Daf Yomi

Zevachim 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-22 Sources that each part of a chatat offering must be done for it's own sake, and that is essential. A Pesach offering during the rest of the year is a shelamim.

Zevachim 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-21 A chatat also atones for violation of positive commandments. An olah being brought after the owner’s death. An olah is a gift to Hashem.

Zevachim 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-20 An olah offering - what does it atone for? Until when does it atone - until separated or until slaughter? The lambs of Shavuot.

Zevachim 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-19 Offerings brought after the owner's death. An asham is put out to pasture and ultimately brought as an olah.

Zevachim 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-18 Sources that all aspects of a sacrifice must be performed for the sake of that sacrifice. Sources that all aspects of a sacrifice must be performed for the sake of the owner of the sacrifice.

Zevachim 3 ; Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-17 An offering slaughtered for a non-holy purpose is acceptable. Impurity inside an earthenware vessel. A chatat slaughtered for someone else's olah is acceptable.

Zevachim 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-16 Sacrificing an animal not for its own sake allows the sacrifice to continue but doesn't count to satisfy the owner's obligation. The further parts of the service should still be done for the sake of the offering. Unspecified intention relating to offerings vs a get.

Horayot 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-15 Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Nassan attempt to remove Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel the Nasi. Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Nassan's names are not mentioned directly in the mishna. Which personality is best suited to lead a yeshiva?

Horayot 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-14 A Kohen Gadol tears his garment when a relative dies “from below, and an ordinary Kohen tears it “from above.” Precedence of a man vs. a woman. A Kohen precedes a Levi, however a mamzer talmid chacham precedes a Kohen Gadol.

Horayot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-13 The hiding of the aron kodesh. Simanim of Rosh Hashana. Differences between various Kohanim gedolim.

Horayot 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-12 Eating forbidden fat as a commoner vs a king. The category of an apostate. How the incense for annointment was produced and the miracles that occurred.

Horayot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-11 A king and a Kohen Gadol who sinned and left their positions, or sinned before assuming their positions. Fortunate is the generation whose ruler brings an offering when he sins. Hashem’s paths are straight, the righteous walk in them and the wicked stumble in them. An example of this is Lot and his daughters.

Horayot 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-10 Sources that the king and Kohen Gadol cannot come to poverty. The status of the Kohen Gadol for a sliding-scale offering. Cases of exemption for impurity relating to the Temple and sacrificial food.

Horayot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-09 The Beth Din is not liable to bring a communal offering unless they rule to permit something whose intentional transgression incurs karet, and its unintentional transgression obligates a chatat. The Beth Din is not liable to bring a communal offering if the sin would result in a sliding scale offering.

Horayot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-08 The Kohen Gadol brings a bull when he rules mistakenly and acts on his ruling A Kohen Gadol who rules and sins together with the congregation is atoned with their offering. Does a mistake about idolatry require a prior ruling of the Kohen Gadol?

Horayot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-09-07 The congregation doesn't die. A sin offering of partners.

Horayot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-06 Who actually brings the sin offering : the Beth Din, the people or both? The effect of a tribal court.

Horayot 4 :Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-05 Only part of a mitzvah being uprooted would result in a communal offering, if the whole of the mitzvah is uprooted nothing is required. If even the Saducees wouldn't agree with a ruling then it is an obvious error and no communal offering would be required. A deficient Beth Din.

Horayot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-04 Combining different minorities of transgressors into a majority. Does the ruling of the court need to be unanimous? Status of an individual who acts on court's ruling after they retracted.

Horayot 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-03 A transgression based on an erroneous ruling is exempt from a sacrifice. Status of one who would not refrain from transgressing as a result of his knowledge.

Avodah Zara 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-02 Spits and grills used for non-kosher items vs those used for sacrificial items. Kashering a knife by thrusting it into the ground ten times.

Avodah Zara 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-01 The process for “drying” an non-Jew's winepress. The process of kashering non-kosher vessels. The types of utensils which require tevilah – used for food, purchased, metal, glass.

Avodah Zara 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-31 Items which are never nullified in a mixture. Getting benefit from yayin nesech in a mixture. Cleaning a winepress.

Avodah Zara 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-30 The concept of each drop being nullified as it falls in. Water and wine falling into a barrel of wine. How far does the principle of "like substances don't nullify each other " apply?

Avodah Zara 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-29 "If I sell this field, I will sell it to you”. Is a stream considered a connection? The force of a non-Jew.