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
Nov 14, 2022
Nov 14, 2022
11 min
How are bikkurim like a sefer torah? How important is the Land of Israel?
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022
9 min
Find out about gender-fluidity in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .
Nov 16, 2022
Nov 16, 2022
13 min
Find out about gender-fluidity, human rights and gender-inderminacy in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .
Nov 17, 2022
Nov 17, 2022
13 min
The tractate of Shabbat opens with laws which seem completely obscure - carrying into and out from a private residence, reading by a light, teaching children. We'll see that it is setting out a framework to approach the broader topic.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat
Nov 20, 2022
Nov 20, 2022
11 min
Swords and spears in the beyt midrash? Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel come to blows. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat
Nov 21, 2022
Nov 21, 2022
10 min
After coming to blows at the entrance to the beit midrash, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel continue their debates about processes that we might set running before shabbat but which continue to operate during it. Eventually, the Mishnah will validate Beit Hillel.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat
Nov 22, 2022
Nov 22, 2022
11 min
Roasting on shabbat? In principle, processes that we might set running before shabbat can continue to operate during it, but perhaps not roasting? As ever, there are exceptions.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat.
Nov 23, 2022
Nov 23, 2022
13 min
How do we light on shabbat and why are some wicks or some fuels forbidden?
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat
Nov 24, 2022
Nov 24, 2022
10 min
Fuelling the light, and questions of life and death.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat
Nov 28, 2022
Nov 28, 2022
12 min
Lighting the light, and putting food on a burning stove before shabbat.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat
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.