סוכה– Sukkah
Sukkah 7b ~The value of Pi in the Talmud
The rabbis thought it was 3. Which is close, but not close enough.
Sukkah 8a ~ Rashi’s Mathematical Errors
As Tosafot points out, Rashi seems to have forgotten his high-school geometry.
Sukkah 26b ~ How do Horses Sleep?
Rav and Rebbi Zeira understood the way horses sleep. Now so do we, thanks to the EEG.
Sukkah 29a ~ The Causes of a Solar Eclipse
The rabbis believed that a solar eclipse is caused by homosexuality, murder and rape. But that’s not quite right.
Sukkah 48b ~ The Uses of Human Skin
In the Talmud, human skin might be made into a saddle. Today, there are books bound in human skin.
Could Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel really have juggled eight flaming torches? Yes, but it would have been something of a world record.
Sukkah 56b ~ Cucumbers, Gourds and the Marshmallow Test
How Rabbenu Tam described the famous Marshmallow Test.
Sukkah 56b ~ Abayye and the Fundamental Attribution Error
Why, when we explain behavior in others, we put too much emphasis on their personality and character, and too little emphasis on their situation and the circumstances in which they find themselves.