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Shevuot 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-15 Why a hired worker can swear and collect his wages, unless it's long after. A worker hired without witnesses cannot swear and collect.

Shevuot 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-14 Does losing collateral mean losing the right to collect the loan? What level of responsibility does a guardian of a lost object have? Swearing and collecting money.

Shevuot 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-13 Partial admission requires admitting to a defined amount. In a dispute about the value of a lost collateral, “the lender swears”. The status of collateral (worth far less than the loan) which gets lost.

Shevuot 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-12 Claiming payment for a document was for a side debt. Swearing as it relates to a minor. No oath is taken on slaves, documents of debts, land, and hekdesh.

Shevuot 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-11 Differences between an oath imposed by the Torah vs the Rabbis. The principle of "if one lends his friend in front of witnesses, does the borrower need to repay him in front of witnesses?".

Shevuot 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-10 An oath obligated by one witness only requires a claim of a perutah. A partial admission of a different item from the one claimed. Shevuat hesset - an oath taken by one who completely denies a claim.

Shevuot 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-09 The severity of swearing falsely. Dispute whether the claim or the denial has to be for a certain amount.

Shevuot 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-08 Swearing to deny multiple claims. Admitting part of a claim.

Shevuot 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-07 Does one who is warned not to swear falsely receive lashes as well? Swearing about a document, and land.

Shevuot 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-06 Various types of curses with Hashem's name. From the inference of the negative you hear the positive. The oath of deposit.

Shevuot 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-05 Other exemptions from oaths of testimony. Which holy names (or parts thereof ) may not be erased. Various names in Tanach - are they holy or not?

Shevuot 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-04 Ruling on monetary or capital cases based on circumstantial evidence. A defendant caught lying about an incident which does not prove a debt. Difference between an oath of testimony and oath of deposit.

Shevuot 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-04 Ruling on monetary or capital cases based on circumstantial evidence. A defendant caught lying about an incident which does not prove a debt. Differences between oath of testimony vs oath of deposit.

Shevuot 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-03 Swearing about a penalty. Source for an oath of testimony is about a monetary matter.

Shevuot 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-02 Testifying simultaneously vs one after the other. The effect of an oath of one witness. The dilemma of the silver bar.

Shevuot 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-01 Distance yourself from falsehood. Swearing outside of the Beth Din. An intentional violation also results in a sacrifice.

Shevuot 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-31 Woman are unfit to testify. Witnesses have to stand for their testimony. How we treat a Talmud chacham in court.

Shevuot 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-30 Definition of a vain oath. If a person swears according to his own understanding. Both a oath of utterance and a vain oath apply to all people (including women, disqualified witnesses, etc.), and both inside and outside Beis Din, provided the oath was expressed by his own mouth. Saying Amen to person who administers an oath to you is the same as saying it yourself.

Shevuot 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-29 Annulling an oath after eating the forbidden loaf. An oath that I will not eat this loaf if I eat that loaf. Swearing not to eat nine figs, then not to eat ten, or the reverse.

Shevuot 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-27 The way of learning the Torah with generalizations and specifications as opposed to amplifications and limitations. A person has to be fully aware when he makes an oath. An oath has to be explicitly said and not just thought.

Shevuot 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-26 An oath of utterance does it have to be applicable in the past as well as the future? Also does it have to be applicable in the negative and in the positive form? The relationship between oaths of utterance and oaths of testimony.

Shevuot 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-25 More inclusive prohibitions. Prohibitions which come by themselves. More expansive prohibitions. One who swears not to eat figs, then swears not to eat figs and grapes.

Shevuot 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-24 “Eating” includes drinking, but drinking does not include eating. When swearing not to drink “wine, oil, or honey” is considered separate oaths.

Shevuot 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-23 Oaths which everyone agrees are liable for even a minute amount. Difference between a konam and a vote not to eat something. Swearing not to eat dirt.

Shevuot 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-22 Other opinions about the difference between a vain and false oath. Violation of an oath incurs lashes even though it doesn't involve an action. Is eating the smallest amount of a forbidden food liable for punishment?

Shevuot 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-21 Attachment to an oath. Difference between a false oath and a vain oath. Women's obligation of kiddush.

Shevuot 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-20 Does one have to know how he became impure? The case of "two paths". Lapses of awareness between eating.

