Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Eruvin: Understanding King Solomon's fence around the Torah • Eruvei Chatzeiros : Halachic elimination of private property • Shitufei Mavo'os: Privatization of communal property • Enough food for two meals: hops, wheat grass, Brussels sprout stalks, wine, beer • Rava taps his inner Ben Azzai: Can apples be used for eruvin? Tithe of the poor: give each individual substantially and to satiation • Sp...

Pasi Bera'os: minimal enclosures for private domains • Calculating the techum from the city's outskirts • The Torah is 3,200 times greater than the universe • The completely wicked have hope! All are instruments of the Divine Will • Rabbinic legislation: an organic flowering drawn from the intimate interface between the oral law and mortal experience

The structural changes needed to permit carrying in alleys with narrow entryways • Sharpening the mind: a bit of disorientation dislodges dulling assumptions • May vitriol or iron sulfate be added to scribal ink? • Conscientious writing as required for valid bills of divorce and Parshas Sotah for the suspected adulteress • Words of the Living God: Legitimate conflict • Humility: the secret to gras...

Public domains can be converted to other domains yet are impervious to eruvin • Enclosing alleyways to convert them to private domains • Conflicting halachic opinions yield chumros & kulos (leniencies & stringencies): proceed with caution • Striving for internal consistency

Humility brings forth truth • Choose life: follow the guidance of our sages • Subjective observer: humans perceive through personal filters • Lost opportunity costs • Oppression: keys to break the cycle

Mazal • Free will • Kleptomania • Muktza • Annulment of vows on Shabbos

Hand washing before meals through the lens of Judeo Christian debate • Meal time etiquette: a matter of life and death • Enjoying the fruits of one's labor • Focusing our efforts towards the highest good • Reish Lakish: rogue to rav • The ascendancy of action • Tzeddaka: a superior investment

Lotteries on Shabbos • Gambling • The ramifications of causing another's punishment • Nebuchadnezzar • Taking care of one's business on Shabbos • Thoughts and speech in Halachah: Business on Shabbos, Amira L'nochri, Torah, Shema • Articulation of transactions for Heaven are permitted

The destruction of Jerusalem: Healthy social inhibitions mark the precipice of societal oblivion • Obligatory Protest: For the protester, sharing one's humanity towards healing is more crucial than achieving change • Bar Cokhba as a false Messiah: destructive power unleashed silences the voice of Jacob

How to handle a Muktzah pebble on a barrel • Washing leather on Shabbos • Borrer/ acute selection on Yom Tov • When may a loaf or infant override the prohibition of Muktzah • Clearing the Shabbos table

Healthy inhibition: a quintessentially Jewish trait • Crushing suffering is designed to stir man's return to God, to be forgiven and to be healed • Man's inalienable dignity

Circumcision on the eighth day • Circumcision of Jewish slaves • Newborns in halacha

Sin makes one fearful • Lack of sin engenders awe • The supreme value of internalizing God's Word • The Declaration of Independence: A Jewish Perspective

Muktza: Raw meat and fish • Guiding animal movements • The imperative to alleviate unnecessary animal suffering • Birthing on Shabbos • Postpartum healing stages • Bloodletting

Sacrafice in pursuit of Divine enlightening • Judgment • Free will •

Graf Shel Re'i • Pikuach Nefesh • Trampling mildly dangerous creatures• Debt collection on Shabbos • Benefitting from Non-Jewish labor on Shabbos

Empathize: experience each person's perspective • Look deeply and perceive the Divine Image • Why can't blemished Priests serve in the Temple? • Good advice should be personal • Be forgiving to be forgiven • Nimrod: the first king and his contribution to civilization • Cosmic Justice: The wicked judge the righteous, and the righteous shall ultimately judge the wicked

Preparing vegetables for after Yom Kippur • Grinding and chopping finely on Shabbos • Saving holy writ from fire on Shabbos • How the Ritva defends the common practice to extinguish fires, even without clear danger to life

Be supple as a reed • Hashem assists the pursued • The Yetzer Hara pursues each of us

Honoring the wise • The beauty of silence • Is mortality inevitable? • Divine Justice: God seeks the downtrodden • אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה God is not bound by time

Halachic hoops: Transfering from sea to ship and vice versa

Transport: The living carry themselves • Creative activity as done to construct the Mishkan • Selling animals to non-Jews • Removal of Tzora'as blemishes must be through Teshuvah, not merely external • Cutting hair and nails on Shabbos

• Wisdom and Refinement: seven traits to cultivate • Human nature primes us to perceive and achieve elements of the Divine Symphony • The beauty of God's timing • What is a satisfying life well lived?

Daf Yomi Revelation at Sinai

Daf Yomi • Transport on Shabbos: how much parchment, ink, makeup, wax, tar, glue, and cement must be transported to become liable • Range of modesty standards • Klaf, Duchsustus, and Gvil; Writing Torah, Tefillin, and Mezuza