Daf Yomi

Chullin 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-08 Can the courtyard wall function as the "boundary" for the fetus of a sacrifice? The milk of a "ben paku'ah". Is a firstborn sanctified retroactively or not?

Chullin 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-07 A limb of an fetus which momentarily left the womb is not permitted through the mother’s shechitah. The “place of the cut” becomes permitted by returning into the womb. Is there "birth” for individual limbs?

Chullin 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-06 Worms which separate from a beverage. Attached fruit which became wormy. Worms in animals and fish.

Chullin 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-05 Various ways to tell kosher grasshoppers. Any fish with scales certainly has fins. Water sheratzim which germinate in vessels, and even in pits, are permitted.

Chullin 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-04 Other signs of birds : how it perches, catching and eating prey in midair. The four signs of kosher grasshoppers.

Chullin 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-03 Signs of kosher and nonkosher eggs. Purchasing eggs from idolators. Finding a blood spot on an egg.

Chullin 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-02 Identification of some of non-kosher birds in the Torah. The number of non-kosher birds. Relying on a hunter’s tradition.

Chullin 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-07-01 Birds with two signs. Eight doubtful birds whose gizzard can only be peeled with a knife.

Chullin 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-30 The four signs of kosher birds. Any bird which has even one kosher sign, you may eat.

Chullin 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-29 All of creation was created fully formed. The moon was diminished after protesting its being equal to the sun. The vegetation of the third day did not grow until Adam prayed for rain.

Chullin 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-28 Lack of upper front teeth as a sign of a kosher animal. The only animals with a single sign of kashrut are the four recorded in the Torah. The differences between domesticated and wild animals.

Chullin 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-27 The eggs or offspring of a treifah. Creatures without bones cannot live for twelve months. Anything extra is like something removed.

Chullin 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-26 Dislocated thighbones and wings of birds. The lungs of birds. Do ants have a king?

Chullin 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-25 Examining the brain of a bird bitten by a weasel. Organs changing color due to fire. Putting the intestines back.

Chullin 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-24 A punctured spleen. Various defects of the kidneys. A flayed animal.

Chullin 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-23 How much of the body needs to be checked for a clawed animal? The only tereifot are the ones that the Rabbis told us. A dislocated thigh bone.

Chullin 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-22 The law of “a clawed animal” only applies where it was clawed by the predator’s paw, (as opposed to the hind leg), intentionally and while alive. An uncertainty if an animal was clawed. The examination of a clawed animal.

Chullin 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-21 When birds get caught on a glue board. Ribs which are broken or uprooted. The clawing of a wolf or cat.

Chullin 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-20 A drop of blood found on a needle. Concussion of the limbs. If an animal which fell, then stood or walked is permitted.

Chullin 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-19 Comparing holes in the lungs, intestines and windpipe. What is the inner "keres" (one of the parts of the stomach)?

Chullin 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-18 Needles found in the organs. If the lung is found punctured in a place which the butcher handles after shechitah. Characteristics of forbidden fat.

Chullin 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-17 A lung which was stuck to the chest wall. When the chest wall can seal a hole in the lung. If a needle was found in the lung.

Chullin 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-16 Adhesions on the lung. Lobes on the lung. Testing a lung through water.

Chullin 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-15 Where does the spine end? The liver which is missing a portion. If a lung has a hissing noise.

Chullin 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-06-14 Sieve-like cuts in the windpipe. The upper and lower membrane of the brain. Defining the majority of the spinal cord.