Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Can liquids contract ritual impurity? • Can liquids transmit ritual impurity? • Are sacrificial liquids different? • The blood of slaughtered beasts and birds facilitate the ability to contract ritual impurity - is this biblical or rabbinic? • What types of blood are prohibited to consume? • When does the high priest wearing the tzitz ameliorate errors of the sacrificial service? • Chagai the prop...

Be sensitive to your friends, and if you detect any faltering, find ways to support them with dignity • Humility is a natural consequence of apprehending reality • Prayer: manage the risks of a dangerous art

What concerns factor into the obligation to search for chametz? • Ritual impurity of Jewish and non-Jewish corpses • The natural confluence of idolatry and murder • Explore the interplay between certitude and doubt • When can wishful thinking be useful?

Why is the tractate Pesachim plural? Why are many tractates plural? • Why must we search with a candle, and does a flashlight qualify as a candle? • When must we search for chametz, twilight or night? • Why did the Rabbis require us to search for chametz before Pesach? • Black holes: A biblically revealed phenomenon • Why did the Sages call it Pesachim instead of the Biblical name, Chag HaMatzos?

Exertion to honor the wise imbues one's children with refinement • Exertion to honor the poor imbues ones children with receptivity to Torah and mitzvos among the Jewish nation • Cleaving to the wise until their burial confers immortal blessings of peace • Meteoric growth typifies the human condition • Appreciate the benefits of any government, yet recognize that even good leadership is limited •...

Remote transportation • Relieving oneself and spitting across domains • Drinking across domains • Collecting rainwater across domains • Phantom structures: heaps and barriers that might move • Utilizing tree branches and roots on Shabbos

Restraining oneself from evil speech fills each day with peace • Chutzpah towards acknowledged superiors corrodes healthy social interactions • Punishment by proxy: human collateral • God reaches out to us as a father, brother and friend • Raw drive makes for foolish leadership • Widen your perspective to make better choices • Deep learning can thrive by seeking out fresh perspectives

Transport of vessels between rooftops, courtyards, and enclosures • The extent of rabbinic legislative power • Explore the multifarious implications of a one-sided partition: for eruvin, agricultural laws, divorce, and prayer

Avraham Avinu, paragon of love: faithfully balancing the embrace of humanity and intimacy with God

When can one party's usage of property encroach upon the usage of another party? • Proper placement of Eruv to merge courtyards and join alleyways

Blessings abound for one going the extra mile to do what's right • The Angel of Death sports a cape; does mortality command our submission? •

When may two adjacent courtyards make a joint eiruv? • The mystery of Rashi and the hypotenuse of a right scalene triangle • Which ladders may constitute an entryway?

Restraining oneself from good deeds can cause a premature meeting with the Angel of Death, resulting in the loss of future opportunities • Explore the intersection between divine providence and injustice • Seeking Divine wisdom and living by it augments ones life, increasing future opportunities.

Understanding the mechanism of inheritance, and the implications for Eruvin • When may one member of a courtyard nullify his share to permit carrying in the courtyard? • When do business partnerships obviate the need for Eruvin? Do the same members of a shared courtyard and alleyway need to effect both a merger of the courtyard and a partnership in the alleyway, or may they rely on one procedure?

Rejoice in cleansing • Generosity in giving • Rage of exile • The pauper's meal offering is more dear than the high priest's fistfuls of incense

Bringing God satisfaction through our choices • Choosing quality over quantity • Better together • Time management - work, learn, and do

The wonders of kindness • Understanding Hachnassas Orchim • Protecting your wife's honor

How must precision is necessary to establish one's center for Shabbos travel? • The ability to establish simultaneous statuses depends upon the possibility of effecting those statuses sequentially • With whom may we legitimately argue? • Leading the blind

Keeping it real each day: Affirm your recognition of the Unique Divine, precipitating love for Him, arousing essential and absolute devotion to actualize concrete expression of His Will through you, His creation. What we do as individuals and collectively matters. Consider your needs, and approach Him in prayer - be kind to your future self • Jealousy can motivate, but it breaks one's spirit; live...

Facilities and bathhouse etiquette: disrobing modestly and conscientiously • Ingress and egress: which patron has the right of way? • Being victimized should not cloud one's identity • Calcutated emotion: engendering love, aloofness, and humility in the pursuit of wisdom, wealth, and life • Top dog: life offers opportunities to choose • Social connections: how they orient us towards hope & impact...

Questionable eruvin: If, how, and when they are effective • Retroactive eruvin • Justification for setting up eruvei techumin: why run away from the chazzan?

Through service of Torah scholars one can increase exposure, breadth, depth, and impact of Torah learning; gadol shimushan m'limudan • In the world of Truth, righteous children can mount a successful defense for wicked parents to join them by broadening their identity

Eruvin: Understanding King Solomon's fence around the Torah • Eruvei Chatzeiros : Halachic elimination of private property • Shitufei Mavo'os: Privatization of communal property • Enough food for two meals: hops, wheat grass, Brussels sprout stalks, wine, beer • Rava taps his inner Ben Azzai: Can apples be used for eruvin? Tithe of the poor: give each individual substantially and to satiation • Sp...

Pasi Bera'os: minimal enclosures for private domains • Calculating the techum from the city's outskirts • The Torah is 3,200 times greater than the universe • The completely wicked have hope! All are instruments of the Divine Will • Rabbinic legislation: an organic flowering drawn from the intimate interface between the oral law and mortal experience

The structural changes needed to permit carrying in alleys with narrow entryways • Sharpening the mind: a bit of disorientation dislodges dulling assumptions • May vitriol or iron sulfate be added to scribal ink? • Conscientious writing as required for valid bills of divorce and Parshas Sotah for the suspected adulteress • Words of the Living God: Legitimate conflict • Humility: the secret to gras...