The Daily Mishnah with Benedict
Ten minutes of daily Mishnah in clear, simple English, focussing on the content and the structure of the text and following the global cycle, finishing the entire Mishnah in January 2028. Running five days/week, the series covers between two and four Mishnayot on every episode. For source sheets and materials, go to www.thedailymishnah.com
Episodes
Trading and bartering in 7th year produce - what can we do with the proceeds? For the source sheet, click here and scroll to the end.
How do we treat seventh year produce and what do we do if we get it wrong? Turns out, we can eat our way out of the problem. Source sheet on Sefaria is here - scroll to the end.
Today's Daily Mishnah maintains its focus on permitted and forbidden uses for 7th year produce and brings an extreme view (that is rejected) about 'burning the bones' of someone who crosses the line.
Geography is everything! What types of 7th year produce you can trade and with whom, and when the Law of Removal takes effect, depends on local geography.
If food is growing in the fields in the seventh year, we can take it into our houses and keep it. But as soon as freely-growing food in the fields runs out, we can no longer keep it in our houses - food left in the house must be taken back into the fields and put out for anyone else who might like to come and take it.
This Law of Removal occupies most of the 9th chapter of Shevi'it, the tractate of the 7th year, and today's episode...
This episode closes out the 9th chapter of the tractate of the 7th year and the idea, running through this chapter, that we must remove any produce that we have stored from our houses into the field if it's no longer freely-available in the fields and orchards. The Mishnah will associate this idea with halla, tzedaka, and more.
For the sources, scroll down to the 9th chapter in the source-sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets...
The tenth chapter in the tractate of the seventh year introduces a radical idea: the release of debts, as well as exploring the tension between kindness to poor in removing their debt burden and kindness to the poor in ensuring that lenders were incentivised to continue to lend through the seventh year so that sources of financing did not dry up.
For the sources, scroll down to the 10th chapter at the bottom of the source-sheet her...
The prozbul, which permitted lending across the sabbatical year, was one of the most important halachic innovations of the early rabbis. In this episode, find out how it really works. All the sources mentioned can be found at the end of the sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/404495?lang=bi
We close out the tractate of the Seventh Year with a discussion about what is just and what is right. For the sources, check out the source-sheet here and go to the end: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/404495?lang=bi
Introduction to the Mishnah of Terumot - it is not possible to give tithes to the priests without knowledge and intent, and so those who lack agency and capacity are invalid.
Who can give teruma? Someone with obligation, capacity and knowledge. From what sources? Must be like-for-like - olives for olives rather than for oil, grapes for grapes rather than for wine.
Finishing the first chapter in the tractate of Terumot and the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Starting the second chapter in the tractate of Terumot and extending the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma to pure and impure. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Finishing the second chapter in the tractate of Terumot and extending the concept of 'like for like' when giving teruma to issues of species and quality. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Today's Daily Mishnah deals with mistakes with teruma, mixtures, partners/agents, and boundary cases. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Today's Daily Mishnah deals with the power of intention and speech in designating teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/414973.2?lang=bi
Today's Daily Mishnah continues to focus on the power of intention and speech in designating teruma and looks at the question of whether you need to be Jewish to give teruma. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Today's Daily Mishnah begins Chapter 4 of Terumot and begins to look at numbers: how much teruma do we need to take what happens if we take it in stages? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Today's Daily Mishnah continues to focus on numbers and looks at the question of how much terumah one is allowed to give - what is the maximum? As usual, there are conflicting views.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
Today's Daily Mishnah builds on what we've learned about numbers and moves into mixtures - how much terumah can fall into ordinary food without giving all the food the status of terumah? As ever, opinions differ.
For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/SourcesTerumot
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