Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so

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Why was R. Yirmiyah kicked out of the study hall? Another resolution this week, along with imaginary women's anatomy, wine casks on a river, and hiding wine in a vineyard. Ultimately the question is not the question, the question is about authority. All in this week's daf.
So… join me in the "safer at home" bet midrash. Shelter in Torah for a bit.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Doves or pigeons, at home and away. Posing questions of boundaries and ownership, flight paths, theft, inside and out. The doves, and Rabbi Yirmiyah who is kicked out of the study hall.
Join me in this study. Shelter in Torah for a bit.
This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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We continue urban planning. The mishnah and gemara interrogating the issues between neighbors of walls, windows, dovecotes, and mongeese, bloodletters, and ravens. Is the end of your property actually the end of your property? These issues and more in this week's daf.
So...Come on in to the bet midrash/the study hall! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Daf Shvui afficianados come for the Talmud but get hooked by the ads. Responding to the general clamor (okay, I'll admit it wasn't so general nor so very clamorous) for these bite size bits of buffoonery and banter, here are all the ads in one montage. 

The world is insane. Here's something you'll laugh at. I hope.

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When Sages compete in the war of Torah, does this competition bring in its wake more and greater wisdom? Or more and greater pain? This is perhaps one of the subtexts of this week's daf, woven in and about the question of who has access to the market, and who grants access to that market.
So...Come on in to the bet midrash/the study hall! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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The rabbi's central preoccupation, to quote Daniel Boyarin, is reproducing rabbis. Rabbis' sons who went "off the derekh/path" were considered "vinegar son of wine." However, how early does one start to teach the children; the future Sages? Is there any basis to the truism that universal Jewish education was a thing already during the time of the second Temple? (spoiler alert: no.) And what about unfair competition? These are the issues that this week's daf delves into.
So...Come on in to the bet midrash/the study hall! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.
And have a wonderful end of Pesach (if you celebrate it).

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Talmud is an ancient text, a product of late antiquity, but also an artifact of early modernity and burgeoning technology of the printing press, which also brought it into conflict with the Church which controlled the presses to some extent. This week's daf forces us to dip into this also.
So...Welcome! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.
And have a wonderful Pesach (if you celebrate it).

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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One of the fascinating characteristics of Talmudic debate and discussion is that it does not distinguish between the material and the spiritual; between the rote and the extraordinary—everything is attended to by the discourse, the give and take, of the Sages. This week's daf is a prime example of a sugya/a discussion which centers and lifts up the seemingly mundane aspects of life from the dung that is used to soften leather to the thin slice of cake resting and rotting on the window pane.
If this does not whet your appetite for some Talmud study I know not what will.
So … Welcome! Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and let's jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the struggle of Torah study.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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To what extent should a person's use of her own property be regulated? If my tree's roots grow into your land and ruin your cistern, am I responsible? Or should you take the tree into account before you plant, or dig a cistern?
Anyway, these are some of the questions that this week's daf poses. So welcome. Pour your favorite beverage, get your favorite snack, put your feet up, and lets jump into the milkhamta shel torah/the war of Torah study.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment, Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me.
This week we start the second chapter of Baba bathra. This chapter deals with interactions, negotiations, arrangements, and potential points of conflict between neighboring properties. The overriding question is: "To what extent am I free to use my land to do whatever I want to?"

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (hebrew and aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org