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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 93.

Can you buy and sell something that doesn’t exist? Or do you have to hold it to sell it?

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 92.

What happens when the court makes a mistake? Must the parties to the case suffer if the judges err? Or is it the judges own fault?

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 91.

The Mishna and early post-Mishnaic authorities ruled somewhat leniently, permitting some mistakenly re-married women to return to their first husbands. But post-Talmudic authorities took a stricter stance, requiring double divorces in every case. Today’s page documents the shift from the lenient ruling to the strict one.

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 90.

We continue our discussion of whether the Sages have the power to “uproot a law from the Torah.”

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 89.

The Talmud’s sad story of a woman who remarries, mistakenly believing her husband is dead will become a modern Hebrew classic in Agnon’s novella “The Crooked Will be Made Straight.” In our page we begin discussing whether the Sages have the power to “uproot a law from the Torah.”

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Josh Buchin looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 88.

A plug for people to buy and read The Story Of My Wife, by Milan Fust. Also, what happens if a woman, whose husband is overseas and presumed dead, remarries, only to discover that her first husband is actually alive? The Gemara veers into Days Of Our Lives territory.

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Josh Buchin looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 87.

A woman who returns to her Priestly family can once again eat Teruma. This is a great example of the Gemara’s concern for and the Jewish tradition’s ability to mark transitions, and to offer support for those in need.

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Rabbis Michael Knopf and Jesse Olitzky are lifelong friends, pop culture fanboys, and lovers of all things Jewish. Join them every other week for a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture from a Jewish perspective and about Judaism through the lens of pop culture.

Do you seek better work-life balance? Tired of taking your problems from home with you to the office? Sick of bringing work frustrations home with you at the end of the day, or constantly feeling “on-call”? ‘Severance’ might be for you! The new sci-fi/thriller/dark comedy series, streaming on AppleTV+, imagines a world in which people can undergo a procedure that completely separates their work-selves from their home-selves. But would such an extreme procedure offer the balance we seek? Or would it make our lives worse? Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky discuss this engrossing new show, and explore the provocative questions it raises about memory, identity, how we relate to work, and how we process grief.

How do you listen to PopTorah? You have a lot of options you know? iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, RSS, it’s your choice!

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Josh Buchin looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 86.

We’ve inherited a Prophetic tradition that asks us to be better and to make the world a better place. The Gemara talks about this chain of transmission and the interpretation of Biblical verses in the context of what Priests can and cannot eat.

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Josh Buchin looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 85.

Who can priests marry? Who can anyone marry, for that matter? The Gemara weighs in on communal anxieties around marriage.

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

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.