Daf Yomi

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.

Avodah Zara 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-21 Cleaning jugs of idolators through filling with water for three days. Non-absorbent utensils which can be kashered with rinsing. Earthenware cups used for drinking.

Avodah Zara 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-20 The formation of Hadrianic earthenware shards. Heart-pierced skins are forbidden in benefit. Meat which leaves a house of idolatry is forbidden in benefit, because it is like sacrifices of the dead.

Avodah Zara 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-19 Three categories of forbidden wine. Definition of a double seal. Beer of idolators.

Avodah Zara 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-18 "Mevushal" wine. The prohibition of uncovered liquids (the concern that a snake may have drunk from it and injected its venom into it). Three types of snake venom.

Avodah Zara 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-17 Various foods which will heal a person and others which are very unhealthy. Taking a haircut from a non-Jew with a mirror. The source that wine poured as a libation for an idol is forbidden in benefit.

Avodah Zara 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-16 Are pain in the teeth considered an internal affliction? Famous Rabbis getting treated by non-Jewish doctors. Remedies for various ailments.

Avodah Zara 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-15 Circumcision performed by a non-Jew, or a woman. Using a pagan doctor : a patient who may live and may die if he is not treated, may not receive treatment from a pagan doctor, because it is likely the doctor will kill him, but if he will definitely die if left untreated, we may be healed by them.

Avodah Zara 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-14 Can a non-Jewess delivering, or nurse, a Jewish baby? The difference between a heretic and an apostate? Giving excuses as to why we don't take a person out of a pit.

Avodah Zara 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-1 3 The sun stood still for Joshua. Seclusion with idolators. How to protect oneself when traveling with an idolator.

Avodah Zara 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-12 Discussions if a Jew can buy a sacrifice from a non-Jew. The song of the cows.

Avodah Zara 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-11 What if idolators capture a woman? Discussion about the parah adumah and if it can be bought from a non-Jew. The story of Dama Ben Netuna.

Avodah Zara 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-10 A partnership of a Jew and non-Jew. The prohibition of leaving one's animal with an idolator. Preferences of idolators.

Avodah Zara 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-09 Renting houses or fields to idolators, inside and out of Israel. Renting a bathhouse to an idolator.

Avodah Zara 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-08 Different interpretations of "lo techanen". The prohibition to gaze at a woman or her clothing. The steps of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair (basis of Mesilat Yesharim).

Avodah Zara 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-07 A person can only learn Torah successfully from the area his heart desires to learn. Learn a lot first and then delve into it more deeply. The person that wants life should guard his tongue from speaking evil.

Avodah Zara 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-06 The execution of Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon. "Eloha d'Meir aneini". Is it permissable to go to theatres and circuses?

Avodah Zara 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-05 Keeping away from sin. The story of Elazar ben Dodaya. Rabbi Elazar ben Parta gets saved.

Avodah Zara 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-04 Selling shields to a non-Jew. Selling a fattened ox to a non-Jew. What types of buildings can a Jew assist in building for a non-Jew?

Avodah Zara 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-03 The prohibition of selling small as well as large animals to an idolator. Can one assume the idolator bought an animal for slaughter? Selling to a Jew who is suspected of selling to idolators.

Avodah Zara 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-02 One is permitted to sell large amounts of frankincense to an idolator. Selling a white rooster to an idolator. Abraham has 400 chapters in his tractate of Avodah Zara.

Avodah Zara 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-01 Is the prohibition against receiving benefit from idol worship or giving it benefit? "Uprooting" an animal connected to idolatry. Buying from a merchant vs. buying from a homeowner.

Avodah Zara 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-30 Business is permitted “outside the city”. Activities forbidden because it appears like one is bowing to idols. The danger of drinking directly from a pipe.

Avodah Zara 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-29 Onkelus the convert. Burning a king's personal articles after his death. The Roman festival celebrating Esau's triumph over Jacob.

Avodah Zara 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-28 Proof that we date documents from the Greek era. The relationship between Rebbi and Antoninus. Ketiah bar Shalom got the World to Come in a minute.

Avodah Zara 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-27 Calculating years from the destruction of the Temple based on dates in a document, or vice versa. The 2000 years of Torah began when Abraham was 52 years old. Calculating shemittah based on the destruction of the Temple.

Avodah Zara 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-26 Adam thought the world was ending, then made a Yom Tov. Celebrating the wedding of the sin of an idol worshipper is like idolatry. Rome's alliance with the Jews to conquer the Greeks, and eventual subjugation of the Jews.

Avodah Zara 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-25 Is there order in the mishnah? Various opinions of how many days before a festival one can't do business with idolators. The order of an individual's prayer.

Avodah Zara 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-24 Does the time period include the day of the festival itself? Is the prohibition to do business because the idol worshipper will profit, or because the Jew is "putting a stumbling block in front of the blind"? If one did prohibited business with an idolator, are the proceeds prohibited? Short term pain vs long term benefit.

Avodah Zara 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-23 David and the sin of the golden calf were done to show the power of teshuva. Would death have existed if there wasn't the sin of the golden calf? When animals are purchased to be used for sacrifice vs. for meat.

Avodah Zara 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-22 Hashem punishes the Jewish people in a piecemeal way. The moment of Hashem's anger and how Bilaam tried to utilise it. This world is the place to perform mitzvot, the next world is to receive reward for them.

Avodah Zara 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-21 Who will testify that the Jews kept the Torah? The nations ask for a mitzvah but they disparage it. Why man is compared to fish.

Avodah Zara 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-20 Different spellings of "aydeyhem" in the mishna. The nations will come on the day of judgement to receive reward for the Torah, and give justifications for their behaviour. The Roman and Persian empire will be around until the Messiah.

Shevuot 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-19 The four types of guardians. A guardian's liability for a sacrifice is for when his false oath saved him from paying. An oath of utterance imposed by the Beth Din.

Can the lender's orphans swear and collect from the borrower's orphans? Certain people have to seat since they may justify taking more for themselves. Rolling back an oath for a Rabbinic oath.

Shevuot 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-17 If both parties are suspect, the "oath returns to its place". The employee takes an oath to the employer in front of the shopkeeper. If two pairs of witnesses contradict each other.