Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

Concise explorations of the daf from Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman.

Shiurim

Koheles Ecclesiastes 12:2
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
What are the implications of Man's waning resilience? • Mortality is a process • Each stage of life presents unique opportunities
Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:14-16
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Welcome to the bizarre world that we all experience • Wisdom can prevail against all odds • Succumbing to the evil inclination will never bring peace
Zevachim 113
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Did the floodwaters of the Great Deluge inundate the land of Israel? • In what tragic context would Chazal ever choose to encourage breaking up families? • What is the identity of the Re'em beast, and are buffalo considered wild or domestic
Koheles Ecclesiastes 3:8
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
A time to love a time to hate, a time for war a time of Peace.
Pesachim 36b-38a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
May one bake thick loaves on Pesach? • May one bake more than needed for Yom Tov? • Can one eat bran matzah to fulfill their obligation on Pesach? • May one mold matzah into shapes before baking? • What types of dough are exempt from the mi
Parshas Eikev 5782
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
A brief overview of the mitzvos in this week's parsha
Derech Eretz Zuta 8,1 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 3:15-16
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Be supple as a reed • Hashem assists the pursued • The Yetzer Hara pursues each of us
Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:17
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
When trying to impact oneself, employ hushed and gentle words of wisdom to engrave truth in one's heart
Koheles Ecclesiastes 10:19-20
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Money talks • Rav Moshe Feinstein on money in the Messianic Era and Meir Kahane • Appreciation of one's Divinely gifted agency is important
Yoma 85a-86a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
How do we know that one should violate Shabbos to save a life? • Was Tziporah required to circumcise her son? • How we achieve atonement depends on the sin • What causes a desecration of God's name? • Why do we address God as our Father twi
Koheles Ecclesiastes 5:16-17 & Avos Drabbi Nosson 14,5-6
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
A life focused on blindly amassing wealth is a tragic existence • A person's mazal incorporates the secrets of his purpose - embrace it! • Each day is a counted gift from God, every choice should consider the economy of time • As food and d
Shavuos 2b - 4a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Why is Tractate Shavuos after Tractate Makkos? • Why is there unique specificity of liable forms of transport on Shabbos? • Who is the author of our Mishnah? • The evolution of Rebbi's understanding of the halachah
Netziv on Antisemitism
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Introduction : What elements are at the root of Lavan's hatred?
Koheles Ecclesiastes 10:12
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Words are powerful tools for good and evil
Chagigah 25b-27a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Rabbinic leniencies within their stringencies against trusting an ignoramus regarding purity • Jerusalem may not have kilns burning so as to restrict smoke pollution in the city • The Jewish nation as a superorganism: The Torah guides us to
Bava Kama 116a - 117a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
A hero's compensation • A peaceful lion and Rav Safra's donkey • A failed hero's compensation • Standing up against bandits: How are the salvaged items divided? • A moser (informant) must pay for having caused his friend financial loss
Yevamos 20b-21b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The bizarre case of quasi-levirate marriage • Chalitzah (severance of the levirate bond) is not considered an imperative in relation to levirate marriage • How do we know that second degree relatives, Shniyos, are prohibited from a biblical
Kesubos 12a-13a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Tactics to combat oppression of women • Judean trickery • The priestly courts' alterations of kesubos • Do we believe the woman's claim to the detriment of her husband? • Do we believe the woman's claim of paternity? • In monetary matters,
Shabbos 142b-143a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
How to handle a Muktzah pebble on a barrel • Washing leather on Shabbos • Borrer/ acute selection on Yom Tov • When may a loaf or infant override the prohibition of Muktzah • Clearing the Shabbos table
Koheles Ecclesiastes 7:6-7
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The crackling of burning twigs under a pot, like a cackling fool make much ado about nothing • The deplorable misuse of wisdom to swindle will ultimately rob the mastermind of his wise heart • Caution: the fool's rant can infect even the wi
Yevamos 28a-29a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The rabbinic prohibition of Achos Zekukaso, levirate bonds between two widows who are sisters and their surviving brothers-in-law • If the prohibition was violated, may the new couple stay married? • Various cases where widows who are siste
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Berachos 43b- 44b
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Daf Yomi
Mishlei Proverbs 2:16
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Torah offers equal opportunity protection from evil men and evil women • Torah saves from the snare of all consuming heresy, like the enchanting but deadly femme fatale
Avodah Zarah 11b - 12b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Is a Jew permitted to live in a city that has a church? • Prohibitions that ensure one avoids giving the impression of worshipping idolatry • Avoiding various dangers
Mishlei Proverbs 1:9
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Embracing Divine Enlightenment and discipline brings grace to your mind and beauty to your speech
Shabbos 72b-73a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Daf Yomi
Derech Eretz Zuta 9,5-6 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 4:14-16
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Exertion to honor the wise imbues one's children with refinement • Exertion to honor the poor imbues ones children with receptivity to Torah and mitzvos among the Jewish nation • Cleaving to the wise until their burial confers immortal bles
Yoma 71a-72a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Appropriate forms of address depend upon the context of the meeting • How do sages take leave of one another? • The predilection of Torah scholars is for the finest wines • The honor due Torah scholars exceeds the honor due the High Priest
Gittin 47b-48b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Who brings the first fruits, and who makes the appurtenant declaration? • The halachic forest cannot be lost to accommodate the technicalities of an halachic tree
Chullin 25
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Divergent susceptibilities of earthenware and other vessels to ritual impurity • Divergent susceptibilities of wooden and metal vessels to ritual impurity • The controversy about boneware • Laws of tithing sweet and bitter almonds • Halachi
Menachos 15
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
