Dust and Ashes Sometimes the Talmud notices details we would otherwise skim past. On today’s daf, Rava says: As reward for that which our Patriarch Abraham said: “And I am but dust [afar] and ashes” (Genesis 18:27), his children merited two mitzvot: The ashes of the red heifer (see Numbers, chapter 19) and the dustContinue reading “Chullin 88”
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Sanhedrin 89
Today we have a passage of Talmud studied by all rabbis and leaders of the High Holy Days. On Rosh haShana, we read of the binding of Isaac, when God calls upon Abraham to sacrifice his son. There are so many questions surrounding that scene. Our daf answers a few of them: Apropos the bindingContinue reading “Sanhedrin 89”
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