Shallow Dive Daf Yomi
Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman
Concise explorations of the daf from Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman.
Shiurim
- Menachos 71
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How do we know that once grain has taken root the Omer offering will permit its consumption? • When may harvesting precede the Omer offering? • Jericho: a lesson in when to let mistakes slide and when to protest erroneous practices • What c
- Ta'anis 30a-31a
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What types of meats and wines are prohibited in the final meal preceding Tisha B’Av? • Why is Tu B'Av such a great celebration? • Sensitivity in the shidduch process • Marketing of shidduchim
- Gittin 13a-14a
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Limits of empowerment to give • Ma'amad Shelashtan: How, when, and why can a transfer be accomplished without a symbolic act, simply by means of a declaration without a kinyan?
- Kesubos 40b - 41b
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At what ages are fines for assault issued? • At what ages may a father legally indenture his daughter? • When are confessions admissible? • Vigilante justice
- Nedarim 61b-62b
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Seasonal vows • No free lunch; taking something that's ownerless can be risky • Exploiting the crown of Torah vs legitimate benefits of Torah scholars • What are the parameters of the prohibition against causing non-Jews to stumble?
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:11
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Solomon's longstanding perspective from the vantage of the throne • What can man truly accomplish? • How should Solomon's perspective impact our regular prayers?
- Ta'anis 3a-4a
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We are required to articulate praises to Hashem for phenomena that are subject to fluctuations; blessings and curses • Various rains offer varied benefits • The power of God's fiery word imbues the Torah scholar with discipline and resolve
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:9
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See to it that you make a good life for yourself • Pursue peace and avoid strife with your wife • Toil in Torah and livelihood • Channel your desires toward their highest fulfillment within the path of Torah to cultivate eternal life • Actu
- Bava Metzia 25b - 26b
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Laws pertaining to a lost object hidden in a wall • Finding an object in an Airbnb • Mordechai 258 silver plated tin: sold or found?
- Kesubos 103a-104a
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The Kesubah affords the widow's prior lifestyle maintenance • Rebbi's last will and testament • Rebbi's temporal life after life
- Nedarim 47b-48b
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How restrictive vows are manifested or circumvented depending on various ownership structures • What is necessary for a limited gift to be valid? • Analysis of pass-through ownership
- Derech Eretz Zuta 6,4 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 3:10-11
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Compassion requires sensitivity. Six days each week~ creative labor makes us receptive to God. Money: approaching God in power, dependence, and gratitude. Omniscient Benefactor: Builder and Destroyer of worlds.
- Derech Eretz Zuta 9,4
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Restraining oneself from good deeds can cause a premature meeting with the Angel of Death, resulting in the loss of future opportunities • Explore the intersection between divine providence and injustice • Seeking Divine wisdom and living b
- Yevamos 97b-98b
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Converts familial relationships within halacha; restrictions in marriage and testimony • What defines halachic maternity? • If a pregnant woman converts, is she related to her son biblically?
- Sotah 26a-26b
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Does a pregnant woman drink the bitter waters, or does she wait until after she gives birth? • Coercion to sin is exempted from punishment, so why might a woman who has been exonerated by drinking nonetheless suffer if she was coerced into
- Shabbos 128a-129b
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Muktza: Raw meat and fish • Guiding animal movements • The imperative to alleviate unnecessary animal suffering • Birthing on Shabbos • Postpartum healing stages • Bloodletting
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 12:13
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What is King Solomon's bottom line assessment of Man?
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 11:7
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Synesthesia in the Torah • Cultivate the infinite good latent within each finite moment • Toil to do good, not for what looks good
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 10:11
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The informer, like the snake, bites gratuitously - yet unlike the snake, is not subject to inhibition • Wisdom can sharpen one's focus to be effective where appropriate, as well as avoid exertion on doomed endeavors • When is rebuke a fool'
- Mishlei Proverbs 1:4
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King Solomon will help dispel your naïveté • With the leverage of Proverbs, one can compensate for inexperience
- Shavuos 25
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Oaths of articulation, oaths in vain, and oaths of witnesses • When is one liable to bring an offering or to receive lashes?
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 11:2
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Be optimistic in your generosity, yet conservative in your risk assessments • Honor even the seemingly unworthy who are fortuitously propelled to power; this too is Divine providence • Embrace God's Will as revealed through creation and rev
- Sanhedrin 27
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- Makkos 19b - 20b
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The second tithe: When must it be consumed in Jerusalem, when can it be redeemed to be consumed outside of Jerusalem, when are there lashes for its prohibited consumption? • When is the second tithe considered to have entered Jerusalem, and
- Eruvin 6a-7a
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Public domains can be converted to other domains yet are impervious to eruvin • Enclosing alleyways to convert them to private domains • Conflicting halachic opinions yield chumros & kulos (leniencies & stringencies): proceed with caution •
- Berachos 36b-37b
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Talmud Torah Daf Yomi
- Megillah 14b-15b
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How was it permissible for Yehoshua to marry Rachav, a Canaanite convert? • Who were the four most beautiful women in history? • Can God be a crown for the righteous? • Why did Esther invite Haman to her party?
