Welcome to the Seventeenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 18. What are the issues regarding passive work on Shabbat? The Torah says “so that your ox and your donkey can rest (Shabbat 23:13).” Does this apply to my crockpot, as well?

Rabbi Abby Sosland is the Morah Ruchanit (Spiritual Advisor) for the high school at Solomon Schechter Westchester, where she teaches Talmud, Bible, Philosophy and Prayer. Her chapter “Crime and Punishment” — about the laws of capital punishment and incarceration— appears in The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews (Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, Rabbinical Assembly, 2012). She runs a free High Holiday service at Town and Village Synagogue in downtown Manhattan.

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