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Sukkah, Daf 56 from 2021-09-01T11:00:44
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 56. We conclude the tractate with the story of one priestly clan’s apostasy during...
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Sukkah, Daf 55 from 2021-08-31T11:00:41
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 55. Today we review some liturgical “history” of the psalms recited in the T...
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Sukkah, Daf 54 from 2021-08-30T11:00:39
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 54. If you have two mitzvah-opportunities before you, something special and something pr...
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Sukkah, Daf 53 from 2021-08-29T11:00:37
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 53. Today’s page contains rich and mysterious lore about the divine name and primo...
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Sukkah, Daf 52 from 2021-08-28T11:00:33
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 52. One of the talmud’s classic stories about sexual self-control. When the Babylon...
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Sukkah, Daf 51 from 2021-08-27T11:00:32
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 51. What does true celebration look like? And what is the original textual basis for the ...
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Sukkah, Daf 50 from 2021-08-26T11:00:30
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 50. What is the right balance between vocal music and instrumental music? What was “...
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Sukkah, Daf 49 from 2021-08-25T11:00:27
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 49. The Talmud’s classic discussion on the important question: What’s better: Tzeda...
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Sukkah, Daf 48 from 2021-08-24T11:00:24
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 48. Why would the ritual of Nisuch Ha-Mayim (water libations) become a flash point for di...
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Sukkah, Daf 47 from 2021-08-23T11:00:23
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 47. What is the holiday of Shmini Atzeret? What makes it different from the rest of Sukko...
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Sukkah, Daf 46 from 2021-08-22T11:00:19
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 46. What are the blessings for dwelling in the sukkah, for using the lulav and etrog, and...
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Sukkah, Daf 45 from 2021-08-21T11:00:20
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 45. What can Sukkot teach us about different ways of being in relationship with God? Today&#...
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Sukkah, Daf 44 from 2021-08-20T11:00:56
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Micha’el Rosenberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 44. Why do things sometimes matter to us more than they’re “supposed” to? On...
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Sukkah, Daf 43 from 2021-08-19T11:00:15
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Micha’el Rosenberg looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 43. What value is there to having a single Temple? And what have we lost with its destruction?...
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Sukkah, Daf 42 from 2021-08-18T11:00:25
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 42. We see Bar/Bat Mitzvah time as an induction into religious obligation, but today’s daf w...
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Sukkah, Daf 41 from 2021-08-17T11:00:22
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 41. Today’s daf explores the question of personal ownership of lulavim on Sukkot. Why is suc...
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Sukkah, Daf 40 from 2021-08-16T11:00:20
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 40. Today’s daf engages in the question of what sabbatical produce may be used for lea...
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Sukkah, Daf 39 from 2021-08-15T11:00:30
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miriam-Simma Walfish looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 39. What assumptions should we make about the religious practice of others? In what ways sho...
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Sukkah, Daf 38 from 2021-08-14T11:00:03
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 38. What happens if one is travelling and didn’t have time to wave the lulav – may one do ...
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Sukkah, Daf 37 from 2021-08-13T11:00:01
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 37. A kal v’chomer that starts out as a stringency but results in a leniency and why such a kal ...
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Sukkah, Daf 36 from 2021-08-12T11:00:52
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 36. The different parts of an etrog. What happens when an etrog gets damaged, how much of damage...
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Sukkah, Daf 35 from 2021-08-11T11:00:51
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 35. An etrog that is Orlah or Ma’aser Sheni and the mahloket between Rabbi Hiya bar Avin a...
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Sukkah, Daf 34 from 2021-08-10T11:00:46
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 34. The laws of arava. The principle of “hilkheta gemirei lehu” and “halakha l...
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Sukkah, Daf 33 from 2021-08-09T11:00:44
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 33. What are the requirements for a kosher hadas and what species is meant when we are talking a...
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Sukkah, Daf 32 from 2021-08-08T11:00:36
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Ute Steyer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 32. Requirements of a lulav. Difference between a lulav that is “nisdak” “nifr...
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Sukkah, Daf 31 from 2021-08-07T11:00:34
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 31. More on mitzvot of and sins, and what thieves owe to those from whom they steal. The...
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Sukkah, Daf 30 from 2021-08-06T11:00:29
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 30. Can you pursue a sacred end with sinful means? Today we discuss the concept of Mitzv...
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Sukkah, Daf 29 from 2021-08-05T11:00:26
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 29. Should Jewish norms treat every individual equally, demanding the same behavior of e...
