The Daily Mishnah with Benedict
Ten minutes of daily Mishnah in clear, simple English, focussing on the content and the structure of the text and following the global cycle, finishing the entire Mishnah in January 2028. Running five days/week, the series covers between two and four Mishnayot on every episode. For source sheets and materials, go to www.thedailymishnah.com
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Seasons and Links to Sources
Episodes
Jun 20, 2022
Jun 20, 2022
13 min
Who can give teruma? Someone with obligation, capacity and knowledge.From what sources? Must be like-for-like - olives for olives rather than for oil, grapes for grapes rather than for wine.
Jun 22, 2022
Jun 22, 2022
9 min
Finishing the first chapter in the tractate of Terumot and the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Jun 22, 2022
Jun 22, 2022
9 min
Starting the second chapter in the tractate of Terumot and extending the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma to pure and impure. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Jun 23, 2022
Jun 23, 2022
10 min
Finishing the second chapter in the tractate of Terumot and extending the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma to issues of species and quality. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022
11 min
Today's Daily Mishnah deals with mistakes with teruma, mixtures, partners/agents, and boundary cases. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022
12 min
Today's Daily Mishnah deals with the power of intention and speech in designating teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Jun 28, 2022
Jun 28, 2022
11 min
Today's Daily Mishnah continues to focus on the power of intention and speech in designating teruma and looks at the question of whether you need to be Jewish to give teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Jul 3, 2022
Jul 3, 2022
11 min
Today's Daily Mishnah begins Chapter 4 of Terumot and begins to look at numbers: how much teruma do we need to take what happens if we take it in stages? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Jul 3, 2022
Jul 3, 2022
13 min
Today's Daily Mishnah continues to focus on numbers and looks at the question of how much terumah one is allowed to give - what is the maximum? As usual, there are conflicting views.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Jul 3, 2022
Jul 3, 2022
11 min
Today's Daily Mishnah builds on what we've learned about numbers and moves into mixtures - how much terumah can fall into ordinary food without giving all the food the status of terumah? As ever, opinions differ.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Benedict Roth
Benedict Roth is a popular Talmud teacher who studied Mishnah at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem and at Oxford. His Daily Mishnah series is part of the semicha programme at Yeshivas Elimelech in Washington DC.
Benedict resides in London and, when he is not teaching Talmud, works in financial risk management.