
Ketubot 58: Did the Kohen Cook Dinner?
Ketubot 57: Using Rivka's Story to Explain No Child-Marriage
Ketubot 56: Love of the Chuppah - Or of the Wedding Night
Ketubot 55: Intent to Marry
Ketubot 54: Respecting Respective Rabbis' Views: On Inheritance
Ketubot 53: When a Girl Becomes a Woman (financially speaking)
Ketubot 52: Captives, Bloodletting, and Tailoring a Standardized Ketubah
Ketubot 51: Rape Is Rape (Or: Where Shmuel's Father Goes Wrong)
Ketubot 50: Age-Appropriate Curriculum
Ketubot 49: Even the Jackal Feeds Its Young
Ketubot 48: The Transactional Equations of Marriage
Ketubot 47: A Wife's Monies
Ketubot 46: The Triangle of Husband, Wife, and Her Father
Ketubot 45: Stoning at the Entrance to the City
Ketubot 44: Tailor-made Ketubot
Ketubot 43: Halakhic Estate Planning
Ketubot 42: Seduction Is Not Consent
Ketubot 41: Partial Payments and a Goring Ox
Ketubot 40: Putting a Price on Humiliation
Ketubot 39: Trigger Warning: Rape
Ketubot 38: She Can't Go Home Again
Ketubot 37: An Ethic of Justice
Ketubot 36: The Spectrum of Violation
Ketubot 35: Building Up a Gezarah Shavah
Ketubot 34: Two Sins, One Death Penalty
Ketubot 33: Lashes, Warnings, and the Fiery Furnace
Ketubot 32: According to the Amount of One's Wickedness
Ketubot 31: Walking, Standing and Throwing
Ketubot 30: When a Thief Is Caught Red-handed, Yet He May Not Have to Pay
Ketubot 29: If a Kohen Gadol Rapes a Widow, Can They Marry?
Ketubot 28: Childhood Memories
Ketubot 27: Holding Hands: To No Avail
Ketubot 26: A Woman in Ashkelon
Ketubot 25: Are You Sure the Kohen Is a Kohen?
Ketubot 24: Could Kohanim Collude?
Ketubot 23: Women Testify
Ketubot 22: Self-incrimination, to a Degree
Ketubot 21: Witnesses, Judges, and Stumped Amoraim
Ketubot 20: Wherefore Mounds of Dirt?
Ketubot 19: Unreliable Documentation in Financial Halakhah
Ketubot 18: Signing Your Life Away
Ketubot 17: All Brides Are Beautiful
Ketubot 16: Virgin Brides
Ketubot 15: An Abandoned Baby
Ketubot 14: A Widow of Dough
Yevamot 13: Speaking Together (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Yevamot 12: Crying Rape Is Not Crying Wolf
Ketubot 11: Virginity: A Lack of Sexual Activity or an Intact Hymen?
Ketubot 10: Protecting the Virginity of the Virgins
Ketubot 9: An Open Opening and the Righteousness of King David
Ketubot 8: Celebrating Weddings
Ketubot 7: The Universal Practice of... Sex
Ketubot 6: When the Bride Isn't Ready for Marriage
Ketubot 5: When to Stick Your Fingers in Your Ears
Ketubot 4: Sad on Your Wedding Day
Ketubot 3: Roman Oppression of Brides-to-Be
Ketubot 2: Unforseen Circumstances
Yevamot 122: Bringing Peace to the World
Yevamot 121: Not Learning Halakhah from a Miracle
Yevamot 120: Talmudic Forensics
Yevamot 119: Starting with Co-wives, Ending with Co-wives
Yevamot 118: Whom Did I Betroth?
Yevamot 117: The Hatred of the Mother-in-Law
Yevamot 116: The Dangerous Grain Harvest
Yevamot 115: The Drama of a Sesame Plant
Yevamot 114: Family Dynamics
Yevamot 113: Women Want to Marry More Than Men Do
Yevamot 112: Rejecting the Conspiracy Theory Case
Yevamot 111: Minor Wives and Yibum (or Divorce)
Yevamot 110: When Kidnapping a Bride Doesn't Work
Yevamot 109: A Sword Between His Thighs
Yevamot 108: Not against Her Will
Yevamot 107: The Daughters of Israel Are Not "Hefker"
Yevamot 106: Paying Off the Yavam
Yevamot 105: The Curse of the House of Eli
Yevamot 104: Chalitzah as It Is NOT Supposed to Be Done
Yevamot 103: Yael's Seduction of Sisera
Yevamot 102: Even Eliyahu Can't Reverse Chalitzah
Yevamot 101: Practical Chalitzah
Yevamot 100: "Maybe I'm a Kohen and Maybe I'm Not!" - Uncertain Paternity
Yevamot 99: Switched at Birth
Yevamot 98: Non-Jews Don't Have Parents (halakhically)
Yevamot 97: Giving Credit Where It's Due
Yevamot 96: Pushing the Parameters
Yevamot 95: Returning from the Dead (with implications for your marriage)
Yevamot 94: Ulterior Motives
Yevamot 93: The Existence of the Things That Do Not Yet Exist
Yevamot 92: The Court's Error
Yevamot 91: When Rape Is Not at All Rape
Yevamot 90: Extreme Measures to Protect the System
Yevamot 89: Upholding Rabbinic Law over Torah Law
Yevamot 88: The Original Agunot
Yevamot 87: The Limbo of a Husband Who Goes Missing
Yevamot 86: When Kohanim Are Called "Leviim"
Yevamot 85: How Pure Are Your Marriages?
Yevamot 84: A Prohibited Husband and a Permitted Yavam
Yevamot 83: The Questionable Father of 7
Yevamot 82: Default to Male
Yevamot 81: Being Able to Count
Yevamot 80: The Twelve Months of Gestation
Yevamot 79: The Sons of Saul
Yevamot 78: Generations Who Can't Marry In
Yevamot 77: The Inner Honor of the Daughter of the King
Yevamot 76: Those Who Can't Marry In
Yevamot 75: Damage to a Man's Reproductive Organs
Yevamot 74: Becoming Pure
Yevamot 73: When Is Bikkurim Like Ma'aser Sheni?
Yevamot 72: The North Wind
Yevamot 71: A Baby's Korban Pesach
Yevamot 70: Disqualifying Kohanim from Terumah
Yevamot 69: Second Generation Edomites (and Others)
Yevamot 68: An Extra "Vav"
Yevamot 67: The Influence of a Fetus
Yevamot 66: Usufruct Property (and the other kind too)
Yevamot 65: "P'ru Ur'vu" Is Plural!
Yevamot 64: God Wants the Prayers of the Righteous
Yevamot 63: What Could Be Worse Than Death?!
Yevamot 62: Rabbi Akiva's Students
Yevamot 61: The Saving Graces of the Priestly Marriage Practicalities
Yevamot 60: A Lot of Questions and a Spiritual Truth Test
Yevamot 59: The Restrictive Marital Status of the High Priest
Yevamot 58: The Woman's Right to Eat Terumah
Yevamot 57: Married at 3?!
