Daily Dose of Daf Yomi

What can be more rewarding than talking about Gemara, Rishonim and Achronim with fellow learners?

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@2Bistheanswer @RokhlK Not yet, unfortunately.

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הפך והפך בה

Sometimes we get it, sometimes we don’t. Someones they inspire and sometimes they infuriate. Regardless, it’s always an intellectual treat.

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Pesachim Daf 19

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The last few dapim was an opportunity to once again appreciate the intellectual heft of the rabbinc project.

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@makeforyourself I found this. He’s got some really good stuff: https://t.co/denzetJtbJ

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Pesachim daf 18
Anthropomorphization

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@makeforyourself Both are plausible explanations, either is possible.

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Certain formulations suggest that some in the Rabbinic universe believed that tuma is a contagion. It would therefore not be so crazy to suspect that, according to them, matter with more “vulnerable” characteristics would more easily become “infected.”

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Meaning: is the logic here that fluids are “sort of” weak and less sturdy than solids and that, in turn, makes them prone to “catching” tuma?

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I am looking for something more than the obvious and the superficial. Of course tuma and tahara is allegory for him, but the level of engagement on Rambam’s part suggests a much deeper affinity than that.

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Pesachim daf 17

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As far as I can tell this is another one of scholarship’s blindspots. Academia has not gotten around yet to help make sense of the way Rambam reconciles these seemingly incompatible disciplines; rationalism and tuma and tahara.