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Our daf digresses from the discussion of messengers who deliver giṭṭin from the Diaspora to Israel and raises a number of other unrelated issues. These range from a questionOur daf digresses from the discussion of messengers who deliver giṭṭin from the Diaspora to Israel and raises a number of other unrelated issues. These range from a question about the height of a fence that separates between two reshuyot – public and private domains – when there is a height differential between two areas with regard to the laws of Shabbat, to several discussions about laws of tumah ve-taharah.
One surprising halakha that we find discussed on our daf is the rule that a person who enters a pool of mayim she’uvin – simple water that was drawn, and therefore cannot be used for a mikvah – or has such water poured on him, becomes tameh!
Due to Memorial Day we bring discussions of the importance of the flag and what it represents and the intriguing she’lot regarding the flag in a beit knesset.