🎧 Avodah Zorah: 50

An Avodah Zarah sugya on the stones placed beside a markulis idol and when they become forbidden, followed by a shift to the laws of Shemitah governing the pruning and patching of trees.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 51

Covers what act of worship renders an object forbidden as avodah zarah, the status of a blemished animal offered to an idol, and the halacha of items dedicated to idols found near the Temple's curtain.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 52

Covers when a carved image becomes legally forbidden as idolatry, and why priests who served in the unauthorized Temple of Beit Chonyo were penalized while its vessels remained usable.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 53

Covers the dispute over whether selling idols or idol-adjacent items to a non-Jew is permitted, and why Yehoshua's command to burn Canaanite idols shapes the entire discussion.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 54

Covers how an act (not just ownership) can render an object forbidden through idol worship, and the rule limiting how many times an item retains its forbidden status through an exchange chain.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 55

Covers a philosopher's challenge to Rabban Gamliel about divine patience toward idolatry, and the Mishnah's rules for buying a winepress from a non-Jew without absorbing forbidden wine.

🎧 Avodah Zorah: 56

🎧 Avodah Zarah 57

Covers the halachic leniency comparing today's non-Jews to children for wine-touching concerns, and the underlying reasons behind the wine prohibition -- idolatry versus intermarriage.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 58

Covers whether a non-Jew diluting wine with water affects its kosher status, and the rules for wine a non-Jew touched intentionally versus by accident.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 59

Covers Rabbi Yochanan's decrees on wine and intermarriage, a famous etrog-in-the-wine-barrel incident, and the dispute over how far a non-Jew's touch spreads through a barrel.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 60

Covers the difference between a full and partly-empty wine cask for contamination purposes, when indirect contact (like shaking) doesn't create a prohibition, and whether a non-Jew may repair a cracked barrel.

🎧 Avodah Zarah 61

Covers when wine stored in a mixed city remains trustworthy, the key-or-seal requirement for safekeeping, and whether finding a non-Jew near open jars of wine disqualifies them.