Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Pesachim

Welcome to the Three Hundred Fourtieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Matthew Goldstone looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 81. Today we will explore the role of legal hermeneutical principles in extrapolating Jewish law from orally transmitted sources. Matthew Goldstone is a three year PhD student in Talmud at New York University. He […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Matthew Goldstone looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 80. Today we will discuss the question of actively rendering an individual impure in order for the community at large to be able to offer their sacrifices. We will look at two different […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Matthew Goldstone looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 79. In today’s daf we discuss the connection between normativity and the community. As we shall see, the state of the community can have a direct impact on the permissibility of what was […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Matthew Goldstone looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 78. Here we focus on three different topics that arise over the course of the daf: the difference between a mitzvah being pushed off entirely, or merely being placed into a state of […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 77. One of the central steps in the offering of sacrifices was the spilling of blood on the altar. Today’s daf addresses different aspect of this requirement and possible reasons why this […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 76. Today’s daf includes a further expansion of the discussion about certain principles relating to kashrut in general and Passover in particular. Two such examples are the important role of heat in […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 75. The Gemara continues its discussion about roasting the Korban Pesach. Today’s daf presents us with a possible contradiction between a stated law in the Mishnah and a narrative description of a […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 74. Today’s daf begins the seventh chapter of Massechet Pesahim, “Keitzad Tzolin”. This chapter focuses on the requirement to roast the Korban Pesach, prohibiting its cooking through any other means. The discussion […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 73. The Gemara continues the discussion about the invalidation of the Korban Pesach. A number of different scenarios are discussed, again focusing on the intention of the person bringing the sacrifice. An […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 72. If the 14th of Nisan fell on Shabbat, the Korban Pesach was still sacrificed, but the Gemara asked the question about what happens if the person offering the sacrifice had improper […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Thirtieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 71. When the Temple was in existence, the holiday experience for many Jews was centered around the offering of sacrifices in the Temple. There was an offering that was brought on every holiday […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 70. Today we are learning from the Gemara how to deal with the situation when one feels personally opposed to the decision of one’s rabbi or of the rabbinic leaders of […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 69. Today we weigh the relative values of three cardinal mitzvot: b’rit milah, korban pesach, and sh’mirat Shabbat. Martin S. Cohen is the rabbi of the Shelter Rock Jewish Center in […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 68. This daf focuses on negotiating the rabbis’ teachings about the days of the Messiah and the World to Come, and particularly with reference to the doctrine of the resurrection of […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 67. Today we will learn how to deal with people who behave poorly by contemplating the Torah’s laws regarding the way people who radiate tumah are to be banished from the […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 66. Today we will focus on learning to learn from others. And also dealing with the vexing question of whether the obligation to offer up the paschal offering on the Eve […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 65. Today we focus on setting modern attitudes towards animal sacrifice aside to find profundity and meaningful pageantry in the Gemara’s tales of the Temple in Jerusalem and its worship service. […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Martin S. Cohen looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 64. This episode focuses on the unity of the Jewish people as reflected in the Mishnah’s description of the actual way the zevach peisach was offered in ancient Jerusalem. Martin S. […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred Twenty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 63. You cannot have Hametz “upon” the Passover lamb. How close does the Hametz have to be to invalidate the sacrifice? Does it have to be almost on top of it to […]

Welcome to the Three Hundred First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 62. Today we will study two versions of a single story – in our Babylonian Talmud page, and one in the Jerusalem Talmud – reflecting different attitudes toward the hard facts of the […]