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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…

Talmud is a record of debates about the law and the meaning of sacred texts. These debates did not happen like a presidential debate with everyone standing on the same…

Yesterday, we looked at 8 cases to determine what was permissible, what was prohibited and what was punishable. To understand today's Daf, we need to first focus on the difference…

Hands, touchin' handsReachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond ran through my head as I read today's Daf. Of course, in the the days of coronovirus,…

I have not blogged in approximately one month. All I can say is that life got in the way. We have been dealing with illness of our kids, illness of…

I love reading history. About 90% of my reading is history from all periods and all areas of the world. My degree as an undergraduate was in Chinese History. If…

Yesterday, we read about Hannah praying for a child and how that teaches us about prayer. Today we read about Moses praying for God to spare the Israelites after the…

In my last blog entry, I gave a very high-level overview of Hannah in I Samuel. You may want to read that introduction before reading today's entry because we are…