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    Tractate Shabbat - All 24 Chapters

    55 sugya lessons from 2a to 156a: sources, reasoning, practice and explained answers. Not a line-by-line commentary.

    01

    Chapter 1 · Yetziot HaShabbat

    3 lessons
    1. 01
      Carrying out on Shabbat - two that are four
      22 min
    2. 02
      Judging truth to its truth
      22 min
    3. 03
      Eighteen decrees in Chananiah's upper room
      22 min
    02

    Chapter 2 · Bameh Madlikin

    3 lessons
    1. 04
      What is Chanukah?
      22 min
    2. 05
      Regular with the lamp - children who are scholars
      22 min
    3. 06
      On one foot - Hillel and the convert
      22 min
    03

    Chapter 3 · Kirah

    2 lessons
    1. 07
      A stove heated with straw - leaving food on the fire
      22 min
    2. 08
      An egg beside the kettle - cooking with derivatives of fire
      22 min
    04

    Chapter 4 · Bameh Tomnin

    2 lessons
    1. 09
      Insulating food - materials that add heat
      22 min
    2. 10
      Forty minus one - corresponding to what?
      22 min
    05

    Chapter 5 · Bameh Behemah

    2 lessons
    1. 11
      What an animal may go out with - ornament or burden
      22 min
    2. 12
      Whoever says David sinned - precise reading
      22 min
    06

    Chapter 6 · Bameh Ishah

    2 lessons
    1. 13
      What a woman may go out with - ornaments she might remove
      22 min
    2. 14
      A verse does not depart from its plain meaning
      22 min
    07

    Chapter 7 · Klal Gadol

    3 lessons
    1. 15
      A great principle - one who forgot the essence of Shabbat
      22 min
    2. 16
      Lost in the desert without knowing when Shabbat is
      22 min
    3. 17
      Why the count - numbering the labors
      22 min
    08

    Chapter 8 · HaMotzi Yayin

    2 lessons
    1. 18
      Measures for carrying - enough to mix a cup
      22 min
    2. 19
      Nothing was created without purpose
      22 min
    09

    Chapter 9 · Amar Rabbi Akiva

    2 lessons
    1. 20
      How do we know idolatry defiles - learning from a verse
      22 min
    2. 21
      He held the mountain over them like a tub
      22 min
    10

    Chapter 10 · HaMatzni'a

    2 lessons
    1. 22
      One who stores away - a person's intention decides
      22 min
    2. 23
      Right or left hand - the normal manner of carrying
      22 min
    11

    Chapter 11 · HaZorek

    2 lessons
    1. 24
      Throwing - transfer without carrying
      22 min
    2. 25
      The wood-gatherer was Tzelofchad - a verbal analogy
      22 min
    12

    Chapter 12 · HaBoneh

    2 lessons
    1. 26
      Building - labor that endures
      22 min
    2. 27
      Alef - learn wisdom; Gimmel Dalet - the letters teach
      22 min
    13

    Chapter 13 · HaOreg

    2 lessons
    1. 28
      Weaving - a measure of threads
      22 min
    2. 29
      Tearing in anger - like an idolater
      22 min
    14

    Chapter 14 · Shmonah Sheratzim

    2 lessons
    1. 30
      Eight creeping creatures - trapping and wounding
      22 min
    2. 31
      From the horns of wild oxen to the eggs of lice
      22 min
    15

    Chapter 15 · VeElu Kesharim

    2 lessons
    1. 32
      These knots - a lasting knot
      22 min
    2. 33
      Let your Shabbat speech differ from weekday speech
      22 min
    16

    Chapter 16 · Kol Kitvei

    3 lessons
    1. 34
      All holy writings - rescue from fire
      22 min
    2. 35
      Whoever delights in Shabbat - an inheritance without bounds
      22 min
    3. 36
      Two ministering angels on Friday night
      22 min
    17

    Chapter 17 · Kol HaKelim

    2 lessons
    1. 37
      All vessels may be moved - intro to muktzeh
      22 min
    2. 38
      At first they said three vessels
      22 min
    18

    Chapter 18 · Mefanin

    3 lessons
    1. 39
      Clearing space - for study and guests
      22 min
    2. 40
      Greater is hospitality
      22 min
    3. 41
      Judging others favorably
      22 min
    19

    Chapter 19 · Rabbi Eliezer DeMilah

    2 lessons
    1. 42
      Rabbi Eliezer on circumcision - preparations for a mitzvah
      22 min
    2. 43
      A mitzvah accepted with joy
      22 min
    20

    Chapter 20 · Tolin

    2 lessons
    1. 44
      Hanging a strainer - selecting and filtering
      22 min
    2. 45
      Do not soak asafoetida - preparation with a change
      22 min
    21

    Chapter 21 · Notel

    2 lessons
    1. 46
      Lifting one's child holding a stone - indirect moving
      22 min
    2. 47
      Coins on a cushion - shaking off
      22 min
    22

    Chapter 22 · Chavit

    2 lessons
    1. 48
      A broken barrel - food for three meals
      22 min
    2. 49
      Breaking a barrel - without making a vessel
      22 min
    23

    Chapter 23 · Sho'el

    3 lessons
    1. 50
      Borrowing from a friend - without loan language
      22 min
    2. 51
      Mitzvah calculations may be done on Shabbat
      22 min
    3. 52
      Violate one Shabbat - saving a life
      22 min
    24

    Chapter 24 · Mi SheHechshich

    3 lessons
    1. 53
      Overtaken by dark on the road - giving one's purse to a gentile
      22 min
    2. 54
      Repent one day before your death
      22 min
    3. 55
      Israel is not bound by the stars
      22 min
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