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I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of the daf yomi speedway—I invite you to daf shvu'i, a weekly page of Talmud. In about 40-50 minutes you can learn a page of Talmud. No previous experience required.
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 82b-83b from 2022-02-03T16:00
What is a vineyard? What constitutes a piece of land? What is the connection between the prohibition of planting mixed crops and deciding if you bought the land with the trees? More fascinating ...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 82a-82b from 2022-01-18T18:00
We're back!! We continue the conversation around buying trees and land, and how the traditions about the trees and land went from Palestine to Babylonia and back again, perhaps.
Th...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 81a-82a from 2021-12-24T11:00
There are still more ways to think about owning land. In this week's daf and pod we consider how first fruits/bikkurim works and how it impacts our understanding of land ownership.
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 80a-81a from 2021-12-14T14:00
Apiary and Aviary ho ho! We do a moderately deep dive into beekeeping and dove keeping this week, continuing the dual streams of what you buy when you buy stuff, and can you buy or sell stuff th...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 78b-79b from 2021-11-23T12:00
So… is selling stuff like dedicating stuff to the Temple? What is sacrilege? How does this daf question the legality of futures trading?
This and more in this week's daf.
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Daf shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 77b-78b from 2021-11-05T15:00
So … fraud. What do you do about it? Is it fraud? Also what comes with that donkey? Are donkeys essentially riding animals or pack animals? These questions and more in this week's daf.
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 77a-77b from 2021-10-21T11:00
"Words cannot be bought with words." This is the principle that the Talmud uses to navigate the thorny issue of a secondary market in debt. Can you buy acquire something which is basic...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 75b-76b from 2021-10-14T15:00
From the fantastical world of sea monsters we dive back into the constructed world of law. First, how does one buy a ship? But then, even more problematic, how does one buy something that cannot...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 74b-75b from 2021-10-05T18:00
Leviathan, Sukkot made of the skin of the Leviathan, a dispute between angels about the meaning of a verse, rabbinic resentment and reward, and then back to buying ships. Its all in this week&ap...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 73b-74b from 2021-09-06T13:00
Last podcast of 5781.
More stories of the travels of the Rabbis down to the sea, out to the desert, to meet monsters, to see those who died in the Desert, to hear God lament at Sinai, to hea...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 73a-73b from 2021-08-27T14:00
Three hundred foot talking waves? Yes sir. Humongous charging bison doing balancing tricks on the city's battlements? Yes ma'am. We have it all in this week's daf, as we start th...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 72a-73a from 2021-08-12T16:00
So this week we finish the fourth chapter!! Turns out its harder to force a bunch of Tannaitic and Amoraic statements into a stammaitic framework than you would have thought. But we crack it. S...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 71a-71b from 2021-07-23T16:00
Short and sweet. More on what do you sell when you sell a field? or when you gift it? or when you dedicate it? We look behind the curtains a bit this week.
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 70a-71a from 2021-07-08T17:00
Getting back in the weeds this week with "What do you mean to sell when you sell the field?" Some significant variant readings. A little side-eye between rishonim. And a whole piece of...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 68b-70a from 2021-06-24T17:00
This week we confront and embrace the Talmud's translation of the mishnah. What is translation locally? and what is it globally? Also when Abraham bought a plot for Sarah, little did he kno...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 68a-68b from 2021-06-18T09:00
So what happens when you buy a CITY? Okay well not really a city but a large estate with houses and wells and fields and stuff. What have you actually bought? This is a question that I know trou...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 67a-68a from 2021-06-11T17:00
We continue our conversation about what it is that you buy when you buy something. However, we also peek behind the curtains a bit to ask after the construction of this sugya.
So, grab a cha...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 65b-67a from 2021-06-04T15:00
More on the great Rabbi Eliezer - Sages debate over things which are attached to the land (are they considered land?) and how that intersects with the Rabbi Aqiva - Sages debates about what you ...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 64b-66a from 2021-05-28T14:00
Sticking with the debate over how much you sell when you sell, we start off with a debate about the debate, and actually two versions of that debate (one in the Bavli and one in the Yerushalmi)...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 64a-64b from 2021-05-11T22:00
When a seller sells what does he sell? What is his intention in his sale? This is the question for this week's daf.
