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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.

Rabbi David Lapin


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    Shevuot 30a Be Judgmental - הוי דן את חבירך לכף זכות

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 18:20


    The Torah goes much further than requiring us to not be judgmental. The Torah wants us to make positive assumptions about the actions and intentions of others wherever possible. This is both a law, and a strategy for successful relationshipsSource Sheet

    Shevuot 29a Perspectives and Truth - שבועת שוא ושקר

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 17:54


    Everything we see is a perspective, not the Truth." – Marcus Aurelius. Is this true according to Torah? Source Sheet

    Shevuot 28a Being Human - האדם בשבוע

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 16:47


    Being human means being conscious and aware not only of what we do but also of the consequences of what we doSource Sheet

    Shevuot 27a When it is Right to Do Wrong- נשבע להרע לעצמו

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 18:39


    Life is seldom black and white. Even in matters of moral values, there are times we need to prioritize one value over others. In Halacha is also nuanced and at times we must prioritize one halacha over another. How we prioritize values and halacha is a skill we develop through the learning of Gemara.Source Sheet

    Shevuot 26b Write or Speak - מוצא שפתיך תשמור

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 17:06


    A thought that is articulated carries with it a powerful energy that a thought alone lacks. A written thought carries a similar energy, but lacks the communication nuances that the oral word hasSource Sheet

    Shevuot 23b Cannot vs May Not - יראת שמים ויראת חטא

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 16:39


    There is a qualitative difference between things we cannot do because they go against our nature or against the laws of nature, and things we can do but may not. However, is this difference in our minds or is it a difference in reality?  Source Sheet

    Shevuot 22b The Moral Authority of Logic - איבעית אימא סברא

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 21:24


    We assume that a clear imperative of the Torah carries the highest moral authority. Yet this may not be so: rational human logic carries an even higher authority and underpins the authority of the TorahSource Sheet

    Shevuot 21a Forging G-d's Signature - בית דין של מעלה אין מנקין אותו

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 17:17


    Forging G-d's “signature” to authenticate a lie undermines the very essence of TruthSource Sheet

    Shevuot 20a Contextual Interpretation - במסרבין בו לאכול

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 19:14


    As in the case of Nedarim, in Shevuot the precise meaning of the language used is critically important. Nevertheless, Abaye teaches us, context can provide a very different interpretation of an individual's intentionSource Sheet

    Shevuot 19a Avoiding OCD in Halacha - שני שבילין

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 20:02


    The stakes in Halacha are high. The consequences of committing an aveira (wrongdoing), even in error, are serious. However, Halacha magnificently builds mechanisms to avoid people developing OCD over the fear of possibly having committed an aveira.Source Sheet

    Shevuot 16b What is the Shechina - משכן ומקדש

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 18:11


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    Shevuot 14b -15a Education on Purpose - עבודתן מחנכתן

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 18:34


    Education is the process of bringing out the potential an individual already has for a particular talent or characteristic Source Sheet

    Shevuot 14b Knowledge and Reality - נעלם ממנו מקום מקדש

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 18:42


    This sugiya explores the difference in consciousness between theoretical knowledge and one's living reality Source Sheet

    Shevuot 12b-13a Yom Kippur Afternoon - יום הכפורים מכפר

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 15:18


    By the time we reach Yom Kippur afternoon, our Kapara (Atonement) is complete. The remainder of the day our focus pivots from healing self to healing others and to the universe we might have contaminated with our actions.Source Sheet

    Shevuot 5a The Subconscious - ונעלם

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 21:23


    Normally a shogeig (unintentional action) means that at the time of the action we had no knowledge that what we were ding was wrong. In the case of שגגת טומאת מקדש וקדשיו the un intentionality that triggers the obligation to bring a קרבן עולה ויורד, requires  a measure of subconscious knowledge that the action was wrong. We explore the nature of subconscious knowledge.Source Sheet

    Shevuot 4a Contradictions in Halacha - ומשנה לא זזה ממקומה

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 20:22


    Halacha is a living process. Poskim (halachik decisors), like all of us, are works in progress. Their decisions at a given time are snapshots of their evolution at that time. Their later opinions, when different from earlier ones, do not invalidate the reasoning of these earlier opinions which remain a part of our halachik canon.Source Sheet

