Swords and spears in the beyt midrash? Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel come to blows. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.

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The tractate of Shabbat opens with laws which seem completely obscure - carrying into and out from a private residence, reading by a light, teaching children. We'll see that it is setting out a framework to approach the broader topic.

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Find out about gender-fluidity, human rights and gender-inderminacy in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.

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Find out about gender-fluidity in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.

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How are bikkurim like a sefer torah? How important is the Land of Israel?

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Questions of social status are followed by questions of intellectual and financial status, as we move towards the conclusion of the Mishnah of Bikkurim.

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Even King Agrippas walks with his own first-fruits on his shoulder. Find out about how the ceremony works!

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Find out about how we brought first-fruits into the temple: the procession, the flutes, the reception in Jerusalem.

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More on the "koy", perhaps a relative of the goat or deer or mountain goat families, which is neither a true wild animal nor a true domestic. Perhaps to remind us that we never truly own the lands that we cultivate - one of the big themes of the order of Seeds that we are close to finishing.

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Moving from etrogs to bipeds to a weird animal called a "koy", perhaps a relative of the goat or deer or mountain goat families, which does not exist any more.

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