- Nazir 13b-15a
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The intersection of overlapping nazirite vows • Can a nazirite vow begin without the potential to be completed?
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 10:15-16
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Brave the long short path to the city • The lad king and his cronies undermine a country • Justice is the primary objective of government • Even an inept leader can cause much harm if he is frivolous
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 5:8
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The fulfillment of a human being necessitates social collaboration • An insightful lense to evaluate the merits of an occupation is the degree of ubiquitous benefit it brings offers • Civil stability is the ubiquitous benefit offered by a g
- Mishlei Proverbs 2:10
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When wisdom dominates the heart there will be transformative multifarious sweetenings
- Rosh Hashanah 5784
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Bava Kama 50
- Chullin 81
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Does the prohibition of slaughtering a mother and her offspring on the same day apply to sacrificial animals? • What types of slaughter are adequate to make one subject to this prohibition? • What case does Rashi describe that a court would
- Megillah 22a-23b
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How many people ascend for the public Torah reading on fast days? • What restrictions on work are in force on Rosh Chodesh? • Various forms of bowing and prostration and their appropriate expression • May women and children ascend for publi
- Sukkah 33a-34a
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Myrtle branches with snipped tops may not be taken as part of the four species • Regeneration through a budding berry from the snipped top can restore the myrtle's eligibility • Binding the four species: by strand according to Rabbi Yehuda,
- Derech Eretz Zuta 9,2 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 4:5-6
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Keeping it real each day: Affirm your recognition of the Unique Divine, precipitating love for Him, arousing essential and absolute devotion to actualize concrete expression of His Will through you, His creation. What we do as individuals a
- Mishlei Proverbs 1:23-24
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Wisdom implores us to remove impediments and allow its continously flowing spirit to resonate within us
- Chullin 74
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What is the halachic status of a crushed limb after the animal dies or is slaughtered? • Laws pertaining to a fetus whose mother was slaughtered
- Netziv on Antisemitism
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The Covenant of the Parts
- Bava Basra 167a - 168a
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Precautionary measures to prevent the fabrication and use of fraudulent documents • Detecting attempted fraud
- Yoma 21b-22b
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Miracles of the first and second temples • Six types of fire • Different winds and their economic impacts • Temple service treachery and trickery: racing competitions and lotteries for the privilege of serving
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:2
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Fortune is decreed from heaven • In this world the righteous and wicked can share the same fate • Their divergence of experience becomes apparent in the World of Truth
- Mo'ed Katan 4b-6a
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What types of renovation and construction projects may be done on Chol Ha'moed? • Road maintenance is a high priority public need • We are encouraged to pray for divine mercy for suffering penitents • How do we know that various sites trans
- Derech Eretz Zuta 9,3 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 4:6
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Rejoice in cleansing • Generosity in giving • Rage of exile • The pauper's meal offering is more dear than the high priest's fistfuls of incense
- Bava Kama 39a - 40a
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To what degree are irresponsible parties exempt from liability when their properties damage? • Tosafos presents a radical perspective on ownership as a function of practical accessibility • When do courts appointed guardians result in liabi
- Zevachim 98b - 99b
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Which priests have a share in the sacrificial gifts, and which are excluded? • The Rabbinic nuance of permissiveness for the same person to touch consecrated foods, while prohibiting his consumption of that food • The restrictions of an Ona
- Shabbos 16b-17a
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Daf Yomi
- 94b - 95b
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How and when does Takanas HaShavim, an enactment for returnees, help a robber come clean? • Is a son obligated to honor his wicked parent? • In addition to returning the stolen sheep, must a robber return appreciation, such as wool? • What
- Yevamos 48b-50a
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Why do converts suffer? • God rewards goodness so why did Boaz bless Ruth that God reward her fully? • Mamzeirus: Which illicit relationships bar the resulting progeny from marriage among the Jewish people? • King Menashe's trial and execut
- Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:11
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The counterintuitive contrasting experiences of Jacob, Job, Joshua, and Moses • The Chofetz Chaim's prayer experiences
- Berachos 22b- 23b
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Daf Yomi
- Chullin 67
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In which contexts do aquatic creatures not require fins and scales to be kosher? • In which contexts may terrestrial creeping creatures be consumed? • Can laboratory grown beef be kosher?
- Pesachim 43b-45a
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When can permitted substances complete the volume required for liability of prohibited substances? • How quickly must a food be eaten to qualify as a substantial consumption? • When is flavor adequate for liability?
- Bava Basra 117b - 119a
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How was the land of Israel inherited? • Grace, an antidote to resentment
- Shabbos 44a-45a
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Daf Yomi
- Bava Basra 47b - 48b
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Why is a sale binding when there are elements of coersion exerted upon the seller? • Willingness comingled with coersion in bringing a sacrifice or granting a bill of divorce • What happens when the groom forces the bride to accept his prop
- Shabbos 30a-31a
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Daf Yomi
- Derech Eretz Zuta (6, 1)
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Derech Eretz Zuta
- Zevachim 120
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- Mishlei Proverbs 1:10
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Being emotionally anchored in the goodness of wisdom affords protection from vulnerability to the seduction of sinfulness