Daily Daf Differently

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Daily Daf Differently episodes

June 09, 2021 Yoma, Daf 59
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Aaron Alexander looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 59.
Can the blood sprinkling ritual be used as a paradigm for understand ritual change in the face of changing circumstances? I think so… you?
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
9 min
June 08, 2021 Yoma, Daf 58: Path to the Holy of Holies
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Aaron Alexander looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 58.
Is there agreement on how that path ought to be paved? Shouldn’t there be, considering the implications?”
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
9 min
June 07, 2021 Yoma, Daf 57
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 57.
What’s the greater center of rabbinic culture, Babylonia or the Land of Israel?
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
9 min
June 06, 2021 Yoma, Daf 56
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 56.
This is the shortest page of Talmud you’ll ever see! But the reason the page is so short is that the commentary takes quite a while to explain the concepts behind it. Let’s review the idea of breira (retroactive clarification) and the system of biblical tithes.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
11 min
June 05, 2021 Yoma, Daf 55
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 55.
The central act of the Yom Kippur purification ritual in the ancient temple involved sprinkling the blood of a bull and a goat near the Holy Ark. Perhaps that seems awfully strange to us, but the Sages tried to explain what that meant and how to do it.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
8 min
June 04, 2021 Yoma, Daf 54
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 54.
Are we really pagans? Today we study possibly the most radical, erotic Midrash in all Rabbinic literature.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
11 min
June 03, 2021 Yoma, Daf 53
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 53.
Why did Aaron’s son’s die when they offered improper incense (as reported in Leviticus 10)? According to our page, they understood the radical nature of ritual properly, but they were arrogant toward Moses.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
8 min
June 02, 2021 Yoma, Daf 52
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 52.
Some Bible verses are clear, some are ambiguous. On today’s page, the Talmud considers five verses that cannot be definitively interpreted.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
11 min
June 01, 2021 Yoma, Daf 51
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 51.
We return to yesterday’s question: does the High Priest’s offering belong to him alone (since he paid for it)? Or do all priests have a share in this offering, even though they didn’t pay for it?
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
8 min
May 31, 2021 Yoma, Daf 50
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 50.
Who owns the sacrifices on Yom Kippur? Are they the personal property of the High Priest (a Korban Yachid)or do they belong to the public (Korban Tzibbur)?
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
10 min

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Join a wonderful group of liberal rabbis and teachers as we take part in the cycle of the Daf Yomi. Each week a different teacher presents short episodes on the daily daf “differently”.