Pesachim 80a - Time and Place

09/02/2021 13 min
Pesachim  80a - Time and Place

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Episode Synopsis

Analyzing a Tosfot this episode highlights the two most important capacities for learning Torah:  1) The capacity to distinguish between two ideas that seem to be the same; 2) to understand the similarities between two ideas that seem to have nothing in common. A pesul (disqualification) caused by time or place is different from one caused by a deficiency in the individual him or herself. A disqualification resulting from being in the wrong time frame is similar to the disqualification of being in the wrong place.

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