Moed Katan 2 - January 14, 12 Shvat

Study Guide Moed Katan 2 Pictures Today’s daf is sponsored by Blima Slutsky in loving memory of her father, Yitzhak Tzvi Ben Blima and Chaim Shimon. Today’s daf is sponsored by Gabrielle Altman in loving memory her friend, Naomi Rosen on her second yahrzeit, and a Refuah Shlemah for Miriam Aliza bat Shifra Chana.  Today's daf is sponsored in honor of Seth Farber's birthday from his brothers and sisters-in-law, David and Eve and Steven and Lynn, and their families. Today's daf is dedicated in memory of the two soldiers killed two night ago in a terrible accident Rav Seren Ofek Aharon and Rav Seren Itamar Elcharar.  Can one water a field that needs irrigation on Chol Hamoed and in the Shmita year? On what does it depend? If there will be a financial loss, one can do actions that do not incur too much labor, or even if there is concern that one may end up having to do hard labor. However, not all agree with these rules. According to which tannaitic opinion is our Mishna? Watering is a sub-category of plowing or planting? Rava and Rav Yosef disagree on this issue. If it is a sub-category of their of those, how can the rabbis permit it to be done in the shmita year in a case of a financial loss if those actions are forbidden by Torah law?