About this episode
Today's daf is sponsored in honor of Elana Storch. "We are dedicating today's daf to our mom (and savta), Elana Storch, in honor of her birthday. We are so proud of her dedication to her daf yomi - even as she cares for her two young granddaughters full time during COVID. We are grateful for the Jewish values that she taught us and continues to model for us. With love, Ruthie, Ira, Reuben, Julianna, Emanuel, Arianne, Elia, and Elsa." The gemara brings more examples of the importance of speech and how the words one chooses are important as well as indicative of who the person is (i.e. what tribe one comes from). Why is bedikat chametz performed at night and not right before it is forbidden to eat chametz (midday on the 14th) or in the morning of the 14th? If one rents a house on the 14th, is the owner obligated in bedika or the renter? It depends who had access on the night of the 14th. If one moved in on the morning of the 14th, can an assumption be made that the owner checked for chametz the night before? Can we derive this from a source that says women, slaves and children are believed about checking for chametz or not? In the end the gemara says they are unrelated and women are trusted because it is only rabbinic in nature as by Torah law, one can just nullify. Why wouldn't they be trusted were it not for that? Aren't women trusted in other similar matters? When is it forbidden to eat chametz? Burn chametz? From where do we derive that by Torah law, one cannot eat from midday of the fourteenth?