Besides meeting “Ya’akov the heretic” and “Rabbi Elazar HaKappar the Distinguished” on our daf today, we have two great gems. The first is quite the argument for eating less meat! The Torah taught that it is a desired mode of behavior that a person should consume meat due only to appetite. That is, one shouldContinue reading “Chullin 84”
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Chullin 83
A couple of gems we can pull out of this rule: Rabbi Ya’akov says: This is not for that reason [hashem]. Rather, it is because it is a prohibition that does not involve an action. The transgression is simply the failure to consume all the meat during the allotted time rather than the performance ofContinue reading “Chullin 83”
Chullin 82
Don’t you hate it when people cut in line? The other day, I was driving and someone cut in front of me and they made the light before it turned red and I didn’t. Enter our daf: With regard to two people who purchased a cow and its offspring, where each purchased one of theContinue reading “Chullin 82”
Chullin 81
Does it still count? We have been discussing the mitzvah of not slaughtering a mother and her child on the same day. Today’s daf asks how this applies if the slaughter has another issue attached to it, so it doesn’t achieve it’s goal. Specifically, What if the animal was a tereifa and was not kosher? WhatContinue reading “Chullin 81”
Chullin 80
Will the real koy please stand up? The daf has been debating the identity of a koy. Yesterday, we heard that it is a hybrid resulting from a deer who mates with a female goat.. Today, we learn it might be it’s own species Rav Yehuda says: A koy is a distinct entity, and theContinue reading “Chullin 80”
Chullin 79
Today’s daf discusses hybrid animals, what animals are allowed to mate with them, and the status of their offspring. The offspring of a male horse (stallion) and a female donkey (jenny) is called a hinny. The offspring of a female horse and a male donkey is called a mule. The daf discusses the offspring ofContinue reading “Chullin 79”
Chullin 78
Today the daf shifts to discussing one of my favorite commandments (I only love about 500 or the 613 haha). MISHNA: The prohibition against slaughtering an animal itself and its offspring applies both in Eretz Yisrael and outside of Eretz Yisrael, both in the presence, i.e., the time, of the Temple and not in theContinue reading “Chullin 78”
Chullin 77
There is so much to learn from other cultures – both good and bad (most being neither). The first of the 10 Commandments is against idolatry and we are warned not to follow the practices of other cultures when it comes to who they worship and how they worship. But, on our daf today, weContinue reading “Chullin 77”
Chullin 76
How many times do you replay a scenario in your head and come up with the best response! If only you had said it then . . . well, same for Rav Yehuda. After Ulla left, Rav Yehuda said to himself: What is the reason that I did not say to him the following resolution…Continue reading “Chullin 76”
Chullin 75
Today’s gem: people remember any bizarre matter. This is so true! The weirder the more it sticks. With 11 months to go before finishing reading the Talmud, it is the weird passages that stick in my head the most: The sukkah on the boat that flew overboard, the rabbi asking his student to go andContinue reading “Chullin 75”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 