Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Sukkah

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Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Sukkah episodes:

09.01.2021
Sukkah, Daf 56
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 56. We conclude the tractate with the story of one priestly clan’s apostasy during the reign of Antiochus. The opening and closing music...
08.31.2021
Sukkah, Daf 55
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 55. Today we review some liturgical “history” of the psalms recited in the Temple, and how the sacrifices are memorialized in today’s liturgy....
08.30.2021
Sukkah, Daf 54
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 54. If you have two mitzvah-opportunities before you, something special and something prosaic and “everyday,” which should you do first? The opening and...
08.29.2021
Sukkah, Daf 53
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 53. Today’s page contains rich and mysterious lore about the divine name and primordial chaos. The opening and closing music for this podcast...
08.28.2021
Sukkah, Daf 52
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 52. One of the talmud’s classic stories about sexual self-control. When the Babylonian sage Abbaye appoints himself as the “modesty police” and follows...
08.27.2021
Sukkah, Daf 51
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 51. What does true celebration look like? And what is the original textual basis for the practice of separation of men and women...
08.26.2021
Sukkah, Daf 50
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 50. What is the right balance between vocal music and instrumental music? What was “Moses’ flute”? And should you be worried that a...
08.25.2021
Sukkah, Daf 49
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 49. The Talmud’s classic discussion on the important question: What’s better: Tzedakah (financial generosity), or Gemilut Hasadim (acts of lovingkindness)? The opening and...
08.24.2021
Sukkah, Daf 48
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 48. Why would the ritual of Nisuch Ha-Mayim (water libations) become a flash point for disagreements among different groups of Jews? Why would...
08.23.2021
Sukkah, Daf 47
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 47. What is the holiday of Shmini Atzeret? What makes it different from the rest of Sukkot — and in what ways does...
08.22.2021
Sukkah, Daf 46
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 46. What are the blessings for dwelling in the sukkah, for using the lulav and etrog, and for lighting Hanukkah candles? How have...
08.21.2021
Sukkah, Daf 45
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 45. What can Sukkot teach us about different ways of being in relationship with God? Today’s daf will explore this question through the ritual...
08.20.2021
Sukkah, Daf 44
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Micha’el Rosenberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 44. Why do things sometimes matter to us more than they’re “supposed” to? On Sukkah 44, we explore the tension between the official, authoritative...
08.19.2021
Sukkah, Daf 43
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Micha’el Rosenberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 43. What value is there to having a single Temple? And what have we lost with its destruction? Thinking about the lulav might offer...
08.18.2021
Sukkah, Daf 42
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 42. We see Bar/Bat Mitzvah time as an induction into religious obligation, but today’s daf will provide an alternative view, leaving us with a...
08.17.2021
Sukkah, Daf 41
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 41. Today’s daf explores the question of personal ownership of lulavim on Sukkot. Why is such ownership required? Why is giving a lulav to...
08.16.2021
Sukkah, Daf 40
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 40. Today’s daf engages in the question of what sabbatical produce may be used for leading to the question of what the primary purpose...
08.15.2021
Sukkah, Daf 39
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 39. What assumptions should we make about the religious practice of others? In what ways should these assumptions inform our interactions with them? Today’s...
08.14.2021
Sukkah, Daf 38
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 38. What happens if one is travelling and didn’t have time to wave the lulav – may one do so even late afternoon?...
08.13.2021
Sukkah, Daf 37
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 37. A kal v’chomer that starts out as a stringency but results in a leniency and why such a kal v’chomer is invalid....
08.12.2021
Sukkah, Daf 36
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 36. The different parts of an etrog. What happens when an etrog gets damaged, how much of damage and what is the location...
08.11.2021
Sukkah, Daf 35
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 35. An etrog that is Orlah or Ma’aser Sheni and the mahloket between Rabbi Hiya bar Avin and Rabbi Assi as to the...
08.10.2021
Sukkah, Daf 34
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 34. The laws of arava. The principle of “hilkheta gemirei lehu” and “halakha leMoshe meSinai”, although these principles have no actual scriptural source...
08.09.2021
Sukkah, Daf 33
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 33. What are the requirements for a kosher hadas and what species is meant when we are talking about a Hadas. What is...
08.08.2021
Sukkah, Daf 32
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 32. Requirements of a lulav. Difference between a lulav that is “nisdak” “nifredu” and “nitzretu”, a lulav that is split, spread out or...
08.07.2021
Sukkah, Daf 31
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 31. More on mitzvot of and sins, and what thieves owe to those from whom they steal. The opening and closing music for...
08.06.2021
Sukkah, Daf 30
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 30. Can you pursue a sacred end with sinful means? Today we discuss the concept of Mitzvah ha’baah ba’aveira, a commandment achieved through...
08.05.2021
Sukkah, Daf 29
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 29. Should Jewish norms treat every individual equally, demanding the same behavior of each person or should Jewish norms expect different things from...
08.04.2021
Sukkah, Daf 28
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 28. Is rabbinic teaching primarily conservative, a project about maintaining the tradition we’ve received? Or is it about creativity, tapping as yet unexpected...
08.03.2021
Sukkah, Daf 27
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 27. How is Sukkot like Passover? And how many Sukkot should there be? Should we each have our own, or should all Israel...
08.02.2021
Sukkah, Daf 26
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 26. What exempts us from sitting in the Sukkah? A little rain? An illness? An — in a tangential topic — why should...
08.01.2021
Sukkah, Daf 25
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 25. Today we explore the Rabbinic principle that “one who is busy with one mitzvah is exempt from other mitzvot.” The opening and...
07.31.2021
Sukkah, Daf 24
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 24. This episode includes further exploration of the opinions of R. Meir and R. Yehudah regarding the use of an animal for a...
07.30.2021
Sukkah, Daf 23
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 23. A general principle in the mishnah is that if the tree is removed and the sukkah can stand, then the sukkah is...
07.29.2021
Sukkah, Daf 22
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 22. This episode includes a clarification of the mishnaic term sukkah mduvlelet and application of the principle of havot rami, lower and cast,...
07.28.2021
Sukkah, Daf 21
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 21. Is an ohel any structure or must it be a man-made structure. Exploration of this issue, in particular the ramifications of R....
07.27.2021
Sukkah, Daf 20
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 20. This episode begins with the conclusion of a sugya about large and small reed mats being used for s’khakh; as well as...
07.26.2021
Sukkah, Daf 19
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 19. This episode includes the conclusion of a sugya about the columns of a covered porch being used a wall for sukkah; explanation...
07.25.2021
Sukkah, Daf 18
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 18. Does lavud, the legal fiction by which empty space of a small enough area is said to be filled in, exist on...
07.24.2021
Sukkah, Daf 17
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 17. The Talmud continues its creative understanding of the walls of the sukkah, with the imaginary “dofen akumah,” the crooked wall. Once again,...
07.23.2021
Sukkah, Daf 16
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 16. Is Sukkot the holiday of illusion? Two principles which are applied in our mishnah suggest that what matters is not the actual...
07.22.2021
Sukkah, Daf 15
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 15. Why are the pieces of a wooden bed not permitted to be used as schach for a Sukkah? Perhaps this is the...
07.21.2021
Sukkah, Daf 14
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 14. “The prayers of the righteous are like pitchforks.” Or are they? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from...
07.20.2021
Sukkah, Daf 13
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 13. In the rabbinic mind, some of the plants and species that we see around us were named before the giving of the...
07.19.2021
Sukkah, Daf 12
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 12. The principle of Taaseh v’lo Min He’Asui (Make It! And don’t use something that is already made) extends beyond the rules of...
07.18.2021
Sukkah, Daf 11
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 11. Does our Sukkah represent the actual booths that we built in the desert or the Ananei Kavod (the Clouds of Glory) that...
07.17.2021
Sukkah, Daf 10
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 10. The discussion of the validity of a sukkah built on top of another continues. A new Mishnah raises the issue of a...
07.16.2021
Sukkah, Daf 9
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 9. This page begins with a continuation of the Mishnah, which records a debate about the validity, for the purposes of the festival,...
07.15.2021
Sukkah, Daf 8
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 8. The discussion about the validity of a circular sukkah continues, with mathematical calculations about how to achieve a circular area large enough...
07.14.2021
Sukkah, Daf 7
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 7. The Gemara continues the discussion of the required dimensions of the third wall of a sukkah, and raises the issue of a...