Yevamot 56: Kohanim and Marital Complications
Yevamot 55: Another NSFW
Yevamot 54: The X-Rated Spotlight on Yibum
Yevamot 53: Complicating Yibum or Chalitzah
Yevamot 52: Rabbinic Muscle: Lashes
Yevamot 51: The Consensus on Levirate Betrothal
Yevamot 50: How Final Are the Yibum Options?
Yevamot 49: Who Is a Mamzer?
Yevamot 48: Captives and Converts
Yevamot 47: The Self-Incrimination of a Convert
Yevamot 46: Women Can't Be Circumcised
Yevamot 45: Was Rav a Bigot? (God forbid, of course)
Yevamot 44: Rabbi Akiva's Mamzerim
Yevamot 43: Who Waited 3 Months, and for What?
Yevamot 42: Tracking the 7- and 9-Month Babies
Yevamot 41: Elijah the Prophet to Clarify Which Woman Is Which
Yevamot 40: Inheritance Rules: A Key Element of Yibum
Yevamot 39: Can You Do Yibum Instead of Me?
Yevamot 38: Complicating Inheritance
Yevamot 37: Those Viable Babies
Yevamot 36: The Sadness of Yibum
Yevamot 35: Contraception, Talmud-style
Yevamot 34: Getting Pregnant the First Time
Yevamot 33: Talmudic Clarity? Bait and Switch
Yevamot 32: Once Forbidden, Always Forbidden
Yevamot 31: An Absence of Real Life Yibum Stories
Yevamot 30: Adding a Non-Sister to the Mix
Yevamot 29: The Strength (and Weakness) of Ma'amar
Yevamot 28: Abaye Didn’t Really Rape That Woman
Yevamot 27: The Strength of Bonds
Yevamot 26: Yibum Word Problems
Yevamot 25: Permitting and Forbidding
Yevamot 24: Converting for the Sake of Marriage
Yevamot 23: When You're Not Sure Whom You Betrothed
Yevamot 22: Not My Brother, Not My Father Either
Yevamot 21: The Family Compound
Yevamot 20: The Mitzvah of Halitzah
Yevamot 19: With or Without Consent: Ma'amar
Yevamot 18: 5 Sages and Their Approaches
Yevamot 17: Matrilineal Descent - Talmud-style
Yevamot 16: Jewish Geography, Talmud-style
Yevamot 15: How D'Ya Like Them Olives?
Yevamot 14: Not So Kumbaya
Yevamot 13: Disagreements without Factions
Yevamot 12: Birth Control, Talmud-style
Yevamot 11: The Case of the Inadvertent Adulteress and the Case of the Divorcee's Remarriage
Yevamot 10: Six Brothers and a Double Yibum
Yevamot 9: How Rape Can Affect Yibum
Yevamot 8: Better to Be Stringent (ahem)
Yevamot 7: When the Extreme Case Is Practical
Yevamot 6: The Temple Is Not for Practice
Yevamot 5: Shaatnez as a Classic Contradiction
Yevamot 4: The Witch Must Die
Yevamot 3: When "Exempt" Means Forbidden
Yevamot 2: Ervah by Association
Chagigah 27: The Scholars, the Sinners, and the Fire of Gehenna
Chagigah 26: Trusting the Am Ha’aretz
Chagigah 25: Navigating Purity Diversity at Home
Chagigah 24: When One Hand Isn't Relevant to What the Other Hand Is Doing
Chagigah 23: The Shoe-Bomber and Ritual Impurity
Chagigah 22: Who Can You Trust?
Chagigah 21: Inside Outside
Chagigah 20: Paying Attention for Purity's Sake
Chagigah 19: The Wave
Chagigah 18: When Purification Requires Intent
Chagigah 17: Keep Your Goals Modest
Chagigah 16: It Was What It Was
Chagigah 15: "From Him I Will Learn": Rabbi Meir and Acher
Chagigah 14: Creating Angels
Chagigah 13: A Select Few
Chagigah 12: The Taboo Topic of Creation
Chagigah 11: A Discussion of Those Topics That Should Not Be Discussed
Chagigah 10: When the Oral Law Is Hanging by a Thread
Chagigah 9: Second Chances - Sometimes
Chagigah 8: What If You Don't Have Money for a Lot of Sacrifices?
Chagigah 7: To Bring or Not to Bring a Hostess Gift
Chagigah 6: Why Women Made Holiday Pilgrimages
Chagigah 5: Seeing the Pain in God's Hidden Face
Chagigah 4: To Be Seen by God
Chagigah 3: Radical Empathy
Chagigah 2: Making an Appearance
Moed Katan 29: Going from Strength to Strength
Moed Katan 28: Death Comes to All
Moed Katan 27: Excessive Grief
Moed Katan 26: When We Rend
Moed Katan 25: Eulogies, by and for the Sages
Moed Katan 24: The Worst
Moed Katan 23: "Go Take Care of Your Sister's Children"
Moed Katan 22: Mourning Our Leaders
Moed Katan 21: The Calamities That Befell the Sages
Moed Katan 20: When Bad News Makes Its Way Home
Moed Katan 19: A Master Torah Scroll
Moed Katan 18: Is There Fire Where There's Smoke?
Moed Katan 17: Excommunicated for Life (and then some)
Moed Katan 16: Multiple Intelligences
Moed Katan 15: Organizing Moed Katan
Moed Katan 14: The Prison That Is the Womb
Moed Katan 13: Better to Do Mitzvot!
Moed Katan 12: Protecting against Financial Loss
Moed Katan 11: Amateur Hour
Moed Katan 10: The Grooves of a Millstone
Moed Katan 9: Eating on Yom Kippur
Moed Katan 8: No Mixing One Simcha with Another
Moed Katan 7: The Mezora on Chol Hamoed
Moed Katan 6: Accidental Kilyaim
Moed Katan 5: Public Works
Moed Katan 4: Schools of Interpretation and the Babylonian Rain
Moed Katan 3: How Far Shemitah?
Moed Katan 2: A Spectrum of Holiday
Megillah 32: Handling a Torah Scroll
Megillah 31: Blessing the Curses
Megillah 30: Replacing the Torah Reading with... Torah Reading
Megillah 29: Exile and Return
Megillah 28: What Is the Secret of Your Longevity?
Megillah 27: Don't Sell a Daughter for Food
Megillah 26: Jerusalem as Washington, DC
Megillah 25: Heretical? Racy? Dealing with the "Inappropriate" in Shul
Megillah 24: Blindness and Blemishes
Megillah 23: The Evil Congregation
Megillah 22: The Puzzle of Rav and the Stone Floor
Megillah 21: Going Up to Read the Torah
Megillah 20: Defining Daytime
Megillah 18 - CORRECTED - By Heart (for Thursday, December 30, 2021)
Megillah 19: Who, How, When, and Why We Read Megillah
Error!! Will fix for Megillah 18
Megillah 17: Order in the (Prayer) House!
