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Three hundred foot talking waves? Yes sir.  Humongous charging bison doing balancing tricks on the city's battlements? Yes ma'am. We have it all in this week's daf, as we start the fifth chapter and delve into the Talmud's version of Sinbad the Sailor—Rabbah bar bar Hannah.
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 this week we finish the fourth chapter!! Turns out its harder to force a bunch of Tannaitic and Amoraic statements into a stammaitic framework than you would have thought.  But we crack it. So, come along for the ride, and for the hadran.

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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Short and sweet. More on what do you sell when you sell a field? or when you gift it? or when you dedicate it? We look behind the curtains a bit this week.

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]

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Getting back in the weeds this week with "What do you mean to sell when you sell the field?" Some significant variant readings. A little side-eye between rishonim. And a whole piece of the sugya which doesn't seem to belong here.
All in this week's 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

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

Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf is listed in  Feedspot's Top 60 Jewish Podcasts. (We are at #22. Not that we're counting...)

The Langston Hughes poem that I read at the beginning of this episode can be found here.

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This week we confront and embrace the Talmud's translation of the mishnah. What is translation locally? and what is it globally? Also when Abraham bought a plot for Sarah, little did he know that he was setting legal precedent for acquisition of property for ever.
All in this week's 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

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

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So what happens when you buy a CITY? Okay well not really a city but a large estate with houses and wells and fields and stuff. What have you actually bought? This is a question that I know troubles all or our imaginations, and it is the central question of our daf this week. (Along with an excursus on slavery in Sassanian Persia and other stuff.)
So, grab a chair and a cold one, and join us.
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 our conversation about what it is that you buy when you buy something. However, we also peek behind the curtains a bit to ask after the construction of this sugya.
So, grab a chair and a cold one, and join us.
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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More on the great Rabbi Eliezer - Sages debate over things which are attached to the land (are they considered land?) and how that intersects with the Rabbi Aqiva - Sages debates about what you are selling when you sell (everything, or you can retain something).
All in this week's 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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Sticking  with the debate over how much you sell when you sell, we start off with a debate about the debate, and actually two versions of that debate (one in the Bavli and one in the Yerushalmi). Its a little bit of pulling back the curtains of the conversation and going behind the daf.
Come join us!
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

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

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When a seller sells what does he sell? What is his intention in his sale? This is the question for this week's 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

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

Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf is listed in  Feedspot's Top 60 Jewish Podcasts. (We are at #24. Not that we're counting...)