Welcome to the Hundred and Seventy Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Alyssa Gray looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 21.

In an interesting aggadic passage, the Bavli compares Torah and rabbinic law, and interestingly seems to consider the observance of the latter as a more serious matter than the former. What is at stake for the Bavli is rabbinic authority to innovate law; an authority it needs to justify in order to make sense of the entire rabbinic institution of eruvin.

Alyssa Gray, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She has written extensively on many topics in Talmud and Jewish law, and has taught and lectured widely in the United States, Israel, Europe, and South America.

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