Megillah 16: The Many Layers of Narrative in the Megillah
Megillah 15: Strengths of Mordechai and Esther
Megillah 14: The 7 Prophetesses
Megillah 13: What Was Esther's Real Name, Anyway?
Megillah 12: Inserting God into Vashti's Removal
Megillah 11: Wicked by Association
Megillah 10: Transportable Religion
Megillah 9: Translation by the 70
Megillah 8: The "Only" Distinction(s)
Megillah 7: The Year Rabbi Zeira Woke Up Dead after Purim
Megillah 6: Adar I vs. Adar II
Megillah 5: Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi: Mishnah Compiler and... Gardener
Megillah 4: Rabbinic Megillah Reading (by definition)
Megillah 3: Translation Is Interpretation
Megillah 2: So Many Days of Reading the Megillah
Taanit 31: Dancing for Salvation
Taaanit 30: The Mourning of Tisha B'Av
Taanit 29: Grim History
Taanit 28: Liturgical Growth
Taanit 27: Sourcing the Ma'amadot
Taanit 26: No Drunk Duchening (aka Birkat Kohanim)
Taanit 25: Fasting, Praying, and Provoking God
Taanit 24: Who Wants a Miracle?
Taanit 23: Much More Than a Jewish Rip Van Winkle
Taanit 22: Are We in Danger Yet?
Taanit 21: All for the Best
Taanit 20: The Strength of the Reed
Taanit 19: Beyond Rain
Taanit 18: Bad for the Jews
Taanit 17: The King's Daily Haircut
Taanit 16: Sackcloth and Ashes Are Not Where It's At
Taanit 15: A Mega Mishnah Read
Taanit 14: The Rain in Spain (really, anywhere Diaspora)
Taanit 13: How Do We Mourn
Taanit 12: When Not Eating Is Not Fasting
Taanit 11: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for One Who Fasts Is a Sinner
Taanit 10: When the Rain Doesn't Fall
Taanit 9: Supernatural Natural Rain
Taanit 8: Praying for Two Things at Once
Taanit 7: A Theology of Rain
Taanit 6: The Many Words for Rain
Taanit 5: What to Get for One Who Has It All
Taanit 4: Inappropriate Requests
Taanit 3: Judged for Rain... on Sukkot
Taanit 2: Praying for Rain
Rosh Hashanah 35: Really Different Ways of Thinking about Tefilah
Rosh Hashanah 34: Anatomy of a Shofar Blast
Rosh Hashanah 33: Describing Sound without Sound
Rosh Hashanah 32: The Splendor of the King Is in the Multitudes
Rosh Hashanah 31: The Divine Presence in Exile
Rosh Hashanah 30: Preventing Mistakes and Greater Mistakes
Rosh Hashanah 29: Moshe's Magic Hands
Rosh Hashanah 28: With Intent to Sin
Rosh Hashanah 27: We Can't Hear Two Things at Once
Rosh Hashanah 26: The Shofar as Defense Attorney
Rosh Hashanah 25: The Connection between Ben Zaza's Mother and Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Hashanah 24: What Do You See in the Sky?
Rosh Hashanah 23: Diving for Coral, Raising Up Pearls
Rosh Hashanah 22: Kosher Witnesses, Kosher Testimony, and a Kosher Messengers
Rosh Hashanah 21: Yes, the Witnesses Matter
Rosh Hashanah 20: Calendar Manipulation
Rosh Hashanah 19: How Long the Months
Rosh Hashanah 18: God's Curse for Generation (or: The Power of Torah and Chesed)
Rosh Hashanah 17: Sinners and... Sinners
Rosh Hashanah 16: The Ins and Outs of Judgement Days
Rosh Hashanah 15: Fruit Trees and Some Exceptions
Rosh Hashanah 14: Etrog: Is It a Fruit? Is It a Vegetable?
Rosh Hashanah 13: The Sages Knew Their Measurements
Rosh Hashanah 12: Vowing to Suffer
Rosh Hashanah 11: Redemption - But When?!
Rosh Hashanah 10: Six Hundred Years and One Day
Rosh Hashanah 9: Increasing the Holiness in the World
Rosh Hashanah 8: The Collective Birthday of Flocks
Rosh Hashanah 7: The First of Nisan
Rosh Hashanah 6: Fixing the Calendar
Rosh Hashanah 5: Oaths, Gifts, and Deadlines
Rosh Hashanah 4: The Expected Corruption of a Non-Jewish King
Rosh Hashanah 3: Jewish Kings, Non-Jewish Kings, and One Who Was Both (not quite)
Rosh Hashanah 2: Keeping Track of Time
Beitzah 40: Mic Drop
Beitzah 39: Shlepping Fire and Water
Beitzah 38: Peer Review
Beitzah 37: Juggling Competing Halakhic Values
Beitzah 36: The Bathroom Episode (not only)
Beitzah 35: Dropping Your Fruit through the Ancient Skylight
Beitzah 34: Labor-intensive Holidays
Beitzah 33: Toothpicks and Spice Wood
Beitzah 32: When the Bathroom Isn't Already Put Together
Beitzah 31: Wood and Bricks
Beitzah 30: Better They Should Be Unwitting Sinners
Beitzah 29: Business Non-business
Beitzah 28: Going to the Butcher... on Yom Tov
Beitzah 27: Special for Yom Tov
Beitzah 26: Half Shabbos
Beitzah 25: Manners for the Stiff-necked Jewish People
Beitzah 24: Staying 'Til the Very End
Beitzah 23: A Child's Wagon
Beitzah 22: So Much Preparing for Yom Tov
Beitzah 21: A Non-Jewish Army in a Jewish Town
Beitzah 20: Marrying Off a Daughter for a Nice Price
Beitzah 19: When Doing Extra Means Nothing (and is therefore allowed)
Beitzah 18: The Prohibited Dunking of Yom Tov
Beitzah 17: God's Partners in Jewish Life
Beitzah 16: An Extra Soul on Shabbat
Beitzah 15: Spreading Holiday Cheer
Beitzah 14: Do You Need It for the Holiday?
Beitzah 13: Is Eating-on-the-Go Not Holy?
Beitzah 12: Holiday Gift-Giving
Beitzah 11: When a Talmudic Debate Isn't a Talmudic Debate
Beitzah 10: Interdisciplinary Details
Beitzah 9: When the Sages Get It Wrong (according to themselves)
Beitzah 8: Neither Here Nor There
Beitzah 7: Why Did the Chicken Cross the River?
Beitzah 6: The Two Days of Rosh Hashanah (or: The Chicken and the Egg)
Beitzah 5: What's Special about the Egg?
