Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 27.

Today we end the massekhet with the conclusion of sugya about the basis for the altars in the Temple not being susceptible to ritual imourity. Concluding sugya comparing the fire of the sacrifices with the fire of God’s words.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 26.

Today we have additinal sugyot about who and where one can rely on claims of ritual purity. Sugya on the purity of keilim in the Temple.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 25.

Today’s episode includes more sugyot about the relationship between chaverim and ammai ha’aretz and when the am ha’aretz can be trusted or not with regard to purity law.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 24.

This episode includes the remaining talmudic discussion on the last few of the 11 rabbinic stringencies introduced to purity law in the opening mishnah of chapter 3.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 23.

Today we will explore how an actual event shapes purity law regarding carrying midras at the same time as qodesh. An investigation of why a vessel which has just been finished requires immersion. How this case is related to the preparation of the red heifer.

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This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 22.

This episode begins with the conclusion of discussion of the difference between Rava and R. Illa. The tracing of this dispute back to the tannaitic period.. How the relations between chaverim and ammai ha’aretz [the knowledgeable and punctilious vs. the ignorant] affect purity law. Some additional teachings about the 11 stringencies.

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This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 21.

This episode begins with the conclusion of mishnah from previous daf. Discussion of how to understand 2 cases which seem to teach the same issue, interposition. R. Illah believes it is interposition in both cases and both are necessary, Rava believes that interposition is learned from the 2nd case and the 1st case is actually based on a principle related to what constitutes a miqvah.

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This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 20.

We ask “can hullin, which is treated as if it were qodesh, become like qodesh and transmit impurity to other objects or people?” We then focus on the role of guarding in keeping objects ritually pure and some cases where objects become impure as a result of a break in the guarding. Concludision of chapter 2. Opening mishnah in chapter 3 about the stringencies of qodesh relative to t’rumah.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 19.

Today we ask “is intention necessary for immersion in the miqvah to be effective for the eating of hullin?” Then we look at the principles of gud achait and gud asaiq as they pertain to the requirements of 40 sa’ot for a kosher miqvah.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 18.

This episodes contains the conclusion of discussion of the derivation of compensation sacrifices for Shavuot. Ma’aseh in which Jews were not permitted to eulogize on the Day of Slaughterhing which seems to contradict the mishnah on the previous page. Shift in topic to purity law with the mishnah for the rest of the chapter and the beginning of discussion on washing hands for non-sacred meat and 2nd tithes.

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Barry Chesler looks at Masechet Chagigah Daf 17.

Today we focus on a mishnah with disagreement between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai regarding the propriety of offering sh’lamim sacrifices and olot r’iyah on the Holiday and whether one may do s’micha, the laying on of hands,, on the holiday, disagreement about when these sacrifices are offered when Shavuot is on Friday or Shabbat. Talmudic discussion of R. Oshaya’s statement that Shavuot has a 7-day compensation period in which to offer the sacrfices one did not offer on the holiday itself.

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This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.