This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aram...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 63a-64a from 2021-04-30T16:00
Can you buy or refuse to sell the air rights and/or subterranean rights to your property? Can you buy "futures"? Well these are the questions that are dealt with in this week's da...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 61b-63a from 2021-04-22T11:00
Legalese. Its a problem in English and its also a problem in Aramaic. How do we deal with ambiguous contract language? To what extent do we trust each other?
All in this week's daf:
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 61a-61b from 2021-04-07T18:00
WE BEGIN THE FOURTH CHAPTER! This chapter begins with an investigation into sales and by way of that, an investigation into legal definitions, and the accuracy of legal language, and the questio...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 59b-60b from 2021-03-22T17:00
We are finishing off the third chapter with a BANG! More privacy law, more discussion of impacting ownership, and then are we mourning for the Temple too much? too little?
All in this week&...
Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 58b-59b from 2021-03-12T15:00
More in the Babylonian Talmud's series on "won't you be my neighbor? no you are using my property!" Answering questions like: How much of my property do I not actually contro...
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Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 58a-58b from 2021-03-03T15:00
I'm pretty excited about this week's daf. It is basically stories of R. Bena'ah, a Palestinian Sage, and his encounters with Abraham, and Adam, while marking gravesites. Also bit ...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 56b-58a from 2021-02-18T17:00
More conspiring witness! More ways of acquisition / or not! The estates of converts! And, finally, Sages leering or not at women doing laundry down at the river. Its all in this week's daf....
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Daf shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 55b-56b from 2021-02-12T09:00
More conversation about boundaries - boundaries between spaces, boundaries in intentions, crossing boundaries. We also start on a whole new conversation about conspiratorial witnesses/eidim ...
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Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 55a-55b from 2021-02-05T09:00
Dina deMalkhuta Dina. The law of the State [lit. the kingdom] is the law. What are the legal and cultural implications of this law? Is it a law or a general principle? Is this an ideology that i...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 53b-55a from 2021-01-27T20:00
We continue a conversation about acquiring things. Some stories about how the system runs up against some folks, and how the outcomes are gendered. And we begin a conversation about dina demalkh...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 52b-53b from 2021-01-19T08:00
This week we unpack both textual/historical and philosophical or ideological questions in order to understand a conversation which explores, defines, and highlights the possibly porous boundarie...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 51b-52b from 2021-01-11T16:00
We delve deeper into the thorny issue of who can give what to whom and who can accept what from whom? Who has the authority to be an owner or to convey ownership? Also how do we deal with the th...
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Daf shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 50b - 51b from 2020-12-31T19:00
Last daf podcast of the year! What is the status and legality of commercial relationships between romantic partners? That is the central question that this week's daf struggles with.
Co...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 49b-50b from 2020-12-21T13:00
Property. Husbands. Wives. Enslaved people. The way these interact and intersect can drive you crazy and yet this too is Torah. All in this week's daf.
This week's daf can be ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 48b-50a from 2020-12-07T22:00
We finish one conversation about contract and coercion, and we start another one about property and coercion and marriage. All in this week's daf.
This week's daf can be found...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 47b-48b from 2020-11-26T13:00
If a coerced contract is enforceable, how do we think about contracting in general? Are all forced contracts enforceable? What about marriage contracts? Divorce contracts? What does contracting ...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 46b-47b from 2020-11-17T14:00
If at its heart commerce is about communication, how do we effect commercial transactions when we cannot trust each other? This is one of the questions that is raised by this week's daf.
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 46a-46b from 2020-11-06T14:00
What do you do when you forgot your pie pan at the potluck and somebody else takes it home? Is somebody responsible? Also tenant farmers. And dishing on Pumbeditha.
In this week's daf.<...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 44b-46a from 2020-10-27T15:00
Selling stuff. Buying stuff. Lying? Fraud? Jews and nonJews. Its all here in this week's daf.
