Matmonim means "hidden treasures." Each episode of less than 15 minutes highlights one insight from the Daf Yomi Talmud study cycle. Whether you are a seasoned scholar or an uninitiated seeker, this podcast will inspire you with the meaningful and relevant wisdom to be discovered in every page of Talmud. It will give you the skills to deepen your own learning to get greater satisfaction from the effort you are investing. The podcast is given as a live class each morning at the Raanana Kollel in Israel and focuses on the Daf of the day.
For knowledge one needs a good mind; for wisdom one needs a pure soul. Our actions purify or contaminate our souls. This is the meaning of yir'at cheit – fear of sin. Source Sheet
Counter intuitively we learn that it is our thoughts that should manifest themselves to others, while our actions should be hidden.Source Sheet
Forgetting something, being unable to recall it, does not mean the information is eradicated from our minds. But certain distractions can eradicate even profound wisdom from our minds.Source Sheet
The uniqueness of the relationship between the Jewish People and their G-d lies in the absolute and reciprocal unconditionality of their bond.Source Sheet
There is a difference between an entrance and a gateway. It is a gate that can be closed that creates a private domain, not an entrance that is always open.Source Sheet
Our relationship to sefarim is not merely an intellectual one, but a sensual one as well.Source Sheet
Kedusha – a bi-directional flow of Divine energy between Heaven and Earth.Source Sheet
What we say springs from deep within us. What we write could be similarly authentic, or it could be palguarized or copied from elsewhere. We need to be clear in our thought and communications whether we are expressing our own, authentic, deepest thoughs or we are communicating the ideas of others. When communicating the ideas of others, perfect accuracy must be insured.Source Sheet
Awe opens deep spiritual pathways that enable wonder. Familiarity closes these pathways. The moment of entrance is when all the drama happens.Source Sheet
Giving one's produce away to someone in need or to a higher purpose is initself an offering of life force just as throwing the blood is in the case of a zevach, an animal offering.Source Sheet
The Tzitz can effect change in the status of an object, but cannot correct the thoughts of a person.Source Sheet
When two things (or individuals, or communities) are connected, each retains their own separate identity. Their chommer remains separate but together they create a different tzura. When they are joined rather than connected, both are part of something new and different from each of them. Not only their tzura but even their chomer is changed. One connects through transaction. One joins through investment. Source Sheet
When a Ben Torah looks at sameness and difference, he views it through the lens of conceptual similarity and difference not an empirical one. Conceptual similarity and difference manifests through how each is treated in Halacha.Source Sheet
What we do in life is ever-changing and needs to be attuned to circumstance and environment. How we do it is never-changing; it is governed by our covenant with Hashem. The Korban Oleh veYored is a circumstantial korban that is attuned to the socio-economic level of the individual, it is about the person's product and therefore it is variable. How it is brought is governed by the never-changing Brit represented by the salt – especially in the case of the Mincha.Source Sheet
The service of G-d is not about self-sacrifice, it is about elevating one's life to the higher purpose of the service of Hashem (Korban). Self-sacrifice is just a necessary means to being able to offer one's life to the service of G-d. When elevating our production to Hashem, sacrificing of that production is at the core of the service.Source Sheet
The term Kometz has connotations both of abundance and scarcity.Source Sheet
Clarifying the term Mincha and its relationship to the prayer of Mincha. Source Sheet
A compromise between two positions, denies the validity of both. Source Sheet
Demanding higher standards of a person is a compliment for that individual, not a criticism.Source Sheet
In giving gifts to Hashem our intention is not to change His mind but to transform ours.Source Sheet
We explore the degree to which units of time – hours, days etc. – are absolute ideas or relative to human experience.Source Sheet
Taking steps to prevent people from viewing us with unfounded suspicion is a uniquely human quality. It is not about being sensitive to other people's opinions of us, it is about building and preserving connection. Source Sheet
There are two ways to view statements that contradict reality. They could be seen as irrelevant and void, or as blatantly false. Source Sheet
We often say “the thought is what counts.” But this is not always so. Sometimes the action is what counts. Source Sheet
Spiritual energy generates in quietude and radiates outward.Source Sheet
There is a third space1 between public and personal spaces – the communal space.Source Sheet
Observing events, no matter how dramatic, does not transform people. Knowing the Torah alone also does not transform. Linking Torah to life events and perpetuating experience through observance has transformational impact on individuals and our nation.Source Sheet
Silence is not supression. Sometimes we process through expression and sometimes we process through silence. Suffering is best processed in silence.Source Sheet
Miraclesd are not only about what happens in our lives, they are also about how quickly things can happen in our lives. We should live with openness to the possibility of accelerated timelines for events that are not date-dependent. We should never limit our potential with “realistic” time-frames.Source Sheet
There are times to work with nature and times to defy it. But defying nature is not about the results we get but about the growth we achieve in the process.Source Sheet
Integrating will and action by means of sacrifice.Source Sheet
What is important is not that we sacrifice but what we sacrifice, for who and for what we sacrifice. Source Sheet
Halacha, especially laws of Tum'ah and Taharah, define very subtle dimensions of relationship between ourselves and the world around us.Source Sheet
The intimacy of inner connection is damaged by outward facing publicity.Source Sheet
Some halachot are determined by norms and majorities. Some are specific to individual circumstances. Source Sheet
Some substances that are forbidden or temei'im can transmit their issur (forbidden status) to other substances.Source Sheet
Miracles don't just happen to get us out of situations we ourselves created. When difficult situations result from our observance of the Torah, miracles often intervene.Source Sheet
Holism is the idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts. This is particularly so with respect to humans.Source Sheet
A mere thought can transform a commodity into a product giving it an entirely different set of halachot. Such a transformation is called tikkun, improvement. Source Sheet
IN MEMORY OF THE KEDOSHIM OF BONDI BEACH, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA When a person, ready to sacrifice his/her blood for Kiddush Hashem, is cut off before their life's purpose has been lived, their memory carries kedusha for ever. Source Sheet
Each of us is created with a specific purpose, but how do we discover what it is? Source Sheet
Sin that is motivated by instinct is wrong but natural, and it's process of Kappara (atonement) is different from sin that is motivated by flawed intellect and miscalculation.Source Sheet
Dedicated by David and Ofra Taback לעל"נ ר' סנדר ב"ר אברהםwho made it a point to always be a positive contributor in every part of his life and had a good word for anyone he met. Also for the 34th Yahrzeit of my father מו"ר ר' אברהם חיים ב"ר דוב ז"ל.Source Sheet
The Torah empowers us to use human logic to extrapolate and apply its laws in life, but just as all the laws of nature have their limits, so do the laws of logic have limits. Source Sheet
Our thoughts might not change the substance of matter, but they do indelibly impact the relationship between ourselves and that matter.Source Sheet
Choosing how to use what we own, is in itself an expression of ownership.Source Sheet
Every word of the Torah delivers an imperative of some sort that sets our lives up to fulfil Hashem's will.Source Sheet
Why are bird offerings always brought in pairs, and why specifically the species of torrim and benei-yonah? And why is the case of a voluntary korban, can a single bird be brought?Source Sheet
Sacrifice requires that we extend ourselves beyond the capacities we have as defined by where we are. We can project ourselves into places far beyond our current realities.Source Sheet
Understanding the difference between Kedusha (sanctity) and kavod (dignity): The former is absolute, the latter relative.Source Sheet
Tzeniut (privacy) is not an objective “one-size-fits-all”. Tzeniut is a character trait and is relative to situations and to circumstances.Source Sheet
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