Text & Context: Daf Yomi
Rabbi Richard Hidary
Learn one page of Talmud each day with Daf Yomi, focusing on the contextual meaning and flow of the Talmudic arguments through manuscripts, literary structure, and historical background.
Shiurim
- Baba Kama 70 - Half Testimony
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Dedicated in memory of Ariel Eliyahu A"H who was killed Al Kiddush Hashem on October 7, 2023 defending Medinat Yisrael. He completed Shas by the age of 19 and began with Baba Kama.
- Sukkah 56 - Bilga: The Villains of the Hanukah Story
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- Moed Katan 11 - Can a Mourner Attend to Pressing Business Matters?
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- Baba Batra 135 - A Will Tied to the Deceased's Leg Is Invalid
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- Yoma 76 - The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Wine
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- Menaḥot 70 - What Are the Five Grains?
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- Baba Kama 47 - The Whole Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts
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- Nedarim 65 - Extreme Makeover
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- Shevuot 45 - Pigeon Racers
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- Sanhedrin 90 - A Share in the World to Come
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- Gittin 2 - Immigration Law
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- Yevamot 30 - Why Was a Later Mishnah Appended to the Beginning?
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- Zevaḥim 39 - Inner Offerings Require All Four Corners
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- Sukkah 48 - Water Fight
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- Daf Yomi - Nazir 65 - Two's Company, Three's a Cemetery
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- Zevaḥim 54 - How to Build an Altar
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- Baba Batra 82 - Paths and Perimiters
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- Baba Kama 93 - The Beracha (and Curse) Boomerang
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- Rosh Hashana 6 - Due Dates for Paying Charity Bills
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- Avoda Zara 36 - Foreign Oil Prohibited and then Permitted
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- Baba Mesia 49 - Ratios
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- Baba Batra 158 - The Air of Israel Makes One Wise
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- Pesahim 16 - Fluid Definitions
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Pesahim 16 – Fluid Definitions: Do Liquids Transmit Impurity? Baraita 1 – Rabbi Meir – Liquids are impure deoraita transmit derabanan Rabbi Eleazar agrees Baraita 2 – Rabbi Eleazar – liquids have no impurity Yose ben Yoezer - Temple slaught
- Ketubot 83 - A Cucumber in the Hand Is Better than a Gourd in the Bud
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- Ketubot 91 - Inflating Assets and Other Financial Tricks
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- Nazir 48 - Met Misva Overrides Everything
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- Pesahim 106 - When in Mehoza Do as the Mehozans Do
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- Gittin 90 - Grounds for Divorce
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- Avoda Zara 63 - Put It on My Tab
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- Shekalim 17 - Desalinization
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- Baba Mesia 61 - How Is Loan Interest Relevant to Leaving Egypt?
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- Baba Batra 58 - Rabbi Benaa to the Rescue, only to go to jail!
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- Nazir 21 - Peace be Upon You, Rabbi
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- Baba Kama 55 - An Ethic Independent of Halacha
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Dedicated in memory of Ariel Eliyahu A"H who was killed Al Kiddush Hashem on Simhat Torah defending Medinat Yisrael. He completed Shas by the age of 19 and began with Baba Kama.
- Kiddushin 50 - It's the Thought that Doesn't Count
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- Daf Yomi - Pesahim 96 - Substitute Creature
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Pesahim 96 A. Eating sacrificial parts When most are impure In Egypt B. Differences between Pesah in Egypt and later generations 1. Taking on 10th – no 2. Examine four days – yes (but not pesah sheni) 3. Eat at night – yes 4. Uncircumcised
- Nazir 12 - All the Single Ladies
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- Kiddushin 16 - Severance Pay for Slaves
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- Makkot 13 - Does a Refugee Pay Rent?
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- Yevamot 47 - The Conversion Application Process
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- Megilah 19 - Who Is the Main Character of the Megilat Esther?
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Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Yehuda – lechatehila may read silently R. Eleazar ben Arariah – lechatehila must read out loud Rabbi Yose – even bediavad not fulfilled unless read outloud Dedicated by Dr. Edward J Gindi in memory of his parents Joseph
- Nedarim 84 - The Beneficial Value of Giving
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- Ḥullin 116 - Where to Get Kosher Chicken Parmesan
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- Sukkah 23 - Let's Talk about the Elephant in the Sukkah
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Sukkah 23 A. On a ship Follows R. Akiva who permits B. On a camel Follows R. Meir who permits C. Using an animal as a wall R. Meir – invalid (Abaye - may die) R. Yehuda – valid Mishnah husband away – assume alive (Abaye – this is R. Meir) B
- Ḥullin 109 - Udderly Delicious
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- Zevaḥim 49 - Double Hekesh
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- Yevamot 24 - Conversion to Judaism for Ulterior Motives
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- Baba Kama 45 - The Only Safe Ox is a Dead Ox
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- Ḥullin 134 - Grab Bag
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- Yevamot 100 - Ladies First
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- Sanhedrin 35 - Capital Punishment on Shabbat?
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- Taanit 10 - Miscalculating the Equinox
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- Shekalim 5 - Transportation Tribulation
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- Yoma 51 - Two Approaches to Approaching the Divine
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- Megilah 3 - The Translation that Shook the World
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- Sanhedrin 74 - The Big Three Sins that Require Martyrdom
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- Avoda Zara 22 - Partnership with a Non-Jew Who Works on Shabbat
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- Zevaḥim 53 - Gamma Sprays
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- Ḥullin 97 - Udderly Delicious
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- Sanhedrin 93 - The Greatness of Daniel's Three Friends
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