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Congregation Magen David of West Deal Spreading the Torah of our beloved Rabbis through our online Torah Center. Sharing daily classes on Mishna, Gemara, Parasha, Halacha, and more from all corners of our Beit Midrash. Interested in sponsoring one or more classes? Reach out to us at west.deal.classes@gmail.com. Thank you so much for supporting our Synagogue!

15h ago

Daily Mishna #66: Peah 2:6

Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:6 grounds the previous Mishnah's hybrid rule in a received tradition. A man from Mitzpa planted two types of wheat and came to Rabban Gamliel to ask how many peah corners he owed; Rabban Gamliel did not know, and the question went up to the Sanhedrin. There a tradition was cited, received from a father, who received from the Zugot, who received from the Nevi'im - a halakha l'Moshe miSinai: two types of one species harvested together into one pile need only one peah, but harvested separately, each type needs its own. The class traces how this unwritten law traveled through the chain of transmission to reach the Mishnah. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) Two wheat types, revisited(0:54) The man from Mitzpa's question(1:15) Rabban Gamliel did not know(1:29) Up to the Sanhedrin(1:44) A tradition from the Zugot(2:14) Halakha l'Moshe miSinai - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
22h ago

Daily Mishna #65: Peah 2:5

Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:5 weighs what makes a field one field for peah: the species or the harvest. One species harvested in two separate shifts still counts as a single field, and one peah covers it all - a choice to work in shifts does not split the field, and this sits with the earlier rule that peah produce must be gatherable at once, since here the crop does ripen together. Two different species, barley and beans for example, need their own peah each, even when they are cut and processed together in one pile. For the hybrid case, two types of one species such as white and brown wheat, the Mishnah follows how the farmer treats them: harvested together, one peah covers both; harvested separately, he has shown he treats them as two and each gets its own peah. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) One field or two(0:13) One species, two harvest shifts(1:11) Gathered at once, revisited(1:48) Two species, one harvest(2:43) Hybrid: two types of wheat(3:39) The harvest reveals the species - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
1d ago

Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 61a, Shinui Baalim | Weekday Gemara

Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class takes up the question of shinuibaalim: a Korban Pesach slaughtered year-round for the wrong owners, and whether that mistake rescues it into a valid shelamim the way shinuikodesh does. Rav Pappa argues the analogy before Rava - whatever invalidates a Pesach in its time should validate it outside its time. Rava rejects the comparison with four stringencies unique to shinuikodesh: it invalidates the body of the korban, applies in all four avodot, applies after death, and applies equally to communal korbanot. The Gemara pulls back two of the four as lavdafka, yet Rava still rules stringently: a Pesach slaughtered year-round for the wrong owners is treated like a Pesach with no owners in its time - pasul, never a shelamim. The class closes with the next Mishna: slaughtering for non-eaters, arelim, or temeim is pasul, mixed groups are kasher, and a Pesach slaughtered before the tamid is kasher bediavad as long as the blood is stirred until the tamid is sprinkled. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) Recap: shinui baalim question(1:33) Rav Pappa's analogy(2:28) Rava's four stringencies(5:29) Communal korbanot(8:22) Two attacks pulled back(13:31) Rava's stringent ruling(18:12) Mishna: slaughtering for non-eaters(20:00) Pesach before the tamid - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
1d ago

Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pesahim 60b-61a, Nisayon Midrash Hiddush | Weekday Gemara

Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. The class opens by completing Friday's discussion of nisayon: the Rambam's three justifications for why Hashem tests the righteous, and a hiddush aligning the Midrash's three meshalim - the flax grower, the potter, and the farmer with two oxen - to those three reasons. The Gemara then asks whether shinuibaalim, slaughtering a Korban Pesach for the wrong owners, works like shinuikodesh and leaves a valid shelamim when done year-round. Rav Pappa argues the analogy before Rava: whatever invalidates a Pesach in its time should validate it outside its time. Rava dismantles the comparison with four stringencies of shinuikodesh - it strikes the body of the korban, applies in all four avodot, applies after the owner's death, and applies equally to communal korbanot. The class closes with Rashi's explanation that a korban bears no owner's name after death, and why a communal korban can never have the wrong owners. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) Nisayon: Rambam's three reasons(1:16) The Midrash's three meshalim(4:57) Shinuibaalim year-round(18:02) Rav Pappa's analogy(22:37) Rava's four stringencies(28:05) No names after death(33:58) Communal korbanot - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
1d ago

