Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so
I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of the daf yomi speedway—I invite you to daf shvu'i, a weekly page of Talmud. In about 40-50 minutes you can learn a page of Talmud. No previous experience required.
Episodes
121 episodes
Daf Shvui/Weekly Baba Bathra Daf 120b-121b
We are more or less done with the daughters of Zelophehad, (though are we ever really done with the daughters of Zelophehad?), but we are continuing with a midrashic sugya dedicated to the sanctification of the month/shabat/the curious...
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Season 8
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Episode 13
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24:59
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 120a-121a
On this pod, recorded and uploaded just before Pesach, we are gliding in for a landing on the large Daughters of Zelophehad midrashic run we've had for the past few dapim. Great to go into the seder thinking about the history of standing up to ...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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22:03
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 119a-120a
There's more to talk about and learn about. The seemingly endless tale of the daughters of Zelophehad and Moshe. Including in this week's episode—what happened in the study hall? All in this week's daf.This week's daf can found in the f...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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21:30
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 117b-119a
We're still working through the halakhic details of the case of the daughters of Zelophehad, and we've added working through the details of the Josephites and their claim for more land, and others who were denied a portion in the Land of Israel...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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37:39
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 116b-117b
Its a tour of Tannaitic texts, a veritable a Mishnah, Midrash, and Tosefta fabula in this week's daf. We focus on the daughters of Zelophehad and their inheritance and how that intertwines with the detailed discussions of inheriting the Land. <...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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27:57
Daf Shuvi/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 116a-116b
This week, within the continuing discussion of the line of inheritance we visit one of the most awful stories in the book of Judges, we check in on Solomon's worthiness to rule, we get some rules to live by and we bring to an end, the discussio...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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23:24
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 115a-116a
We finish the Talmudic discussion of the first mishnah and begin the discussion of the second mishnah. We also witness a throw down between Sages and Sadducees. (Spoiler alert: the Sages win.)All in this week's daf. This week's daf ...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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30:02
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 114a-114b
Two new questions this week: 1. How long following an acquisition, a qinyan can one renege from the acquisition? 2. Why does the mishnah twice note, in different ways, that a woman does not inherit from her son even though she may ...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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17:11
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 113a-114a
Still trying to figure out the order of inheritance. You'd be surprised how many different paths to bequeath and inherit there are. And then a short conversation about the judicial mechanics of inheriting, and a jaunt into "the rabbis don't kno...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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23:01
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 112a-112b
Once again into the breach. Can a husband inherit from his wife from the Torah? Or can only a son inherit from his mother? Three versions of the conversation in this week's daf.Also the two poems that I read this week were from Leah Naomi G...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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26:20
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 110b-112a
Still trying to figure out the patriarchal precedence in inheritance. Zecharyah ben Haqatzav putting up futile resistance to the patriarchal hegemony. A fun little story about a rabbi on rabbi beatdown. And, of course, the gemara is worri...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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41:33
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 110a-110b
This week we dive into a discussion of the idol of Micah which somewhat/somehow clarifies what the importance or significance of inheritance lines is. Then we get back into about who inherits—son or daughter?All in this week's daf.This ...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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44:22
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Batra 109a-110a
We are continuing our discussion of who inherits whom, and why is it the male? We also dip our toes into a more spiritual or ethical understanding of inheritance. All in this week's daf. This week's daf can found in the following pl...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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34:15
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 108a-109a
It's a new chapter and a new conversation in which the Mishnah and then the Talmud takes on the question of inheritance—where did possession all start? Is that good or bad? Who gets to inherit? (Spoiler alert, on the whole, inheritance is anoth...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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38:50
Another Daf Shvui classic; our conversation with Charlottee Fonrobert
To celebrate the completion of the second chapter of Baba Batra, I invited Charlotte Fonrobert, a professor in the Religious Studies department at Stanford University w...
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43:27
Rerun of the amazing conversation with Prof. Alyssa Gray
(the original description:)In order to mark and celebrate the completion of the first chapter of Baba Bathra, we invited Prof. Alyssa Gray to discuss her new book Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness. ...
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43:09
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 107a-108a
This is a hadran episode! We are finishing the seventh chapter and wishing it "see you soon" (what hadran means). This week we continue the conversation about dividing land and how to do that fairly.This week's daf can found in the ...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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28:17
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 106a-106b
Once more unto the breach. Can we nail down what is intended in the sale of a piece of property? How much off the mark can the assessment be before it is fraud? And what about the original division of the Land of Israel? All in this week's daf....
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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31:24
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 104b-105b
This week we delve into another case of saying things with words, and then finding out that perhaps it is not the words but the possession. We also look at an example of the artistry of the stam. Its wild; and its all in this week's daf.Thi...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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35:57
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 103b-104b
And … we're back. We're still talking about what the language of buying and selling means. When is a little more or less land in a deal a mistake or a fraud? Its all in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found in the following plac...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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27:54
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 102b-103b
Its a new chapter! Its more of the same amazing conversation! What do words mean? Legally? Is a kur a kur? Is the hole part of the field? Part of the whole?Its all in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found in the following places...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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31:49
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 101b-102b
We finish the Sixth Chapter this week in a discussion of found graves and abandoned graveyards. We also start the seventh chapter. just a bit.All in this week's daf.This week's daf can be found in the following places:1. Vilna page ...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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34:44
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 100b-101b
Burial caves, the space of death, ground zero of space and place, in this week's daf. This week's daf can be found in the following places:1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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27:33
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 99b-100b
We continue this week with an interesting discussion of the ways that the people's perogatives impinge on private property. And the final space—the grave.All in this week's daf.This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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38:54
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 99a-100a
This week we conclude the conversation about the magical, mystery ark and cherubs. Then we are back with a discussion of place and ownership, and whether or not and how individual ownership intersects with or confronts public claims.All in ...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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34:32