In good news – we seem to have moved on from incest stories! In other good news – we have physics and ball games! In bad news – people are accidentally being killed by balls bouncing off walls and hitting unintended targets. And the tanna taught a similar halakha in a baraita: In a caseContinue reading “Sanhedrin 77”
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Sanhedrin 76
Two lovely passages on today’s daf. While so much of the past few days have been about what not to do (specifically – not to sleep with relatives), this is all about what TO DO to be a good person. One who loves his wife as he loves himself, and who esteems her by givingContinue reading “Sanhedrin 76”
Sanhedrin 75
I love this passage. There was an incident involving a certain man who set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. And they came and asked doctors what was to be done with him. And the doctors said: He will have noContinue reading “Sanhedrin 75”
Sanhedrin 74
Today’s daf continues with the idea that there may be some thing one would rather die than do. like kill an innocent person. A certain person came before Rabba and said to him: The lord of my place, a local official, said to me: Go kill so-and-so, and if not I will kill you, what shall I do?Continue reading “Sanhedrin 74”
Sanhedrin 73
Today’s daf continues to discuss the laws surrounding a rodeph. The laws allow you to kill a person (a rodeph) who is pursuing you or another person in order to kill or rape you/them. Today’s daf gives us a Mishnah with a strange turn of phrase: מַצִּילִין אוֹתָן בְּנַפְשׁוֹ “these people are saved by theirContinue reading “Sanhedrin 73”
Sanhedrin 72
Today’s daf gives us the case of the rodeph, the pursuer. The rodeph is someone who is pursuing another either for the purposes of, or willingness to, kill them. On our daf today, the question is whether we can assume that someone who is robbing our house and who has broken in for that purspoe,Continue reading “Sanhedrin 72”
Sanhedrin 71
Over the past few dapim (pages), we have been seeing the qualifications for who counts as a “stubborn and rebellious son” get narrower and narrower. Today, it gets so narrow that the daf says: There has never been a stubborn and rebellious son and there will never be one in the future, as it isContinue reading “Sanhedrin 71”
Sanhedrin 70
We have been learning about who qualifies as a “rebellious son” and is therefore subject to stoning. Yesterday, we learned that there are only 3 months of a man’s life when he is the proper age. Today, we learn about his drinking and eating! He has to eat meat and drink wine. It has toContinue reading “Sanhedrin 70”
Sanhedrin 69
Today we get another example of the extremes our rabbis go to in order to rid themselves of the death penalty. Today’s example is that of the “rebellious son.” From where do we derive that a minor is exempt from the punishment imposed upon a stubborn and rebellious son? The Gemara comments: This question isContinue reading “Sanhedrin 69”
Sanhedrin 67
Oh wow. Today’s daf is all magic. It pulls back the curtain on many tricks others do in order to convince others that they have magical powers. However, it never denies that magic exists! Only that we (meaning Jews) should not rely on it. It also shows that the rabbis understood magic, not just theContinue reading “Sanhedrin 67”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 