Daf Yomi

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.

Avodah Zara 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-28 A non-Jew who pays a Jew's taxes with yayin nesech. Does pulling an item result in an acquisition in transactions when a non-Jew? A non-Jew who steals a tiny amount of money.

Avodah Zara 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-27 Various cases where a non-Jew was found alone with a Jew's wine. Giving a key to someone only implies that they will look after the key and not that they will enter the locked area. We are stricter about impurity than yayin nesech.

Avodah Zara 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-26 The role of "one part in sixty imparts taste ". How much time does an idolator need to access wine in a Jew's barrel? The fear that the Jew will observe the non-Jew touching the wine. We do not leave wine barrels with a non-Jew nowadays because of the air hole.

Avodah Zara 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-25 Leaven of terumah and non-sanctified leaven which fell into a dough. Rabbi Shimon holds different prohibitions do not combine to forbid a mixture. A mouse which fell into beer.

Avodah Zara 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-24 Parameters of "noten ta'am lifgam": additional factors contributing to the detrimental flavor are not considered; an olive amount has to be eaten within a particular time. Most opinions say noten ta'am lifgam is permitted but there is a stringent opinion.

Avodah Zara 66 : Marc Chipkin : 202-08-23 Mixtures of similar kinds and mixtures of different kinds. The taste vs the name of the items in the mixture. The significance of smell.

Avodah Zara 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-22 Wages for transporting wine barrels where one contained yayin nesech. Yayin nesech which fell onto fruit. Selling forbidden food or shaatnez to a non-Jew, who may sell it to a Jew.

Avodah Zara 64 : Marc Chipkin :2025-08-21 A Jew who is hired to destroy yayin nesech. How do we treat money from selling an idol is in an idolator's hands? Definition of a "ger toshav".

Avodah Zara 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-20 The status of an animal given in return for a woman's services. Paying employees through a storekeeper selling possibly forbidden produce.

Avodah Zara 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-19 Wages for working with yayin nesech are prohibited. Why is both burning as well as burying necessary? Borrowing shemittah produce and repaying with eighth-year produce.

Avodah Zara 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-18 When a non-Jew is afraid to touch the wine. Buying or renting a house in an idolator's courtyard to store wine. Storing wine with a non-Jew who is not the owner.

Avodah Zara 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-17 A non-Jew carrying a closed flask or open jug of wine. Direct force vs indirect force. A non-Jew who directly touchs the wine, but unintentionally; where although he intended to touch it, he did so indirectly, and for a specific purpose.

Avodah Zara 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-16 Different communities and their behaviour. A non-Jew bringing grapes to the winepress. A non-Jew who used his hand to plug an opening in a barrel.

Avodah Zara 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-15 A non-Jew who puts his hand in the wine to prove it is wine- what is the status of that wine? A non-Jew who was mistakenly asked to pour wine for Sages. A non-Jew who dilutes wine.

Avodah Zara 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-13 When juice pressed from grapes is considered “wine” for "yayin nesech". Wine is considered finished and subject to maaser from when [the pits and peels] float to the surface, some time after descending into the pit. Nisuch is not done with a non-Jew's feet.

Avodah Zara 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-12 Howcome G-d allows idolatry in the world? Why idols may appear to “heal” people. Harvesting and treading grapes with a non-Jew or Jew who processes wine in tumah.

Avodah Zara 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-11 When an animal that one is forced to worship is prohibited. The three cardinal sins. A physical act of idolatry on someone else's property can prohibit it.

Avodah Zara 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-08-10 Does selling an idol nullify it? A Jew stood up a brick to bow down to it, and an idol worshipper came and bowed to it. Idols which were abandoned.

Avodah Zara 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-09 Dispute if an idol becomes forbidden when it is made or worshipped. Utensils which were used for service in Chonyo's Temple, may they be used in the Temple? Nullification of avodah zarah owned jointly by a Jew and idolator.

Avodah Zara 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-08 Breaking a stick in service of an idol. Slaughtering a blemished animal for avodah zarah. Finding coins, a garment, or utensils on top of Markilus they are permitted to benefit therefrom, because they were not placed there to decorate the idol.

Avodah Zara 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-07 Stones found in the area of Markilus. Markilus stones which were removed to pave streets. Applying fertilizer to a tree during shemittah vs during Chol HaMoed.

Avodah Zara 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-06 Permitted and forbidden causes combining to produce a result. Avoiding benefit from avodah zarah by throwing away its value. The shavings of an asheirah tree.

Avodah Zara 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-05 Three types of asheirah trees. The shade of an asheirah tree. Planting vegetables under an asheirah tree during the winter, when its shade harms the plants.

Avodah Zara 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-04 If one bows to a palm tree, can its branch be used for the mitzvah of lulav? Rebuilding a fallen wall shared by an idolatrous building. Three types of idolatrous houses regarding their nullification.

Avodah Zara 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-03 Stones which became detached on their own from a mountain and worshipped. If someone bows to a mountain (which remains permitted in benefit), can its stones be used for the Altar? If one bows to standing wheat, can it be used for flour offerings since it was physically changed?

Avodah Zara 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-02 Mountains which are worshipped remain permitted, but what is on them is prohibited. A tree which one planted without intending to worship it, and eventually worshipped it. The sequence of destroying idols when entering into the land of Israel.

Avodah Zara 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-01 Grinding an idol and scattering it to the wind, or throwing it into the sea. King David's crown. Rabban Gamliel bathing in the bathhouse with an idol nearby.

Avodah Zara 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-31 Nullifying a lost idol. Rabban Gamliel's images of the moon. The prohibition to own an image.

Avodah Zara 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-30 A non-Jew can nullify an idol whereas a Jew cannot. Why leaves of an asheirah tree which fall off and fertilize vegetables are not considered an idol which “broke” on its own. Utensils with a figure of the sun, moon, or a dragon.

Avodah Zara 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-29 Which statues are forbidden? An idol which broke on its own. Broken statues are permitted because they may not have been worshipped, and even if they were, they may have been nullified when they broke.

Avodah Zara 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-28 Identifying a kosher fish. The status of brine. The innards of fish and their roe.

Avodah Zara 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-27 Cutting a "sharp" item with a non-kosher knife. Purchasing from the wife or slave of a trusted individual. Milk is kosher if the Jew has the ability to observe the milking.

Avodah Zara 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-26 Any food which is eaten raw or is not for too be served on a royal table is not subject to "bishul akum". No concern of "bishul akum" with unintended cooking. No "bishul akum" where a Jew participates in the cooking.

Avodah Zara 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-25 "This is your get after 12 months" and then the husband dies before then. Certain locusts are kosher. The liquids of the slaughterhouse are pure. Transmission of impurity via a corpse.

Avodah Zara 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-24 Forbidding non-Jewish oil, and how this was later revoked. The development of the decree against "their daughters".

Avodah Zara 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-23 Various reasons why non-Jewish cheese is forbidden. Milk which an idolator milked without a Jew seeing him. The decree of non-Jewish bread.

Avodah Zara 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-22 The difference between "yayin nesech" and chametz on Pesach regarding glazed vessels. Items which are permitted after twelve months. Majority of calves in Beit Unyaki are slaughtered for idol worship.