Daf Yomi

Bechorot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2926-09-30 What may be used for redeeming a firstborn donkey? Kohanim may not be trusted to redeem a firstborn donkey. If one sets aside a sheep to redeem the firstborn donkey and the sheep dies.

Bechorot 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-29 A firstborn donkey can be redeemed for full value with any item. Redeeming someone else's firstborn donkey. Separating terumah from the field of a non-Jew.

Bechorot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-28 After decapitation the donkey is forbidden for benefit. A firstborn donkey is killed if it is not redeemed because the owner caused a loss to the Kohen. A firstborn donkey is redeemed immediately and for any amount.

Bechorot 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-27 Simultaneous births of multiple donkeys. Can multiple births occur at exactly the same moment? Can a donkey be used before it is redeemed?

Bechorot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-26 Procreation of various creatures. Gestation periods of various creatures. The questions of the Sages of Athens.

Bechorot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-25 Kosher animals producing non-kosher looking offspring. Urine of a donkey. Why bee's honey is permitted.

Bechorot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-24 An animal that gives birth to something that looks different from them. Eating offspring of a kosher animal which resemble a non-kosher animal. How do we know that milk from a kosher animal is permitted?

Bechorot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-23 Calculation of the "missing" Levi'im. Why are donkeys specifically sanctified as firstborn? A firstborn which resembles a different animal.

Bechorot 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-22 Kohanim and Levi I'm are exempt from redeeming their firstborn sons as well as firstborn donkeys.

Bechorot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-21 How much must partnership must a non-Jew have to exempt a firstborn? A sheep resembling a goat is considered a defect.

Bechorot 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-20 Partial ownership of a non-Jew which exempts from a firstborn donkey. Does this apply to a fetus as well? Penalising a Jew to purchase back an animal at a higher price from a non-Jew.

Chullin 142 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-19 Theft of a young child. The reward for sending away the mother bird. Reward written in the Torah refers to the next world.

Chullin 141 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-18 One must send away the mother bird even if he needs it for a mitzvah. Positive commandments attached to negative commandments.

Chullin 140 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-17 A mother bird or the chicks which are treifah. Interposions between the mother and the chicks. A mother bird hovering over the nest.

Chullin 139 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-16 Birds consecrated for their monetary value - does their holiness disappear if they fly away? A nest in the sea and a nest in the sky. A nest on a person's head.

Chullin 138 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-15 Shearing and then selling the sheep immediately. Whose responsibility is it to give the shearings in the case of a sale? Sending away the mother bird doesn't apply to holy birds.

Chullin 137 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-14 Wool removed via washing. How much wool is required is required to be given to the Kohen? Terumah and peah have no minimum quantity.

Chullin 136 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-13 Derivations from terumah to the first shearings. First shearings with a treifah animal.

Chullin 135 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-12 Sacrificial animals are excluded from the first shearing. Jewish partners compared with non-Jewish partners with regard to various mitzvot.

Chullin 134 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-11 Can the priestly gifts be stolen? Doubt as to various gifts that need to be given by a convert. What does one do if there are no poor people to receive the gifts?

Chullin 133 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-10 The propriety of grabbing or requesting the priestly gifts. Marking meat of an animal owned in partnership with an idolator or Kohen. Partnership in the animal's head only. Partnership in the animal's head only

Chullin 132 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-09 Is the offspring of a male deer and a female goat subject to priestly gifts? A bechor can exempt a mixture of animals from priestly gifts. The Kohen's claim is on the slaughterer.

Chullin 131 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-08 Gaining from ma'aser collected as ones debt. Having jurisdiction over giving gifts to the poor. Does a Levi have to give the priestly gifts?

Chullin 130 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-07 The priestly gifts only apply to non-holy animals. One who damages priestly gifts is exempt from paying. Priestly gifts should be given to those who uphold the Torah.

Chullin 129 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-06 Items viewed as merely wood. Can food forbidden even to non-Jews become impure? The differences between "ever min hachai" of a human and a corpse.

Chullin 128 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-05 Can a live animal serve as a handle for a dangling limb? The difference between "ever min hachai" and neveilah. Partially detached items.

