Problems and solutions for reheating and making hot food on Shabbat.

How people cleared the table then and now and how to make tea on Shabbat

Part 2 of the introduction of Aroch HaShulhan.

Miscellaneous laws and an example of Talmudic mental exercises.

Shabbat 20:1 understands wine filtering as building a tent and we segue to the discussion of R Lipshutz of the umbrella.

The twentieth chapter of Shabbat marks the transition into a different arrangement of the Mishnaic material.

The Rabbis believed that there are two different gestation periods and therefore defined a preemie born on the eighth month an inanimate object which must not be touched on Shabbat.

R. Eliezer and R. Akiva debate how far can one go on Shabbat to perform a circumcision. Their debate is rooted in the threat of Hellenism.

Can you walk your child outside? How our world changed and what to do about Eruv.

How the Mishnah’s mallet became a goldsmith’s one, and Rabbi Karo’s discussion of balls and watches.