Shabbos 8 – שבת ח

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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:

Rava proves from a Mishna that walking (through a puddle) in an inconvenient manner is considered ‘walking’, but inconvenient usage (like storage in a pit) is not considered proper usage.  What can be a reason to differentiate between the two things?

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Shabbos 34 – שבת לד

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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:

The Gemara advises one to instruct his household gently ‘so that they accept from him’.  The Rosh cites the Gemara (Gittin 6b) that a person should never instill excessive fear in his home.  This reason would indeed seem a sufficient basis for our Gemara as well; why does the Gemara provide the reason of ‘acceptance’ instead?

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Shabbos 35 – שבת לה

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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:

The Gemara concludes that we are meant to conduct ourselves stringently regarding the two opinions of bein hashmashos (i.e. melacha on Motzei Shabbos can only commence after the conclusion of the later bein hashmashos).  Since bein hashmashos in itself is a period of uncertainty (safek day safek night) why is melacha not permitted during the later bein hasmashos  since it is a double safek (safek sfeika)  1) maybe this moment is already past the real bein hashmashos 2) maybe bein hashmashos in itself is really night; as we know a double safek in Torah is permitted?

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Shabbos 35 – שבת לה

The Gemara concludes that we are meant to conduct ourselves stringently regarding the two opinions of bein hashmashos (i.e. melacha on Motzei Shabbos can only commence after the conclusion of the later bein hashmashos).  Since bein hashmashos in itself is a period of uncertainty (safek day safek night) why is melacha not permitted during the later bein hasmashos  since it is a double safek (safek sfeika)  1) maybe this moment is already past the real bein hashmashos 2) maybe bein hashmashos in itself is really night; as we know a double safek in Torah is permitted?

Eruvin 36 – עירובין לו

The Gemara states that the Eruv (‘Seudah’) needs to be suitable (edible) from daytime (‘Mib’od yom); why would it not suffice that it is suitable at the very moment of the Eruv’s activation, which is Bein Hashmashos?

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Eruvin 36 – עירובין לו

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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:

The Gemara states that the Eruv (‘Seudah’) needs to be suitable (edible) from daytime (‘Mib’od yom); why would it not suffice that it is suitable at the very moment of the Eruv’s activation, which is Bein Hashmashos?

 

Eruvin 76 – עירובין עו

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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:

How can a window which is merely four Tefachim wide provide access for a person who is wide an Amma (Sukkah 7b)?

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Eruvin 78 – עירובין עח

Just as you can hang something on one nail (on the Amud) why can’t the same be done with many?

Tosfos (D”h Asheira) writes that there is a machlokes whether you can use issur hana’a for eruv.  How can one explain such a machlokes?

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Eruvin 78 – עירובין עח

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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:

Just as you can hang something on one nail (on the Amud) why can’t the same be done with many?

Tosfos (D”h Asheira) writes that there is a machlokes whether you can use issur hana’a for eruv.  How can one explain such a machlokes?

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Megillah 20 – מגילה כ

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Next day’s Daf Yomi – Megillah 21

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Yevamos 48 – יבמות מח

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Next day’s Daf Yomi – Yevamos 49

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