Daf Yomi

Sotah 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-19 For a mitzvah is a lamp, and the Torah is light. Which merit suspends the punishment of a sotah - Torah or mitzvot? A foolish pious person.

Sotah 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-18 The guilty sotah’s death, merits delaying punishment. Using a sefer Torah for a sotah, or another sotah’s scroll

Sotah 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-17 The sotah’s minchah is waved by the Kohen and sotah together. The order of drinking vs. offering the minchah. If the sotah is compelled to drink if she refuses.

Sotah 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-16 Erasing two sotah scrolls into one cup. Additional possibilities of sin that are included in the oath. Does a yevamah who has illicit relations become forbidden to the yavam?

Sotah 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-15 What verses are required to be written in the scroll? A husband and wife, if they are meritorious, the Shechinah is between them. The reward of Avraham saying "I am dust and ashes".

Sotah 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-14 Can ashes be used for sotah waters in place of earth? Three things which must be visible. Does the earth have to go in after the waters or can it precede them?

Sotah 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-13 Why the sotah's mincha offering is different from all other mincha offerings. The earthenware vessel used for the procedure.

Sotah 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-12 How does one follow in Hashem's ways? Why Moses wanted to go into Israel. The procedure for bringing a minchah.

Sotah 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-11 Esav's attempt to prevent Yaakov’s burial in ma'arat ha'machpelah. Moses seeks and finds Joseph’s bones. Moses at the time of his death.

Sotah 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-10 Amram’s divorce and remarrying Yocheved on Miriam’s advice. Pharaoh's daughter retrieves Moshe from the Nile. Moshe’s mother is brought to nurse him.

Sotah 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-09 Pharaoh the new king and his scheme to enslave the Jews. The implementation of the enslavement. The two midwives.

Sotah 10 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-08 Five people were created with a unique attribute and this eventually caused their downfall. Avraham's "eshel"- what was it? The details of the story of Yehuda and Tamar.

Sotah 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-07 Anyone who sets their eyes on something not for for them, not only won't they get it, they will lose what they currently have. Samson followed his eyes and was ultimately punished for that. Delilah and how she behaved.

Sotah 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-06 Not performing mitzvot in bundles. Concern for immoral thoughts re: sotah and stoning. Measure for measure and how it applies to the Sotah's behavior.

Sotah 7 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-05 Can the husband can be trusted to escort the sotah alone to Jerusalem? The attempts made to persuade the sotah to confess. Rueben and Judah's confessions.

Sotah 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-04 A sotah about whom there are witnesses overseas who saw her adultery. What one does with a mincha offering of a sotah who confessed.

Sotah 5 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-03 More discussion about the evils of arrogance. Why a sotah has to do chalitzah and not yibum.

Sotah 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-02 The time period of seclusion. The importance of washing ones hands. The evils of arrogance.

Sotah 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-01 A person’s private wrongdoings are publicized. Is the spirit that passes over a husband causing him to warn his wife a good one or not? Mitzvot and sins accompany a person in future.

Sotah 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-31 How many witnesses are required for warning and seclusion? Why Sotah follows Nazir. The basis and difficulty of matching men and women for marriage.

Nazir 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-30 Emissions of a zav. Was Shmuel a nazir? Is it best to say a blessing or to respond to it?

Nazir 65 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-29 The laws of discovered graves for removal and inspection. Leniencies with tzara'at.

Nazir 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-28 The principle of floating tumah. Various questions of floating tumah on top of something in the water. Tumah of the deep on the seventh day of purification.

Nazir 63 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-27 The principle and definition and source of "tumah of the deep". Whether forfeiture is determined by the moment of tumah or by knowledge of it.

Nazir 62 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-26 Non-Jews accepting vows. A stringency of slaves compared to women. Whether an escaped slave nezirut is presumed to continue or not.