Daf Yomi

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.

Shevuot 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-16 Can a worker swear and collect when the wage amount is disputed? When a victim of theft can swear and collect. When witnesses see someone enter another person's house and hide utensils in his clothing and leave,

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.