Making sense, maybe, of the whole daf, maybe, for a change. For the daf today lent itself to discovering a theme, though that doesn’t necessarily…

You already know much of what is on this daf. From the question of how to determine halakhah when you (ie – Hazal) don’t know…

The idea that anything could displace HaMotzi as the most important bracha would be intriguing, but that curiosity is displaced by the very phenomenon that…

It’s another daf of tidbits — or rather, a daf of such wonderful insight and wisdom about life, death, the world, and humanity’s role in…

In which the Talmud again drives home just how different our eating habits are today than they were in the time of the Gemara. In…

A challenging episode to title 🙂 The idea that HaMotzi is an umbrella bracha that covers all the other required brachot at a meal is…

In which all this talk of fruit brought the daf back to the Garden of Eden, to consider the nature of the fruit from the…

In which Yardaena tackles two stories of halakhic application that demonstrate the extreme attention paid to choosing the right blessing for one’s food (admittedly, one…

In which the Gemara dives deep to address the formulation of the blessing over bread — is it “Motzi” or the “HaMotzi” we all know?…

Some dapim have lots of aggadata, some have heated halakhic debates, some probe the “nitty-gritty” of halakhah. This daf does a little of the first…