What's Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Sukkah about?

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Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Sukkah episodes:

Sukkah, Daf 56

Sukkah, Daf 55

Sukkah, Daf 54

Sukkah, Daf 53

Sukkah, Daf 52

Sukkah, Daf 51

Sukkah, Daf 50

Sukkah, Daf 49

Sukkah, Daf 48

Sukkah, Daf 47

Sukkah, Daf 46

Sukkah, Daf 45

Sukkah, Daf 44

Sukkah, Daf 43

Sukkah, Daf 42

Sukkah, Daf 41

Sukkah, Daf 40

Sukkah, Daf 39

Sukkah, Daf 38

Sukkah, Daf 37

Sukkah, Daf 36

Sukkah, Daf 35

Sukkah, Daf 34

Sukkah, Daf 33

Sukkah, Daf 32

Sukkah, Daf 31

Sukkah, Daf 30

Sukkah, Daf 29

Sukkah, Daf 28

Sukkah, Daf 27

Sukkah, Daf 26

Sukkah, Daf 25

Sukkah, Daf 24

Sukkah, Daf 23

Sukkah, Daf 22

Sukkah, Daf 21

Sukkah, Daf 20

Sukkah, Daf 19

Sukkah, Daf 18

Sukkah, Daf 17

Sukkah, Daf 16

Sukkah, Daf 15

Sukkah, Daf 14

Sukkah, Daf 13

Sukkah, Daf 12

Sukkah, Daf 11

Sukkah, Daf 10

Sukkah, Daf 9

Sukkah, Daf 8

Sukkah, Daf 7