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Chullin 113

Our Torah portion this week teaches, “You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that the ETERNAL your God is giving you (Deuteronomy 25:15.” No cheating! No skimming off the top, no pinky of the scale. Our daf today gives a strange way weContinue reading “Chullin 113”

Chullin 112

What comes out when we’re under pressure? That’s the gem on today’s daf. The rabbis discuss how we can’t eat blood, and we may think that meat has no blood in it anymore, but if you cut the meat, blood might still come out of the cooked piece. Now the connection to us! We tendContinue reading “Chullin 112”

Chullin 111

On our daf we have Challah! And why challah is the only food that needs to be blessed at the table during your Shabbat meal. The Gemara relates: Rabba bar Rav Huna visited the house of Rabba bar Rav Naḥman and dined with him on Shabbat. They brought before him three se’a of fine breadContinue reading “Chullin 111”

Chullin 110

Today’s gem is just the idea that even people have different customs based on where they live (even if they’re all Jews), we call this minhag hamakom, the custom of the place. The Gemara relates: In Sura they would not eat udders at all, even torn and roasted. But in Pumbedita they would eat udders.Continue reading “Chullin 110”

Chullin 109

Meet Yalta, wife of Rav Nahman, daughter of the Exilarch. She is strong, witty, a feminist who knows here Torah. You may remember her from Berakhot 51 when she smashed a few hundred jugs of wine when Ulla failed to give her the cup of blessing because she was a woman. In Niddah, she didn’tContinue reading “Chullin 109”

Chullin 108

The daf is discussing if a small drop of milk lands into a large amount of meat, if it’s still kosher to eat it. There are two ideas, the first is that if the meat to milk ration is at least 60:1, it’s fine as long as the taste is not effected. On today’s dafContinue reading “Chullin 108”

Chullin 107

Today’s daf has an amazing section that teaches us to put the well being of our kids before strict adherence to halakhah; we get evil spirit; and we get a crying kid running to daddy when he is punished by his teacher! Let’s read: Come and hear, the school of Menashe taught that Rabban ShimonContinue reading “Chullin 107”

Chullin 106

Wash your hands before you eat! Why? Not because of germs. But because if you don’t, you might end up being fed pig meat instead of cow, or you might end up divorced or even dead!!! When Rav Dimi came from Eretz Yisrael he said: Due to the failure to wash with the first waters,Continue reading “Chullin 106”

Chullin 105

If you say you keep kosher, most people would understand that an aspect of that is not eating milk and cheese together. But how long do you have to wait between one to eat the other? We find out today! Rav Asi posed a dilemma to Rabbi Yoḥanan… How much time should one wait betweenContinue reading “Chullin 105”

Chullin 104

Today’s daf explains why chicken parmesan is not kosher while grasshopper parmesan would be. And the rabbis seem to weigh in on the viral vegetable debate! (Are there such a thing as vegetables? Broccoli = flower; green beans = legume, squash = gourd, etc.) It is prohibited to cook any meat of domesticated and undomesticatedContinue reading “Chullin 104”