The Characters You Do Not Know

Feb 27 2025 86 ep. 30 mins 4
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Culling the lessons from and exploring the stories of the minor characters in Tanach. You may recognize their names, but do you know anything about them?

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1.8.IYUN: Assumptions

Feb 27 2025 43 mins  
How Talmudic assumptions impact Jewish law.

1.7. IYUN: The Litmus Test: the Art of the Nafka Mina

Feb 19 2025 56 mins  
Learn about a Chakira about Mishloach Manot and then test it and see what emerges.

1.6. IYUN: Placement

Feb 14 2025 68 mins  
What we can learn from where a Halacha or Mishna is located.

1.5.IYUN: Rule Vs. Exception (Part 2)

Feb 06 2025 46 mins  
Reviewing how to analyze a new din found in the Talmud. Using the Rule Vs. Exception form of thinking to explain a debate.

1.4. IYUN: Rule Vs. Exception (Part 1)

Feb 04 2025 65 mins  
We discuss the value of understanding whether a Halacha you learn represents the rule or the exception using a debate between Rambam and Rashba about the nature of Safeik Diorita being biblically prohibited or rabbinically prohibited.

1.3. IYUN: Inferences (Diyukim) Vs. Svara

Jan 23 2025 55 mins  
Learn how to balance a close reading of a difficult text (Talmud, Rishon, Acharon) with a reading that can be easily explained.

1.2. IYUN: Comparisons 2

Jan 16 2025 54 mins  
Continuing to use the thought pattern established in class one.

1.1. IYUN: Comparisons

Jan 09 2025 65 mins  
Into to our new course and the first installment discussing how to unpack halachik comparisons like שומע כעונה.

Shoftim 20-21

Jan 08 2025 45 mins  
Pilegesh Bi'Givah 2

Shoftim 19-20

Jan 08 2025 49 mins  
Pilegesh Bi'Givah 1