Daf Yomi

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.

Avodah Zara 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-04 Selling shields to a non-Jew. Selling a fattened ox to a non-Jew. What types of buildings can a Jew assist in building for a non-Jew?

Avodah Zara 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-03 The prohibition of selling small as well as large animals to an idolator. Can one assume the idolator bought an animal for slaughter? Selling to a Jew who is suspected of selling to idolators.

Avodah Zara 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-02 One is permitted to sell large amounts of frankincense to an idolator. Selling a white rooster to an idolator. Abraham has 400 chapters in his tractate of Avodah Zara.

Avodah Zara 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-01 Is the prohibition against receiving benefit from idol worship or giving it benefit? "Uprooting" an animal connected to idolatry. Buying from a merchant vs. buying from a homeowner.

Avodah Zara 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-30 Business is permitted “outside the city”. Activities forbidden because it appears like one is bowing to idols. The danger of drinking directly from a pipe.

Avodah Zara 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-29 Onkelus the convert. Burning a king’s personal articles after his death. The Roman festival celebrating Esau's triumph over Jacob.

Avodah Zara 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-28 Proof that we date documents from the Greek era. The relationship between Rebbi and Antoninus. Ketiah bar Shalom got the World to Come in a minute.

Avodah Zara 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-27 Calculating years from the destruction of the Temple based on dates in a document, or vice versa. The 2000 years of Torah began when Abraham was 52 years old. Calculating shemittah based on the destruction of the Temple.

Avodah Zara 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-26 Adam thought the world was ending, then made a Yom Tov. Celebrating the wedding of the sin of an idol worshipper is like idolatry. Rome’s alliance with the Jews to conquer the Greeks, and eventual subjugation of the Jews.