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2 March 2025

• 20:3820:38, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,327 N Mikvaot Created page with "'''Tractate Mikvaot''' contains 11 chapters, indicating the concept of elevation and refinement that comes after the completeness of ten, which is why the incense also includes 11 spices. The tractate deals with the parameters of the mikvah and the spring and their derivatives (seas and rivers, wells, and more), the laws of immersion in a mikvah, and disqualifications of a mikvah (for example, drawn water). == Chidushei HaTzemach Tzedek == The Tzemach Tzedek's novellae..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3520:35, 2 March 2025 diff hist +536 N Taharot Created page with "Masechet Taharot in the Order of Taharot contains ten chapters that deal with the laws of tumah and taharah (ritual impurity and purity) of foods and vessels, and the causes of taharah and tumah. The name of the tractate is Taharot, besides being in the Order of Taharot. During the mourning period for Rebbetzin Rivkah, her son the Rebbe Rashab instructed that a lesson in Masechet Taharot be studied in the yeshiva, with one person learning and the others listening. == E..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3420:34, 2 March 2025 diff hist +743 N Parah Created page with "Masechet Parah is the fourth tractate in Seder Taharot (Order of Purities). This tractate has no Gemara and only contains Mishnah and Tosefta. The tractate deals with the laws of preparing the ashes of the red heifer, the methods of its purification, and details about the times of each red heifer that existed until the days of Moshiach. == Chapters of the Tractate == # '''Rabbi Eliezer - A Day-Old Calf''' # '''Rabbi Eliezer - A Pregnant Sin-Offering Cow''' # '''Seven..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3320:33, 2 March 2025 diff hist +8,133 N Negaim Created page with "In Tractate Negaim there are 14 chapters. The tractate deals with the laws of tzaraas afflictions, from the Torah portions of Tazria and Metzora. == Doubt Whether the Baheres Preceded the White Hair == In the tractate it is brought: If the baheres (white spot) preceded the white hair, it is tamei (impure). If the white hair preceded the baheres, it is tahor (pure). And if there is doubt, it is tamei; Rabbi Yehoshua considers it keha (rules it pure). In the Gemara it is..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3220:32, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,127 N Ohalot Created page with "Masechet Ohalot is the second tractate in Seder Taharot, which is the sixth and final order of the Mishnah. There is no Gemara on it. It is also called Ohilot and contains eighteen chapters which primarily discuss the laws of impurity of the dead in general and the laws of impurity of the tent of the dead in particular. This tractate is considered one of the most important in the Shas according to King David's words in the Midrash, who requested that reading Tehillim sh..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3120:31, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,122 N Keilim Created page with "In '''Masechet Keilim''' from the Order of Taharot, there are 29 chapters. The masechet deals with the laws of tumah (ritual impurity) and taharah (ritual purity) of people and vessels. Among other things, the masechet discusses the status of hand towels. According to Beit Shammai, whether they are decorated or not, they are tamei (ritually impure). However, according to Beit Hillel, only undecorated towels are tamei, while decorated towels are not tamei. == The Rebbe..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3020:30, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,029 N Kinim Created page with "'''Tractate Kinim''' has three chapters and three and a half pages. Tractate Kinim is the eleventh and final tractate in Seder Kodashim, the fifth order of the Mishnah. It contains three chapters that deal with kinim - pairs of birds designated for offerings - that became mixed with each other. This tractate has no Talmud Bavli (or Talmud Yerushalmi), but it is printed in most editions of the Babylonian Talmud together with the tractates Meilah, Tamid, and Middot (pages..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2920:29, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,029 N Midot Created page with "'''Masechet Midot''' deals with the structure of the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple), and includes descriptions of: Har Habayit (Temple Mount), the Azarah (Courtyard), the Heichal (Sanctuary) and everything contained within them. The Rebbe instructed to study Masechet Midot during Bein Hametzarim (the Three Weeks), which deals with the laws of the Beit Hamikdash, something that increases the yearning for the complete Geulah. == The Rebbe's Explanations == * '''Learning M..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2820:28, 2 March 2025 diff hist +995 N Tamid Created page with "Tractate Tamid deals with the order of the daily offering (korban tamid) in the Holy Temple, and with other frequent services in the Temple. This tractate is the shortest among all tractates that have Gemara - only eight and a half pages. For this reason, among others, the Rebbe mentioned this tractate specifically as suitable for fulfilling the custom of making siyumim (completions of tractates) during the Nine Days. == The Rebbe's Explanations == * '''27a.''' Abaye s..