Beitzah 4: Cooking for the Holiday
Beitzah 3: Fruit and Eggs
Beitzah 2: A Tractate about an Egg, Kinda, Sorta
Sukkah 56: Be Careful in the Company You Seek
Sukkah 55: Our Atonement for All Nations of the World
Sukkah 54: Calendar Combinations and the Mishnah's Responsibility
Sukkah 53: Juggling Knives with Joy
Sukkah 52: Human Foibles
Sukkah 51: In the Eyes of the Beholders
Sukkah 50: Temple Music and Moshe's Flute
Sukkah 49: Kindness Is for the Living and the Dead
Sukkah 48: Rejoicing and Heresy
Sukkah 47: The New Holiday of the Eighth Day
Sukkah 46: When the Children Ate Their Etrogim
Sukkah 45: The Existence of 36 Tzadikim
Sukkah 44: Make Sure You Have Food for Shabbat!
Sukkah 43: The Palm, the Willow, Heresy, and History
Sukkah 42: A Child's Lulav Readiness
Sukkah 41: Rabban Gamliel's Lulav
Sukkah 40: Living with Holiness
Sukkah 39: The Value of 3 Meals
Sukkah 38: What If You Don't Know How to Say Hallel?
Sukkah 37: Waving in the Rainy Season
Sukkah 36: Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
Sukkah 35: A Peculiar Fruit
Sukkah 34: A Rose by Any Other Name...
Sukkah 33: Disqualifying Berries
Sukkah 32: Its Ways Are Ways of Pleasantness
Sukkah 31: Saving the Lulav for the Grandchildren
Sukkah 30: Sourcing Not-Stolen Merchandise
Sukkah 29: It's a Big Questions Episode
Sukkah 28: Women's Exemption from Sukkah
Sukkah 27: The Hotel California of Sukkahs
Sukkah 26: Sleeping Too Much
Sukkah 25: Sukkahs, a Wedding, and a Funeral
Sukkah 24: Complete Severance
Sukkah 23: Would You Really Use an Elephant as a Sukkah Wall?
Sukkah 22: On a Boat, in a Tree, on a Camel, Oh, What Can Be?
Sukkah 21: Sukkah Beds (Or Is That Bed Sukkahs?)
Sukkah 20: When a Mat Has a Wall
Sukkah 19: Creative Interpretations
Sukkah 18: The Little Fish
Sukkah 17: In the Process of Learning
Sukkah 16: Mind the Gap!
Sukkah 15: Structural Incongruities
Sukkah 14: What Are Your Intentions?
Sukkah 13: Grapes and Their Branches
Sukkah 12: Male and Female Arrow Shafts
Sukkah 11: God's Rain Cloud
Sukkah 10: Sukkah Decorations
Sukkah 9: A Tree Is Like a House
Sukkah 8: The Need for "Secular Studies"
Sukkah 7: The Shade-Sunlight Ratio
Sukkah 6: The Tefach-long Wall
Sukkah 5: Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Sukkah 4: From the Earth to the Heavens
Sukkah 3: The House That Is Not a House
Sukkah 2: More Shade Than Sunlight
Yoma 88: A Man's Fear on Yom Kippur
Yoma 87: The Gates Are Closing
Yoma 86: Living Up to Your Own Standards
Yoma 85: Life and Death
Yoma 84: Mad Dogs and Culture Clashes
Yoma 83: Health Matters
Yoma 82: Does a Fetus Have Cravings?
Yoma 81: The Afflictions of Yom Kippur Are a Positive Thing
Yoma 80: The Size of Og's Cheeks
Yoma 79: Dates, Eggs, and the Essence of a Meal
Yoma 78: We Don't Wear Shoes to Bed
Yoma 77: Why Shammai Had to Wash Both Hands on Yom Kippur
Yoma 76: The 5 Afflictions
Yoma 75: The Manna and How It Did More Than Sate Hunger
Yoma 74: The Yom Kippur We Know: A Fast Day
Yoma 73: Light and Truth
Yoma 72: Skilled Labor
Yoma 71: The Day After
Yoma 70: When the Kohen Gadol Goes Home
Yoma 69: Shimon HaTzadik and Alexander the Great
Yoma 68: Reading the Torah on Yom Kippur
Yoma 67: Torn Limb from Limb
Yoma 66: Again, with the Babylonians?!
Yoma 65: Why Is the Cow Like the Goat?
Yoma 64: A Kid and Its Mother
Yoma 63: The Death of the Scapegoat
Yoma 62: When Identical Goats Are Not Identical
Yoma 61: Whence Jewish Guilt?
Yoma 60: Going Back to the Beginning
Yoma 59: Is There Revelation through Blood?
Yoma 58: Go Straight for a While, Turn Left, and Then Ask
Yoma 57: The Truth of the Bloody Curtain
Yoma 56: A Detour to the Middle Ages
Yoma 55: One and One, One and Two
Yoma 54: Raiders of the Lost Ark II
Yoma 53: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Yoma 52: Entering the Holy of Holies
Yoma 51: Inside/Outside
Yoma 50: Show Us Your Korbanot and We'll Tell You Who You Are
Yoma 49: Vying for Bragging Rights: The Most Difficult Service
Yoma 48: The Puzzle of the Left-Handed Kohen
Yoma 47: Meritorious Kimchit, Mother of High Priests
Yoma 46: The Temple Fires
Yoma 45: The Many Shades of Gold
Yoma 44: The Challenge of the Holiness of the Space
Yoma 43: How Is This Day Different from All Other Days?
Yoma 42: Elazar Was a Kohen
Yoma 41: Love, Devotion, and Ignorance in Amoraic Babylonia
Yoma 40: Sleight of Hand
Yoma 39: Shimon HaTzadik and God's Presence in the Beit HaMikdash
Yoma 38: Nikanor's Doors
Yoma 37: On the Heads of the Goats
Yoma 36: Atonement
Yoma 35: Famously Frozen Hillel and Talmud Torah for All
Yoma 34: A Highly Sensitive Kohen Gadol
Yoma 33: Every Chance to Do a Mitzvah
Yoma 32: Wardrobe Functions
Yoma 31: Warming the Cold, Cold Water
Yoma 30: The Other White Sheet
Yoma 29: A Hot Oven, a Cold Oven, the Smell of Meat, and the Dawn
Yoma 28: Avraham's Yeshiva Days
Yoma 27: Lottery after Lottery
Yoma 26: The Incense Blessing of Prosperity
Yoma 25: Breaking Down the Morning to Its Many Parts
Yoma 24: Courtyard Commotion
Yoma 23: Hold a Grudge Like a Snake
Yoma 22: Safety Precautions
Yoma 21: 10 Most Amazing Miracles
Yoma 20: When the Cock Crows
Yoma 19: Sadducee Drama and Keeping the Kohen Gadol Awake
Yoma 18: As Yom Kippur Draws Near
Yoma 17: The Kohen Gadol Eats First
Yoma 16: The Four Corners of the Beit HaMikdash
Yoma 15: From Dusk to Dawn
Yoma 14: Kohen Gadol Bootcamp
Yoma 13: The Kohen's Backup Wife and Conditional Divorce
Yoma 12: Always Bring a Hostess Gift
Yoma 11: The Mezuzah-less Gates of Mehoza
Yoma 10: The One Mezuzah in the Beit HaMikdash
Yoma 9: Blaming the Babylonians
Yoma 8: The Annual Changing of the Kohen Gadol
Yoma 7: Keep Quiet, and They Won't Know
Yoma 6: The Impure Kohen's Avodah
Yoma 5: When It Comes to the Yom Kippur Avodah, Details Really Matter
Yoma 4: Moshe's Days in the Cloud
Yoma 3: The Sequestering of the Kohen Gadol
Yoma 2: A Great Deal of Sanctity
Shekalim 22: An Eye to the Future
Shekalim 21: Please Don't Spit
Shekalim 20: Finders Keepers
Shekalim 19: Making Assumptions
Shekalim 18: Eleven Menorahs of Gold
Shekalim 17: Climate Change
Shekalim 16: Other Important Items Hidden Away with the Ark
Shekalim 15: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shekalim 14: Shoemakers' Children
Shekalim 13: The Priests and the Sages
Shekalim 12: No Backsies, No Exchangies
Shekalim 11: Leftover Kedushah
Shekalim 10: Dessert for the Altar
Shekalim 9: The Ladder to Piety
Shekalim 8: Wandering Where the Machatzit ha-Shekel Takes Us
Shekalim 7: Not Just What to Do, But Who To Be
Shekalim 6: Surplus Funds
Shekalim 5: Shepherding the Shekalim to the Temple Treasury
Shekalim 4: Who Counts?
