Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

One's native sense of justice can protect a person from falling prey to the allure of that which is too good to be true

The prohibition of bringing an idolator into the world • Cold truce with idolators • War tactics with those who attack our people • Who can perform circumcisions?

What to learn • How to learn • Though rooted in a similar inquisitiveness, attraction of Wisdom is initially less engaging than attraction to Folly, but once pursued, Wisdom is ultimately just as compelling • If one labored for an idol, when are the earnings permitted, and why?

Evil is self destructive • The speed and thoughtlessness of evil militate towards its unavoidable recklessness

Is a Jew permitted to live in a city that has a church? • Prohibitions that ensure one avoids giving the impression of worshipping idolatry • Avoiding various dangers

Conscientiously avoid forging friendships with the wicked and reject their ideologies

Elasticity of free will • Demonstrating the awesome power of repentance was more important than providing fortification against losing an angelic and immortal state • With gratitude, seek Divine assistance to strengthen your heart's fear of Him • With Torah, selfless kindness guides one's character towards mastery over the evil inclination • According to Tosafos, offering a sacrifice lacki...

Whitewashing sin: Is it your destiny? • Shared spoils are more fun and give less heartburn

When did the sages flip the oath to the counter-party? • When is a threat presumed to be serious or empty? • When the employer and employee disagree about the agreed upon wage, how and why is the employer favored? • What type of prior oath violations disqualify a person from being able to swear or testify?

The unknown provides a heightened sense of excitement • Contrasting perspectives on wealth

Biblical oaths for men and women • How much denial and admission to liability renders one obligated to swear or pay? • Why are even the righteous punished when someone takes a false oath? • Since only one party is lying, why are both parties surrounding the oath held responsible for the desecration of God's name? • The languages of court administered oaths

Oaths of testimony

Glorification of victimhood is an intolerably false paradigm of virtue which leads towards the brutish ethos of pragmatic violence

Oaths of articulation, oaths in vain, and oaths of witnesses • When is one liable to bring an offering or to receive lashes?

An invitation to join the mob • The desensitizing effect of repeated bombardment • A warped sense of justice

Being emotionally anchored in the goodness of wisdom affords protection from vulnerability to the seduction of sinfulness

Sacrificial consequences of errors in national guidance and errors of personal negligence • What are positive imperatives within the niddah prohibition of intimacy with a ritually impure woman? • Is one liable for forbidden flaccid relations? • Significant consequences of maintaining or negating required separations • The beautifying sanctity of modest intimacy

When and how are consecrated items eligible to have their sanctity transferred?

Embracing Divine Enlightenment and discipline brings grace to your mind and beauty to your speech

Why is Tractate Shavuos after Tractate Makkos? • Why is there unique specificity of liable forms of transport on Shabbos? • Who is the author of our Mishnah? • The evolution of Rebbi's understanding of the halachah

You are a prince! King Solomon calls you his son • The foundational value of parental guidance • With maturation we develop receptivity to Divine guidance • Divine wisdom molds human reason, which we cultivate towards the achievement of prophesy

The second tithe: When must it be consumed in Jerusalem, when can it be redeemed to be consumed outside of Jerusalem, when are there lashes for its prohibited consumption? • When is the second tithe considered to have entered Jerusalem, and what are the consequences? • Lashes for ripping out the hair on one's head or gashing one's flesh as an expression of mourning • Lashes for shaving one...

What is the counterintuitive foundation to cultivate authentic experiential knowledge? • How does fearlessness towards one's Creator breed scorn towards wisdom and discipline? • How are ethical and scientific knowledge accumulated in fundamentally different processes?

Through Proverbs one can unlock the riddles of our Sages • Are Monotheism and Democracy incompatible?

When does a human initiate his Divine service and merit eternal life? • To be spared Purgatory's expansion to swallow up one's soul, what is necessary? • Who will survive the Apocalypse? • The exceedingly pious accept Divine justice without judging the Almighty • The Divine Attributes of patience and truth • The Idolatrous City