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2720:27, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,162 N Meilah Created page with "'''Masechet Meilah''' is the eighth tractate in Seder Kodashim, the fifth order of the Mishnah. It contains six chapters which deal with the detailed laws of meilah (meaning benefiting from consecrated property). The sixth chapter discusses the laws of agency in meilah (a person who sends another person to perform an act of deriving benefit from consecrated property) and the unique aspects of agency in this area compared to other laws of agency in halacha, in that it dev..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2620:26, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,549 N Kreitot Created page with "Masechet Kreitot contains 6 chapters and 27 pages. The tractate deals with the laws of all 36 transgressions punishable by karet (spiritual excision). == The Rebbe's Explanations == In the tractate, a dispute is brought regarding Yom Kippur: whether Yom Kippur atones regardless if one did teshuva (repentance) or not, or whether it doesn't atone without teshuva. A similar dispute exists regarding the fast day of a chatan (groom) and kallah (bride) on their wedding day...." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2520:25, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,674 N Temurah Created page with "Tractate Temurah contains 7 chapters and 32.5 pages. According to the Torah's commandment, when a person consecrates an animal to be offered on the altar, it is forbidden for him to exchange the sanctity of that animal for another animal. If he does make such an exchange, he receives lashes, and both animals must be offered on the altar. This tractate deals with the various laws related to these regulations. == The Rebbe's Explanations == In the tractate it states:<blo..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2320:23, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,203 N Arachin Created page with "Masechet Arachin is the fifth tractate in Seder Kodashim of the Mishnah. This tractate deals with the laws of vows and consecrations for the maintenance of the Temple. Laws of vows are also discussed in other tractates in Seder Kodashim, but Masechet Arachin focuses on two special types of consecration vows - a vow to donate to the Temple treasury the equivalent value of a person, and the consecration of "Sdeh Achuzah" (ancestral fields in the Land of Israel that came to..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2220:22, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,050 N Bekhorot Created page with "'''Masechet Bekhorot''' is the fourth tractate in Seder Kodashim, the fifth order in the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud. It contains nine chapters dealing with the detailed laws of firstborns - the laws of peter chamor (meaning a male donkey born first to its mother), firstborn of kosher animals, laws of blemishes that disqualify sacrifices and priests, and laws of animal tithing. In the Babylonian Talmud in this tractate on page 8, there is a famous Aggadah passage known..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2020:20, 2 March 2025 diff hist +4,752 N Chulin Created page with "'''Masechet Chulin''' includes twelve chapters and 141 pages. It is called this because it is the only masechet in Seder Kodashim that does not deal with the laws of holy things, but rather with the laws of ordinary meat (chulin). This masechet deals with the laws of slaughtering animals, birds, and domesticated animals for ordinary use, as well as the laws of removing forbidden veins (nikur), salting meat, the sciatic nerve (gid hanashe), and all laws of kosher meat...." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1820:18, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,446 N Menachot Created page with "'''Tractate Menachot''' is the second tractate in Seder Kodashim, the fifth order of the Mishnah. Besides the Mishnah and Tosefta, there is a Babylonian Talmud on this tractate, but no Jerusalem Talmud. It contains thirteen chapters which mainly deal with the laws of sacrifices that come from plants and are called Menachot (meal offerings), as opposed to Tractate Zevachim which deals with sacrifices that come from animals. The fourth chapter of this tractate deals incide..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1720:17, 2 March 2025 diff hist +2,470 N Zevachim Created page with "'''Masechet Zevachim''' has 14 chapters and 119 pages. The tractate deals with the laws of offering sacrifices. In every mitzvah there is a thought component, a speech component, and an action component. The thought component of the mitzvah of bringing sacrifices is prayer, the speech component is studying Masechet Zevachim, and the action component is in offering the sacrifices. == The Rebbe's Explanations == Immediately after slaughtering the animal, its blood must b..