About this episode
This week's learning is sponsored by Audrey Mondrow in loving memory of Bessie "Nanny" Mauskopf, Basha Leah bat Tzivia Chaya and Meyer Yehuda. "A very special mother. By example she taught me how to be a mother and grandmother. We miss her dearly. May her Neshama have an Aliyah." The Mishna in Negaim is similar to the Mishna in Shevuot regarding the two shades of white that are considered leprous in the Torah and the two that the Rabbis added, and elaborates a little more. The Gemara explains that the Mishna there doesn't match Rabbi Akiva's opinion as the Mishna connects between avot , main categories and toladot , sub-categories and Rabbi Akiva connects between the order of the shades of white, which would mean one main category, baheret , then the next main category, se'et , and then each of their sub-categories – first the one for baheret , then the one for se'et . From where do we know that this is Rabbi Akiva's position? The first attempt to find the source is unsuccessful but it is proven from a second source. From where do we derive that baheret also has sub-categories if the word in the verse mentioning sub-categories, sapachat , is said in connection with se'et ? From where is it derived that the verses that obligate one to bring a sliding scale sin offering if one is impure refer to one who entered the Temple or ate sacrificial items?