Chullin 127 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-04 "How great are your creatures Hashem ". Dangling limbs are susceptible to food impurity but not neveilah. Shrivelled but attached figs are detached in terms of impurity but attached in terms of Shabbat.

Chullin 126 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-03 A corpse inside a dead dog in the entrance of a house. Parts of a corpse that transmit impurity in two out of three ways. The half-mouse, half-earth animal.

Chullin 125 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-02 Impurity from a sealed marrow bone. Impurity via a tent. Hidden tumah.

Chullin 124 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-09-01 Two half-olive pieces of neveilah attached to a hide. Differences between touching and carrying the hide. Being attached via a splinter of wood.

Chullin 123 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-31 Until when does a hide serve as a handle when being flayed? Tearing a garment to release it from impurity. Tearing leather.

Chullin 122 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-30 The skin of certain creatures is considered that their meat in terms of their tumah. Human skin is impure rabbinically, to prevent making one's parents' skins into spreads. Skin used as patches or stepped upon.

Chullin 121 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-29 A non-kosher animal shechted by a Jew, and a kosher animal shechted by a non-Jew. The status of a shechted animal that is still twitching with regard to "ever min ha chai", tumah etc.

Chullin 120 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-28 Liquid on food is counted together for Yom Kippur but not for impurity. Liquified foods in terms of chelev, chametz and neveilah. Fruit juice of terumah.

Chullin 119 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-27 Is there a minimum size for a handle and protector? A complete item of any size is considered a handle. Does a strand of hair qualify as a handle?

Chullin 118 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-26 The laws of impurity in terms of handles and items that protect a fruit. Why numerous examples are included of handles of a food.

Chullin 117 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-25 The stringancies of chelev over blood and vice versa. Once the commandment has been performed there is no longer me'ilah. The minimum size of impurity regarding food.

Chullin 116 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-24 Does the prohibition of meat and milk apply to wild animals and birds? Rennet from kosher milk inside a neveilah or tereifah.

Chullin 115 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-23 Does the prohibition against not eating also imply not benefiting? The verse "you shall not cook a kid in the milk of its mother” three times to teach the prohibition to eat meat cooked in milk, the prohibition to benefit from it, and the prohibition to cook meat with milk.

Chullin 114 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-22 Different teachings from the phrase "you should not cook a kid in its mother's milk"

Chullin 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-21 Laws of salting. The prohibition of milk and meat applies to all kosher animals. Can a prohibition take effect if an item is forbidden already?

Chullin 112 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-20 Cutting sharp foods with a knife with which meat was cut. A pigeon falling into a milchik dip. Fish and fowl which were salted together.

Chullin 111 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-19 Cooking a liver. Roasting a liver or udder above meat. "Nat bar Nat".

Chullin 110 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-18 Reasons why an udder was considered forbidden. One who goes to another place must follow the stringencies of both places. Positive commandments with the reward written nearby.

Chullin 109 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-17 Is an udder which was roasted without removing its milk permitted? How does one tear open the udder? Every forbidden food has a permitted counterpart.

Chullin 108 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-16 A drop of milk which falls onto a piece of meat cooking in a pot. "Chaticha oseh neveilah". Half an olive-size of milk and half an olive-size of meat.

Chullin 107 : Marc Chipkin : 226-08-15 Requirements of netilat yadayim. Can one wrap a cloth around ones hand and eat? Does a person feeding someone else have to wash his hands?

Chullin 106 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-14 Immersing one hands in the hot springs of Tiberius. The reason for washing hands. How much of the hand needs to be washed.

Chullin 105 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-13 Eating milk before meat. How long to wait to eat milk after meat. Washing before and after the meal.

Chullin 104 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-12 Is poultry considered meat from the Torah? Bringing cheese and chicken onto the same table is not a double decree. Cleaning out ones mouth between milk and milk.

Chullin 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2026-08-11 Forbidden fats from the limb of a treifah. Eating an olive-size piece of food in halves. Benefit of the throat vs benefit of the stomach.