Avodah Zarah, Daf Nun Vav, Part 1 Introduction The mishnah we have been learning determined that the liquid in the press is considered juice and the laws of yayin nesekh do not apply to it until it descends to the vat. The Talmud cites another teaching...
Avodah Zarah, Daf Nun Heh, Part 6 Introduction According to R. Huna, once the grape juice from the press begins to flow into the vat, even the juice in the press can become yayin nesekh. This clearly contradicts the mishnah, as we saw in yesterday s section....
Avodah Zarah, Daf Nun Heh, Part 5 Introduction In yesterday s mishnah we learned that the juice in the press cannot become yayin nesekh, forbidden wine. R. Huna offers an extremely significant limitation to that rule, one which in the Middle Ages became very,...
Avodah Zarah, Daf Nun Heh, Part Introduction The remainder of tractate Avodah Zarah will deal with the prohibition of non-Jewish wine. This is a halakhah that remains in effect for observant Jews, despite the fact that commercially bought wine has probably...
Avodah Zarah, Daf Nun Heh, Part 3 Introduction Today s section is similar to yesterday s except in this case the efficacy of idolatry cannot be explained by the placebo effect. At best we might say that correlation is not causation. ...
