Thursday, September 18, 2014

Chagiga 13a - Teaching Torah To Goyim

›
I already posted about this issue 7.5 years ago. http://hearos.blogspot.com/2007/04/chagiga-13a-lifnei-iver-two-sides-of.html Aside fro...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Moed Kattan 20a - Regel Removing Shiva

›
The Mishna 19a says that if one buries a relative 3 days or more prior to yom tov, yom tov removes the shiva. The mishna implies that it mu...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Moed Kattan 15a - Status of Things Learned from Yechezkel

›
The gemara learns out many halachos of Aveilus from pesukim in Yechezkel. Yechezkel was told to behave like an avel yet forgo many of the h...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Megillah 7a - Kisvei HaKodesh Making Your Hands Tamei

›
I decided to write a shtikel torah b'zchus refuah sheleima of my dear friends son  who remains in a coma - נתן צבי בן שרה רבקה קשתיה.  ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Taanis 11a - One Who Fasts is Called a Sinner

›
Shmuel says that anyone who fasts is called a sinner for abstaining from the worldly pleasures that he is entitled to. The gemara draws a p...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Taanis 7a - Learning From a Talmid Chacham Who Acts Improperly

›
The gemara learns from the pasuk of כי ממנו תאכל ואותו לא תכרות that if one has a Rebbi who is a proper Talmid Chacham and acts in a manner...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Rosh Hashana 33a - Women for Time Bound Mitzvos

›
The gemara says that the machlokes whether women are allowed to blow shofar on RH is contingent on the machlokes whether they are permitted...