Short insights from the daily "daf yomi"
What internal organs of an animal if any, does a slaughterer have to check for kosher status?
We are required to be more stringent regarding safety and danger than we are in the area of "issur", is this meat I found kosher or not?
How intensely does a shochet have to check their work after each shechita?
Are butchers allowed to use special lighting or packaging to enhance the "look" of their meat for marketing purposes?
The kosher status of meat slaughtered by the Kutim and the identity of the "old man"
What ia the status of meat that was slaughtered by a Jew who worshipped idols?
Is someone who eats non-kosher meat from time to time permitted to perform kosher slaughter?
What are the criteria for someone who would like to be a shochet/ritual slaughterer?
Is shechita a mitzvah to fulfill or is it merely a "matir" to enable one who desires to eat meat to do so in a kosher fashion?
How to "bring" meal-offerings without a Beit Hamikdash and 3 takeaways from the Masechet.
May a kohen who has committed idolatry or other sins bless the community in shul?
When someone offers to sell you "one of my houses", should you assume he's going to offer you the biggest or the smallest house?
How much $ does a person have to give when they pledge a general "gift to the shul" without specifying the amount?
Why is the Beit Hamikdash allowed to "force" someone to pay money they pledged (without a specified amount) when the burden of proof is on the "claimant"?
Is the order that the Torah places something when its in a list a factor in prioritizing that item?
Why a meal-offering/mincha cannot be brought by partners? How does that work for congregational menachot such as the shtei halechem?
Why Rav Bevai was so unable to answer his colleagues questions?
Can a Torah scroll be used if after the fact it was discovered that one of the "panels" came from the skin of a firstborn animal?
Am I allowed to replace my Mitzvah items with more beautiful or more expensive ones, or does this show a lack of honor to that which I already have designated?
Can the sacrificial meat be eaten raw in fulfillment of the mitzvah?
What is the minimum (and maximum) requirement for daily Torah study?
Was the frame/misgeret of the shulchan supported by the table or did it support the table?
The deeper meaning behind the shape(s) of the shewbread/lechem hapanim
The meaning and procedure of semicha for offerings and passing on leadership!
Can kiddush/sheva brachot be made on water or bread if there is no wine available?
Why were the measuring vessels filled with heaping mounds of flour for the meal offerings?
What are the parameters on when we should spend more money on the performance of mitzvot and when we should spend less?
Can congealed oil cups be used for the mitzvah of lighting Chanuka candles?
Can one use a laser beam for shechita? What about using a laser beam for circumcision?
Can you take back a commitment to bring a korban within "toch kdei dibbur"?
At what point in the service of the korban do the libations become sanctified?
Is the kohen gadol simply a regular kohen "+" or is he a new position altogether?
Can one person make a hagomel blessing on behalf of other people who also want to make the blessing or can they make one blessing for two personal miracles?
The interplay between the positive commandment to have a fire on the altar and the negative commandment not to extinguish the fire on the altar
What types of offerings may gentiles bring in the Beit Hamikdash?
Is the reaping/ketzirat haomer a standalone mitzvah or merely a hechsher/preparatory stage?
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