Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat

Welcome to the Seventy Sixth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 77. In today’s episode, we try to make sense of the prohibition of “carrying”. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture and serves as scholar-in-residence in the Development Department […]

Welcome to the Seventy Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 76. Today we will focus on thoughts about the language we use upon concluding a chapter of Talmud. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture and serves as scholar-in-residence […]

Welcome to the Seventy Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 75. Today we look at to what extent the rabbis were citizens of the larger Roman cultural world, focusing on one small case study. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor of Talmud and […]

Welcome to the Seventy Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 74. In this episode we consider the permitted and prohibited types of selection on Shabbat and the melacha of borer. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture and serves […]

Welcome to the Seventy Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 73. In this episode we look at one small example of how rabbinic Judaism was influenced by its Roman context. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture and serves […]

Welcome to the Seventy First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Hoffman looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 72. In this episode we explore a fascinating Rashi that complicates modern conversations of the role of the “acceptance of the commandments” as a requisite for conversion. Rabbi David Hoffman is an assistant professor […]

Welcome to the Seventieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 71. On today’s daf, the gemara offers further permutations of combining different kinds of transgressions from the mishna and asking about the consequences. We conclude our study by asking again if the function of sacrifices […]

Welcome to the Sixty Nineth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 70. Today we consider what happens when you’re lost in the dessert and lose track of time. When and how do you celebrate Shabbat? And, what happens when you combine transgressions? Do you also […]

Welcome to the Sixty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 69. On today’s daf, we look at three different descriptions of what it means to transgress “b’shogeg.” How much knowledge must an offender have before he is guilty of crimes with the most serious […]

Welcome to the Sixty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 68. We begin a new chapter today which focuses on what one knows and what one knew in determining the consequences of Shabbat violations. At stake here is the very function of sacrifices: are […]

Welcome to the Sixty Sixth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 67. Shabbat 67 continues with therapies for all that ails you, from boils to bathroom demons. Along the way, the gemara allows for those practices that might actually have some benefit, even if those […]

Welcome to the Sixty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 66. Shabbat 66 begins with a continuation of those things that one can go out with on Shabbat. One of the things it allows is knots for boys. A discussion then ensues of ancient […]

Welcome to the Sixty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Shai Cherry looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 65. In this episode, the Talmud discusses those things that one may go out with on Shabbat without fear that they’ll be carried in such a way that would violate Shabbat. Along the way, […]

Welcome to the Sixty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 64. The first half of today’s page is concerned mostly with very specific rules of ritual purity as applied to different sorts of garments. It then turns to a homiletic exposition of Moses’ war […]

Welcome to the Sixty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 63. Today’s page is a mostly aggadic (homiletical) discussion, envisioning war and peace in messianic times, ethical guidance of how to be a good student of Torah, and a reflection on how to read […]

Welcome to the Sixty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 62. Today’s page focuses on gender categories, and whether women and men are subject to comparable rules on Shabbat clothing. We will also learn the surprising reason why the Talmud thinks one should not […]

Welcome to the Sixtieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 61. Today we review an extremely picayune rule – whether you should put on your right shoe or left shoe first – and the Talmud’s own humorous jibes at itself over this obsessive rule-making. We’ll […]

Welcome to the Fifty Nineth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 60. Today we will discuss the prohibition against wearing sandals held together with nails on Shabbat. The Talmud offers a somewhat farfetched explanation for this law, referring it to a fatal stampede that happened […]

Welcome to the Fifty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 59. Today we will focus on the Talmud’s allusions to sages both famous and those you’ve never heard of, including a rabbi who is described here as the chief of the academy, but who […]

Welcome to the Fifty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 58. On today’s page we state the principle that on Shabbat one should not wear any item that might plausibly have to be carried in public – either to show it off or to […]