Daf Yomi

Avodah Zara 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-29 Which statues are forbidden? An idol which broke on its own. Broken statues are permitted because they may not have been worshipped, and even if they were, they may have been nullified when they broke.

Avodah Zara 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-28 Identifying a kosher fish. The status of brine. The innards of fish and their roe.

Avodah Zara 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-27 Cutting a "sharp" item with a non-kosher knife. Purchasing from the wife or slave of a trusted individual. Milk is kosher if the Jew has the ability to observe the milking.

Avodah Zara 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-26 Any food which is eaten raw or is not for too be served on a royal table is not subject to "bishul akum". No concern of "bishul akum" with unintended cooking. No "bishul akum" where a Jew participates in the cooking.

Avodah Zara 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-25 "This is your get after 12 months" and then the husband dies before then. Certain locusts are kosher. The liquids of the slaughterhouse are pure. Transmission of impurity via a corpse.

Avodah Zara 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-24 Forbidding non-Jewish oil, and how this was later revoked. The development of the decree against "their daughters".

Avodah Zara 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-23 Various reasons why non-Jewish cheese is forbidden. Milk which an idolator milked without a Jew seeing him. The decree of non-Jewish bread.

Avodah Zara 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-22 The difference between "yayin nesech" and chametz on Pesach regarding glazed vessels. Items which are permitted after twelve months. Majority of calves in Beit Unyaki are slaughtered for idol worship.

Avodah Zara 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-21 Cleaning jugs of idolators through filling with water for three days. Non-absorbent utensils which can be kashered with rinsing. Earthenware cups used for drinking.

Avodah Zara 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-20 The formation of Hadrianic earthenware shards. Heart-pierced skins are forbidden in benefit. Meat which leaves a house of idolatry is forbidden in benefit, because it is like sacrifices of the dead.

Avodah Zara 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-19 Three categories of forbidden wine. Definition of a double seal. Beer of idolators.

Avodah Zara 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-18 "Mevushal" wine. The prohibition of uncovered liquids (the concern that a snake may have drunk from it and injected its venom into it). Three types of snake venom.

Avodah Zara 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-17 Various foods which will heal a person and others which are very unhealthy. Taking a haircut from a non-Jew with a mirror. The source that wine poured as a libation for an idol is forbidden in benefit.

Avodah Zara 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-16 Are pain in the teeth considered an internal affliction? Famous Rabbis getting treated by non-Jewish doctors. Remedies for various ailments.

Avodah Zara 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-15 Circumcision performed by a non-Jew, or a woman. Using a pagan doctor : a patient who may live and may die if he is not treated, may not receive treatment from a pagan doctor, because it is likely the doctor will kill him, but if he will definitely die if left untreated, we may be healed by them.

Avodah Zara 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-14 Can a non-Jewess delivering, or nurse, a Jewish baby? The difference between a heretic and an apostate? Giving excuses as to why we don't take a person out of a pit.

Avodah Zara 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-1 3 The sun stood still for Joshua. Seclusion with idolators. How to protect oneself when traveling with an idolator.

Avodah Zara 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-12 Discussions if a Jew can buy a sacrifice from a non-Jew. The song of the cows.

Avodah Zara 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-11 What if idolators capture a woman? Discussion about the parah adumah and if it can be bought from a non-Jew. The story of Dama Ben Netuna.

Avodah Zara 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-10 A partnership of a Jew and non-Jew. The prohibition of leaving one’s animal with an idolator. Preferences of idolators.

Avodah Zara 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-09 Renting houses or fields to idolators, inside and out of Israel. Renting a bathhouse to an idolator.

Avodah Zara 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-08 Different interpretations of "lo techanen". The prohibition to gaze at a woman or her clothing. The steps of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair (basis of Mesilat Yesharim).

Avodah Zara 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-07 A person can only learn Torah successfully from the area his heart desires to learn. Learn a lot first and then delve into it more deeply. The person that wants life should guard his tongue from speaking evil.

Avodah Zara 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-06 The execution of Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon. "Eloha d'Meir aneini". Is it permissable to go to theatres and circuses?

Avodah Zara 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-05 Keeping away from sin. The story of Elazar ben Dodaya. Rabbi Elazar ben Parta gets saved.