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1620:16, 2 March 2025 diff hist +5,416 N Horayot Created page with "'''Tractate Horayot''' has 3 chapters and 14 pages. This tractate deals with the laws concerning a court that erred in its ruling, and the sacrifice that must be brought by those who sinned based on their ruling. The tractate also explains the laws of sacrifices brought by a ruler, High Priest, and a common person. In this tractate, there is a major dispute among the Tannaim whether each tribe in Israel is considered a congregation unto itself, or whether only all of I..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1420:14, 2 March 2025 diff hist +6,751 N Avot Created page with "Mesechet Avot is a tractate in the Order of Nezikin that includes "milei d'chasiduta" - words of ethics. It is customary to read Pirkei Avot during the summer Shabbats near Mincha prayer. According to Chabad custom (and Ashkenazi communities), the tractate is read on Shabbats from Pesach until Rosh Hashanah. In total, all six chapters of the tractate are recited in four cycles during these weeks. After each chapter, we say the statement of Tanna Rabbi Chananya ben Akash..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1020:10, 2 March 2025 diff hist +4,488 N Avodah Zarah Created page with "'''Masechet Avodah Zarah''' (also known as: Avodat Gilulim, Akum) is the eighth tractate in Seder Nezikin, which is the fourth Order in the Mishnah. This masechet contains five chapters that deal with the prohibition of coming close to gentiles who engage in idol worship (actively). Its parameters, obligations of distancing, and eradicating it from the world. Additionally, the masechet deals with the fundamentals of prohibition and permissibility, therefore it is called..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:0820:08, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,642 N Eduyot Created page with "In '''Masechet Eduyot''' there are eight chapters of Mishnayot, but there is no Gemara on it. The Masechet is referred to in the Babylonian Talmud as "Masechet Bechirata," according to the Rebbe's explanation, this means it is the chosen or select Masechet. The Masechet concentrates all the testimonies that were heard from the Sages regarding rulings that were decided in the generation before them. Additionally, the Masechet contains a collection of the leniencies of B..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:0620:06, 2 March 2025 diff hist +5,563 N Shevuot Created page with "Masechet Shevuot contains 8 chapters and 48 pages. The masechet deals with the laws of '''shevuah''' (oath), when and how it takes effect, the laws regarding one who violates it, as well as the oath that a person is administered in beit din (court). == Shiur Hishtachavaya (Measure of Prostration) == The halacha is that someone who becomes tamei (ritually impure) in the Mikdash (Temple) is forbidden to remain in the Mikdash for the shiur hishtachavaya (time of prostratio..." Tag: Visual edit
• 20:0520:05, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,553 N Makkot Created page with "'''Masechet Makkot''' has 3 chapters and 23 pages. The first chapter of the tractate deals with the laws of false witnesses (edim zomemim); the second chapter deals with the laws of unintentional murderers and cities of refuge; the third deals with the laws of lashes (malkot). == Conclusion of the Tractate == In the Mishnah at the end of the tractate it states: Rabbi Chananya ben Akashya says, "The Holy One, Blessed be He, wanted to confer merit upon Israel; therefore H..." Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4819:48, 2 March 2025 diff hist +5,883 N Sanhedrin Created page with "'''Tractate Sanhedrin''' contains 11 chapters and 112 pages. The tractate deals with the laws of the Great and Small Sanhedrin, Torah judgments, and more. In the division of Shas, the Rebbe takes upon himself to study Tractate Sanhedrin. This was also the practice of the Rebbe Rayatz. The Rebbe explained[1] that "this is in accordance with the role of a Nasi and shepherd of Israel, who guides all the people of his generation according to the instructions of the Torah,..." Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4619:46, 2 March 2025 diff hist −4 Bava Batra No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4519:45, 2 March 2025 diff hist +6,090 N Bava Batra Created page with "Bava Batra is a tractate dealing with laws of neighbors, land possession claims and movable property claims, buying and selling, inheritances, and document laws. It contains ten chapters and one hundred seventy-five pages. The editor of Rishonim books, Rabbi Moshe Hershler, visited the Rebbe during the distribution of dollars for charity on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5750 (1990), and told the Rebbe that he was currently publishing two books by Rabbeinu Yonah. The Rebbe inquire..." Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4219:42, 2 March 2025 diff hist +4,386 N Bava Metzia Created page with "Tractate '''Bava Metzia''' is the second tractate in the Order of Nezikin (Damages) in the Mishnah. Its name in Aramaic means "The Middle Gate," and it is called this because it is the middle one of the three "Bavas" - tractates dealing with the laws of damages: Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Batra. The tractate includes ten chapters, 117.5 pages. The tractate deals with laws of monetary doubt, returning lost objects, guardians, interest, purchasing objects, laborers..." Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4019:40, 2 March 2025 diff hist +28 Bava Kama No edit summary Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 19:3819:38, 2 March 2025 diff hist +6,754 N Zochlin Created page with "Zochlin is one of the common flaws in mikvahs, mentioned in Masechet Mikvaot, which is caused by the mikvah water flowing, contrary to the rule stating that mikvah water only purifies when it is "ashboren" - meaning when the water is still and standing in place. This differs from a spring, which purifies even in "zochlin" state, when the spring water flows and moves from its place. == The Definition of Zochlin == In the Responsa of the Tzemach Tzedek, there are many que..." Tag: Visual edit
• 19:3619:36, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,993 N Red Midges/Gnats (Yavchushin Adumin) Created page with "Red midges/gnats are a type of sheretz (creeping thing) that develops in water or wine that has been stored in a wooden barrel for a long time. == In Laws of Immersion and Hand Washing == In the Talmud, it states that red midges are sheratzim created from water, as Chazal phrase it "their initial creation is from water," and therefore they are defined in certain halachic definitions as water for almost all matters. In Masechet Zevachim, it mentions that it's even possib..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 19:3519:35, 2 March 2025 diff hist +42 Hovaya Al Yedei Tahara (Creation Through Purity) No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 19:3319:33, 2 March 2025 diff hist +303 Beitzah No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 14:4214:42, 2 March 2025 diff hist −1 Main Page No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 14:2114:21, 2 March 2025 diff hist +99 Kiddushin No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 14:1914:19, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,878 N Gittin Created page with "Tractate Gittin has 9 chapters and 89 pages. The tractate deals with the laws of the get (divorce document). This refers to a document that a man writes for his wife in cases where they have reached a situation of divorce, God forbid. The tractate discusses, among other things, the laws of writing the get, the laws of agency, and the laws of acquisition. The tractate contains many famous yeshiva topics. This tractate is one of the Gemara tractates studied in Chabad yes..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:1714:17, 2 March 2025 diff hist +7,901 N Sotah Created page with "Masechtas Sotah is a tractate from the Order of Nashim (Women), and includes nine chapters and forty-eight pages. During the days of Sefirat HaOmer, the custom is to learn Masechet Sotah - one page per day. == Subject of the Tractate == The tractate deals with the laws of Sotah. A woman whose husband is jealous for her, and forbids her to be in seclusion with another man, and she violates his warning and is caught in seclusion with that man, the law of 'Sotah' applies..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:1514:15, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,827 N Nazir (Talmud) Created page with "Mesechtas Nazir contains 9 chapters and 65 pages. The Mesechta deals with the laws of a Nazir. Taking the Nazirite vow, its laws, and the Nazirite offering. A man or woman who vows not to drink wine is called a 'Nazir'. The Nazir is forbidden to drink wine throughout the period of his Naziriteship. If no time is specified, the Naziriteship applies for 30 days, and in any case, one cannot take a Nazirite vow for less than this minimum time period. Additionally, he is fo..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:1314:13, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,109 N Nedarim Created page with "'''Masechet Nedarim''' has 11 chapters and 90 pages. The tractate deals with the laws of vows, husband's nullification of vows, and the release of vows by a sage. == Explanations of the Tzemach Tzedek == '''Extended entry – Neder (Vow)''' A neder (vow) is when a person prohibits something upon himself and connects it to something else that is forbidden by the Torah, saying that the thing will be forbidden to him like a korban (sacrifice). Although the prohibition ta..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:1114:11, 2 March 2025 diff hist +4,556 N Ketubot Created page with "'''Masechet Ketubot''' has 13 chapters and 111 pages. This tractate deals with marriage laws, the ketubah (marriage contract), and its collection. This tractate is one of the Gemara tractates studied in Chabad yeshivas. == Selected Topics == ==== Unmarried Woman Who Says "I Was Intimate With a Kosher Man" ==== On page 15 of the tractate, there is a dispute between Rabban Gamliel and other Tannaim regarding whether a woman is believed when she says, "I was intimate with..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:0814:08, 2 March 2025 diff hist +8,084 N Yevamot Created page with "Masechet Yevamot has 16 chapters and 121 pages. The subject of this masechet deals with the laws of yibum (levirate marriage) and chalitzah (the ceremony releasing a woman from yibum), and the laws regarding marrying women whose husbands' whereabouts have been lost. The Mishnah also deals with the specific details of the laws of yibum. Among them: maamar yevamin, which is a form of betrothal specific to a yevamah (the widow requiring yibum). The manner of this betrotha..