Shevuot 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-19 How a person can be liable for 2 sacrifices for entry and exit. The source, punishment and reward for abstaining close to an expected period.

Shevuot 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-18 Defining the parameters of delaying in the Temple while impure. Short path to exit taken slowly, a long path taken quickly. Waking backwards into a house with tzara'at.

Shevuot 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-17 Did the initial sanctification of the Temple last only for a limited time or was it everlasting? The Mishkan is called the Mikdash and vice versa. Different forms of bowing.

Shevuot 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-16 The procedure for adding onto Jerusalem and the courtyard of the Temple. The names of various psalms.

Shevuot 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-15 From which animal do the Kohanim receive atonement on Yom Kippur? Definition of forgetfulness in the interim. Someone who didn't know the size of impurity caused by a sheretz or the borders of the Temple.

Shevuot 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-14 Rebbi's view about the power of Yom Kippur. How would one get karet according to Rebbi on Yom Kippur? How do Kohanim get atonement on Yom Kippur?

Shevuot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-13 Unused communal offerings are brought as "desert" for the Altar. Sin offerings have so develop a blemish before being brought up as burnt offerings. Intentional sins relating to impurity are atoned for on Yom Kippur.

Shevuot 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-12 Physical sanctity compared to monetary sanctity. How does one redeem animals and incense that is no longer needed. The Beth Din makes various conditions.

Shevuot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-11 Rosh Chodesh is also called a "moed". An opinion that each offering is for a specific sin and one cannot cover for another. Another opinion - the Yom Kippur offerings atone for all the Festival offerings as well as that of Rosh Chodesh.

Shevuot 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-10 The meaning of "one goat as a chatat for Hashem". If one currently has no awareness but it will be revealed. The power of the tzitz.

Shevuot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-09 The woman who gives birth, the nazir and metzorah all have special sacrifices. The inner goat suspends punishment until the person becomes aware of his sin. The comparison of the inner goat and the outer goat.

Shevuot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-08 Source that the sliding scale sacrifice is brought for impurity of the Temple and sacrificial food. Why the goat brought inside the holy doors not atone for the three cardinal sins.

Shevuot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-07 Why the four shades of tzara'at are listed by name. Sources for the four shades of tzara'at.

Shevuot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-06 "And it was concealed” implies that he previously knew. Why our mishna is different from the opening mishna of Shabbat. The pairing of the four shades of tzara'at.

Shevuot 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-05 Wherever it says in the Torah, “be careful,” “lest,” or “do not,” it is nothing but a negative prohibition, and incurs lashes. Expounding verses using the method of amplifications and limitations vs generalisations and specifications.

Shevuot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-04 Why Shevuot follows Makkot. Explanations of all the cases of "Two that are four". Who does our mishna follow?

Shevuot 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-03 Examples of "Two that are four". Which sacrifices atone for various sins relating to impurity in the Temple and holy food. Different categories of awareness.

Makkot 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-02 The source of 613 mitzvot. Different prophets summarised the mitzvot into categories. The optimism of Rabbi Akiva.

Makkot 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-05-01 The power of abstaining from a sin. If one who refrains from consuming blood, from which a person is repulsed, is still rewarded, then one who refrains from theft and immorality, which a person desires and covets– all the more so will earn merit for himself, for his generations, and his generations' generations, until the end of generations.

Makkot 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-30 Various other prohibitions which one could be liable for at the same time. Only 39 lashes not 40. The procedure for lashes.

Makkot 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-29 Tattoos. Multiple sets of lashes for multiple warnings. A case where one plows a single furrow and is liable for eight prohibitions.

Makkot 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-28 Unseparated maaser sheni. One who makes a bald spot on his head in mourning the dead, one who “rounds” the corners of his face, one who destroys the corner of his beard, and one who cuts his flesh in anguish over the dead are all liable to lashes.

Makkot 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-27 Maaser sheni, firstborn animals and bikkurim in Jerusalem nowadays. Impure maaser sheni can even be redeemed inside Jerusalem. If a person's load of maaser sheni is inside Jerusalem but he is outside, or the reverse.

Makkot 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-26 Five prohibitions for a single consumption of an olah offering. Bikkurim which became ineligible for reciting verses are left to rot. The potential for an event to occur.