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

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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.
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. Our conversation illuminates some of the poverty relief material that we saw in the first chapter, in addition to putting that material in a larger context. And then we study a passage together. Its a blast.
Pull up a chair, pour a libation, and join the celebration.
The text that we studied is on 10a and can be accessed here:
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

(The picture for this week's podcast is the building which housed the printing press of the widow and brothers Romm)

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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 explore the end of the Job tale and reflect on what it all means. We reflect on the fact that the rabbis have many pictures or understandings of Job, but no one clear understanding. We finish off the chapter with a riff on various ancestors.
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 the Talmud grapples with the meanings of the story of Job, that wealthy God-fearer who ended up a pawn in a game of theodicy between God and Satan. Was Job good? Evil? A little bit of both? And what about God? All the answers (okay, some answers) in this weeks episode of Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a daf.
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.
In this week's daf we meet the council of 10 Sages who were King David's collaborators in writing Psalms; we answer perennial questions like "Who wrote the Book of Ruth?" "Did Ezra really write the book of Ezra?" How did Moses complete the Torah if the Torah says he died before the end of the Torah? And Job. Lots of conversation about Job, and good, and evil, and reward, and punishment; and who was Job?
Enjoy!!
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's page (Baba Bathra 13b-14b) gives you a DIY primer on make a Torah scroll, which naturally leads into a discussion of the dimensions of the Ark of the Convenant and the broken tablets. The Talmud then slips one of the most radical theological moments in between this discussion and the order of the Jewish bible canon, as the Talmud does. Enjoy!!
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's page (Baba Bathra 13a-13b) explores a principle of social/financial intercourse. (How) can two partners arrive at a mutually satisfying division of assets? This, of course leads to talk of slaves, tikkun olam, Scripture and the empty lines between the books. Enjoy!
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's page (baba bathra 11b-13a) takes on the theory and practice of public claim on private spaces and vice versa, the relative merit of prophet and sage, and the moral challenge remembered as the character of Sodom. Enjoy!
This week's daf can found:
1. The Vilna page
2. Sefaria (it's the last paragraph)
3. AlHatorah

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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. No prior experience necessary.
 
This week Rabbi Aqiva throws down midrash with a Roman general, as one does, and the "yay tzedakah" discussion continues.

The daf is available here:
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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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. No prior experience necessary.

This week we continue with what I call masechet tzedakah/the tractate of poverty relief, of the two longest extended discussions of poverty relief. Law, ethics, theology, legend. What's not to like?

You can find the daf here:
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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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.

This week we learn through Baba bathra 7b-8b, the begining of what might be called masechet tzedakah/the tractate of poverty relief.
For your convenience the daf is located here:
1. Vilna edition (Hebrew and Aramaic) at Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with lots of commentators in Hebrew from Alhatorah.org