Parshat HaShavua
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Reasoning · Shabbat
The Hidden Logic of the Thirty-Nine Melachos
Why a category, not a list, governs the law of labor.
Reasoning
1 min
Reasoning · Bava Kamma
How Liability Is Measured When an Ox Gores
Tracing the chain of reasoning from verse to ruling.
Reasoning
1 min
Narrative · Gittin
Reading the Story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza Closely
Why the Gemara places the blame where it does — a structural reading.
Narrative
1 min
Reasoning · Berachot
The Argument Behind the Earliest Time for Shema
What the Tannaim are really disagreeing about when they cite the stars.
Reasoning
1 min
Reasoning · Bava Metzia
Why Rabbi Yochanan Holds the Finder Keeps It
A close reading of the sugya of disputed ownership — and the unstated principle that drives the entire…
Reasoning
3 min