Somewhat of a soft start, I feel like I've seen this daf many times. One of the challenges I see is being able to be mehadesh badavar and find something new and exciting, in old material and material that can be very technical. I'm reminded of the Harvard Education School's "Project Zero," which included a principle called "Ten Times Two." Go through a piece of artwork or a page of a text and find ten things you notice. Right as you get to ten, start over and find ten new things. So, something new I noticed was at the end of the daf, the description of "bein hashmashot":
I feel like this is an incredibly powerful way to begin a document about laws and cultural norms. We may spend considerable time debating details emphatically, but perhaps we require the humility to recognize that exact precision is as fleeting -- and as hard to pinpoint-- as the blinking of an eye.
That contentious time of "twilight" is like the fluttering of an eye -- one time starts as the other begins.דאמר רבי יוסי בין השמשות כהרף עין זה נכנס וזה יוצא ואי אפשר לעמוד עליו
I feel like this is an incredibly powerful way to begin a document about laws and cultural norms. We may spend considerable time debating details emphatically, but perhaps we require the humility to recognize that exact precision is as fleeting -- and as hard to pinpoint-- as the blinking of an eye.