Shekalim 3: Throwing Off the Shackles of Winter
Shekalim 2: It's Time for the Appeal: Funding the Temple (Introduction to Masekhet Shekalim)
Pesachim 121: Redemption
Pesachim 120: Falling Asleep at the Table
Pesachim 119: Will the Real Afikoman Please Stand Up?
Pesachim 118: What Gratitude Does Israel Owe Egypt?
Pesachim 117: Praising God Out of Time
Pesachim 116: The Engaging Seder
Pesachim 115: Hillel's Sandwich
Pesachim 114: Getting Everything in Order (It's the Seder!)
Pesachim 113: The Harlots' Cobblers
Pesachim 112: Polonius Moments
Pesachim 111: Saved by Verses
Pesachim 110: Must We Believe in Demons?
Pesachim 109: So That the Children Should Ask
Pesachim 108: Of Course Women Were Part of the Pesach Miracle!
Pesachim 107: Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine, Beer
Pesachim 106: Keeping Your Wits about You
Pesachim 105: Shabbat Arrives When It Does, Like It or Not
Pesachim 104: Drawing Distinctions
Pesachim 103: The Alphabet Soup of Havdalah
Pesachim 102: When Meals End (or Don't)
Pesachim 101: Eat Where You Kiddush
Pesachim 100: If You Close Your Eyes, Tomorrow Never Comes
Pesachim 99: How Hard It Is to Keep Quiet
Pesachim 98: Tying Up Loose Ends
Pesachim 97: Taking Refuge in a Cemetery
Pesachim 96: The Original Pesach
Pesachim 95: Sing the Korban Home
Pesachim 94: When the Stars Weren't Fixed in the Sky
Pesachim 93: The Make-Up Exam (Maybe)
Pesachim 92: Impractical Cases
Pesachim 91: Social Cohesion of the Pesach, Excepting Women (R. Shimon)
Pesachim 90: The Korban Pesach and the Prostitute
Pesachim 89: No Semikhah for Women
Pesachim 88: Who Tells the Story
Pesachim 87: Taking Comfort in Babylonia
Pesachim 86: Upstairs Downstairs
Pesachim 85: The 'Lepers' at the Gateways of Jerusalem
Pesachim 84: The Whole-Animal Approach
Pesachim 83: Burning Down the Bones
Pesachim 82: Gleaning Halakhah from Narrative: Nadav and Avihu and Their Father's Korban
Pesachim 81: Do You Know Where the Bodies Are Buried?
Pesachim 80: Retroactively Impure - Now What?
Pesachim 79: Was the Korban Pesach Optional for Women?!
Pesachim 78: Ritual Sprinkling
Pesachim 77: The Holy Frontplate and Its Influence
Pesachim 76: When the Gravy Splashes the Meat
Pesachim 75: When Fire Isn't Just Fire
Pesachim 74: What's So Special about Pomegranate Wood?
Pesachim 73: Constructing and Uprooting
Pesachim 72: To Err Is Human (But Sometimes, There's No Good Excuse)
Pesachim 71: How We Rejoice
Pesachim 70: When the Entire Nation Was Impure (or Could Have Been)
Pesachim 69: The Student Akiva
Pesachim 68: Whence Resurrection of the Dead?
Pesachim 67: 3 Camps of Impurity: The Tip of the Iceberg
Pesachim 66: When Israel's Sages Needed Hillel the Babylonian to Explain the Sacrifices
Pesachim 65: The Bloody Pageantry of the Korban Pesach
Pesachim 64: Throngs of People Enter the Beit HaMikdash
Pesachim 63: When Saying Other Than You Mean Isn't Hypocrisy
Pesachim 62: Even Beruriah Couldn't Have Learned 300 Halakhot in 3 Months
Pesachim 61: The Challenge of Inclusion
Pesachim 60: Can You Bring a Korban Pesach on the Wrong Day?!
Pesachim 59: Sacrificial Parts
Pesachim 58: Busy, Busy Day
Pesachim 57: The Kohanim Who Took the Lunch Money
Pesachim 56: Rabbinic Reprimand
Pesachim 55: Holier Than Thou
Pesachim 54: Partners in Creation
Pesachim 53: A Jewish Leader in Rome
Pesachim 52: Breaking Yom Tov
Pesachim 51: In Trouble for NOT Following the Local Practice
Pesachim 50: A Talmudic Near-Death Experience
Pesachim 49: Biting a Torah Scholar Like a Donkey Would
Pesachim 48: When 3 Women Bake Matzah
Pesachim 47: Advanced Preparation
Pesachim 46: The Benefit of Discretion, the Principle of "Since" (again), and Deaf Dough
Pesachim 45: The Dregs of Chametz
Pesachim 44: Time, Amount, Taste: Eating in Halakhah
Pesachim 43: Aren't Women Obligated in Pesach?!
Pesachim 42: When in Doubt, Do or Do Without?
Pesachim 41: Don't Add Flour to Your Haroset
Pesachim 40: They're Still Figuring It Out
Pesachim 39: Wherefore Horseradish?!
Pesachim 38: What's Not Written in the Torah
Pesachim 37: How Thick Is Your Matzah?
