Beyond the Daf - Hadran

Din & Daf: Essential or Transactional Holiness - קדושת הגוף או קדושת דמים?

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Bekhorot 5,6 Dr. Elana Stein Hain – dinanddaf@hadran.org.ilFor more Din and Daf:

What Is Kedushah? (And How Is It Removed?) - Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. The word “holiness” is one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking concepts in the religious w

Introduction to Masechet Bekhorot with Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson

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Din & Daf: Can We Undo Our Own Wrongdoing?

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Chullin 141 Dr. Elana Stein Hain – dinanddaf@hadran.org.ilFor more Din and Daf: h

Consecrated Birds and Shiluach HaKen - Gefet

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. Does the mitzvah of shiluach haken apply to consecrated birds? The mishnah tells us it does not, and

Levite/Kohenet Mothers and Their First Born Babies- Why No Pidyon Ha-ben?

Din & Daf: Conceptual Analysis of Halakha Through Case Study with Dr. Elana Stein Hain Chullin 132 Dr. Elana Stein Hain – dinanddaf@hadran.org.ilFor more Din and Daf: h

The Halakhic Status of a Bat Kohen

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur. What is the connection between a woman who marries and the family she originally came from? This que

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