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Eliyahu Weisman


    • Oct 27, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Zevachim 42b - 43b

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 58:53


    Which parts of an offering cannot become Pigul? • When something invalid is brought on the altar and subsequently removed, when should it ascend to be offered on the altar?

    Zevachim 35b - 36b

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2025 64:11


    Does slaughter with intent to leave the blood or sacrificial parts over beyond their expiration invalidate the offering? • Does performing the service with intent to have the offering consumed by the ritually impure after expiration generate Pigul?

    Zevachim 30

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 70:59


    When someone articulates two seemingly contradictory intentions, is the first articulated intention definitive, or, if the true desire was meant to incorporate both intentions, would that validate the second intention, impacting the results?

    Zevachim 21b - 22b

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 73:32


    Requirements for washing before the Temple service • How and why is a fish-eye ritual bath kosher? • How is the assessment of foreskin as repulsive halachically relevant? • When does ritual impurity invalidate the Temple service?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:26-27

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 34:17


    Would Wisdom ever laugh at those who reject her? • Would God ever laugh at His handiwork? • When is mercy forbidden?

    Zevachim 14b -15b

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2025 85:25


    What is required for valid transport of the sacrificial blood? • If transport was done inadequately, can it be rectified? • Who is ineligible to perform sacrificial service? • How do we derive the exclusion of a non-kohain?

    Horios 13b -14a

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 67:56


    Nuances within the Mitzvah of honoring Torah scholars • The essential importance within Torah of both reaching towards halachic conclusions and towards the infinite and inscrutable

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:25

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 8:30


    Ignoring Wisdom will undermine potential excellence and result in dire consequences

    Horios 6b - 7b

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2025 108:16


    When is the anointed high priest required to bring a bull sin offering for his error? • Are all members of Sanhedrin required to be capable of issuing halachic rulings? • Is the high priest required to bring a sin offering if no erroneous ruling about idolatry preceded his negligent act of idolatry?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:23-24

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2025 16:45


    Wisdom implores us to remove impediments and allow its continously flowing spirit to resonate within us

    Avodah Zarah 75a - 76a

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2025 66:12


    Making a ritually pure or kosher run of wine with second hand vessels • When moist grape clusters are touched by an idolator, are other contents within the wine press rendered not kosher? • When is ritual immersion required for newly acquired vessels? • How are different types of non-kosher absorptions removed? • When will absorbed non-kosher flavors from a non-kosher pot render its contents biblically forbidden?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:22

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2025 30:52


    The first steps toward Wisdom entail cultivating healthy receptivity by freeing ourselves from various bonds that prevent enlightenment

    Avodah Zarah 68 - 69a

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2025 68:36


    When prohibited food falls into permissible food and imparts an off flavor, may one consume the mixture? • The Rambam and Tur disagree about whether or not distinct prohibitions join together when calculating their negation • Where does Rebbi Shimon acknowledge the oral tradition from Sinai of liability for the consumption of an olive's volume of prohibited foods? • Squirrel beer • Why may one consume honey with bees' legs?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:21

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2025 31:28


    A person should be receptive to truth, yet discerning, like a city with an open gate.

    Avodah Zarah 61

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 45:46


    Making a kosher run of wine

    Avodah Zarah 54 - 55a

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 84:41


    When and how does an animal that was worshipped become prohibited? • Surprisingly, the Shulchan Aruch rules in accordance with the Tur against the Rambam and Ran (the Rif and Rosh are mysteriously silent about Chalipei Chalipin)

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:20

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 23:08


    Wisdom is a source of paternal protection • Should Torah be taught in the marketplace?

    Avodah Zarah 39b - 40b

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 53:03


    Various rabbinic food prohibitions and leniencies • Identification of kosher fish extract, roe, and entrails • God's unwitting guardians

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:18-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 20:40


    The hunter lies in ambush for his unwitting prey, as the exploitative sacrifice their own souls • Stealing robs the victim of his livelihood and is akin to murder

    Avodah Zarah 33a - 33b, 34a

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2025 56:44


    When and why is one permitted to sell to a non-Jew, yet prohibited from selling to a Jew? • How can uncooked wine be poured by an idolater without generating a prohibition for a Jew? • A three day purification plan for vessels used to store prohibited wines

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:17

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 5:51


    One's native sense of justice can protect a person from falling prey to the allure of that which is too good to be true

    Avodah Zarah 26 - 27a

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 88:30


    The prohibition of bringing an idolator into the world • Cold truce with idolators • War tactics with those who attack our people • Who can perform circumcisions?