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Sukkah, Daf 28 from 2021-08-04T11:00:21
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 28. Is rabbinic teaching primarily conservative, a project about maintaining the traditi...
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Sukkah, Daf 27 from 2021-08-03T11:00:18
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 27. How is Sukkot like Passover? And how many Sukkot should there be? Should we each hav...
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Sukkah, Daf 26 from 2021-08-02T11:00:16
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 26. What exempts us from sitting in the Sukkah? A little rain? An illness? An — in...
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Sukkah, Daf 25 from 2021-08-01T11:00:07
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 25. Today we explore the Rabbinic principle that “one who is busy with one mitzvah...
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Sukkah, Daf 24 from 2021-07-31T11:00:04
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 24. This episode includes further exploration of the opinions of R. Meir and R. Yehudah regar...
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Sukkah, Daf 23 from 2021-07-30T11:00:02
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 23. A general principle in the mishnah is that if the tree is removed and the sukkah can stan...
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Sukkah, Daf 22 from 2021-07-29T11:00:58
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 22. This episode includes a clarification of the mishnaic term sukkah mduvlelet and applicati...
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Sukkah, Daf 21 from 2021-07-28T11:00:56
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 21. Is an ohel any structure or must it be a man-made structure. Exploration of this issue, i...
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Sukkah, Daf 20 from 2021-07-27T11:00:59
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 20. This episode begins with the conclusion of a sugya about large and small reed mats being ...
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Sukkah, Daf 19 from 2021-07-26T11:00:57
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 19. This episode includes the conclusion of a sugya about the columns of a covered porch bein...
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Sukkah, Daf 18 from 2021-07-25T11:00:55
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 18. Does lavud, the legal fiction by which empty space of a small enough area is said to be f...
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Sukkah, Daf 17 from 2021-07-24T11:00:46
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 17. The Talmud continues its creative understanding of the walls of the sukkah, with the imagi...
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Sukkah, Daf 16 from 2021-07-23T11:00:43
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 16. Is Sukkot the holiday of illusion? Two principles which are applied in our mishnah suggest...
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Sukkah, Daf 15 from 2021-07-22T11:00:42
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 15. Why are the pieces of a wooden bed not permitted to be used as schach for a Sukkah? Perhap...
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Sukkah, Daf 14 from 2021-07-21T11:00:37
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 14. “The prayers of the righteous are like pitchforks.” Or are they? The opening a...
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Sukkah, Daf 13 from 2021-07-20T11:00:36
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 13. In the rabbinic mind, some of the plants and species that we see around us were named befo...
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Sukkah, Daf 12 from 2021-07-19T11:00:31
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 12. The principle of Taaseh v’lo Min He’Asui (Make It! And don’t use somethi...
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Sukkah, Daf 11 from 2021-07-18T11:00:28
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 11. Does our Sukkah represent the actual booths that we built in the desert or the Ananei Kavo...
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Sukkah, Daf 10 from 2021-07-17T11:00:23
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 10. The discussion of the validity of a sukkah built on top of another continues. A new Mis...
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Sukkah, Daf 9 from 2021-07-16T11:00:20
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 9. This page begins with a continuation of the Mishnah, which records a debate about the va...
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Sukkah, Daf 8 from 2021-07-15T11:00:19
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 8. The discussion about the validity of a circular sukkah continues, with mathematical calc...
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Sukkah, Daf 7 from 2021-07-14T11:00:46
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 7. The Gemara continues the discussion of the required dimensions of the third wall of a su...
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Sukkah, Daf 6 from 2021-07-14T11:00:41
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 6. Exploring the topic of oral teachings transmitted by God to Moses at Sinai, the Gemara q...
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Sukkah, Daf 5 from 2021-07-12T11:00:38
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 5. Based on the teaching that the ten handbreadth minimum height of a sukkah derives from t...
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Sukkah, Daf 4 from 2021-07-11T11:00:36
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 4. Continuing a discussion begun on the previous page, the Gemara discusses the possible re...
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Sukkah, Daf 3 from 2021-07-10T11:00:32
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jan R. Uhrbach looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 3. Big-tent Judaism: are super-small personalized sukkot ok? The opening and closing music f...
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Sukkah, Daf 2 from 2021-07-09T11:00:30
Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jan R. Uhrbach looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 2. How high can your sukkah be? Masechet Sukkot opens with a discussion of what makes a sukk...
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