Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shekalim

Welcome to a very speical episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at why have we left the Babylonian Talmud for a tractate of Jerusalem Talmud?

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.

Welcome to the Four Hundred and First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 22.

The Tractate ends as the rabbis finally face the truth; the Temple is no longer with us, and our discussions about Temple upkeep have been generally theoretical. So what are our modern commitments regarding Shekalim?

Rabbi Abby Sosland is the Morah Ruchanit (Spiritual Advisor) for the high school at Solomon Schechter Westchester, where she teaches Talmud, Bible, Philosophy and Prayer. Her chapter “Crime and Punishment” — about the laws of capital punishment and incarceration– appears in The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews (Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, Rabbinical Assembly, 2012). She runs a free High Holiday service at Town and Village Synagogue in downtown Manhattan.

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

Welcome to the Four Hundreth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 21.

What a progression the daf makes! From spit on the streets of Jerusalem to the Parochet lying across the Temple Mount, it all depends on where we hold our gaze.

Rabbi Abby Sosland is the Morah Ruchanit (Spiritual Advisor) for the high school at Solomon Schechter Westchester, where she teaches Talmud, Bible, Philosophy and Prayer. Her chapter “Crime and Punishment” — about the laws of capital punishment and incarceration– appears in The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews (Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, Rabbinical Assembly, 2012). She runs a free High Holiday service at Town and Village Synagogue in downtown Manhattan.

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

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 20.

Continuing our conversation of the Kashrut status of food of uncertain ownership, and a glance at the later history of this issue in Halakhah.

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.

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 19.

What do you when you find money on the floor of the Temple, or find a cut of meat in the marketplace? We’ll discuss how to assign ownership of money and evaluate the kashrut of food of uncertain origin.

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.

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 18.

Today we examine an important Talmudic concept: Breira, which does not mean – as in modern Hebrew – alternative, but retroactive determination. Can an object be of indeterminate status at one point in time, but later have its earlier status fixed by subsequent events?

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.

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 17.

Today’s page is very rich in lore and legend! We will learn about the Temple in Jerusalem being the source of the world’s water, and we’ll study a story of the Temple’s destruction amid mass suicide of the residents of Jerusalem.

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.

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 16.

Today our page includes the deservedly famous Midrash that the Torah was given to the Jewish people as “black fire inscribed on white fire.” What does that mean?

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.

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 15.

Today we study priorities in giving Tzedaka. How do you give to the poor without shaming them? How do you prioritize the need to construct communal buildings, with the need to support the human beings in society?

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.

Welcome to the Three Hundred Ninety Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 14.

Today we learn about the highly paid artisans in the ancient temple and the way they would hold out for even more money – kind of like pro athletes today. Even back then people suspected affluent public leaders – including Moses! – of corruption.

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.