Beyond the Daf - Hadran

Din & Daf: When Chazal’s Science Does Not Match our Own - the Mud-Mouse

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain What do we make of halacha borne of erroneous science from ancient times? In this

Spontaneous Generation: Chazal, Science, and Halacha - Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. The Mishnah in the Daf Yomi tells us about a mouse that was born from the earth. Through the Mishnah

What Does it Mean to “Eat”? - Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. If my grandmother has trouble swallowing and Pesach is coming… can I ground up and dissolve matzah i

Din & Daf: What Is הכשרה לטומאה All About?

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain In most cases, contact with a liquid is required in order to make food susceptible

Nat bar Nat: What does “Dairy Equipment” Really Mean? - Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. What does “dairy equipment” mean? Does pareve food cooked in a meat dish become meat? How, halakhica

Din & Daf: What is the Logic Behind Issur Hanaa

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Jewish law not only forbids cooking meat and milk together, or consuming a cooked

Din & Daf: We Do Not Decree a Second Decree Upon The First

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain The Gemara in Chullin 104a-b discusses that principle that the rabbis do not add a

Din & Daf: How Guilty Are You? אין איסור חל על איסור

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain The debate in the Mishnah in Chullin 100b as to whether the sciatic nerve prohibit

What Is a “Kubiustus”?- Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.Our sugya uses an enigmatic word: kubiustus. We’ll follow Rashi’s and Tosafot’s attempt to explain the

Law and Narrative in the Torah: How are they related?

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain R. Shimon’s opinion in this week’s daf that ritual slaughter that does result in e

Din & Daf: What Makes Legal Loopholes Religious?

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Chullin 77-78 Dr. Elana Stein Hain – dinanddaf@hadran.org.ilFor more Din and Daf:

Ben Pekuah: Kosher Meat Without Shechitah?- Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. Is there a way to eat an animal without shchitah? Can meat and milk ever be eaten together in a way

Tum’ah Belu’ah: May a Woman Pregnant with a Kohen Enter a Cemetery?- Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. Is a woman who is married to a kohen allowed to enter a cemetery while pregnant? Must she be concern

Din & Daf: Tum’ah: Is it “REAL?”

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Chullin 71a describes a phenomenon in which ritual impurity “breaks through” an en

Din & Daf: Blood Spots in Eggs: Then and Now

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Can modern science change practical halachah? The case of blood spots in eggs offe

“Atone for Me” – Does God Need Forgiveness?- Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. Masechet Chullin takes us today to a set of aggadot that bring us back to the creation of the world

Birkat Kohanim: Are the Priests Among the Blessed?- Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. Our sugya takes a brief pause from the laws of treifot and turns to the special blessing bestowed up

Din & Daf: Scotch & Lab-Grown Meat: A זה וזה גורם Debate

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain There is a debate about whether the result of an interaction between a prohibited

Din & Daf: Being Lenient in Matters of Mourning

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain The Gemara on Chullin 50a raises the rule of thumb that the halacha follows the mo

Can A Tereifa Live?- Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. At the beginning of the chapter Eilu Tereifot, a surprising dispute appears: Can a tereifah live, or