We and masechet Shevuot with a final rundown of what happens when someone else has your item/animal and something happens to it. We get the 4 different categories of people who would be watching the item, what might happen, and then all the ways someone might make a false oath about what happened to theContinue reading “Shevuot 49”
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Shevuot 45
In this book of oaths, we get a situation today where an employer hires a worker and then isn’t sure if he paid the worker or not! He thinks he did, but the worker says he hasn’t been paid – so, what do they do? Who takes the oath? The Sages uprooted the oath fromContinue reading “Shevuot 45”
Shevuot 43
One of the saddest places to shop, if not the saddest, is a pawn shop. I can remember the first time I went into one, realizing that every item for sale represented a previous owner that was in financial straights. Maybe a few were people just selling things they no longer needed, but most whoContinue reading “Shevuot 43”
Shevuot 40- 41
Today’s gem is the “oath of inducement.” Before your eyes glaze over, the rabbis say the oath of inducement is like: grabbing him by his testicles [bekhuveseih] until he surrenders his cloak. So, not as boring as one might think. So, what is an oath of inducement? We have learned that, according to Torah law,Continue reading “Shevuot 40- 41”
Shevuot 32
A hairy situation on the daf today. If you need two witnesses to a crime, what happens when the second witness is the criminal himself . . . only he says he only took back what was rightfully his? As there was a certain man who snatched a silver ingot from another. The one fromContinue reading “Shevuot 32”
Shevuot 27
The oaths are getting stranger and stranger. Today, the daf teaches: If one takes an oath to refrain from performing a mitzva and he does not refrain, he is exempt from bringing an offering for an oath on an utterance. A person is swearing they will neglect to do a mitzvah . . . butContinue reading “Shevuot 27”
Shevuot 25
Sleep, glorious sleep! There is nothing worse then not being able to sleep. Today’s daf wonders, how long can we go without sleep? Can on e make a vow to go without sleep beyond what seems possible? The mishna teaches that if one takes an oath, saying: I will sleep, or: I will not sleep,Continue reading “Shevuot 25”
Shevuot 10
What do we do with leftovers? As someone who just had a big family event with quite a few leftovers, this popped out to me today: What do we do with animals and/or incense that was sanctified but not used? Ulla says that Rabbi Yoḥanan says: Lambs consecrated for the daily offerings that were notContinue reading “Shevuot 10”
Shevuot 6
Can yuo believe that we have a second day of discussing shades of white? But we get a great analogy between the 4 particular shades of white. This analogy tells us about who had the real power at the time. Rava said: A more precise analogy for the 4 shades of white would be, forContinue reading “Shevuot 6”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 