Daf Yomi

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.

Sotah 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-16 Erasing two sotah scrolls into one cup. Additional possibilities of sin that are included in the oath. Does a yevamah who has illicit relations become forbidden to the yavam?

Sotah 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-15 What verses are required to be written in the scroll? A husband and wife, if they are meritorious, the Shechinah is between them. The reward of Avraham saying "I am dust and ashes".

Sotah 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-14 Can ashes be used for sotah waters in place of earth? Three things which must be visible. Does the earth have to go in after the waters or can it precede them?

Sotah 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-13 Why the sotah's mincha offering is different from all other mincha offerings. The earthenware vessel used for the procedure.

Sotah 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-12 How does one follow in Hashem's ways? Why Moses wanted to go into Israel. The procedure for bringing a minchah.

Sotah 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-11 Esav's attempt to prevent Yaakov’s burial in ma'arat ha'machpelah. Moses seeks and finds Joseph’s bones. Moses at the time of his death.

Sotah 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-10 Amram’s divorce and remarrying Yocheved on Miriam’s advice. Pharaoh's daughter retrieves Moshe from the Nile. Moshe’s mother is brought to nurse him.

Sotah 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-09 Pharaoh the new king and his scheme to enslave the Jews. The implementation of the enslavement. The two midwives.

Sotah 10 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-08 Five people were created with a unique attribute and this eventually caused their downfall. Avraham's "eshel"- what was it? The details of the story of Yehuda and Tamar.

Sotah 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-07 Anyone who sets their eyes on something not for for them, not only won't they get it, they will lose what they currently have. Samson followed his eyes and was ultimately punished for that. Delilah and how she behaved.

Sotah 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-06 Not performing mitzvot in bundles. Concern for immoral thoughts re: sotah and stoning. Measure for measure and how it applies to the Sotah's behavior.