Ezra and I have been learning the gemara of Tamid over the phone. In the standard edition (Vilna and subsequent) there is one main pirush (presumably the same one as in the other minor Kodashim gemarot). While the marginalia (gilyonot, R' Gershom, Geonim, hagahot) are all sourced on the daf, the ...

I encountered an interesting sugya today (Bava Qama 102b), in which we are told that, "in the west", the rabbonim laughed at the interpretation of Rabbi Yohanan. Presumably, this is a reference to Rabbi Yohanan bar Nafcha, who headed the academy in Tiberius. In the Aramaic: מחכו עלה במערבא ל...

According to Bartenura on Mishna Sukkah 1:1, the calculation for the minimum Succah footage is the footage one man occupies (1 Ama x 1 Ama), i.g. 6 by 6 Tfachim and 1 Tefach for his table: שהסוכה צריכה שתהא ז׳ על ז׳ כדי שתהא מחזקת ראשו ורובו ושולחנו, ו׳ על ו׳ לראשו ורובו, וטפח על טפח לשולחנ...