Pesachim 36: So Much Unleavened Bread
Pesachim 35: Wheat Is Wheat Is Wheat
Pesachim 34: Planting to Purify
Pesachim 33: Juicy Fruit
Pesachim 32: Value vs. Volume
Pesachim 31: Chametz, Chametz, Everywhere
Pesachim 30: Pesach Inflation
Pesachim 29: Prohibition Combos
Pesachim 28: Dumpster Diving
Pesachim 27: Extreme Burn
Pesachim 26: In the Shadow of the Beit HaMikdash
Pesachim 25: Undesirable Benefits
Pesachim 24: The Role of Normalcy in Floggings
Pesachim 23: The Process of Elimination
Pesachim 22: Do You Have Any... Filet Mignon?
Pesachim 21: Chametz Liability
Pesachim 20: Sprinkling Wine Is a Thing
Pesachim 19: Pure Spit
Pesachim 18: Back to the Leviticus Source: Text vs. Logic
Pesachim 17: Inside Outside
Pesachim 16: Liquid Pure
Pesachim 15: Purity vs. Impurity - It's Just a Status
Pesachim 14: Entering the World of Tumah and Taharah
Pesachim 13: Why Eliyahu Won't Show Up on Shabbat
Pesachim 12: As Clear as Day
Pesachim 11: Gaps in Time
Pesachim 10: The Mouse House
Pesachim 9: Rava Had a Sense of Humor
Pesachim 8: Are Mitzvot a Good-luck Charm?!
Pesachim 7: Finding the Right Words
Pesachim 6: Rules of Gemara Logic
Pesachim 5: Such Need for the Biblical Text
Pesachim 4: If a Women Says a House Is Chametz-free, Do We Believe Her?
Pesachim 3: The Mic Is Live
Pesachim 2: When Day Is Really Night
Eruvin 105: The Value of the Loophole: Eruvin Revisited
Eruvin 104: Somebody's Knocking (Should You Let Him in?)
Eruvin 103: Temple Space and the Power of the Group
Eruvin 102: The Man Who Mistook His Hat for a Tent
Eruvin 101: The Walled City of Jerusalem Sleeps
Eruvin 100: The 10 Curses of Eve
Eruvin 99: Polite Company
Eruvin 98: Bodily Fluids and the Public Domain
Eruvin 97: Old-New Tefillin
Eruvin 96: The One about Michal bat Shaul and Her Tefillin
Eruvin 95: The Limits of Carrying
Eruvin 94: Turning Away, Out of Respect and Principle
Eruvin 93: Our Human Manipulation of Space
Eruvin 92: Big Roof, Little Roof
Eruvin 91: Not Anything Goes
Eruvin 90: Rebuke and Playing Nicely Together
Eruvin 89: A Whole New World... of Rooftops
Eruvin 88: Bring Your Towel
Eruvin 87: Drawing Water in the Galilee
Eruvin 86: Torah Is Not a Commodity
Eruvin 85: Friday Brunch (as it were)
Eruvin 84: The Sages as World Travelers
Eruvin 83: Up the Down Staircase
Eruvin 82: Developmental Milestones in Eruvin
Eruvin 81: Gourmet Bread Not Fit for a Dog
Eruvin 80: Behind the Husband's Back
Eruvin 79: Learning from the 3 Little Pigs
Eruvin 78: A Lion Crouches at the Entrance
Eruvin 77: Something There Is That Loves a Wall
Eruvin 76: The Optional Cooperative
Eruvin 75: Rav Yosef's Loss
Eruvin 74: The Solitary Home of Ivut bar Ihi
Eruvin 73: From the Rabbi's House
Eruvin 72: Where You Lay Your Head Down
Eruvin 71: Oil and Wine Don't Mix (Usually)
Eruvin 70: Shabbat Status Quo
Eruvin 69: Home Hospitality
Eruvin 68: The Race to the Courtyard
Eruvin 67: The Advantage of a Private Second Entrance
Eruvin 66: Non-Jews on the Courtyard
Eruvin 65: Night Was Created for Sleep
Eruvin 64: "What an excellent halakhah!"
Eruvin 63: Why Joshua Died Childless
Eruvin 62: No Eruv with Non-Jews
Eruvin 61: Getting Drunk on Shabbat
Eruvin 60: The Gemara Is Not Incomprehensible Song Lyrics!
Eruvin 59: The Push for Leniencies in Eruvin
Eruvin 58: Techum and Terrain
Eruvin 57: Three Cities and the Precise Distance between Them
Eruvin 56: How to Square a City
Eruvin 55: Dwellers of Huts
Eruvin 54: The Curative Powers of Torah Study
Eruvin 53: The Eye of a Needle
Eruvin 52: Diminishing Eruv Techumin
Eruvin 51: Open Questions
Eruvin 50: The Time Rav Argued with a Beraita
Eruvin 49: The Moral Lesson of Eruv
Eruvin 48: The Forearm of Og, King of the Bashan
Eruvin 47: Those Red-blooded Young Men of Judea
Eruvin 46: When the Many Dispute the One, and the One Wins
Eruvin 45: If Enemies Come to Kill You, Defend Yourself
Eruvin 44: A Willingness to Help
Eruvin 43: When We're Too Busy to Welcome the Messiah
Eruvin 42: Blurring Eruv Techumin with Eruv Chatzerot
Eruvin 41: Fast Days, Feast Days, and When They Meet
Eruvin 40: Taking Time Seriously
Eruvin 39: When Rosh Hashanah Falls on Rosh Chodesh
Eruvin 38: One Kedushah, Two Kedushah
Eruvin 37: Retroactive Designation
Eruvin 36: Wherefore Eruv Techumin?
Eruvin 35: If You Come to Move It, Move It
Eruvin 34: Accessing the Physical Eruv (Or Not)
Eruvin 33: Oh, Go Hang Your Eruv in a Tree
Eruvin 32: Trusting the System
Eruvin 31: Letting Yourself Off the Mitzvah Hook
Eruvin 30: Not Everyone Agrees that the Loopholes Work
Eruvin 29: Wine, Beer, and Food Coloring
Eruvin 28: That Food Isn't Food, But Isn't That Food Food?
Eruvin 27: Don't Take the Language of the Mishnah Too Literally (says the Gemara!)
Eruvin 26: When the Sages Do Well (and When They Do Not)
Eruvin 25: Hosting in Your Pavilion on Shabbat
Eruvin 24: Seeing the Water for the Trees
Eruvin 23: When a Mishnah Steers You Wrong
Eruvin 22: A Road Runs through It
Eruvin 21: The Infinite Oral Torah
Eruvin 20: Watering the Animals
Eruvin 19: The Jewish Hell
Eruvin 18: If She Walks in Front of You, You May Not Follow
Eruvin 17: A Permit to Carry on Shabbat
Eruvin 16: A Wall Made of 3 Ropes and Air
Eruvin 15: Live Animals May Wander Away
Eruvin 14: Rabbinic Geometry Represent!
