Welcome to the Two Hundred Fourtieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Wise looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 85.

Today we consider how far would you go to establish exactly what a teacher said? And what happens when Friday lunch goes so late it’s time for Shabbat?

David Wise has been rabbi of the Hollis Hills Jewish Center in Queens, NY since 2005. Before that, he led Temple Beth El in Somerset, NJ. Ordained at JTS in1996, he is proudly married to Judy Krinitz and is the father of two teens. And then there’s that thing he has for the Toronto Maple Leafs…

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Wise looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 84.

In this episode, Rav and Shmuel differ about how to understand the Mishnah. Can either be proven correct? Can we “hang our hat” on either one?

David Wise has been rabbi of the Hollis Hills Jewish Center in Queens, NY since 2005. Before that, he led Temple Beth El in Somerset, NJ. Ordained at JTS in1996, he is proudly married to Judy Krinitz and is the father of two teens. And then there’s that thing he has for the Toronto Maple Leafs…

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 83.

This page exhibits the tension between the attempt to quantify legal rulings and the messiness of everyday life. Is this problem specifically tied to the breakdown of tradition in modern times, or is it essential to the rabbinic enterprise?

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 82.

The community building purpose of eruv is highlighted in special ways. It is a mitzvah to make an eruv to facilitate visiting and comforting mourners, even on Shabbat. Children, too, were included in the eruv.

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 81.

We encounter two seemingly conflicting propositions. The sages instructed that, in any legal dispute regarding an eruv, the lenient view should always be adopted. Yet the Talmud seems to accept the stringent view regarding the requirement for a whole loaf to help make an eruv? Why?

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 80.

The interconnections between family members and the role of women in maintaining or straining those connections becomes the subject of an intriguing narrative.

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 79.

Overcoming boundaries continues to be the theme. This question is germane to family groups as well as to communal spaces. How dependent or separate were adult children or wives in relation to the patriarchal head of the family unit?

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 78.

There are various legal details discussed on this page. When does attention to detail lead to mundane pedantry and when does it evince the impulse to poetry? Which is more real – the mundane or the poetic.

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi David Greenstein looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 77.

The discussion deals with dividers between two spaces. When can these dividers be breached and when do they retain their identity as separators? This leads us to examine a key aspect of Rabbinic Judaism – worry.

David Greenstein serves as rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Stanford University Press; forthcoming).

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Two Hundred Thirty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 76.

Today is math day at Daily Daf Differently. What did the Sages know about pi? On our page they describe the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter as =3. We know of course that it is a little larger, as did the medieval talmudists.

This week, our study is led by Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky of Congregation Ansche Chesed in New York City.

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.