    Avodah Zarah 19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 51:12


    What to learn • How to learn • Though rooted in a similar inquisitiveness, attraction of Wisdom is initially less engaging than attraction to Folly, but once pursued, Wisdom is ultimately just as compelling • If one labored for an idol, when are the earnings permitted, and why?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:16

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 7:39


    Evil is self destructive • The speed and thoughtlessness of evil militate towards its unavoidable recklessness

    Avodah Zarah 11b - 12b

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 62:20


    Is a Jew permitted to live in a city that has a church? • Prohibitions that ensure one avoids giving the impression of worshipping idolatry • Avoiding various dangers

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:15

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 8:50


    Conscientiously avoid forging friendships with the wicked and reject their ideologies

    Avodah Zarah 4b - 6a

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 86:32


    Elasticity of free will • Demonstrating the awesome power of repentance was more important than providing fortification against losing an angelic and immortal state • With gratitude, seek Divine assistance to strengthen your heart's fear of Him • With Torah, selfless kindness guides one's character towards mastery over the evil inclination • According to Tosafos, offering a sacrifice lacking in wholeness is a full transgression, so why is it not enumerated as an eighth law of Noah?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:14

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 11:21


    Whitewashing sin: Is it your destiny? • Shared spoils are more fun and give less heartburn

    Shavuos 46

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 80:00


    When did the sages flip the oath to the counter-party? • When is a threat presumed to be serious or empty? • When the employer and employee disagree about the agreed upon wage, how and why is the employer favored? • What type of prior oath violations disqualify a person from being able to swear or testify?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:13

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 6:13


    The unknown provides a heightened sense of excitement • Contrasting perspectives on wealth

    Shavuos 38b - 39b

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 84:17


    Biblical oaths for men and women • How much denial and admission to liability renders one obligated to swear or pay? • Why are even the righteous punished when someone takes a false oath? • Since only one party is lying, why are both parties surrounding the oath held responsible for the desecration of God's name? • The languages of court administered oaths

    Shavuos 31b -32b

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 97:07


    Oaths of testimony

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:12

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 9:17


    Glorification of victimhood is an intolerably false paradigm of virtue which leads towards the brutish ethos of pragmatic violence

    Shavuos 25

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 71:52


    Oaths of articulation, oaths in vain, and oaths of witnesses • When is one liable to bring an offering or to receive lashes?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:11

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 30:35


    An invitation to join the mob • The desensitizing effect of repeated bombardment • A warped sense of justice

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:10

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 14:06


    Being emotionally anchored in the goodness of wisdom affords protection from vulnerability to the seduction of sinfulness

    Shavuos 17b - 18b

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 86:09


    Sacrificial consequences of errors in national guidance and errors of personal negligence • What are positive imperatives within the niddah prohibition of intimacy with a ritually impure woman? • Is one liable for forbidden flaccid relations? • Significant consequences of maintaining or negating required separations • The beautifying sanctity of modest intimacy

    Shavuos 10b - 11b

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 81:46


    When and how are consecrated items eligible to have their sanctity transferred?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:9

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 29:53


    Embracing Divine Enlightenment and discipline brings grace to your mind and beauty to your speech

    Shavuos 2b - 4a

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 72:15


    Why is Tractate Shavuos after Tractate Makkos? • Why is there unique specificity of liable forms of transport on Shabbos? • Who is the author of our Mishnah? • The evolution of Rebbi's understanding of the halachah

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:8

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 30:07


    You are a prince! King Solomon calls you his son • The foundational value of parental guidance • With maturation we develop receptivity to Divine guidance • Divine wisdom molds human reason, which we cultivate towards the achievement of prophesy

    Makkos 19b - 20b

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 97:22


    The second tithe: When must it be consumed in Jerusalem, when can it be redeemed to be consumed outside of Jerusalem, when are there lashes for its prohibited consumption? • When is the second tithe considered to have entered Jerusalem, and what are the consequences? • Lashes for ripping out the hair on one's head or gashing one's flesh as an expression of mourning • Lashes for shaving ones beard, and sidelocks

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:7

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 35:45


    What is the counterintuitive foundation to cultivate authentic experiential knowledge? • How does fearlessness towards one's Creator breed scorn towards wisdom and discipline? • How are ethical and scientific knowledge accumulated in fundamentally different processes?

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:6

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 51:34


    Through Proverbs one can unlock the riddles of our Sages • Are Monotheism and Democracy incompatible?

    Sanhedrin 110b, 111a - 111b

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 89:03


    When does a human initiate his Divine service and merit eternal life? • To be spared Purgatory's expansion to swallow up one's soul, what is necessary? • Who will survive the Apocalypse? • The exceedingly pious accept Divine justice without judging the Almighty • The Divine Attributes of patience and truth • The Idolatrous City

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:5

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 11:47


    Mishlei is invaluable even for the wise and understanding • Increase your wisdom and expand your tactical repertoire

    Sanhedrin 103b, 104, 105a

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 94:15


    The tremendous power of providing for travelers • The importance of feeling shame for one's sins • The transgenerational trajectory of sin • Strive to perceive truths in what you encounter • What is the verdict for king Solomon? • The role of our interpersonal relationships within the framework of Divine Judgement

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:4

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 16:08


    King Solomon will help dispel your naïveté • With the leverage of Proverbs, one can compensate for inexperience

    Sanhedrin 97

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 70:52


    What events will precede the messianic era? • What features of the Messiah's generation are anticipated? • The unique path to uncompromising truthfulness • The world epochs • Anticipating the Messiah

    Mishlei Proverbs 1:3

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 20:53


    What you can acquire: Mussar Haskel, well reasoned guidance • Through these parable one can cultivate sound judgement, noble deployment of resources, and peaceful compromises

    Sanhedrin 89b, 90

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 74:38


    Types of false prophecies and their consequences • How to discern true prophecies from false prophecies • Scriptural sources for the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead • Queen Cleopatra, master of Psalms , inquires deeper into the resurrection

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