Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin

Self interest makes it impossible to be sure of deep intention. Source Sheet

Intentionality of the agent transforms his action from that of an agentic robot to a human action. The intentionality of the owner makes that action his. Source Sheet

When we create an opportunity by doing something wrong, the opportunity itself becomes un-kosher. Source Sheet

An object owned by a Jew is subject to more halachot than one owned by a non-Jew, and is therefore part of a higher system of kedusha. Source Sheet

Often we find that principles of spirituality and of economics overlap. That is an indication of their Truth.  The value of things is expressed not only by how we handle them but also  by the price we are willing to pay for them. Source Sheet

The seller of a cow that has not previously given birth is conflited between preserving the price by not revealing the fact to the buyer, and the piety of potentially causing the buyer to transgress by eating kodshim outside the beit hamikdash. Can the buyer rely on the seller’s piety? The Rambam and the Rosh disagree (as do the Shulchan Aruch and the Ramah in 316) Source Sheet

Intimacy within the system of the human couple is more natural than it is for random male and female animals in a herd. Source Sheet

The key to understanding the special status given to the first born in the Torah and its linkage to yetziat mitzrayim (the Exodus from Egypt), lies in the truthfulness of translation. Source Sheet

Our hurried lives focus on getting things done. But growth happens from doing the right things not just from getting them done. This is especially true with respect to Torah and Mitzvot. Source Sheet

The Gemarra explores the statistical chances of exact coincidence both in nature and in humanly engineered events, and our ability to measure it. It emerges that the human capacity of certainty and exactitude is inherently limited. Source Sheet

Although the Torah is critical of a person who protects his assets against the rights of the kohein to the redemption of his first born donkey, nevertheless the Torah itself is protective of a person’s money wherever possible. Source Sheet

The instruction to behead an unredeemed first-born donkey is one of the stranger ones in the Torah. Yet in it we will appreciate the depths of the Torah’s understanding of the extent of human meanness and its root cause. Source Sheet

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The wisdom of the Torah is sourced from a completely different place than the wisdom of the nations of the world. Source Sheet

In the laws of kashrut , some substances are defined by their chemical composition, others by their conceptual definititons. Here we learn of a further definition of issur (prohibition), issur by mental association. Source Sheet

We are careful with what we consume, both food and ideas, not only regarding their content but also the source from which they originate. Source Sheet 

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The ways in which we respond to events that defy our understanding, defines who we are.  Source Sheet

Male-female intimacy is a unique moment where the needs of each are met by fulfilling the needs of the other. This is the ultimate meaning of shalom. Source Sheet

We will never adopt universal norms against the halacha, against Torah חו"ש. However, universal principles of morality to inform the way we understand, interpret and apply the halacha.  Source Sheet

The potential useage of a commodity is almost infinite. Not so a manufactured product. In ideas and learning as well, there are principles that function like commodities with very wide application, and there are well-worked ideas whose application is much narrower. Source Sheet 

Halacha defines things not only by their chemistry but also by the nouns that describe them and by their appearance. Source Sheet

Taking something that doesn’t belong to anyone else but nor does it belong to you. Source Sheet

Unlike other disciplines, mastery of Torah demands not only intellect and skill, but also character. And without character, distortion is inevitable. Source Sheet