Eruvin 13: Why Beit Hillel Trumps Beit Shammai
Eruvin 12: Panels and Posts
Eruvin 11: Doorways of... Eruvin
Eruvin 10: Of Sideposts, Wide Alleyways, and a Toilet
Eruvin 9: When Like Finds Like
Eruvin 8: The Case of the Kahanas
Eruvin 7: How to Not Be Wicked - and Also Not a Fool
Eruvin 6: Lock Up Your City at Night
Eruvin 5: Creating a Wall Out of Thin Air
Eruvin 4: The Seven Species and What They Teach
Eruvin 3: Someone Will Take Care of It, Right?
Eruvin 2: A Loophole to Protect Shabbat
Shabbat 157: Anticlimactic Measuring of Water in a Tub
Shabbat 156: When God Moved Jupiter to Help Abraham
Shabbat 155: Camels, Dogs, and Feeding Them
Shabbat 154: Why Rabban Gamliel's Donkey Died
Shabbat 153: "Repent, for tomorrow ye shall die"
Shabbat 152: Confronting Human Mortality
Shabbat 151: King David Can't Do Mitzvot Now
Shabbat 150: Going to the Circus on Shabbat
Shabbat 149: The Writing on the Wall
Shabbat 148: Better That People Should Sin Less
Shabbat 147: Why We Don't Go Swimming on Shabbat
Shabbat 146: A Legacy from the Serpent
Shabbat 145: Don't Yuck My Yum, or: There's No Accounting for Taste
Shabbat 144: Pomegranate Juice
Shabbat 143: Toss the Date-Pits behind the Couch
Shabbat 142: Put a Child on the Brick and Carry Them Both
Shabbat 141: New Shoes!
Shabbat 140: The Advice of R. Hisda
Shabbat 139: Leadership and Leniencies
Shabbat 138: Forgetting Torah
Shabbat 137: Possible Confusions in Brit Milah
Shabbat 136: The Significance of 30 Days
Shabbat 135: Born Circumcised
Shabbat 134: Talmudic Neonatalogy
Shabbat 133: "Metzitzah BaPeh"
Shabbat 132: The Rock Paper Scissors of Overriding Shabbat
Shabbat 131: Overriding Shabbat
Shabbat 130: Peacock Parmesan
Shabbat 129: Lenient about Shabbat, Strict about Health
Shabbat 128: Ostriches and Elephants and Chickadees (Oh My!)
Shabbat 127: Giving Credit Even If It Isn't Due
Shabbat 126: Hanging Doors, Container Covers, and Cleaning Up for Guests
Shabbat 125: Leaving Muktzah
Shabbat 124: Turning Broken Vessels into Vessels
Shabbat 123: The Extreme Origins of Muktzah
Shabbat 122: Light One Candle
Shabbat 121: The 5 Dangerous Creatures
Shabbat 120: (Not) Burning Down the House
Shabbat 119: Preparing for Shabbat
Shabbat 118: The Five Sons of Rabbi Yosi
Shabbat 117: Literally, a Bun (or Several) in the Oven
Shabbat 116: Fighting Evangelism
Shabbat 115: Holy Letters
Shabbat 114: Torah Scholars Who Build the World
Shabbat 113: The Spirit of Shabbat
Shabbat 112: The Donkeys Who Kept Kosher
Shabbat 111: All of Bnei Yisrael Are Princes
Shabbat 110: A Snake Who Desires a Woman
Shabbat 109: A Cornucopia of Talmudic Pharmaceuticals
Shabbat 108: When Rav Curses Shmuel and It Works
Shabbat 107: Would You Rather Be a Camel or a Louse? (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Shabbat 106: Fly High, Free Bird
Shabbat 105: When You Rend, in Anguish or Anger
Shabbat 104: Writing (and Not-Writing) the Name of God
Shabbat 103: A Chicken without Its Head May Run Around, But Then It Surely Dies
Shabbat 102: Sticking the Landing
Shabbat 101: Boats and Little Goats
Shabbat 100: 4 Mishnayot and a Hanging Question
Shabbat 99: When a Rabbi's Answer Doesn't Sit Well with Another Rabbi
Shabbat 98: For the Visual Learners among Us (and Also for Everyone Else)
Shabbat 97: The Road to Gossip
Shabbat 96: Catch!
Shabbat 95: God Created Eve from the Rib of Adam
Shabbat 94: We Are Very Hygienic Today
Shabbat 93: Making a Show of Support
Shabbat 92: "Regular" Carrying - Right Hand, Left Hand, Lap, Shoulder... Head?
Shabbat 91: Carrying Is Never Just Carrying
Shabbat 90: Chasing Crows
Shabbat 89: Where the Satan Goes, There Go Questions That Best Mankind
Shabbat 88: Who Needs Free Will Anyway?
Shabbat 87: Which Do You Want First -- Good News or Bad News?
Shabbat 86: No Comfort Hugs at Mount Sinai?
Shabbat 85: How Much Agriculture Did the Rabbis Really Know?!
Shabbat 84: Little Boxes, Impure Boxes (for Friday, May 29, 2020, Shavuot)
Shabbat 83: A Ship Is Not Impure
Shabbat 82: When Everyone Has a Remedy for You
Shabbat 81: Bathroom Etiquette (and Shabbat)
Shabbat 80: How Not to Prepare Your Daughter for Marriage
Shabbat 79: Recycling Sifrei Torah (No)
Shabbat 78: Blue Eyeshadow
Shabbat 77: The Need for Mosquitoes in the World
Shabbat 76: Food for a Cow, Food for a Camel, and Luggage Weight Limits
Shabbat 75: Killing Is Not in the Spirit of Shabbat
Shabbat 74: The Problem of Seedless Watermelon
Shabbat 73: The 39 Melakhot of Shabbat
Shabbat 72: My Mitzvah Can Beat Up Your Mitzvah
Shabbat 71: When Eating Fat Is Literally a Sin
Shabbat 70: Keeping Shabbat Is Hard
Shabbat 69: On the *Second* Day, Adam (and Eve) Rested
Shabbat 68: When You Forget What Day It Is, and That Day Is Shabbat
Shabbat 67: The Big Red Tree
Shabbat 66: Transferring a Fever to a Passing Ant (Not on Shabbat!)
Shabbat 65: Are We Wearing Our Masks - or Carrying Them?
Shabbat 64: Erotic in the Eye of the Beholder
Shabbat 63: Swords into Ploughshares
Shabbat 62: Rabbi Meir: Tefillin Are Not a Positive, Time-bound Commandment (Wait, what?!)
Shabbat 61: Medicinal Amulets
Shabbat 60: The Story of the Nailed Sandal
Shabbat 59: The Queen of England Does Not Show Off Her Crown
Shabbat 58: What Makes a Bell a Bell?
