Questions tagged [maseches-shabbos]
The first masechet in Seder Moed concerning bibliclal and rabbinical "Melacha" (forbidden work), and Kidush, meals etc that pertain to Shabbat
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How did King David think he could thwart God's plan?
The Talmud (Shabbat 30a) relates the following interesting tale about King David's death:
And as to what Solomon said, 'for a living dog is better than a dead lion', — that is as Rab Judah said in ...
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What is a תלא אילן that looks like the תחש?
Shabbat 28a discusses the תחש skin that was used as a covering for the Mishkan. One opinion there (R' Nechemya) says:
רבי נחמיה אומר מכסה אחד היה ודומה כמין תלא אילן והא תלא אילן טמא הוא ה"ק ...
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How many times does the law follow Samuel in ritual practice?
The Talmud (Shabbat 22a) records the following:
איתמר רב אמר אין מדליקין מנר לנר ושמואל אמר מדליקין רב אמר אין מתירין ציצית מבגד לבגד ושמואל אמר מתירין מבגד לבגד רב אמר אין הלכה כרבי שמעון בגרירה ...
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How could Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai eat from the carob tree?
The gemarah (Shabbat 33b) states that when Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son Rav Elazar were hiding in a cave a carob tree miraculously sprouted from which they ate. How could they eat from this ...
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Explanation of Mishna in Shabbat
The Mishna in Shabbat (1: 7) states that:
בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, אֵין מוֹכְרִין לַנָּכְרִי וְאֵין טוֹעֲנִין עִמּוֹ וְאֵין מַגְבִּיהִין עָלָיו, אֶלָּא כְּדֵי שֶׁיַּגִּיעַ לְמָקוֹם קָרוֹב. וּבֵית ...
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Why do we burn Tamei and Passul Karbanos Pesach on the 15th?
The Mishnah in Pesachim (82a,83a) states:
הפסח שיצא או שנטמא ישרף מיד. נטמאו הבעלים או שמתו תעובר צורתו וישרף בט״ז. ר׳ יוחנן בן ברוקה אומר אף זה ישרף מיד לפי שאין לו אוכלין. העצמות והגידין והנותר ...
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What does the Shabbos Shel Mi mean?
In Maseches Shabbos, in between the perakim of Bameh Ishah and Bameh Beheimah, the Shabbos Shel Mi writes the following:
דרשינן סמוכים פ' במה בהמה ובמה אשה כל הקרב הקרב כי לא לחנם הלך זרזיר אצל ...
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Rashi's misquoting in Parashat Pinchas?
Shalom everybody,
We read lately Parashat Pinchas. The parsha deals with the story of B'not Tzelofchad (Barmidbar 27:1-11). Rashi on verse 27:3 quotes the Gemara Shabbat 96b in order to identify who ...
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How can Hashem judge a person לזכות, favourably, as in הדן חבירו לכף זכות דנין אותו לזכות
The Gemoro Shabbos 127b brings three stories illustrating the principle,
הדן חבירו לכף זכות דנין אותו לזכות
“He who judges his neighbour in the scale of merit is himself judged
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Who was the "Tana Dvei Rabbi Yishmael"?
What are the teachings labeled "Tana Dvei Rabbi Ishmael"?
Are they Braisos or Amoraic teachings?
On one hand, on Shabbos 26b we find it arguing on Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar (a Tana).
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Are the talmudic "Prushim" the Rabbinic Pharisees?
In Masechet Sotah, 20a, the mishna details harmful forces and reads (translation from dafyomi.co.il)
The following destroy the world - a foolish Chasid, a crafty evildoer, a woman who is Perushah, ...
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to grate cheese with a saw not Toveled?
The mishna in Masechet Shabbat says:
A man may take a hammer to split nuts, a chopper to cut [a round of] pressed figs, a saw for sawing cheese, a spade to scoop dried figs, a winnowing shovel and ...
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Did Rav Papa issue a halachic ruling in order to benefit financially?
In the Gemara Shab. 140b Rav Papa is recorded saying that one who drinks wine while able to drink beer violates “ba’al tashchit”. Maharsh”a comments that Rav Papa’s disapproval of consuming wine ...
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A puzzle in the Steinsaltz’ Talmud commentary
It is written in Shabbos 83a in the Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud that gentiles are designated the status of zav. The commentary explains that the reason is “So that a Jewish child will not grow ...
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G-d's Divine Presence vs Omnipresence?
In Shabbat 12b, G-d is called the Omnipresent several times, implying to me that G-d is present everywhere.
But then it says this:
אין מלאכי השרת מכירין בלשון ארמי שאני חולה דשכינה עמו
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Why does the Mishnah use the terms poor person and homeowner when discussing carrying on Shabbat?
This first Mishna in Shabbat (2a) describes the transfer of an item from a private domain to a public domain. The Mishna describes the individuals involved in this transfer as
העני עומד בחוץ ובעל ...