    Shevuot 2a Overture_ What is an Oath - סדר ישועות

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 20:41


    Universally, oaths are taken seriously as a way of assuring facts in the future and establishing facts in the past. This is because the idea of oaths is a natural law built into the creationSource Sheet

    Makkot 23b Finale_Reward, Sanctity and Freedom - רצה הקבה לזכות את ישראל

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 21:10


    ר' חנניא בן עקשיא אומר: רצה הקדוש ברוך הוא לזכות את ישראל לפיכך הרבה להם תורה ומצות, שנאמר: ה' חפץ למען צדקו יגדיל תורה ויאדיר Source Sheet

    Makkot 21b-22a Deconstructing Complexity - יש חורש תלם אחד

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 16:50


    The value of an object, action or idea is a function of the number and complexity of its individual components. Connoisseurs appreciate this.Source Sheet

    Makkot 20b Gender Differences_ Appearance and Behavior - לא ילבש

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 22:13


    Gender confusion is initiated not only by cross-dressing and make-up, but also by cross-gender behavior  Source Sheet

    Makkot 18b Prosperity and Sacrifice - ביכורים הנחה מעכבת

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 21:51


    National prosperity is a blessing from Hashem that is conditional on the sacrifices that individuals make.Source Sheet

    Makkot 17a Wholeness - בריה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 18:57


    When the Torah names something not as a description of a commodity but as the definition of a specific object's wholeness, it becomes a “beriah”, something whose identity is complete and cannot be adulterated. Source Sheet

    Makkot 16a Awareness - התראה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 21:07


    Doing something by mistake (שוגג) and doing it intentionally (מזיד) are two points on a single spectrum of awareness. Full awareness of what one is doing creates the conditions for a מזיד; anything less than full awareness already moves the dial in the direction of שוגג. The purpose of warning (התראה) is to raise awareness to the maximum level. Source Sheet

    Makkot 15b Educating vs Intimidating - התראת ספק

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 18:20


    Just as in the Torah, the purpose of Azhara is to educate us in values not to threaten us with punishment, so too hatra'ah (warning) is to educate the person about the consequences of his actions, not to intimidate him with fear.Source Sheet

    Makkot 13-14b Growth and Discomfort - אזהרה מנין

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 19:05


    How we respond to resistance determines our growth. Growth happens when we resist the forces of nature; and with resistance comes discomfort.  Sometimes we choose our areas of resistance and embrace them. At other times resistance is imposed upon us.Source Sheet

    Makkot 11a How Hashgacha (Destiny) Really Works - שהיה להם לבקש רחמים

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 17:24


    Experts expound on why various things happen. In reality they are explaining how they happen but not why they happen. The why is far too complex for the human mind to grasp. Source Sheet

    Makkot 10a Character Counts - תלמיד שאינו הגון

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 21:11


    Teaching torah to an individual of poor character is high risk – both to Torah and to the teacher.Source Sheet

    Makkot 9a Common Decency - שהיה לו ללמוד דרך ארץ

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 16:22


    Why is common decency not so common at all? Is decency, derech erettz, innate or learned?Source Sheet

    Makkot 8a Tradition – יש אם למסורת (ב)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 20:16


    Sometimes, the tradition handed down to us, requires a less literal interpretation of a text. Provided the text can be applied to the traditional interpretation, tradition trumps literalness. Source Sheet

    Makkot 7a Judgement - אי אפשר דלא יכחיש אחד מהם את חבירו

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 16:01


    Even reported facts and established stats can often be unreliable. Judgement is an intuitive balance of facts, statistics and reasonable assumptions.Source Sheet

    Makkot 4b We Don't do Leftovers - לאו הניתק לעשה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 19:01


    Mostly an active transgression of a Torah law entails punishment, but there are times when the transgression can be unwound thereby removing the need for punishment.Source Sheet

    Makkot 3a Self-Incrimination - באומר עדות שקר העדתי

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 18:09


    Once evidence is accepted in Beit Din it creates a new reality that cannot be undone except by Hazzama.Source Sheet

    Makkot 2 a-b Skin in the Game - עדות שאתה יכול להזימה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 18:35


    To truly trust what an individual says, he or she need to have “skin in the game”; they must be at risk in the event that their statements are false.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 113a The Power of One - עיר שיש בה אפילו מזוזה אחת

