חגיגה - Chagigah
Chagigah 3b ~ Werewolves, Lycanthropy, and Mental Illness
On the connection between depression and turning into a wolf.
Chagigah 4b ~ Pandemic Theodicy
Why do pandemics happen to good people?
Chagigah 12b ~ Rabbinic Cosmology and Rabbinic Allegory
On what does the world stand? God’s arms, or turtles?
Chagigah 13a ~ On the Origins of the Modern Hebrew Word "Chashmal"
How Ezekiel’s chashmal came to mean electricity in Modern Hebrew.
Chagigah 16b ~ Wrongful Executions
Rabbi Yehuda ben Tabbai applied the law mistakenly and executed an innocent man. Wrongful executions still happen.
Chagigah 27a ~ The Fireproof Salamander
Why the rabbis (and lots of other people) thought that the salamander was born in fire.