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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 80. Should there be universal measures for prohibited food consumptions, or should large people have different measures than smaller folks? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 79. On Yom Kippur you are forbidden from eating food the size of a date’s bulk. The sages set this standard – not because food becomes a technically prohibited substance, like pork – but to induce in us […]

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 78. Yom Kippur is supposed to be a day of going barefoot. But going back to Amoraic times, in the 3rd or 4th centuries, Jews have been wearing non-leather shoes on the holiday. The opening and closing music […]

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 77. On today’s page we examine the practice of not bathing on Yom Kippur. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 76. Today’s page includes more aggada (lore) about Manna, and the theme of religious gratitude. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

Welcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for June 27, 2021. In this episode, Rabbi Finman talks to Rabbi Shalom Ber Lipskar of The Shul, in  Bal Harbour, Florida. They dicuss the  disaster in Bal Harbour, and Rabbi Lipskar’s response. How do you listen to The Jewish Hour? You have a lot of options […]

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 75. In an entirely aggadic (lore-based) page, we examine legends about the biblical food Manna, and see a classic example of the different rabbinic schools of thought, the mythic Rabbi Akiva and the rationalist Rabbi Ishmael. The opening […]

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. The new film ‘In the Heights’, based on Lin […]

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 74. At last turning from descriptions of the ancient temple, we begin the 8th and final chapter of Tractate Yoma by deriving the “afflictions” that the Torah commands Jews to undergo on Yom Kippur. The opening and closing […]

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Yoma Daf 73. One of the High Priest’s duties involved using the oracles called Urim & Tummim, as described in Exodus 28. What were they and how were they used? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros […]