In which there’s a whole lot of healthy perspective on what it means to be Jewish, what it means to treat things with respect (in a Jewish context), and how to gear ourselves in the service of God. Of course, that’s a meta-observation, and the daf is really full of different cases — under what circumstances can a Jew make Havdalah using a candle that was lit by a non-Jew? What are we supposed to do if we forgot to say Birkat HaMazon (in a variety of different ways of forgetting). A rich page with more concentrated topics underlying the many cases, perhaps.

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