All posts in: Moed

• Succah

  7 years ago

  Succah 34a: The unpopular populous alba

  What are the differences between the Aravah (willow) that may be used in the Arba Minim (the Four Species taken on Succot) and the Tzaftzafah (populous alba) that ..

  Written by H Jackson
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• Moed-Koton

  7 years ago

  Moed Katan 9a: ONLY SIMCHA

  From where do we derive the law that one should not intermingle one joyous occasion with another? For it is written1: “At that time Solomon instituted the celebration ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Succah

  7 years ago

  Succah

  We would love to read your vort. Click “Submit your Vort” to send us your vort.

  Written by Anonymous
• Moed-Koton

  7 years ago

  Moed

  We would love to read your vort. Click “Submit your Vort” to send us your vort.

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesachim

  7 years ago

  The time for Kiddush and Havdalah: Based on Pesachim 107a

  Pesachim 107a One who did not make Kiddush on Friday evening may make it anytime during the entire Shabbat day. One who did not recite Havdalah on Motzaei Shabbat ..

  Written by Howard Jackson
• Pesachim

  7 years ago

  Four Cups….of milk??!! : Pesachim 99b

  Even the poorest man in Israel may not eat until he reclines and they must not give him less than four cups of wine, eve, even if he is supported by the charity ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesachim

  7 years ago

  Don’t Mention it : Pesachim 3a

  Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: A person should never emit a coarse expression from his mouth, for the Torah added eight letters so as not to mention a coarse expression, ..

  Written by Howard Jackson
• Pesachim

  7 years ago

  Minyan : Pesachim 46a

  Rabbi Abahu said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish: “… With regard to prayer in a Shul and the obligation to wash hands, the distance set by the Sages is four ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesach

  7 years ago

  Whose Water : Pesachim 42a

  Rav Yehudah said: “A woman should only knead the dough for Matzah with Mayim Shelanu (water that has rested overnight).” Rav Matnah expounded this teaching in Papunya ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Pesachim

  7 years ago

  Why is this night different from all other nights? : Pesachim 116a

  Pesachim 116a “Why is this night different from all other nights? For on all other nights we eat Chametz and Matzah, but on this night only Matzah.” (Gemara ..

  Written by Anonymous