Daf Yomi

Zevachim 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-30 The source that a non-kohen desecrates the service. The source that an onen desecrates the service. An onen as regards to a communal sacrifice.

Zevachim 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-29 Conveying without moving your feet, can it be rectified? A non-Kohen brought the blood closer, and a Kohen returned it to its original place and brought it again. Disqualified people who desecrate the service if they do it.

Zevachim 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-28 Conveying the blood is always significant with an inner chatat. "Slaughtering is not an avodah." Does one have to move one's feet in order to convey the blood?

Zevachim 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-27 The status of conveying the blood. Piggul applies to "consumption" by man or the Altar. Dipping one's finger on the blood of the inner chatat.

Zevachim 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-26 The status of a Pesach offering in the morning of 14 Nissan. Rejection of sacrifices. Temporary invalidations of the owner of the sacrifice.

Zevachim 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-25 The offerings which are invalid if their blood enters the Sanctuary. Mincha offerings are compared to both a chatat and asham. The time of the Pesach offering.

Zevachim 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-24 Having intent from one avodah to another avodah. Why an asham should be treated the same as a chatat in that if it is slaughtered not for its own sake it is invalid. Differences between various sacrifices.

Different sources as to why a Pesach offering is treated as a shelamim during the rest of the year. The chatat of Nachshon. The chatat of avodah zara.

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.

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.