Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Solomon's longstanding perspective from the vantage of the throne • What can man truly accomplish? • How should Solomon's perspective impact our regular prayers?

In what ways are inferior relations effective for Levirate marriage? • Does Yibum require witnesses? • Why is Yevamos before Kesubos? • Would Jewish courts coerce a recalcitrant man to marry? • A woman's infidelity renders her prohibited to her husband • This prohibition of defilement requires the testimony of two witnesses to warrant administering lashes to the husband

Why do converts suffer? • God rewards goodness so why did Boaz bless Ruth that God reward her fully? • Mamzeirus: Which illicit relationships bar the resulting progeny from marriage among the Jewish people? • King Menashe's trial and execution of Isaiah the prophet

After a man dies without children, how long must the surviving brothers and widows wait before consummation or severance of their Zika bond? • If they did not wait and engaged in Yibum or Chalitzah, what are the ramifications? • If the widow has an ectopic pregnancy may she immediately sever the levirate bond? • How must a will be structured to be halachically valid? • Fructus rights in halacha

While still empowered, exert yourself to fulfill your Maker's Will • Good deeds and charity are all that help after death • Within the framework of your Divine gifts, accomplish as many mitzvos as possible, take pleasure as much as possible • The measure of one's success is entirely dependent upon one's potential

The rabbinic prohibition of Achos Zekukaso, levirate bonds between two widows who are sisters and their surviving brothers-in-law • If the prohibition was violated, may the new couple stay married? • Various cases where widows who are sisters may both have levirate marriages • When both are necessary, why must a bill of divorce be given before Chalitzah is performed?

See to it that you make a good life for yourself • Pursue peace and avoid strife with your wife • Toil in Torah and livelihood • Channel your desires toward their highest fulfillment within the path of Torah to cultivate eternal life • Actualize your eternal bliss through mastering your fleeting days • Man and woman together were created in the Divine likeness

The bizarre case of quasi-levirate marriage • Chalitzah (severance of the levirate bond) is not considered an imperative in relation to levirate marriage • How do we know that second degree relatives, Shniyos, are prohibited from a biblically derived tradition? • How does the Maggid Mishnah prove the paradoxical nature of forbidden incestuous relationships? • In what manner is the violation of dec...

How can we prime ourselves to be receptive to God's blessings? • Preparing for the king's invitation • How can one channel Divine illumination?

What are the parameters of the prohibition of dividing into factions? • Is Lo Sisgodedu a biblical or rabbinic prohibition? • Is it permitted for residents of walled cities to read the Megillah on the 14th of Adar? • Is making an unnecessary blessing a biblical or rabbinic prohibition? • What is a Bas Kol, heavenly voice, and its role in Halacha? • Is one who considers something permitted nonethel...

Solomon's prophesy • By doing good, the pleasures of life can be experienced with deep satisfaction • Asceticism is inappropriate for one whose deeds are good and straight

Courts are biblically prohibited from administering punishments on Shabbos • Are other facets of judgement restricted? • May a murderer serve in the Temple? • May one bury an unidentified corpse on Shabbos?

Sensitivity towards those who have passed includes not flaunting our ability to fulfill God's commands • Idolaters cut themselves off from their Father, the Creator, and therefore do not benefit from their children after their demise

Rabbinic leniencies within their stringencies against trusting an ignoramus regarding purity • Jerusalem may not have kilns burning so as to restrict smoke pollution in the city • The Jewish nation as a superorganism: The Torah guides us to treat each individual from among the enire people as trustworthy when gathered together • How do we relate to their individual actions after their dispersal? •...

The righteous love life and hone their sensitivity to learning the pitfalls of evil from the wicked • The wicked are stultified, inhibiting their receptivity to learning goodness and choosing to heal • The knowledge of death can help crack the monotonous inertia of sinfulness, facilitating our return to God

Purification for non-sanctified purposes does not require intention; the inadvertent act of immersion is sufficient • Why is an immersion within a rainwater waterfall unable to purify? Why does a detached wave from the sea need 40 se'ah to purify a person according to the Shach, Taz, and Meiri? • What type of incidental water contact with fruits engender their susceptibility to ritual impurity? •...

Freedom to choose eternal life is a gift inherent in each moment of our lives • We may elevate ourselves to become angelic • Was Hadrian superior to Moses?

Navigating the unique pedagogy and fraught parameters of Jewish cosmogony

Free will is a lifelong gift that overshadows the ever shifting influences of fortune and circumstance • Through immersively pursuing knowledge of the Divine Will one can have confidence in finding the path to cultivate eternal intimacy with God

The Lubavicher Rebbe asked Rav Moshe: does the command of ascension to the temple on pilgrimage festivals include the act of ascending, or is it merely a practical requirement to fulfill the command of placing oneself there? • Who is exempt from the command of ascension and how are the various exemptions derived? • Can spiritual bureaucratic errors happen? • Can a person merit additional years to...

When is one required to rend their garment? • After his ascension, was Eliyahu HaNavi's rebbetzin permitted to remarry? • Were the eighty men on their way to Jerusalem after Gedalia was assassinated permitted to gash their flesh? • Was Rabbi Akiva permitted to strike himself until he bled after Rabbi Eliezer died? • Is one required to inform a would-be mourner of his loss?

All men know they are subject to death and yet experience the illusion of physical immortality - how shall we be judged for our resulting errors? • The believers in pure random fate who deny Providence and Justice shall inexorably lose their grip on moral living under the seductive pressures of evil • To survive, all men must pursue their physical sustenance, yet to endure, all men must pursue the...

Are Tefillin required or prohibited during the intermediate days of the festival? • Are there any restrictions on how to make tzitzis for oneself during the intermediate days of the festival? • Biblical and rabbinic aspects of mourning • May a mourner comb his hair? • May a mourner take a hot shower before the festival?

It is the thought that counts • Successful results are not a function of righteous intent, but rather depend on the resonance of our strivings with the Divine Will • A degenerative consequence of the tragedy of Adam and Eve, exacerbated by the tragedy of Cain and Abel, was the engenderment of spiritual blemish warranting mortality to become a ubiquitous human experience to achieve rectification

What activities are prohibited during the intermediate days of the festival? • Understanding the prohibition of breeding a first born animal and other invalidated sacrificial animals • Is working during the intermediate days permitted to prevent losses? • If a person did prohibited work during the intermediate days, are his inheritors similarly restricted from benefiting from that labor?