Chapter 29 – Restrictions on Private Domains; Combining Private Domains It is rabbinically forbidden to move things more than four cubits in an unroofed private domain that is more than 100 cubits long or more than 5000 square cubits in area that is not used for residential purposes (see 358:1-14;359:1;360:1-3;362:1,4;372:2); and it is permitted to…
Category: Ancient Paths
Nitzavim – We Are All Wood Choppers
Originally posted on Shalom Says Hello:
Curiously included among those ‘who stand (nitzavim) before God,’ are the wood choppers and water drawers (Deuteronomy 29:10), people whose jobs require great physical exertion. Who are these menial laborers? Da’at Zekenim (Tosafot) suggest a variety of interpretations, including that they are the slaves of the Israelites. They also suggests though, that they…
Daf for Sunday – Moed Katan 27
Please have our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel in mind when you are learning the Daf. It should also be l’zchus Refuah Shleimah for all the injured Israeli soldiers. Daf Notes is currently being dedicated to the neshamah of Tzvi Gershon Ben Yoel (Harvey Felsen) o”h May the studying of the Daf Notes…
Regathered to The Land
Dt 30:1-5 1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice…
‘Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic’- A Review
Originally posted on The Talmud Blog:
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013) – Reviewed by Aaron Koller For those interested in the grammar of the Bavli, the past few years have seen a steady stream of important new publications. The book under review here will take pride…
Brief Introductory Note to the Limuda
Acts 15:25-29, is called the “Limuda”, commonly referred to in the West as the Didache, translated from the Aramaic manuscripts of the Assembly of Jerusalem. This is the Apostolic Letter that was composed by the First Apostolic Council around 50 CE under the direction of Mar Ya’aqub ha’Tzadik (St. James the Righteous). It was sent…
Daf Yomi
The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Sunday, August 31, 2014: Moed Katan 20 image of daf
Daf Notes
Please have our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel in mind when you are learning the Daf. It should also be l’zchus Refuah Shleimah for all the injured Israeli soldiers. Daf Notes is currently being dedicated to the neshamah of Tzvi Gershon Ben Yoel (Harvey Felsen) o”h May the studying of the Daf Notes…
Gospel of the Nazirenes
Originally posted on Yeshua Centered Judaism:
CHAPTER 46: The Transfiguration on the Mount. The Giving of the Law 1. After six days, when the Feast of Tabernacles was near at hand, Yeshua took the twelve and brought them separately up into a high mountain, and as he was praying his appearance was changed ,…
Gospel of the Nazirenes
CHAPTER 46: The Transfiguration on the Mount. The Giving of the Law 1. After six days, when the Feast of Tabernacles was near at hand, Yeshua took the twelve and brought them separately up into a high mountain, and as he was praying his appearance was changed , and he was transfigured before them,…
Wearing a Kippa on One’s Head
Wearing a Kippa on One’s Head Question: Is one halachically obligated to wear a Kippa (skullcap) on one’s head? Answer: The Gemara (Kiddushin 31a) relates that Rav Huna son of Rav Yehoshua would take care not to walk four Amot(approximately six feet) without a head covering, for he would say, “Hashem’s Divine presence is above…

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