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:0514:05, 2 March 2025 diff hist +5,346 N Chagigah Created page with "Masechet Chagigah has 3 chapters and 25.5 pages. The masechet deals with the laws of the festivals and additional laws. == Poshei Yisrael (Sinners of Israel) == A story is told about a Jewish man from the Satmar chassidim who was childless. Being a chassid, he approached his Rebbe for a blessing for zera chaya v'kayama (viable offspring). His Rebbe blessed him and then added a surprising instruction: "Gei tzu yenem" (Go to that one), referring to the Lubavitcher Rebbe...." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:0314:03, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,858 N Megillah Created page with "'''Mesechtas Megillah''' has four chapters and thirty and a half pages. The Mesechtas deals with the laws of reading the Megillah. In this Mesechtas, it explains that one who holds a Torah scroll without a cover will be buried naked. The Gemara asks, "Could it literally mean naked?" The explanation is that since it's not possible for a spiritual transgression to result in a physical punishment, as burial without clothes would only be a punishment for the body, the punis..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:0214:02, 2 March 2025 diff hist +5,334 N Moed Katan Created page with "Masechet Moed Katan has 3 chapters and 27.5 pages. The masechet deals with the laws of Chol Hamoed. == From the Masechet == In the third chapter "V'eilu Megalchin," many laws of mourning are brought, related to a mourner who was unable to shave before the festival, and many other related halachot. Therefore, it is mentioned in the Shulchan Aruch that it is permitted to study this chapter on Tisha B'Av. There are even those who practice studying this masechet during the..." Tag: Visual edit
• 14:0114:01, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,812 N Taanit Created page with "'''Masechet Taanit''' (also called Masechet Taaniyot) is part of the "Moed" order of the six orders of Mishnah. This masechet is relatively short, and deals with the laws of fasts in general, particularly the fasts that the beit din would decree upon the entire community during times of "rain stoppage" and drought years. Along with this, the masechet also presents the laws of the sections in the Shmoneh Esreh prayer related to rainfall - mentioning "Who causes the rain t..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:5913:59, 2 March 2025 diff hist +24 Beitzah No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:5713:57, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1 Sukkah No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:5713:57, 2 March 2025 diff hist +10,634 N Sukkah Created page with "Tractate Sukkah deals with the laws of the holiday of Sukkot, which include: the Sukkah, the Four Species, and the Water Libation. == The Rebbe's Explanations == ==== The Main Essence of the Sukkah - For Shade ==== The Alter Rebbe writes:<blockquote>"In sukkot you shall dwell for seven days, so that your generations will know that I caused the Children of Israel to dwell in sukkot when I took them out of the land of Egypt. These were His clouds of glory that surrounded..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:5313:53, 2 March 2025 diff hist +3,256 N Yoma Created page with "'''Masechtas Yoma''' (or Seder Yoma - the Order of the Day) is the fifth tractate in Seder Moed, and is found in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and the Tosefta. Masechet Yoma contains eight chapters and eighty-six and a half pages. The tractate deals with matters of Yom Kippur, and the branching topics are: laws of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) and the order of service, the lottery and the scapegoat for Azazel, prohibitions of eating on Yom Kippur. As well as matters concerni..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:5213:52, 2 March 2025 diff hist +7,538 N Rosh Hashanah (tractate) Created page with "Mesechtas Rosh Hashanah is the eighth Mesechtas in the Order of Moed according to the order of the Mishnayot (however in the Babylonian Talmud it is fifth - before Mesechtas Yoma). This Mesechtas has four chapters, and in the Babylonian Talmud on this Mesechtas there are 34 pages. The Mesechtas deals with the details of the laws of the Jewish calendar, the sanctification of the new month, the laws of shofar blowing, and the laws of prayer blessings that depend on them...." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:4813:48, 2 March 2025 diff hist +1,925 N Shekalim Created page with "Masechtas Shekalim from Seder Moed is the tractate that follows Masechet Pesachim. The Rebbe explains the connection between this tractate and the one before it, noting that the beginning of Masechet Pesachim discusses primary and secondary matters, as the mitzvah of searching for chametz serves as a means to fulfill the prohibition of "bal yeira'eh" (not seeing chametz). At the end of the tractate, it discusses sacrifices that are secondary to the Pesach offerings. Sim..." Tag: Visual edit