Daily Talk
The Sages judged a man who schemed around the law more harshly than a man who broke it outright: the open transgressor may eat his food, the clever one may not. This chapter builds the eruv tavshilin, an olive-sized portion of food that lets a whole city cook for Shabbat on a festival, and then teaches what festival joy actually is - and whose rejoicing is only the rejoicing of his gut.
The Schemer and the Sinner
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About This Talk
Shevitat Yom Tov 6: the eruv tavshilin that permits cooking on a holiday for Shabbat, what happens when it is lost or never made, and the true anatomy of festival joy - shared with the poor, split between God and ourselves, and guarded from grief.