Daf Yomi

Sotah 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-11 Pinchas was descended from both Joseph and Yitro. The three exemptions from going to war. Those people who don't even report for military service.

Sotah 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-10 The Kohen anointed for war and his address before the battle. Goliath and his mother. What to do if one feels worried.

Sotah 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-09 When can we take out more than one Torah. The procedure for hakhel. The evils of flattery.

Sotah 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-08 Illustrations of humility. The respect one should have for the congregation. The blessings of the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur.

Sotah 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-07 One may not speak once the sefer Torah has been opened. The sequence of events of Birkat Kohanim.

Sotah 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-06 Many details of Birkat Kohanim. The trait of miserliness. A shul of kohanim.

Sotah 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-05 Who jumped into the Red Sea first? Each mitzvah consists of multiple components. The various covenants made with the Jewish people.

Sotah 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-04 The miracles that happened on the day the Jews crossed the Jordan. Joseph does not succumb to Potipher's wife. Pharoah's oath.

Sotah 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-03 Details of the spies. Uzza's punishment. How the Torah was written on the stones.

Sotah 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-02 The height of the waters when the Jews crossed the Jordan river. The size of the fruit carried by the spies. How Joshua and Calev were saved from the evil intentions of the other spies.

Sotah 33: Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-01 In what language can the Shema and Amidah be said? The location of Har Gerizim and Har Eival.

Sotah 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-30 Statements and procedures that can be said in any language and those that have to be said specifically in Hebrew. Description of the blessings and curses said on Har Gerizim and Har Eival. A person should say his praise in a low voice, and his disgrace in a loud voice.

Sotah 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-29 The difference between serving Hashem out of fear or love. One witness to defilment is enough to stop the woman drinking and collecting her ketubah. Conflicting testimony from single witnesses.

Sotah 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-28 A second-level tamei item does not make a third-level item if it is chullin. How the song at the sea was recited. Even babies sang it.

Sotah 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-27 Defilement for terumah is relevant during husband’s lifetime. Kehunah is only after his death. The source for a third-level degree of tumah for terumah.

Sotah 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-26 The same way the waters check her, they also check the adulterer. The source that a sotah is forbidden to her husband out of doubt. The sotah is the paradigm for the laws of doubtful impurity.

Sotah 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-25 If a person has no other choice: should they rather marry a woman of ill repute or the daughter of a woman of ill repute? Excluding the blind, crippled, and mute from sotah.

Sotah 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-24 Is a ayalonit subject to the sotah ritual? A woman can be warned even against men where marriage is unable to take place. The meaning of "not a man".

Sotah 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-23 Does a woman who transgresses the code of Jewish conduct require a warning to forfeit her ketubah? Can a husband retract his warning?

Sotah 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-22 Women do not drink the sotah waters nor receive their ketubah, either because they are not married, or else their marriage is forbidden, or else the husband is not able to warn his wife.

Sotah 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-21 Rebbi's understanding of how merit can protect a woman but not disparage the waters. Cases where the minchat sotah is burned. Differences between a male Kohen and a female kohenet. Differences between males and females for various laws.

Sotah 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-20 One who studied Torah and Mishnah but did not serve Torah scholars. A righteous maiden. Seven types of false ascetics. Be careful of hypocrites.

Sotah 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-19 For a mitzvah is a lamp, and the Torah is light. Which merit suspends the punishment of a sotah - Torah or mitzvot? A foolish pious person.

Sotah 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-18 The guilty sotah’s death, merits delaying punishment. Using a sefer Torah for a sotah, or another sotah’s scroll

Sotah 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-17 The sotah’s minchah is waved by the Kohen and sotah together. The order of drinking vs. offering the minchah. If the sotah is compelled to drink if she refuses.