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Anne Gordon is the deputy editor of Ops & Blogs at The Times of Israel. She is a veteran educator, having taught in high school and post-high school institutions in Israel and America for several decades.
Yardaena Osband is a pediatrician and teaches in her community and online. They both hail from Boston, proud alumna of Maimonides School, where they first learned Gemara.
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Bava Kamma 7: Valuation
The daf explores what exactly the damagers has to pay and form what assets. Click here for the Talking Talmud podcast on Bava Kamma 7/a>.…
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Bava Kamma 6: The Best if His Field
The daf provided 4 possible different cases that explain the what is common between the four types of damagers described in the Mishnah. Rabbi Yishmael…
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Bava Kamma 5: Damage Through Speech
The daf discusses what type of damagers are not in the britot from daf 4 and how damage can be done through speech. The daf…
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Bava Kamma 4: How Many Damages Can You Count?
The daf establishes 3 damaging activities that an ox can do (keren, shen, and regel), and the differences between each of them that can be…
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Bava Kamma 3: Maโveh
The daf comes to an understanding of Rav Pappaโs statement that some Toladot and different than the Av. The daf then explains a disagreement between…
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Bava Kamma 2: The First Gate
A new Seder and a new Masechet! The Masechet begins with a discussion of the main categories of damagers and the relationship between the Avot…
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Kiddushin 82: The Hope of Torah
The daf begins with a Mishnah that raises some difficult questions. The last Mishnah of the Masechet and Seder discusses what professions are desirable and…
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Kiddushin 81: Temptation
The daf has a very open discussion about sexual temptation and sin by giving example from the Tanamim and Amoraim Click here for the Talking…
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Kiddushin 80: Chazakot
The daf discusses Rabbi Yochananโa concept of chazakot and when one does not to bring a witness to prove something. Later the Mishnah discussed the…
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Kiddushin 79: Whoโs who
Two mishnahs; First mishnah – when the timing of an agents betrothal for a woman and a father’s (or her own) conflict… What is the…
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