Daf Yomi

Makkot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-16 Dispute about about the axe-head flying off the handle, or a chip of wood which kills someone. One who kills inadvertently while engaged in a mitzvah is not exiled. A son going to exile for striking his father.

Makkot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-04-15 A sanhedrin avoiding capital punishment. Exile is given for an unintentional murder, through a downwards movement.

Makkot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-14 Two witnesses compared to three witnesses. If one of the witnesses is found to be a relative or disqualified witness, the entire testimony is void. Why the people involved in an event do not disqualify all witnesses. Witnesses watching from different windows.

Makkot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-13 The conspiring witnesses have to be shown to have been in a different plane at the time they purported to see the crime. The conspiring witnesses are killed only if their victim was convicted and not if he was already executed.

Makkot 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-12 If three lugin of drawn water with the color of wine disqualify a mikveh. Receiving lashes as well as having to pay money. Receiving lashes for sins not involving an action.

Makkot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-11 Assessing conspiring witnesses' payment of a Ketubah. Does shemittah cancel a ten-year loan? Lending money on condition that shemittah does not cancel a debt.

Makkot 2 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-10 Conspiring witnesses who get lashed instead of the reciprocal punishment. The meaning of the verse “they exonerate the innocent one and convict the guilty one”.

Sanhedrin 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-09 Property escaping destruction of an idolatrous city. Joshua’s curse over rebuilding Jericho is fulfilled. Eliyahu and the key of rain.

Sanhedrin 112 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-08 The process for trying idol-worshippers until establishing an idolatrous city. What is done with jointly owned property? Different categories of sacrifices of an idolatrous city.

Sanhedrin 111 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-07 Moses displayed less faith than the Patriarchs. Moses needed the attribute of “slow to anger”. Various conditions needed for a subverted city.

Sanhedrin 110 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-06 The influence of a wife. Which death did Korach receive? The 10 tribes- will they return in future?

Sanhedrin 109 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-05 Nachum ish Gamzu and the miraculous dirt. The sin of the generation of the Dispersion. The incomprehensible laws of Sedom.

Sanhedrin 108 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-04 The generation of the Flood was blessed with tremendous prosperity which caused them to become arrogant. How righteous was Noah? The creatures on the ark- the raven, the dove , the chameleon and the phoenix.

Sanhedrin 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-03 Never ask to be tested. King David’s sin was ultimately forgiven. Gechazi’s sin, leading into a censored Gemara.

Sanhedrin 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-02 Bilaam’s evil advice that caused the Jewish people to sin grievously. Wicked people don’t live out half their days. Doeg’s tremendous wisdom was only lip service and didn’t penetrate his heart.

Sanhedrin 105 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-01 The evil personality of Bilaam. Love and hatred override the natural order.

Sanhedrin 104 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-03-31 Greatness of providing food to travellers. Sons can give benefit to their fathers. Various expositions on the book of Lamentations.

Sanhedrin 103 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-03-30 Opinion that Menashe has a share in Olam Haba. The blessings given to Solomon from King David, Bat Sheva and Hashem. King David and Nechamia even though they had enemies were beloved by Hashem.

Sanhedrin 102 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-03-29 Yerovam is urged to do teshuva. The powerful drive for idolatry at the time of Menashe. Achav, although evil, was generous with his money.

Sanhedrin 101 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-03-28 “How great is suffering “. King Menashe’s teshuvah. Why Yerovam Ben Navat merited to become king.

Sanhedrin 100 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-03-27 Definitions of an “apikorus”. How the righteous will be able to receive the vast reward from Hashem’s hand in future. The book of Ben Sira.

Sanhedrin 99 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-03-26 Certain concepts that only Hashem knows about but of which humans have no conception. A person who interprets Torah against Halacha. All Torah verses have meaning.

Sanhedrin 98 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-03-25 Mashiach can come today. The birth pangs of Mashiach. Sinning can cause a Divine promise to be lost.

Sanhedrin 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-03-24 How the generation of the Messiah will look. The periods of existence of the world. Calculating the expected time of the arrival of the Messiah.

Sanhedrin 96 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-03-23 Nevucadnetzer's steps to defend Hashem’s honour. Nevuzaradan’s breaking through the gates of Jerusalem. The blood of Zechariah.