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 18:46


    Never underestimate the power of a single, ordinary individual doing a single “ordinary” action, to have extraordinary impact on masses of people.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 111b-112a Seeing the Invisible - מי גרם להם שידורו בתוכה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 14:52


    Our physical eye only sees beauty and ugliness on the surface. The eyes of our soul can see beneath the surface.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 109a Science and Faith- נבנה מגדל ונעלה לרקיע

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 17:54


    Science is simply the discovery of Hashem's ways, it is part of knowing Hashem. The challenge to faith is not from science but from the secular world view that naturally accompanies it. This secular world view of science and technology originates in the story of the Tower of Babel.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 108a The Preservation of Nature - אם אדם חטא בהמה מה חטאה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 18:06


    Our stewardship of nature goes beyond protecting the environment from physical destruction. We are also stewards of the environment's moral and spiritual quality.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 107a-b Beauty in Appropriateness - בעא אברהם רחמי דליהווי ביה זקנה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 20:15


    When contemporary society's view of aesthetics is different from the Torah's we need to notice the gap and realign our own sensitivities to the Torah's.  When it comes to beauty, the Torah appreciates context and appropriatenessSource Sheet

    Sanhedrin 106a Why Protest - איוב ששתק נידון ביסורין

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 13:49


    The reason to protest in defense of others or of moral principle is not for the impact of the protests, but because of their humanity.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 105b The Pleasure of Learning - שמתוך שלא לשמה

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 19:03


    Although when mitzvot are done for impure motivations, their power is less, this does not apply to one who studies Torah and finds immense pleasure in his learning.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 101a Song - עושה אותו כמין זמר

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 20:40


    Should the words of Tanach, which are Kodesh, be used as lyrics for Jewish rock music?Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 100b Don't Worry - דאגה בלב איש

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 19:58


    Managing anxiety requires that we distinguish between the words awe (יראה), fear (פחד) and worry (דאגה). Awe is a mitzva, fear is an instinct and worry is a choice.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 99b It's All or Nothing - לא איבעי להו לרחקה

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 19:45


    We often assume that something good cannot cause evil, but in the case of the Torah this is not always true. When torah is studied not in accordance with its rules, its results can be disastrousSource Sheet

    Sanhedrin 88b Fundamentalism Is The Root of Dissension - רבו מחלוקת בישראל

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2025 16:42


    Fundamentalism develops when people focus on the details of the Law without understanding its deeper intention, meaning and spirit. The greater people's understanding of underlying principles the more they can find common ground and respect one another's opinions.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 84b Physician Liability - מכה אדם לרפואה פטור

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 21:43


    When physician treats a patient, s/he is doing a Mitzva and any mistake he makes, even if fatal does not obligate him legally or morally (provided he wasn't careless).Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 83b Fashion & Uniform - אין בגדיהם עליהם הוו להו זרים

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 23:48


    When our inner beings, our unique individuality, is on display, we contaminate by making it the public image we want others to recognize; we are selling our inner essence to the public. However, when we are fully secure in our uniqueness, when our identities are secure, we hide from the public this inner being that distinguishes us as individuals. In this state we can work on our inner being, grow it and develop it.  We contract our essence, and we use it to see but not to be seen. Fashion is an expression of individuality; uniform expresses our roles in society but reveals nothing of our individuality.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 81a Vitality - צדיק הוא חיה יחיה

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 22:35


    Humility and self-sufficiency, while challenging at first, leads to a vitality not previously experienced.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 79a Kavanah - נתכוון להרוג את זה והרג את זה

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 16:48


    Kavanah means much more than mindfulness and attention. Kavanah means directionality.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 78b Shabbat and Secularism - חילול שבת בפרהסיא

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 17:11


    The desecration of Shabbat is the embracing of secularism – a worldview vacuous of Kedusha.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 77a Cruelty and Brutality - כפתו ומת ברעב

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 20:44


    Brutality is a more intense version of cruelty and manifests deep hatred.Source Sheet

    Sanhedrin 76b Love Languages - ומכבדה יותר מגופו

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 21:41


    People experience honor (and disrespect) in different ways. The difference is especially pronounced between genders.Source Sheet

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