Daily Mishna #64: Peah 2:4

Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. Peah 2:4 gives exceptions where even a fence does not split a field. Carob trees, planted far apart and towering above any fence, count as one field as long as each tree is visible from the next, and one peah serves them all. Rabban Gamliel related his household's custom for their olive trees: one peah from a single grove covered all their trees in that direction of town, and the class explains the practice through the town olive press that united each section's crop. A more lenient tradition in Rabban Gamliel's name extended the rule to carobs across the whole town, but the halakha does not follow it: carobs that cannot see each other are separate fields and each needs its own peah. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) Recap: fences and trees(0:49) Carobs that see each other(1:48) Rabban Gamliel's olive custom(3:35) The more lenient carob view(5:00) Halakha: sight lines decide - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
1d ago

Daily Mishna #63: Peah 2:3

Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. The previous mishnayot listed the features - canals, roads, paths - that split a field into two, each requiring its own peah. Peah 2:3 limits that rule: those separations apply only to zeraim, crops sown close together every year. Trees are planted with space between them, so a stream running between two trees does not divide the field. For trees, only a fence at least ten tefahim high separates; and if the branches are interwoven or touching, even a fence does not split the field and one peah serves them all. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) Recap: what splits a field (0:50) Zeraim vs trees (1:52) A fence ten tefahim high (2:08) Interwoven branches: one field - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.org Sponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
3d ago

Daily Mishna #62: Peah 2:2

Rabbi Joseph Dana records a short daily Mishnah class, working through all of Mishnah a few minutes at a time. The previous Mishnah treated any stream or irrigation canal running through a field as an automatic split, requiring peah on each side no matter its size. Peah 2:2 records Rabbi Yehuda's different view: only a water canal so wide that a man standing in the middle cannot reach either bank to harvest divides the field in two; a narrower canal does not - and the halakha follows Rabbi Yehuda. The Mishnah adds a second case: a hilly section of land so steep that an ox cannot cross it with a plow, leaving the owner to plow it by hand with his own tools, does not split the field either. The reason: an onlooker who sees the unplowed hills assumes the owner simply has not gotten up there yet with his tools and will plow it soon - it remains one field. That differs from the deliberately unplowed strip of the previous Mishnah, which any observer reads as a permanent division between two fields. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) A second view on canals(0:38) R. Yehuda: only a wide canal splits(1:12) Narrow canal: one field, one peah(1:32) Hilly land an ox can't plow(2:29) Why hills don't divide the field - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com
3d ago

Rabbi Ike Hanon – Vayera: Opening the Gates of Heaven With Love | Breakfast Class

Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes daily at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul. Parashat Vayera opens with Avraham sitting at the entrance of his tent, receiving nevuah - and then interrupting his conversation with Hashem to greet three passing travelers. Rashi brings two readings of Avraham's word "Adonai": addressing the chief traveler, or asking Hashem to wait while he welcomes the guests. From this the Gemara teaches that hachnasat orchim, bringing in guests, is greater than receiving the Shechina. And the guests were not dignitaries - Avraham suspected they were idol worshippers who bowed to the dust on their feet, and still he welcomed them, teaching that chesed applies to literally everybody. The class closes with the story of the Hasidic rebbe who hosted even thieves and robbers: showing love for every single person, even the outcast, is what opens the gates of Shamayim. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (0:00) Avraham interrupts prophecy for guests(1:02) Rashi: who is "my master"?(1:27) Guests before greeting Hashem(1:58) Suspected idolaters, welcomed anyway(3:11) The rebbe who hosted thieves(4:37) Love opens the gates of heaven - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: west.deal.classes@gmail.com

Congregation Magen David of West Deal Spreading the Torah of our beloved Rabbis through our online Torah Center. Sharing daily classes on Mishna, Gemara, Parasha, Halacha, and more from all corners of our Beit Midrash. Interested in sponsoring one or more classes? Reach out to us at west.deal.classes@gmail.com. Thank you so much for supporting our Synagogue!

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