Year: 2020

The Talmud's version of marriage is very different than my marriage. I should not be surprised. The Talmud was written approximately 1500 years ago in an agricultural economy on a…

Yesterday, we discussed a Zav (a man who experiences a specific type of emission, which is sometimes associated with gonorrhea). The practice was for the Zav to wear a special…

"If all the seas were black ink, and all the marshes quills, and the heavens were parchments, and all the people were scribes, they would not suffice to record the…

I blame my wife for my inability to lose weight (not really, but she makes a convenient scapegoat). My wife, amongst her many talents, is a true foodie. She is…

Two weeks ago, Justice Roberts, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, issued a rebuke to Senator Schumer, " Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening…

We have read many times about things that are biblically permitted, but the Rabbis prohibit. Rabbinical prohibitions arose because the Rabbis were acutely aware of human psychology and decision making.…

In American law, we look to what is private, as opposed to public, by asking where we have a reasonable expectation of privacy. If there is an area (or device)…

Lest you fear that the Talmud is not comprehensive in its coverage of all conceivable situations we may find ourselves on Shabbat, today's Daf covers cases of when we throw…

My wife is running for the fourth time in six months in an election for the Texas Legislature. She ran in November in a special election to fill the seat…

People generally believe that James Naismith invented the game of basketball in the early 1890's. In today's Daf we learn that the game of basketball was actually invented by Rabbi…