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Why is one who's influenced by a Persian priest liable to death?
It says in Shabbat 75b that if a magosh tries to influence a Jew to adopt even a single one of his customs, that Jew should be put to death:
אמר רב זוטרא בר טוביה אמר רב: ... והלומד דבר אחד מן המגוש ...
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Why did the angels object to the Torah being given to Moshe – what did the angels think?
The well-known Gemoro Shabbos 88b reports the angels protesting against HKB”H giving the Torah to Israel. HKB”H tells Moshe to answer the angels and Moshe shows that the Torah is only applicable to ...
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Is softening a linen garment the end of the laundry process and therefore forbidden on Shabbos (Shabbos 140a)?
Shabbos 140a. Rav Safra permits softening a laundered linen shirt. (Translation and elucidation of the Gemoro below according to Sefaria) - original is:
מיסתמיך ואזיל רב אחא בר יוסף אכתפיה דרב נחמן ...
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Why 40 minus 1 - why not just say 39 Melachot?
In describing the Melachos of Shabbos, the Mishna in Shabbos 73a says that there are "40-1" Melachos. Why not say 39?
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Is there an opinion that plowing and harvesting on Shabbos are not punishable by Kareis and Skilah? If not, why?
Shabbos 70a records a dispute between R' Nassan and R' Yosi on how to interpret the seemingly extra passuk (Shemos 35:3):
לֹא־תְבַעֲר֣וּ אֵ֔שׁ בְּכֹ֖ל מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם בְּי֖וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃
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"This is R. M'nachem." So? (שבת עה ע״ב)
The Bavli, Shabas 75 amud 2, quotes from a tosefta as follows:
If he wrote a single large letter, in whose space there's room to write two, he's exempt [from offering a korban chatas]. If he erased ...
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How is this a proof that the Rabbis hold that one cannot continue a stopped circumcision on Shabbat (Shabbat 133b)
The gemara (Shabbat 133b) is trying to identify the Tanna of the Braita above:
המל כל זמן שהוא עוסק במילה חוזר בין על הציצין המעכבין את המילה בין על הציצין שאין מעכבין את המילה. פירש על ציצין ...
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How is scraping a leaf erasure? (שבת נ ע״ב)
The Bavli, Shabas 50 amud 2 says (according to Rashi's understanding) that one can stick a knife between tightly foliated leaves on a branch on Shabas. Rashi explains:
ואין חוששין שמא יגרור הקליפה ...
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Why would I have thought that healing contradicts the will of Hashem?
Bava Kamma 85a:
תניא דבי ר' ישמעאל אומר (שמות כא, יט) ורפא ירפא מכאן שניתן רשות לרופא לרפאות
It is taught in a Braisa: The academy of R’ Yishmael says: “Heal, he will heal” - from here [we learn] ...
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Why did the nesiim give such tiny wagons?
The Torah describes how the nesiim gave wagons for the purpose of transporting the Mishkan. The Gemara gives the dimensions of those wagons: 5 amos long, 2.5 amos wide, with the 10-amah kerashim ...
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Why is Joseph's pit mentioned amid all the Chanukah stuff in tractate Shabas?
In the middle of a lengthy discussion about Chanukah, the Bavli (the beginning of Shabas 22) sticks in this seemingly unrelated passage:
And R. Kahana said: R. Nasan b. Minyome exegeted in the name ...
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Did the descendants of Esav literally taste soil?
The pasuk in Bereshit says (36:20)
אֵ֤לֶּה בְנֵֽי־שֵׂעִיר֙ הַחֹרִ֔י יֹשְׁבֵ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ לוֹטָ֥ן וְשׁוֹבָ֖ל וְצִבְע֥וֹן וַעֲנָֽה׃
Chazal explain that they are called the dwellers of the earth because ...
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Why isn't it considered Borer to use a spoon to take cholent from a cholent pot?
There are three requirements in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 319 to separate food (or other needed articles) from a mixture on Shabbos without it being a melacha of borer.
Good from the bad.
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Chazal Heimlich Maneuver
The Gemara Shabbos (67a) records
תני תנא בפרק אמוראי קמיה דרבי חייא בר אבין אמר ליה כולהו אית בהו משום
דרכי האמורי לבר מהני מי שיש לו עצם בגרונו מביא מאותו המין ומניח ליה על
קדקדו ולימא הכי חד חד ...
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How far should one read into Megalgelin Zechus?
There is a concept called מגלגלין זכות על ידי זכאי וחוב על ידי חייב, that good things and bad things come via those who are fitting to be their messengers (Shabbos 32a).
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Torah attitude toward drinking alcohol
What is the attitude of Chazal toward drinking alcohol? It seems to be have been common practice to drink at night (see Shabbos 10a), was this frowned upon? If so, was it only frowned upon in excess?
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Does a Shli'ach for carrying adopt the sender's designation of the item?
