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
- Taanit 3 - No Need to Pray for a Miracle Beyond Nature
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A. Derivation for Water Libarion from הסך נסך B. Authorship Rabbi Eliezer 1 from lulav Rabbi Yehuda ben Betera 2 from water libation Rabbi Akiva 6 from water libation Rabbi Yehoshua 8 from oral tradition 1. Who is the author of Mishnah Sukk
- Taanit 19 - Is Coronavirus a Plague?
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- Ketubot 38 - Don't Remove a Verse from Its Contextual Meaning
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- Baba Kama 59 - The Sage Who "Stumped" the Exilarch
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- Gittin 13 - "Your Debt Is Now Payable to Luca Brasi"
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- Pesahim 102 - Don't Bundle Misvot
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- Nedarim 79 - The Silent Treatment, Just to Annoy His Wife
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- Zevaḥim 48 - Finding True North
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- Baba Mesia 39 - Reunited Brothers (after their father died and seeking inheritance)
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- Avoda Zara 52 - The Temple of Onias in Egypt
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- Sukkah 14 - Max Plank
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R. Aba – winepress vines are not part of grape R. Menashiah – hay for sekhakh hay is not part of grain [R. Aba disagrees] Baraita: using hay with grain for sekhakh Tanna Kamma – hay needs to be more than grain Aherim – hay needs to be more
- Nedarim 4 - Delaying the Inevitable
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- Yevamot 103 - If the Shoe Fits, Take It Off
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- Nedarim 13 - Prefixes and Punctuation
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- Taanit 14 - Light at the End
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- Ḥullin 15 - Flintstones
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- Nedarim 80 - My Laundry or Your Life!
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- Ḥullin 26 - Shofar to Announce that Shabbat Is Starting Soon
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- Sukkah 18 - Tear Down This Wall
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- Ketubot 24 - Structure and Flow of Mishnayot
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- Gittin 29 - Can a Renter Sublet to Airbnb?
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- Hagigah 20 - Were Your Bags With Your the Entire Time?
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A. Stringency to treat regualar food like sacrifice Proof that this is effective B. Impurity enters when distracted a. Friend picks up shawl - impure b. Shabbat and weekday clothes switched - impure c. Clothes switched in the bathhouse – im
- Hagigah 21 - Dipping One Item Inside Another
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- Nedarim 40 - Is a River Kosher for a Mikveh?
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- Horayot 4 - Uprooting an Entire Commandment
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- Gittin 36 - Prosbul: Overriding Torah or Laudable Loophole
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- Beisah 30 - Ignorance Is Bliss, or at Least Better than Willful Transgression
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- Kiddushin 27 - While You're At It...
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- Rosh Hashana 29 - Act First, Discuss Later
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- Ketubot 5 - Human Hands Greater than God's Hand
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- Baba Kama 119 - Strings and Sawdust: The Minutiae of Morality
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- Baba Kama 111 - Interpreting the Mishnah against Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi's Own Explanation
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- Pesah 74 - Try Not to Make Its Blood Boil
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Pesahim 74 – How to Roast a Pesah A. Type of stick B. Where to put the entrails? C. Blood laws – meat stuffing ok b/c absorbs like it emits Attempted proof from Mishnah Attempted proof from heart Attempted support form bird wrap Challenge f
- Pesahim 14 - Contact Tracing
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Pesahim 14 Principles: Avi avot – av – rishon – sheni – shelishi – revi’i Lowest level aka pasul = not contagious but tameh Some say food does not transmit past rishon Some say liquid transmits only miderabanan Liquids touched by sheni beco
- Shevuot 16 - Sacrifices without a Beit Hamikdash
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- Ḥullin 28 - When Two Halves Don't Make a Whole
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- Yevamot 46 - Minimum Requirements for Conversion to Judaism
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- Ḥullin 48 - If You Are Stringent Dodge the Question and Pass
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- Sanhedrin 97 - The Land of Truth
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- Baba Kama 104 - Delivery Guaranteed
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- Shevuot 21 - Categories of Vows
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- Sukkah 51 - Need a Job? Come to the Great Synagogue of Alexandria
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- Baba Mesia 33 - Who Do You Save First: Your Father or Your Rabbi?
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- Sanhedrin 79 - Mistaken Identity of Murder Victim
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- Nazir 56 - Tradition Versus Reason
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- Nazir 39 - How Does Hair Grow?
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- Ḥullin 20 - A Head of the Game
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- Ḥullin 11 - Majority Rules
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- Nazir 2 - Why is Nazir in Seder Nashim?
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- Nazir 29 - Do Birds Require Shehita?
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- Daf Yomi - Nedarim 38 - How Did Moshe Get Rich?
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- Ketubot 4 - A Wedding Celebration Delays a Funeral
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- Sukkah 31 - Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Holder
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- Baba Batra 91 - Why Didn't Boaz Invite Manoah to 120 Weddings Feasts?
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- Sanhedrin 78 - Killing a Person Who Is about to Die Anyway
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- Kiddushin 72 - Pelatiah: Hero or Villain?
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- Baba Batra 104 - The Power of the Seller
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- Zevaḥim 61 - Eternal Flame
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- Avoda Zara 34 - Koshering Old China
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- Yevamot 51 - Conceptualizing Rabban Gamaliel
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