Podcasts about Nazir

Today's Talmud pages, Nazir 60 and 61, asks whether all people need to honor their parents, or if this is an obligation only for Jews? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to discuss the obligation to honor your parents in life, and how it continues in mourning once they die. How does honoring our parents connect us to God and the larger Jewish community? Listen and find out. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today's Talmud page, Nazir 59, touches an issue that's been in the news a lot lately, the biblical prohibition on men wearing women's clothing and vice versa. Rabbi Mark Gottlieb joins us to deliver some much needed context, and share some stories of admirable women who shaped his understanding of the perennial battle between the sexes. How should we think about our innate differences, and where should we seek inspiration? Listen and find out. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

מסכת נזיר דף נט (ליום ה) לזכות החתן אהרן מאיר בן שרה, והכלה לאה אסתר יוטל בת ריסא, שיזכו לבנת בית נאמן בישראל לזכות שלמה ברוך בן חנה קריינדל וכל משפחתו להצלחה בכל הענינים לנדב שיעור: www.bit.ly/shiur23

Today's Talmud page, Nazir 58, discusses the question of whether hair removal is a gendered idea of beauty. Unorthodox co-hosts Stephanie Butnick and Mark Oppenheimer, along with the other Mark Oppenheimer join to discuss shaving rituals, and the hopes that we can leave this all behind? Who can one enlist to shave their back? Listen and find out. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Study Guide Nazir 58 The Gemara brings two different braitot that each derive something different from the word 'and his head' that the leper is commanded to shave. One learns that the commandment of a leper to shave overrides the prohibition of shaving off one's sidelocks. The other learns that it refers to a leper who is a  nazir and even though a nazir is commanded by both a negative and positive commandment not to shave their hair, if they have leprosy, they can. The positive commandment here overrides both a negative and a positive commandment. It is suggested first that the dispute between the braitot is about whether the prohibition against cutting off sidelocks also applies in a case where one is cutting off all of his hair. Rava rejects this possibility and suggests that both agree that removing the sidelocks is only forbidden when one is not removing all the hair. But then they find it difficult to understand the first drasha and reject it and say they agree that removing all the hair is also forbidden. From here and on the basis of this understanding, the Gemara asks three questions about each braita and answers them all. Can a man shave hairs elsewhere on the body? Is there a prohibition in this based on the verse that forbids a man to wear women's clothing? Is this a prohibition by Torah or by rabbinic law?

נזיר דף נח (ליום ד) לזכות החתן חיים שלום בן פרומה והכלה חנה מינדל בת אלטע בריינדל, שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

נזיר דף נז (ליום ג) השיעור נתנדב לעילוי נשמת החתן צבי הירש ע"ה הי"ד בן יבלחט"א ר' נחום שליט"א (שווארטץ) ולזכות הכלה חנה רויזא בת מרים גיטל (יום השלישים כ"ח אדר)

Today's daf is sponsored by Rikki & Alan Zibitt in loving memory of Helen Zibitt, Hena bat Yaacov v' Rachel Leah on her 23rd yahrzeit. "Mom, we miss your warmth and love every day. And in honor of the birthdays of our dear daughter-in-law, Dvora Cohen Zibitt, and son-in-law, Jay Blumenreich, who have enriched our family in countless beautiful ways. We love you both so very much." When Rabbi Yehoshua told Rabbi Akiva that his logic was good, but there is a tradition which overrides the conclusion of the logical argument, was the tradition that a nazir who becomes impure to a quarter-log of blood by touching is not required to shave or that a nazir who touches a bone the size of a barley grain would require shaving? If someone tells two nazirs that they saw one of them become impure but they aren’t sure which one, what do they do? After thirty days they both shave and bring two sacrifices while stipulating that one will count for the impurity of one and the other will be for the completion of the other. They each continue with the prohibitions of a nazir for another thirty days and bring one set of sacrifices, stipulating that it go for the one who was impure as completion now of the nazirite term. If there were three people there (the two nazirs and the one who saw one become impure), why isn’t this a case of doubt regarding impurity in a public domain in which we rule that one is pure? That principle is derived from a Sotah who was in a case of doubt in a private domain (with only two people) and there we rule she is impure. They explain that the person who saw must have seen it from a distance and was not actually in the direct area where the nazirs were, thus making it a private space. How can the nazirs shave in a case of doubt? Isn’t it forbidden to shave off one’s sidelocks unless one is obligated to as a nazir as only then will it override the prohibition! Shmuel answers that the shaving was speaking of a woman and a minor who are not commanded not to remove their sidelocks. From here one can infer that he held that shaving off all the hair on one’s head is forbidden. Some say that Shmuel’s answer about the minor and the woman was said about an upcoming Mishna of one who is a nazir who maybe was impure and maybe was a leper and shaves four times. Rav Ada bar Ahava and Rav Huna disagree about whether it is forbidden for someone to shave the sidelocks of a minor. Rav Ada bar Ahaha permits and Rav Huna forbids. Rav Ada questions Rav Huna according to his own opinion as Rav Huna's own children's sidelocks were shaven, to which Rav Huna responds that his wife, Chova, had done it. Rav Ada's reaction is that Chova will bury her children. While Rav Ada was alive, any children of Rav Huna and Chova did not survive on account of his statement. Rav Huna permitted his wife to do it, as he understood that it was only forbidden for one to shave the sidelocks of a minor if they themselves were prohibited from removing their own sidelocks. Rav Ada held that it all depends on the one whose sidelocks were being shaved - if they are forbidden, then it is forbidden for others, but if they are permitted (like minors) then it is permitted for anyone, even men.  

