Daf Yomi

The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Sunday, July 27, 2014: Megillah 16  image of daf Shabbos, July 26, 2014: Megillah 15  image of daf Friday, July 25, 2014: Megillah 14  image of daf Thursday, July 24, 2014: Megillah 13  image of daf Wednesday, July 23, 2014: Megillah 12  image of daf Tuesday, July 22, 2014: Megillah…

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Parshas Mas’ei

 Journeys The tenth and last section of the book of Numbers begins by reviewing the journeys (Mas’ei, in Hebrew) of the Jewish people from Egypt until the threshold of the Land of Israel. It continues with G-d’s instructions regarding the Jews’ imminent entry and conquest of the land.     Massei First Reading Numbers 33:1-49 Having…

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Ramchal

Ramchal – Ch. 4: “Man’s Standing in This World, and The Specific Ways Available to Him” Paragraph 1 As to our makeup, it’s characterized by the fact that we’re a mélange of two conflicting elements: a soul and a body 1. The body and all of its physicality hold sway from birth on 2 until…

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Receiving a Fax on Shabbat

Question: Must one turn off one’s fax machine or answering machine on Erev Shabbat so that one does not receive any faxes or messages on Shabbat? Answer: We have already explained in a previous Halacha that there is no prohibition regarding a forbidden work started before the onset of Shabbat which concludes on Shabbat itself,…

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Megillah Daf 12

  It is written in the Megillah [1:3]: The army of Persia and Media, the nobles and all the ministers of the provinces in his service; and it is written [10:2] And the entire history of his power and strength, and the account of Mordechai’s greatness, whom the king had promoted, are recorded in the…

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PESOCHIM – 7a

Then let him annul it in the sixth [hour]?1 — Since the Rabbinical interdict is upon it,2 it is like a Scriptural [interdict] and does not stand in his ownership, hence he cannot annul it. For R. Gidal said in R. Hiyya b. Joseph’s name in Rab’s name: He who betroths from the sixth hour…

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Inheritance of father’s tribe

Numbers 36:5-9 Num 36:5 And Moses commanded Mosheh misvahed the children sons of Israel Yisra El according to the word mouth of the LORD Yah Veh , saying, The tribe rod of the sons of Joseph Yoseph hath said worded well . Num 36:6 This is the thing word which the LORD doth command Yah…

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Babysitting On Shabbat

Babysitting On Shabbat Question: May one hire a babysitter to watch one’s children on Shabbat and pay Her on Friday or on Motza’ei Shabbat or is this forbidden? Answer: The Gemara (Baba Metzia 58a) states That our Sages Enacted That one may not pay a worker for work Performed on Shabbat, for this is Similar…

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Three Weeks

The Laws of Taking Haircuts During the “Three Weeks” As a result of the mourning observed during the “Three Weeks,” the Ashkenazi custom is to abstain from shaving and taking haircuts beginning from the Seventeenth of Tammuz until the Tenth of Av.   Nevertheless, the Sephardic custom is not as stringent and follows the letter…

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