Daf Yomi

Horayot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-09 The Beth Din is not liable to bring a communal offering unless they rule to permit something whose intentional transgression incurs karet, and its unintentional transgression obligates a chatat. The Beth Din is not liable to bring a communal offering if the sin would result in a sliding scale offering.

Horayot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-08 The Kohen Gadol brings a bull when he rules mistakenly and acts on his ruling A Kohen Gadol who rules and sins together with the congregation is atoned with their offering. Does a mistake about idolatry require a prior ruling of the Kohen Gadol?

Horayot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-09-07 The congregation doesn't die. A sin offering of partners.

Horayot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-06 Who actually brings the sin offering : the Beth Din, the people or both? The effect of a tribal court.

Horayot 4 :Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-05 Only part of a mitzvah being uprooted would result in a communal offering, if the whole of the mitzvah is uprooted nothing is required. If even the Saducees wouldn't agree with a ruling then it is an obvious error and no communal offering would be required. A deficient Beth Din.

Horayot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-04 Combining different minorities of transgressors into a majority. Does the ruling of the court need to be unanimous? Status of an individual who acts on court's ruling after they retracted.

Horayot 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-03 A transgression based on an erroneous ruling is exempt from a sacrifice. Status of one who would not refrain from transgressing as a result of his knowledge.

Avodah Zara 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-02 Spits and grills used for non-kosher items vs those used for sacrificial items. Kashering a knife by thrusting it into the ground ten times.

Avodah Zara 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-01 The process for “drying” an non-Jew's winepress. The process of kashering non-kosher vessels. The types of utensils which require tevilah – used for food, purchased, metal, glass.

Avodah Zara 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-31 Items which are never nullified in a mixture. Getting benefit from yayin nesech in a mixture. Cleaning a winepress.

Avodah Zara 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-30 The concept of each drop being nullified as it falls in. Water and wine falling into a barrel of wine. How far does the principle of "like substances don't nullify each other " apply?

Avodah Zara 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-29 "If I sell this field, I will sell it to you”. Is a stream considered a connection? The force of a non-Jew.

Avodah Zara 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-28 A non-Jew who pays a Jew’s taxes with yayin nesech. Does pulling an item result in an acquisition in transactions when a non-Jew? A non-Jew who steals a tiny amount of money.

Avodah Zara 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-27 Various cases where a non-Jew was found alone with a Jew’s wine. Giving a key to someone only implies that they will look after the key and not that they will enter the locked area. We are stricter about impurity than yayin nesech.

Avodah Zara 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-26 The role of "one part in sixty imparts taste ". How much time does an idolator need to access wine in a Jew’s barrel? The fear that the Jew will observe the non-Jew touching the wine. We do not leave wine barrels with a non-Jew nowadays because of the air hole.

Avodah Zara 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-25 Leaven of terumah and non-sanctified leaven which fell into a dough. Rabbi Shimon holds different prohibitions do not combine to forbid a mixture. A mouse which fell into beer.

Avodah Zara 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-24 Parameters of "noten ta'am lifgam": additional factors contributing to the detrimental flavor are not considered; an olive amount has to be eaten within a particular time. Most opinions say noten ta'am lifgam is permitted but there is a stringent opinion.

Avodah Zara 66 : Marc Chipkin : 202-08-23 Mixtures of similar kinds and mixtures of different kinds. The taste vs the name of the items in the mixture. The significance of smell.

Avodah Zara 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-22 Wages for transporting wine barrels where one contained yayin nesech. Yayin nesech which fell onto fruit. Selling forbidden food or shaatnez to a non-Jew, who may sell it to a Jew.

Avodah Zara 64 : Marc Chipkin :2025-08-21 A Jew who is hired to destroy yayin nesech. How do we treat money from selling an idol is in an idolator’s hands? Definition of a "ger toshav".

Avodah Zara 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-20 The status of an animal given in return for a woman's services. Paying employees through a storekeeper selling possibly forbidden produce.

Avodah Zara 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-19 Wages for working with yayin nesech are prohibited. Why is both burning as well as burying necessary? Borrowing shemittah produce and repaying with eighth-year produce.

Avodah Zara 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-18 When a non-Jew is afraid to touch the wine. Buying or renting a house in an idolator’s courtyard to store wine. Storing wine with a non-Jew who is not the owner.

Avodah Zara 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-17 A non-Jew carrying a closed flask or open jug of wine. Direct force vs indirect force. A non-Jew who directly touchs the wine, but unintentionally; where although he intended to touch it, he did so indirectly, and for a specific purpose.

Avodah Zara 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-16 Different communities and their behaviour. A non-Jew bringing grapes to the winepress. A non-Jew who used his hand to plug an opening in a barrel.