Daily Daf Differently

Welcome to the Hundred and Nintieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Noah Bickart looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 35. According to the Rabbis, an item is either prohibited or it isn’t. You can either pick it up and use it or you can’t. We don’t have to concern ourselves with thinking […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 34. If the Talmudic rules about food in a deep cistern tell us anything it is this: there is a rabbinic Shabbat and a biblical Shabbat. What do we do in the […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 33. Sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the trees, and on this daf about trees it is even hard to see the trees. A referenced debate between Rabbi Yehudah […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 32. Who can we trust? That is the question of this daf. If we ask someone to do something for us, can we assume it is done? Perhaps the circumstances matter, or […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 31. Have you dreamed of using your pet dromedary to deliver food to an agent who will then use that food to make an eruv for you? At some point we have […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 30. We make use of legal fictions in Judaism all the time. We sell our chametz on Passover, and we carry on Shabbat in places wherein we would usually be forbidden from […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 29. It can be dangerous to eat an onion. This may not seem like the greatest starting out point for a theological discussion of prayer and God’s protection, but it turns out […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ethan Linden looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 28. Does the fact that I like to eat paper make paper into food? If I love unripe apples does everyone else have to love them too? Do the nutty Jews of […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 27. The mishnah at the bottom of 26b opens with a general statement: Everything (food) may be used to establish an eruv or effect a shittuf mavo’y except for water and salt. Rishonim […]

Welcome to the Hundred and Eighty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 26. The Exilarch consults a rabbi to ensure that he is permitted to carry food and other meal necessities from his house to an abvarneka (small structure with seating) in his orchard. One […]