Shabbat 57: With Ribbons in Her Hair
Shabbat 56: In the Footsteps of Repentance
Shabbat 55: The Scarlet Tav
Shabbat 54: The Place of Rebuke
Shabbat 53: Why Coffee Is Allowed on Shabbat (a good thing, too)
Shabbat 52: An Unruly Red Heifer
Shabbat 51: Herding Cats
Shabbat 50: Washing Your Face in the Service of God
Shabbat 49: Doves' Wings
Shabbat 48: Keeping the Soup Hot Friday Night
Shabbat 47: What Do Clothes Mean to You? Halakhic Subjectivity (in a good way)
Shabbat 46: Living Proof
Shabbat 45: When You Hang a Burning Lamp in Your Palm Tree
Shabbat 44: Ick, don't touch that! Exactly.
Shabbat 43: The Untranslatable Muktzah
Shabbat 42: When You Dig a Hole, Do You Need the Hole, or Do You Need the Dirt?
Shabbat 41: Role Models
Shabbat 40: No Showers on Shabbat
Shabbat 39: Heated by Hellfire
Shabbat 38: Putting One Over on Hilkhot Shabbat - Temporarily
Shabbat 37: None of These Melakhot Is Exactly as It Seems
Shabbat 36: We Don't Always Know What the Words Mean - and the Gemara Agrees
Shabbat 35: The First Pre-Shabbat Siren
Shabbat 34: The Twilight Zone, Literally
Shabbat 33: Unfair Stereotyping of Women in the Ancient World - Unlocked! (Maybe)
Shabbat 32: Scare Tactics
Shabbat 31: "Go and learn!"
Shabbat 30: When King David Tried to Cheat the Angel of Death
Shabbat 29: MacGyvering Shabbat Candles
Shabbat 28: It's a Unicorn!
Shabbat 27: Strange and Stranger Mitzvot, and What We Learn from Them
Shabbat 26: Don't Let Your Daughter-in-Law Catch on Fire
Shabbat 25: Who Is Rich? Those Who Have Indoor Plumbing
Shabbat 24: Ambivalence about the Sages' Ambivalence about Chanukah
Shabbat 23: Like It or Not, People Gossip
Shabbat 22: Repurposing Chanukah Candles? Nope
Shabbat 21: There's No Masekhet Chanukah
Shabbat 20: Does My Toast Have Crunch?
Shabbat 19: Your Dog Can Break Shabbos
Shabbat 18: "Set It and Forget It" - A Daf of Modern Shabbat Issues
Shabbat 17: The Sword in the Study Hall
Shabbat 16: When All of the Vessels in the Palace Were Impure
Shabbat 15: When Rabbinic Decrees Create Stability
Shabbat 14: Making the Torah Off-Limits
Shabbat 13: A Fool Is Not Harmed (or: The Dead Feel No Pain)
Shabbat 12: Did Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha Break Shabbos?!
Shabbat 11: If All the Seas Were Ink
Shabbat 10: Is Prayer Like a Good Meal?
Shabbat 9: Get Your Hair Done in the Morning
Shabbat 8: It Doesn't Matter How You Use Your Domain
Shabbat 7: Throw a Juicy Cake of Figs against a Wall
Shabbat 6: Looking for the Beginning, Middle, and End
Shabbat 5: What If You Never Stop Walking?
Shabbat 4: When Is Flying through the Air Like Resting on the Ground?
Shabbat 3: Uprooting and Letting Rest - Carrying in Halakhah
Shabbat 2 use this link
Shabbat 2 (Re-release): That's No Introduction to Shabbat!
Berakhot 64: The Finish Line of Masekhet Berakhot
Berakhot 63: Power Play (and Win)
Berakhot 62: Sex Ed, Up Close and Personal
Berakhot 61: Rabbi Akiva's Moment of Death and Shema
Berakhot 60: Happy Is the Person Who Is Always Scared
Berakhot 59: We Don't Bless God for the Suez Canal
Berakhot 58: We Are All Individuals!
Berakhot 57: Deepest, Darkest, Fearsome Racy Dreams Writ Well
Berakhot 56: Dreaming of Elephants
Berakhot 55: Say You Had a Good Dream, and Your Dream Was Good NOTE: RELEASED PRE-EDIT. FIXED NOW
Berakhot 54: Hailstones Hovering in the Air
Berakhot 53: The Flame of the Candle Is Always a New Flame
Berakhot 52: Ignore That Voice from Heaven Telling You What to Do
Berakhot 51: What Would Make YOU Smash 400 Barrels of Wine?
Berakhot 50: Transformations
Berachot 49: Eat When You Want
Berakhot 48: When Abaye and Rava Were Little Kids
Berakhot 47: Ignoramuses in Our Midst
Berakhot 46: God's Favor: The Corpses Did Not Decompose
Berakhot 45: Zimun vs. Bentsching (Also Women)
Berakhot 44: Were Hazal on Drugs?
Berakhot 43: Dress Up a Pig and It Will Still Roll in the Mud
Berakhot 42: Warning: Gluten Ahead
Berakhot 41: A Barley-grain-sized Piece of Bone from a Corpse (Understanding the 7 Species)
Berakhot 40: Adam and Eve Ate What?!
Berakhot 39: What's Better Than Sliced Bread?
Berakhot 38: Breaking Bread
Berakhot 37: So, You Think Rice Is HaMotzi?
Berakhot 36: Medicine Is Not Food
Berakhot 35: Don't Steal from God!
Berakhot 34: God Knows Who You're Praying For
Berakhot 33: Lions and Snakes and Scorpions, Oh My!
Berakhot 32: The Golden Calf Was All God's Fault
Berakhot 31: No, of course Hannah wasn't drunk
Berakhot 30: Kavanah, Kavanah, Kavanah!
Berakhot 29: The Advantages of Praying by Heart
Berakhot 28: Leadership and the Value of Machloket
Berakhot 27: If Maariv Is Optional, Why Do We Daven 3x/Day?
Berakhot 26: Now We Have Prayer
Berakhot 25: We're Not Angels
Berakhot 24: Naked!
Berakhot 23: Distractions
Berakhot 22: What Can a Ba'al Keri Who Hasn't Dunked Do?
Berakhot 21: It Takes 10 to Make a Minyan
Berakhot 20: Generation Gaps
Berakhot 19: The Case of Kilayim and Stripping in the Marketplace
Berakhot 18: Death Be Not Proud
Berakhot 17: The Power of Unique Prayer
Berakhot 16: The Shema You Recite Up in a Tree
Berakhot 15: What If You Don't "Hear" Shema?
Berakhot 14: If women don't lay tefilin, can they say Shema?
Berakhot 13: Focusing Your Heart
Berakhot 12: How Wrong Is Wrong?
Berakhot 11: "Your beard is very full" - A Matter of Debate
Berakhot 10: Beruriah and Praying from the Depths
Berakhot 9: Different Opinions (Shocking, We Know)
Berakhot 8: The Dramatic Innovation of Those 4 Cubits of Halakhah
Berakhot 7: Blessing God
Berakhot 6: Encountering God
Berakhot 5: The Problem of Evil
Berakhot 4: Moshe, David, and Redemption
Berakhot Daf 3: When the dog barked, it was much later than midnight
Introduction and Berakhot 2