Mishnah Shabbos 10,1 says about מלאכת הוצאה:
"הַמַּצְנִיעַ לְזֶרַע וּלְדֻגְמָא וְלִרְפוּאָה, וְהוֹצִיאוֹ בְּשַׁבָּת, חַיָּב בְּכָל שֶׁהוּא. וְכָל אָדָם אֵין חַיָּב עָלָיו אֶלָּא כְשִׁעוּרוֹ.: &...
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Proof from Arvos Moav to Har Sinai regarding who was there
גמרא שבת קמו עמוד א
ישראל שעמדו על הר סיני פסקה זוהמתן גוים שלא עמדו על הר סיני לא פסקה
זוהמתן אמר ליה רב אחא בריה דרבא לרב אשי גרים מאי אמר ליה אף על גב
דאינהו לא הוו מזלייהו הוו דכתיב (דברים ...
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Why was Shimshon's fourth response to Delilah worse than the third?
When Delilah asked Shimshon where his miraculous strength came from, he gave four responses:
tie me up with seven moist ropes
no, they have to be NEW, THICK ropes
put seven of my hairs into a loom
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Sinai and hatred
What is the exact meaning of this Gemara [Shabbat 89a]:
דרב חסדא ורבה ברי' דרב הונא דאמרי תרווייהו מאי הר סיני הר שירדה שנאה לעכו"ם עליו
It is usually translated as:
Rav Ḥisda and Rabba, son of ...
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The Gemara says (mesechet shabbat) that one can survive with a rivi'it of blood
The Gemara says (mesechet shabbat 31b) that one can survive with a rivi'it of blood. How is it possible when we know one can't even survive with a 40% blood loss?
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What does איברא mean?
The word איברא only appears a handful of times in the Talmud. (E.g. Pesachim 104a; Chulin 59b, 60a) it means something like its true, you’re right etc.
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Why the different wording for the three proofs atop שבת דף מ ע״א?
The Bavli, Shabas 40 amud 1, cites a disagreement between Rav and Sh'muel. It then brings three proofs to Sh'muel's view. Each proof quotes what appears AFAICT to be a b'raysa, and each proof is ...
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What is the case of a burning thrown object?
The mishnah in Shabbos (102a) states that if one throws an object on Shabbos, forgetting that it's Shabbos, and it never reaches its intended target, he is not liable. One of the examples given is an ...
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Different things falling through the air
Rava has a question: What is the halacha regarding something which you throw through a house, that goes in one window and out the other? Do we say that something that passes through the house's ...
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Confusing Tes with Pei
The Gemara (Shabbos 103a) gives a list of letters that should be written very carefully to avoid being mixed up with other letters:
"וכתבתם שתהא כתיבה תמה שלא יכתוב אלפין עיינין עיינין אלפין ביתין ...
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What is the source that the תרמודאי were wood merchants?
In gemara Shabbat 21b it says
עד שתכלה רגל מן השוק ועד כמה אמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר ר' יוחנן עד דכליא ריגלא דתרמודאי:
The expression until traffic in the marketplace ceases is mentioned here, and ...
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Why say the rams are reddened?
Among the materials used for the mishkan were "reddened rams' hides" (T'ruma 25:5). There are two ways one can read that phrase: it can mean "reddened hides of rams", that the hides were reddened, or "...
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Mistaken identity of "Rabbi Chanina" in some siddurim
In the Kabbalas Shabbos service, which concludes with "Omar Rabbi Elozor," the previous paragraph is taken from Shabbos 12a.
תניא חנניא אומר חייב אדם למשמש בבגדו ע"ש עם חשכה אמר רב יוסף הלכתא רבתי ...
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Why the extra "בֶן" in חֲנַנְיָה's name?
The Mishna in Shabbos (1:4) references חֲנַנְיָה בֶן חִזְקִיָּה בֶן גֻּרְיוֹן, with two בֶן's, but when referenced in Menachos (45a):
אמר רב זכור אותו האיש לטוב וחנינא בן חזקיה שמו
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Why are Chazal asking if words are spelled with א or ע?
In Shabbos 77a-77b, Chazal ask about the spelling of a series of words, questioning whether the words are spelled with an alef - as in גראינין - or with an ayin - as in גרעינין. Wasn't ayin vocalized ...
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Lighting on Chanuka for advertising the mitzva?
The Bavli, Shabbos 21b, discusses lighting the Chanuka lights out of doors; Rashi gives the reason for outdoor lighting as
משום פרסומי ניסא / for advertising the miracle.
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Is there a Halachic problem with cursing? [duplicate]
Our tradition mentions the serious transgression of "nivul peh" and the punishments that Hashem brings down on the world due to this sin (Shabbos 33a, Vayikra Rabba 24-7).
What I want to know is if ...
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Kiddush written on the sukkah
I've seen canvas sukkot that have kiddush printed on the walls. Can you use the text to say kiddush?
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