Today's Talmud page, Nazir 57, delivers a much-needed reminder that, whether we like it or not, we're all responsible for each other. What does that mean in real life? And what can we learn from the famous Hassidic tale about the rich guy who wanted to meet the Prophet Elijah? listen and find out. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

נזיר דף נו (ליום ב) לזכות צבי אלימלך בן חנה קריינדל לרגל הכנסת בנו לבריתו של אברהם אבינו, יה"ר שיזכה לרוות רב נחת דקדושה ממנו ומכל יוצ"ח לזכות החתן שמואל בן חנה קריינדל, והכלה פערל בת פרומט ריזל, שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

Today's Talmud pages, Nazir 55 and 56, teach us that the rabbis considered all other lands except for Israel impure, for a vast array of physical and spiritual reasons. Director Matthew Mishory joins us to talk about his new film, Who Are the Marcuses?, which tells the incredible story of the two unknown Jewish philanthropists behind the single largest gift ever in Israel's history, and how it changed the way Israel, and the world, think about water. What breakthrough did the Marcuses make possible? listen and find out. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Study Guide Nazir 56 Today's daf is sponsored by Ruth Leah Kahan with gratitude to HKB"H for her recovery and return to health one year after being caught in a chlorine gas leak. "Thanks to my family and friends around the world for their unstinting encouragement and support." Two further questions are raised against Rav Chisda’s understanding of our Mishna from tannaitic sources. One relates to a case where one is a nazir and possibly became impure and possibly was a leper but is unsure. The other relates to the source for the law that the days of leprosy are not counted as days of the nazirite's term. There are no resolutions to the difficulties. Rabbi Elazar said in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua that the impurities for which the nazir needs to shave are the same impurities that one is liable by the punishment of karet for entering the Temple. Impurities that the nazir does not need to shave for, are not punishable by karet if one enters the Temple with that state of impurity. Rabbi Meir raises a question on that - why would the latter category of impurity be more lenient than the light impurity of a sheretz, one of the eight creeping creatures who pass on impurity when dead? Why does our Mishna say that Rabbi Elazar quoted this law in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua when in the Tosefta it says that he learned it from Rabbi Yehoshua bar Mamel who heard it from Rabbi Yehoshua? We learn from here that when passing down a halacha in the name of a middle person who heard it from the source, one mentions the source and not the middle person from whom he learned it. Rabbi Akiva questions a law learned previously in the chapter - that a quarter-log of blood does not make a nazir shave. The question is a logical one: if a bone the size of a barley grain causes a nazir to shave, even though it only passes on impurity by touching or carrying, wouldn't a quarter-log of blood pass that passes on impurity also in a tent, also be a cause for the nazir to shave if he touches or carries it? Rabbi Yehoshua answered that while Rabbi Akiva's logic may be sound, the tradition passed down is not that way.

נזיר דף נה (ליום א) לע"נ ר' משה דוד ע"ה ב"ר יוסף דוד הי"ו (קיש)

Study Guide Nazir 55 Today's daf is sponsored by Rochelle Cheifetz to commemorate the yartzeit of her aunt, Rose Rubelow, Rochel Leah bat Rav Moshe and Tzippora Mashbaum. Yehi zichra baruch.  There is a tannaitic debate regarding one who enters a place outside of Israel in a box. Is the debate based on whether the impurity outside of Israel instituted by the rabbis was regarding the earth (concern for graves or bones of Jewish bodies) or regarding the air (preventative measure so people don't leave Israel)? The Gemara rejects this suggestion and brings three other possible explanations of the debate, the first of which is rejected. The Mishna stated that if a nazir became a leper, the leper days don't count as days of nazir, but don't cancel the previous days. Rav Chisda explains that this is only true if one was a nazir for a short time (30 days), but if one took on a long period of being a nazir, the days when the nazir was a leper count toward the days of being a nazir. Rav Shrevia shows that the Mishna doesn't fit with Rav Chisda's statement as the Mishna says the leper days don't count as days of nazir, but don't cancel the previous days and according to Rav Chisda, there is no case where those two things will hold true: if one was a nazir for thirty days, the previous days would be canceled as one would need a full thirty days of hair growth after the shaving of the nazir, and if one was a nazir for longer than thirty days, Rav Chisda would say the days of being a leper count as nazir days. The Gemara answers that there is a case that can fit with the Mishna - in a case of a fifty-day term where twenty days were finished before the nazir became a leper as the days of being a leper wouldn't count as one would need a full thirty days of hair growth after shaving on account of being a leper and none of the previous twenty days would need to be canceled as there will be a thirty-day growth.

Today's Talmud pages, Nazir 53 and 54, discuss the magical creation that is the human spine. Joshua Wolk joins us to talk about the unique method he practices, the Feldenkrais method, and the ways in which the renowned healer channeled the rabbis of the Talmud and arrived at new insights about body, mind, and soul. Is our body really as simple as five straight lines? listen and find out. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer.  Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.