This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 44a-44b from 2020-10-16T15:00
So many questions. What responsibility does a seller have to the buyer of her property? How does one work through the web of ownership in the case of a stolen piece of property which is also sol...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 42b-43b from 2020-10-08T19:00
Conflicts of interest, defaults on loans, shady real estate deal. This is what's happening this week when we study Shmuel's statement as a mishnah! It's all so exciting!
So, ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: 41b-42b from 2020-09-25T13:00
This has been some week even in a year in which every week seems to have lasted a few months. Whew! Lets learn some Torah in the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Breonna Taylor.
So, pull u...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 41a-41b from 2020-09-17T17:00
Four stories of ownership, claims of ownership, false claims of ownership, and disputed property. Narratives about the narrative of owning. All in this week's daf.
So, pull up a chair, ...
Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 39b-40b from 2020-09-11T14:00
Rava teaches R. Nahman's Torah. (How) Can one be forced to sell something? How might one undermine a contract written under duress? Two stories: one about a buyer behaving badly; one about ...
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Daf Shvui / Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 38b-39b from 2020-09-04T07:00
Continuing our discussion of hazakha/ownership. We digress into the difference between wronging and crime. Property ownership as a communicative act. Its all here in this week's daf. So, pu...
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Daf shvui / Weekly daf: Baba bathra 37b-38b from 2020-08-28T11:00
Land, territory, and claims of ownership. Presence, distance, and the commutative principle of Jewish communication. These are all in the introductory sugyot to the second mishnah in the third c...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 36b-37b from 2020-08-21T13:00
Let's say you buy the trees but not the land that they are planted in. Lets say someone else buys that land without the tree. When you sell, is the legal assumpltion that you are intending ...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 35b-36b from 2020-08-14T13:00
This week's daf exists under the shadow of slavery and slave owning. What did the rabbis have to say about owning slaves? Why didn't they say different things? More things? And how do ...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 34b-35b from 2020-08-06T15:00
What is the extent of judicial discretion when there is little alternative? What are the drawbacks of compromise? We ask some final questions about cases where there seems to be equal evidence o...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 33b-34b from 2020-07-31T14:00
This week we finish Raba's casebook and ask: What was that? Also, the one who is stronger wins? Not what you usually hear in those pearls of Judaism classes… In any event, this week's ...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly daf: Baba bathra 32b-33b from 2020-07-24T09:00
Raba bar Sharshum thinks he is a good guy, and a smart guy. Turns out he's not. Yes, he did use the produce of the orphans' fields when we shouldn't have. We are continuing with t...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Batra 31b-32b from 2020-07-17T06:00
This week we confront head on the issue of the finality of a judicial decision. Can you just keep coming back with more evidence? Also, dramatic cases with evidence whispered into Rava's ea...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 31a-31b from 2020-07-09T19:00
What is the relationship between truth and law? Is it the job of the court to decide epistemological truth or ontological truth, or legal truth? Is there a difference between those two truths? W...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 29b-30b from 2020-07-03T08:00
This week we delve into Rava's casebook of disputed ownership. It is the Law and Order of private property dispute—less the bodies and the pithy opening scenes. So please, come in and take ...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf SPECIAL EPISODE: A Conversation with Charlotte Fonrobert from 2020-06-25T18:00
To celebrate the completion of the second chapter of Baba Batra, I invited Charlotte Fonrobert, a professor in the Rel...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 28b-29b from 2020-06-17T15:00
And we are still grappling with the question of possession. How does one come to own something that cannot be moved? Why are the rabbis talking about enslaved women? What is the story with land ...
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Daf Shvu'i/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 28a-28b from 2020-06-11T09:00
This week we start on the third chapter of Baba Bathra. What does ownership mean? How does it happen?
So … join me in the "safer at home" bet midrash. Shelter in Torah for a bit.<...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 26b-27b from 2020-06-04T08:00
So this week we finish the second chapter of Baba Bathra. This episode we get an anthropomorphized tree, math, and the continued discussion of the edges and boundaries of ownership.
So… joi...
