The Daily Mishnah with Benedict

Dates, customs and language! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Exaggeration and intent! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Unravelling vows! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Does regret count as a reason to invalidate a vow? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Annulling vows for marital harmony? Or to drink wine on Shabbat? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

A vow not to eat onions? How about old, mature wine? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

A father or husband annulling their daughter's or wife's vows? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Pre-emptive annulment? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Multiple possible husbands who can annul? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Prospective annulment? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Vows of self-denial, and vows between husband and wife! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can't remember if it was his wife or his daughter? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Married, divorced and re-married on the same day? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

The tractate of Nedarim ends with dissolving a vow, not with keeping one. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNedarim For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Becoming a Nazir! How do you do it and what are the implications? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Samson and Avshalom! What's the difference? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How long does "nezirut" last for? Can it be for ever? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Is it a positive thing, to be a Nazir? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can a cow swear to be a Nazir? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you shave half a Nazir? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Giving thanks for the safe birth of a son! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Double thanks for the safe birth of a son! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How does one count 30 days? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

If you have an accident during the 30 days, do you need to start all over again? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What if you become a Nazir while standing in a grave-yard? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Queen Helena was so grateful that her son came back safe from the war that she became a Nezira for 21 years! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What if your spouse wants to be a Nazir? Can you follow? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Forty lashes for breaking the restrictions on the Nazir? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you make your son be a Nazir? What if he objects? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you recycle your father's sacrifices? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you become a Nazir in error? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Schrödinger's cat and existential uncertainty! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

More existential uncertainty! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How much wine can a Nazir drink? And what about grape-seeds or peelings? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

What if a Nazir drinks wine all day? Human punishment? Divine punishment? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Which is more important? Staying away from wine or not shaving? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How does the process of the Nazir end? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What if something goes wrong with the offerings? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Who is holier, the Nazir or the High Priest? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How much of a dead body is enough to make a Nazir impure? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How do we know that we are keeping the right halakhah? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

One Nazir has touched a dead body but we don't know which one! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Possibly touched a dead body and possibly got a skin condition too? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Been swimming with a dead body? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

"It's got legs". What does that mean? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

We may be uncertain, but we still base our decisions on facts whenever we can! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Closing the tractate: was Samuel a Nazir? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatNazir For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Jealousy and suspicion! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

No longer fully-married, but not divorced! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can he be trusted with her? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can they persuade her not to go through with it? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Degradation, humiliation and shame! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Measure for measure? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Cattle-feed on the altar? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Cursed by the bitter waters? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

The ink needs to be erasable, as does the ink on a Torah scroll! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can an oath be extended forward in time? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Do we really force her to drink? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Does learning Torah make women sin? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What if the “bitter waters” don't work immediately? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What's the difference between the wife of a priest and his daughter? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

What's the difference between a man and a woman? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Some women don't drink! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

More examples of women who don't drink! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Here, the Mishnah is gender-neutral! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Rabbi Akiva on a roll! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Did Job serve from love or from fear? Rabbi Akiva's student on a roll! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Is a bird a valid witness? Or a mother-in-law? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Is the source for our rules of evidence a Biblical or a logical one? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Do we need to say the amida in Hebrew? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Does God speak Hebrew? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Torah is said in Hebrew but it's translated into 70 languages! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How did the priests bless the people in the time of the Mishnah? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

The King, or the President, reads to the people! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Don't be afraid! It's not all up to you! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Who should return home before battle starts? Not the Torah scholars! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Some categories of individuals never need to go out to war! But Torah scholars are not among them! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Someone who cannot connect thought with action may not go out to war! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

In a war of defence, everyone must go, even the bride and groom! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

“Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.” Really? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

A valley that never produced fruit and will never do so, to memorialise a person who suffered untimely death? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

The elders of the town are responsible! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

When murder and adultery become commonplace, the ceremonies of the heifer and the bitter waters are suspended. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Memories of forgotten glories and rituals! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Why are things so bad? Because outsiders have attacked us or because of our actions? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

As great leaders die, society diminishes. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Society may have been degraded, but we can correct it! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatSota For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

A bill of divorce comes from over the sea, with a single witness to its validity! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Defining the difference between marriage and slavery! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Which elements of the long-distance divorce document are vital? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you write a get on cow? Or on the branch of a tree? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Anyone can write a get? Really? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Could we use a pre-prepared get form? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How do we know the husband isn't dead? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Is an agent empowered to appoint another agent in their stead? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Existential uncertainty! People and objects! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

"Tikkun olam"! Repair of the world! Usually when the rabbis make a mess! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you be half-slave and half-free? The rabbis will sort it out! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How much ransom do we pay for hostages? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Do we ransom someone who sells himself, again and again? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatGittin For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com