Beitzah 30: Better They Should Be Unwitting Sinners

Talking Talmud - A podcast by Yardaena Osband & Anne Gordon

One who carries wine jugs from one place to the next cannot do so in the usual, everyday way of carrying, but can in other ways. Likewise, wood and straw. But if there's only way to carry the thing, you can manage that way. The Gemara shifts to a discussion of women in particular singing and dancing and playing musical instruments when they really were prohibited to do so, but they weren't rebuked or stopped, lest they continue to do the wrong thing, and then do so intentionally instead of unwittingly. Also, at

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