The Daily Mishnah with Benedict

Today's Daily Mishnah examines how to keep food hot on shabbat and introduces the concept of "muktzeh", stuff that we don't handle on shabbat. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat

Taking food and drink away from a stove or a heater on shabbat. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat

Lighting the light, and putting food on a burning stove before shabbat. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat

Fuelling the light, and questions of life and death. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaShabbat

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  

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 .

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

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

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

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 .

Find out about gender-fluidity in the Talmud, in the last chapter of Bikkurim. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

How are bikkurim like a sefer torah? How important is the Land of Israel? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Questions of social status are followed by questions of intellectual and financial status, as we move towards the conclusion of the Mishnah of Bikkurim. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Even King Agrippas walks with his own first-fruits on his shoulder. Find out about how the ceremony works! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Find out about how we brought first-fruits into the temple: the procession, the flutes, the reception in Jerusalem. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

More on the "koy", perhaps a relative of the goat or deer or mountain goat families, which is neither a true wild animal nor a true domestic. Perhaps to remind us that we never truly own the lands that we cultivate - one of the big themes of the order of Seeds that we are close to finishing. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Moving from etrogs to bipeds to a weird animal called a "koy", perhaps a relative of the goat or deer or mountain goat families, which does not exist any more. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

More analysis: the Mishnah reminds itself of the similarities and differences between first-fruits and other offerings, and then goes sideways into differences between etrog trees and other trees. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim

Time-out for analysis: the Mishnah reminds itself of the similarities and differences between first-fruits, tithes, and terumah. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Can you bring bikkurim twice? Can you bring bikkurim from across the Jordan? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

What if you no longer own the field where the first-fruits grew? What if the well has dried up? Can the subsequent owner bring the first-fruits For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Does a convert bring first-fruits? Is a convert connected to the Land? What about a woman or a hermaphrodite?  For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Who is eligible to bring the first-fruits? Turns out that you need to be rooted on the land and, perhaps not by coincidence, the first mishnah does talk about roots. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

How do we deal with the first-fruits? Tune in here for an introduction to the tractate of Bikkurim For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaBikkurim .

Summary of Chapter 3 of Hallah - taste, timing, life and death. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnaHallah .