Grave Concerns
True events and several recent passages in Nazir inspire the following story. Boruch Cohen and Shimon Levi board a plane together somewhere in the United States.
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Tumah and Taharah
Do Non-Jewish Graves Transmit Tumah
Whether a gentile's grave conveys tumah to what is above it, a dispute among Rishonim that matters for kohanim today.
A Grave Problem
The Gemara in Succah (5a) is attempting to find a source that the minimum height of a succah is ten tefachim (30-40 inches). Tosfos opines that the same source will apply to walls that enclose a domain for the purposes…