If part of a communal offering becomes ritually impure before the blood was sprinkled, is it all treated as impure or is each component processed separately? • If at the time of slaughter, one intends to consume one component of a Thanksgiv
Bava Basra 54b - 56a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
A detailed examination of the process by which a non-Jew sells his real property to a Jew • Dina d'Malchusa Dina; when do governmental regulations override the defaults of Jewish law? • Laws pertaining to two adjacent fields owned by the sa
Gittin 55a-56a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The requirements of a valid divorce: What are the minimum methods of fulfilling the requisite that the woman be sent away without returning • Restoration and restitution of theft • Rabbinic response to Kohanim on strike • The limits of Rabb
Derech Eretz Zuta 9,2
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The wonders of kindness • Understanding Hachnassas Orchim • Protecting your wife's honor
Shekalim 21b-22b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Temple curtains: The mind altering impact of beauty • Blessings over striking aesthetics require the element of novelty • How the artistic curtains facilitated experiencing heightened awe for God in the Temple Mount • Guzma: Does the perfec
Derech Eretz Zuta 9,9 & Koheles 5:5-6
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Strength in unity: a tzibur is not subject to spiritual excision • Learn meticulously: errors of speech lead to sinful deeds • Transcend your fears by strengthening your fear of God
Avodah Zarah 75a - 76a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Making a ritually pure or kosher run of wine with second hand vessels • When moist grape clusters are touched by an idolator, are other contents within the wine press rendered not kosher? • When is ritual immersion required for newly acquir
Koheles Ecclesiastes 10:10-11
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The student must persevere in placating the teacher, the responsibility to absorb Torah is his • Review can restore clarity • The tyrannical abuse of power is instigated by a whisper from Heaven • Inconspicuous toiling in Torah is imperativ
Nazir 63a-63b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Impurity due to contact with an unknown corpse
Derech Eretz Zuta 9,4 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 4,7
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Blessings abound for one going the extra mile to do what's right • The Angel of Death sports a cape; does mortality command our submission? •
Yevamos 70
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Priestly tithes may not be consumed in a state of ritual impurity • What type of uncircumcised are prohibited from consuming priestly tithes? • Does your boss own you?
Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:12
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
What makes the angler's hook an evil snare? • By which plague did the spies die? • The perverse depravity of channeling one's humanity to speak with an evil tongue • Atheism underlies speaking ill of God, the righteous, and nature
Derech Eretz Zuta 8,1-2 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 3:15-17
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Empathize: experience each person's perspective • Look deeply and perceive the Divine Image • Why can't blemished Priests serve in the Temple? • Good advice should be personal • Be forgiving to be forgiven • Nimrod: the first king and his c
Shavuos 46
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
When did the sages flip the oath to the counter-party? • When is a threat presumed to be serious or empty? • When the employer and employee disagree about the agreed upon wage, how and why is the employer favored? • What type of prior oath
Yevamos 84a-85a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
There are circumstances when the marriage was permitted yet the levirate marriage is prohibited • There are circumstances when the levirate marriage is permitted yet the initial marriage was prohibited • There are circumstances where both a
Yoma 64a-64b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Is the he-goat that is pushed off the precipice considered slaughtered? • Once living creatures are temporarily unfit for sacrificial service, can they ever be reinstated? • How can the offering of sacrificial limbs from a blemished animal
Koheles Ecclesiastes 11:1
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
The personal benefits of kindness • Kindness is never lost • Be generous with your bounty, be it physical or spiritual
Derech Eretz Zuta 10,1
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Jewish eschatology: a culmination of Derech Eretz • The redemption is non-linear • Jewish cosmogony: the Foundation Stone is the nexus of cosmic beauty • Relate to God as your redeemer
Nazir 49a-50a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Comparing and contrasting paternal and maternal relationships • When and why is following the majority not applicable • Yeshiva rivalry • What forms of ritual impurities require the Nazir to restart his Nazirite vow
Sukkah 4b-6a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Where do heaven and earth meet? • What minimum height must the sukkah walls have? • What are the dimensions of the Holy Ark? • How was the Tzitz (golden plate) made? • What size amah (cubit) was used in construction of the Temple's vessels?
Eruvin 92
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Transport of vessels between rooftops, courtyards, and enclosures • The extent of rabbinic legislative power • Explore the multifarious implications of a one-sided partition: for eruvin, agricultural laws, divorce, and prayer
Miketz 5784
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Food Matters
Sukkah 46b-48a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Do we sit in the Sukkah on Shmini Atzeres in the diaspora? • Do we make a Shehechiyanu on Shmini Atzeres? • If one only mentioned Sukkos in the prayers of Shmini Atzeres must he repeat the Amidah?
Shabbos 93b-94b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Transport: The living carry themselves • Creative activity as done to construct the Mishkan • Selling animals to non-Jews • Removal of Tzora'as blemishes must be through Teshuvah, not merely external • Cutting hair and nails on Shabbos
Zevachim 56b - 57
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Various laws pertaining to offerings that are partially consumed by people • For how long may a firstborn offering be consumed, and how is that derived?
Eruvin 49b-51a
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
How must precision is necessary to establish one's center for Shabbos travel? • The ability to establish simultaneous statuses depends upon the possibility of effecting those statuses sequentially • With whom may we legitimately argue? • Le
Mishlei Proverbs 1:7
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
What is the counterintuitive foundation to cultivate authentic experiential knowledge? • How does fearlessness towards one's Creator breed scorn towards wisdom and discipline? • How are ethical and scientific knowledge accumulated in fundam
Bava Metzia 11a - 12b
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Acquisitions of movable property through one's courtyard • When does a lost object picked up by one's son, daughter, slave, or wife become the property of the father, master, or husband?
Mishlei Proverbs 1:6
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Through Proverbs one can unlock the riddles of our Sages • Are Monotheism and Democracy incompatible?