Daf Shvu'i/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 25b-26b from 2020-05-28T14:00
More discussion in this week's daf of negotiating property rights with neighbors. Stories of rabbis who were and were not good neighbors. And if the public uses the edge of your property ov...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 25a-25b from 2020-05-22T11:00
So a legal discussion about where one can build a tannery in relation to a city leads, in the inevitable logic of the Talmud, to a discussion of astronomy and meteorology, and of course theology...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 24a-24b from 2020-05-15T10:00
Why was R. Yirmiyah kicked out of the study hall? Another resolution this week, along with imaginary women's anatomy, wine casks on a river, and hiding wine in a vineyard. Ultimately the qu...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 23a-24a from 2020-05-06T22:00
Doves or pigeons, at home and away. Posing questions of boundaries and ownership, flight paths, theft, inside and out. The doves, and Rabbi Yirmiyah who is kicked out of the study hall.
Joi...
Daf shvui/Weekly daf: 22a-23a from 2020-04-29T23:00
We continue urban planning. The mishnah and gemara interrogating the issues between neighbors of walls, windows, dovecotes, and mongeese, bloodletters, and ravens. Is the end of your property ac...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 21b-22a from 2020-04-22T23:00
When Sages compete in the war of Torah, does this competition bring in its wake more and greater wisdom? Or more and greater pain? This is perhaps one of the subtexts of this week's daf, wo...
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Daf shvui/Weekly daf: Its only ads! from 2020-04-22T23:00
Daf Shvui afficianados come for the Talmud but get hooked by the ads. Responding to the general clamor (okay, I'll admit it wasn't so general nor so very clamorous) for these bite size...
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Daf shvui/Weekly daf: Baba bathra 20b-21b from 2020-04-14T18:00
The rabbi's central preoccupation, to quote Daniel Boyarin, is reproducing rabbis. Rabbis' sons who went "off the derekh/path" were considered "vinegar son of wine."...
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Daf shvui/Weekly daf: Baba bathra 19b-20b from 2020-04-08T13:00
Talmud is an ancient text, a product of late antiquity, but also an artifact of early modernity and burgeoning technology of the printing press, which also brought it into conflict with the Chur...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 19a-19b from 2020-04-01T12:00
One of the fascinating characteristics of Talmudic debate and discussion is that it does not distinguish between the material and the spiritual; between the rote and the extraordinary—everything...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 17b-19a from 2020-03-25T15:00
To what extent should a person's use of her own property be regulated? If my tree's roots grow into your land and ruin your cistern, am I responsible? Or should you take the tree into ...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba bathra 17a-17b from 2020-03-18T13:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment, Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, an...
Daf Shvui/Weekly daf SPECIAL EPISODE A conversation with Alyssa Gray from 2020-03-14T23:00
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and dive into the sea of Talmud with me.
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Daf Shvu'i/Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 16a-17a from 2020-03-04T18:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and...
Daf shvui/Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 15b-16b from 2020-02-26T17:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and...
Daf shvui/Weekly daf: Baba Bathra 14b-15b from 2020-02-18T13:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and...
Dav Shvui/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 13b-14b from 2020-02-11T09:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and...
Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: 13a-13b from 2020-02-03T19:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, and...
Daf Shvu'i/Weekly Daf: Baba Bathra 11b-13a from 2020-01-28T19:00
Another week, another daf/page of Talmud.
Welcome to the no prerequisites, no judgement, no commitment Talmud study podcast. Grab your favorite beverage, or step into the great outdoors, an...
Dav Shvui/Weekly Daf: Bava bathra 10a-10b from 2020-01-26T09:00
I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of th...
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Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Bavli Baba Bathra 8b-9b from 2020-01-26T09:00
I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of th...
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Daf Shvui: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so: Baba Bathra 7b-8b from 2020-01-26T09:00
I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of th...
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Daf Shvu'i: Give me 40 minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so Baba bathra 10b-11b from 2020-01-25T19:00
I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of th...
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Daf Shvu'i: Give me 40 minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so Baba bathra 10b-11b from 2020-01-25T19:00
I know that all the cool kids are jumping on to the daf yomi bandwagon. However, if you are looking for something a bit more mellow, a bit more curated, less a part of the rough and tumble of th...
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