Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Various laws pertaining to offerings that are partially consumed by people • For how long may a firstborn offering be consumed, and how is that derived?

Every meritorious act bears fruits • When do sinful acts bear fruit? • What underlies the asymmetry of their dynamics? • Harmful satiation

Exploring hermeneutic extensions within sacrificial law

Wisdom is about making choices in the present to actualize a superior future, but does not erase the problems of presently compounded follies • A heart imbued with the fear of God enables the sharpening of moral intuition towards Divine Enlightenment through philosophical inquiry • Aversion to adapting oneself underlies a lack of drive to investigate wisdom

Which parts of an offering cannot become Pigul? • When something invalid is brought on the altar and subsequently removed, when should it ascend to be offered on the altar?

Does slaughter with intent to leave the blood or sacrificial parts over beyond their expiration invalidate the offering? • Does performing the service with intent to have the offering consumed by the ritually impure after expiration generate Pigul?

When someone articulates two seemingly contradictory intentions, is the first articulated intention definitive, or, if the true desire was meant to incorporate both intentions, would that validate the second intention, impacting the results?

Requirements for washing before the Temple service • How and why is a fish-eye ritual bath kosher? • How is the assessment of foreskin as repulsive halachically relevant? • When does ritual impurity invalidate the Temple service?

Would Wisdom ever laugh at those who reject her? • Would God ever laugh at His handiwork? • When is mercy forbidden?

What is required for valid transport of the sacrificial blood? • If transport was done inadequately, can it be rectified? • Who is ineligible to perform sacrificial service? • How do we derive the exclusion of a non-kohain?

Nuances within the Mitzvah of honoring Torah scholars • The essential importance within Torah of both reaching towards halachic conclusions and towards the infinite and inscrutable

Ignoring Wisdom will undermine potential excellence and result in dire consequences

When is the anointed high priest required to bring a bull sin offering for his error? • Are all members of Sanhedrin required to be capable of issuing halachic rulings? • Is the high priest required to bring a sin offering if no erroneous ruling about idolatry preceded his negligent act of idolatry?

Wisdom implores us to remove impediments and allow its continously flowing spirit to resonate within us

Making a ritually pure or kosher run of wine with second hand vessels • When moist grape clusters are touched by an idolator, are other contents within the wine press rendered not kosher? • When is ritual immersion required for newly acquired vessels? • How are different types of non-kosher absorptions removed? • When will absorbed non-kosher flavors from a non-kosher pot render its contents bibli...

The first steps toward Wisdom entail cultivating healthy receptivity by freeing ourselves from various bonds that prevent enlightenment

When prohibited food falls into permissible food and imparts an off flavor, may one consume the mixture? • The Rambam and Tur disagree about whether or not distinct prohibitions join together when calculating their negation • Where does Rebbi Shimon acknowledge the oral tradition from Sinai of liability for the consumption of an olive's volume of prohibited foods? • Squirrel beer • Why may one...

A person should be receptive to truth, yet discerning, like a city with an open gate.

Making a kosher run of wine

When and how does an animal that was worshipped become prohibited? • Surprisingly, the Shulchan Aruch rules in accordance with the Tur against the Rambam and Ran (the Rif and Rosh are mysteriously silent about Chalipei Chalipin)

Wisdom is a source of paternal protection • Should Torah be taught in the marketplace?

Various rabbinic food prohibitions and leniencies • Identification of kosher fish extract, roe, and entrails • God's unwitting guardians

The hunter lies in ambush for his unwitting prey, as the exploitative sacrifice their own souls • Stealing robs the victim of his livelihood and is akin to murder

When and why is one permitted to sell to a non-Jew, yet prohibited from selling to a Jew? • How can uncooked wine be poured by an idolater without generating a prohibition for a Jew? • A three day purification plan for vessels used to store prohibited wines

One's native sense of justice can protect a person from falling prey to the allure of that which is too good to be true