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One last daf before Rosh Hashanah. We continue to interrogate the tension between rov/majority and hazaqah/the assumption of fact. And we end up with a couple of interesting principles of hosting.
Its all in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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This week we finish the fifth chapter and start the sixth. The fifth chapter ends as it started with a midrashic flourish, and the sixth chapter begins diving in right away with the parameters of legitimate commerce.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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This week we follow the logic of guarding against criminal overcharging - taking advantage of drought conditions - (not) selling basic necessities - is wine a basic necessity? - exporting foodstuffs out of the Land of Israel - all the characters in the Ruth story - and in the "news you can use" category, what was Abraham's mother's name?
All in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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This week we go further into the weeds of measures, measurements, and measuring implements and then take a step back to talk about how the "just scales" of Rabbinic discourse is different than the "scales of justice" of contemporary discourse. Its all in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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This week we dive into and interrogate the slippery idea of accurate weights and measure, and fair trade in the marketplace.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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Clear mishnaic text will be amiguified and then disambiguified in this weeks daf which follows and queries the tale of a child whose father sent him to buy some oil and then drama erupts.  The ambiguity is where this text lives. So come, pull up a beverage and blintz (or other dairy delicacy) (for shavuot) and join us as we try to make clarity out of chaos.
Hag sameach.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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So… it's been a minute, but we're back. This week we go down a bit of an interesting rabbit hole about rural day labor in late antiquity. We also look at how our sugya was constructed.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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Several facets of acquisition are interrogated in this week's daf. What completes acquisition—measuring? agreeing on a price? introducing the stuff into one's domain? Then, what type of acquisitive choreography should be employed—picking up an item? pulling an item? Is one better than the other? Then, is the item bought all at once (in the case of grain or oil, for example), or a bit at a time as it is poured into the measuring vessel?
All this is in the week's sugya.
This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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This week's sugya dance deftly on the private/public/shared domain-- buyer/seller matrix, in the process interrogating what all that means.
 
This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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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When defrauding is not defrauding, but its non not defrauding. The narrow space of ona'ah, in the larger space of fraudulent selling and buying. Also, the role of the flowers of paradise and the fires of hell in the color of the sun. Its all in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found in the following places:
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

Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]

Become a Patron of Daf Shvui @ Patreon.