The Talmud queries regarding the need to praise and thank G-d for the Chanukah miracles when reciting the Grace-After-Meal. Learn the underlying logic and details for...
Archive - 2016
The final Talmudic discussion about lamps being kindled focuses on “sacred oil” that has to be burnt and destroyed, rather than utilized in normative fashion. This class...
Chabad.org Videos, Intermediate Talmud: Tractate Shabbat, Talmud Shabbos
Reward for the Mitzvah Lamps
The Talmud states the reward for one who is careful in the mitzvah of lighting candles and the reward for other mitzvahs that are also in a manner of measure for measure...
Chabad.org Videos, Intermediate Talmud: Tractate Shabbat, Talmud Shabbos
The Exception to a Rabbinic Mitzvah Blessing
The Talmud challenges the notion of reciting a blessing on the Chanukah menorah, which is a rabbinic mitzvah, based on different teachings related to agriculture law and...
Chabad.org Videos, Intermediate Talmud: Tractate Shabbat, Talmud Shabbos
Can Two People Light One Menorah?
In this class we first discuss the scenario of two individuals sharing the same oil-filled vessel, wherein each lights their own wick. Then the discussion turns to the...
Time and again overwhelmed with inner strife, intense opposition, and even exilic displacement, the Sweet Singer of Israel succeeded in maintaining joyful equilibrium...
A tantalizing teaching about the improbable prohibition against sirloin steak; featuring varying flavours of rabbinic reasoning and seasoning. Discover the ultimate...
Chabad.org Videos, Intermediate Talmud: Tractate Shabbat, Talmud Shabbos
Kindled by Neighborly Suspicion
This fascinating discussion and analysis about the how and why an additional menorah should be kindled on account of a neighbor’s suspicion leans heavily on the yearly...
Fascinating and current commentary on a much misunderstood and tragic biblical figure. See how the Torah’s narrative of Abraham’s wayward nephew and his well...