Daf Yomi

Sanhedrin 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-01-06 King David at Avner's funeral. Is the appointment of a king a positive action? The 3 commandments that apply on entering the land of Israel.

Sanhedrin 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-01-05 The mourning practice of a Kohen Gadol. Kings (of Israel) cannot be judged. Raising someone or teaching him Torah is considered like fathering him.

Sanhedrin 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-01-04 A Kohen Gadol who kills inadvertently is exiled. When a Kohen Gadol testifies. Neither a Kohen Gadol nor a king can participate in adding on an extra month to the year.

Sanhedrin 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-01-03 How Moshe chose the 70 elders. Eldad and Meidad's prophecy. Qualifications for members of a sanhedrin of twenty-three.

Sanhedrin 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-01-02 An entire tribe which served idols is judged by Sanhedrin. Procedure for an optional war. Limitations of an idolatrous city.

Sanhedrin 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-01-01 The meaning of "arachin which are movable items". How do we view hair which is ready to be cut? Are animals such as lions or wolves only killed if they killed someone first?

Sanhedrin 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-31 Rabbi Yehudah ben Bava sacrifices his life to perpetuate semicha. Semicha can only be given if both parties are together in Israel. How many judges are needed for the eglah arufah procedure?

Sanhedrin 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-30 Mechanics of adding on an extra month to the year and ensuring it falls in the correct season. Semicha - ordaining people as Rabbis.

Sanhedrin 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-29 We don't add the month to the year before Rosh Hashanah. Can one add the month to the year as a result of impurity in the nation? The latest time to add the month to the year.

Sanhedrin 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-28 Taking blame to save someone from embarrassment. Factors for establishing a leap year. A leap year is established in Yehudah, and during the day.

Sanhedrin 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-27 Lashes - does it require three or twenty three judges? Adding a day to the month. Adding a month to the year - three, five and seven judges.

Sanhedrin 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-26 Using ineligible witnesses as part of a group. Witnesses who are killed, can sometimes also pay money. Testimony of a participant in the forbidden act: splitting a person's words.

Sanhedrin 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-25 Merit is transmitted through righteous people. Requiring 23 judges for a monetary case of motzei shem ra. If warning for capital punishment must include the specific death one would receive.

Sanhedrin 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-24 Different understandings of the verse "releasing water is the beginning of strife". Judges who renders a true judgement to its absolute truth. The judge has to be absolutely clear that his judgement is correct.

Sanhedrin 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-23 The number of judges required for compromise. Is compromise optional, forbidden or a mitzvah? Performing both justice and peace.

Sanhedrin 5 : Marc Chipkin : 224-12-22 An expert judge can judge cases himself. Receiving permission to judge. Is this restricted to a specific area?

Sanhedrin 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-21 Is primacy given to the pronounced form of a word in Torah, as opposed to its written form?

Sanhedrin 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-20 Laws made in order not to discourage lenders. Opinion that one judge would be sufficient to judge. Does a court require an odd number of judges?

Sanhedrin 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-19 How many judges are required for various Torah laws. Sources for the number of judges in various areas. Differences between monetary and injury cases vs admissions and loans.

Bava Batra 176 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-18 The status of a handwritten note. Where a guarantor signs is important. Does a guarantor have to formally commit?

Bava Batra 175 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-17 A sh'chiv me'ra who admitted owing someone money. A loan recorded in a document may be collected from נmproperties sold by the borrower, but an oral loan is only collected from the borrower’s unsold properties. Is a lien on property from the Torah?

Bava Batra 174 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-16 Which expressions imply a standard guarantee and which imply a super-guarantee. A guarantor who paid the lender without consulting the orphans. Guaranteeing a Ketubah vs a normal debt.

Bava Batra 173 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-15 If one holding a document must prove it is his. Collecting from an guarantor. A kablan is a super- guarantor.

Bava Batra 172 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-14 A document for a hundred cannot be substituted with two documents of fifty each, or vice versa. A document of two people named Yosef ben Shimon in one city. Are we concerned that documents fall from people?

Bava Batra 171 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-13 The replacement document of a partially paid debt. A document whose recorded date corresponds to Shabbat or Yom Kippur. Writing a receipt for a whole debt.