Fuelling the light, and questions of life and death.

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How do we light on shabbat and why are some wicks or some fuels forbidden?

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Roasting on shabbat? In principle, processes that we might set running before shabbat can continue to operate during it, but perhaps not roasting? As ever, there are exceptions.

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After coming to blows at the entrance to the beit midrash, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel continue their debates about processes that we might set running before shabbat but which continue to operate during it. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.

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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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