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Bava Metzia 114 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-21 Do we assess a person's basic needs regarding a pledge to hekdesh? Making a blessing. Eliyahu in the cemetery of idolators.
Bava Metzia 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-20 A lender or an agent of the court entering the borrower’s house to take a collateral.Tthe need for two beds. All Jews are considered as princes.
Bava Metzia 112 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-19 Whose soul is at risk of payment is delayed? An employer who transferred the employee to a storekeeper to be paid. Why a hired worker can swear and collect his wages.
Bava Metzia 111 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-18 Where an agent hires the employee, neither he nor the employer are liable for withholding wages. The collection time for one hired for several hours of the night. Hiring of an animal, utensils, and the laws of a ger toshav.
Bava Metzia 110 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-17 A lender who already consumed the produce of a disputed year of a mortgage. Believing a "migo" argument. Dispute if land improvements were made by the orphans or late father.
Bava Metzia 109 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-16 The renter's right to the growth of a sycamore tree. A planter who agrees to leave if he causes a loss. Are dead vines considered produce or capital?
Bava Metzia 108 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-15 Application of "you shall do what is just and good in the eyes of Hashem". The law of the neighboring field and exceptions there to. Precedence between potential buyers.
Bava Metzia 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-14 "You should be blessed in the field, you should be blessed in the city". The power of the evil eye. The cause of illness. Benefits of eating bread in the morning.
Bava Metzia 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-12 Definition of province-wide disaster. The power of prayer to avert a decree. Arguing that if the tenant had planted, it may have miraculously succeeded despite the province-wide disaster. Paying from the crop produced by the field.
Bava Metzia 105 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-12 A tenant who does not want to weed the field. A field that doesn't produce a sufficient crop. A burden of four kavs for prayer and tefillin.
Bava Metzia 104 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-11 Lease me this irrigated field. Commitments from a renter to compensate for leaving field fallow. The details of an iska arrangement.
Bava Metzia 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-10 Property lease where the parties dispute how much time has passed. Borrowing an item in good working order forever. Sharecroppers who lease a field have to abide by the local custom.
Bava Metzia 102 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-09 Items found in a courtyard - manure and nests. In a rental of "twelve dinars per year, one dinar per month,” the extra month’s rent is divided.
Bava Metzia 101 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-08 Olives trees three years after being deposited in someone’s field. Going down into someone's field and planting trees without the owner’s permission. Rules of evicting a tenant at the end of his lease.
Bava Metzia 100 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-07 Swapping an item and a dispute arise over whether there was a birth before or after the transaction. Swearing in a dispute over which of two slaves or fields was sold.
Bava Metzia 99 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-06 Sending a borrowed cow with one’s slave. If a borrower only acquires the item with usage or even after pulling it into his possession. Determining the value of a stolen item.
Bava Metzia 98 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-05 Cases where the borrower/renter would have to swear. Borrowing an animal with the owner in his service and then renting it without the owner. The animal dying on the way to the borrower.
Bava Metzia 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-04 A borrowed cat which died while killing mice. Asking for water to be brought is considered enough of a element of working. Dispute if a cow died during its loan period or its rental period.
Bava Metzia 96 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-03 Borrowing for unusual purposes, or for less than a perutah’s value. Can the agent or a slave substitute for the owner? A husband's use of his wife's melog property.
Bava Metzia 95 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-02 The source of the exemption of the owner being in the service of the renter applies to lots and theft. Negligence of a guardian where the owner was in his service. Does the owner have to be doing the same work as the animal for the exemption to take effect?
Bava Metzia 94 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-01 A guardian can stipulate to reduce his liability. A condition which is impossible to fulfill. Borrowing a cow, and borrowing the services of the owner together with it.
Bava Metzia 93 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-31 Those who guard produce may eat from it based on common practice. The four types of custodians and their levels of responsibility.
Bava Metzia 92 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-30 A worker eating more than he is paid. Eating the first and only grape cluster picked. Does a worker eat his own food or does he eat Heaven’s food?
Bava Metzia 91 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-29 How can one be liable for monetary compensation as well as lashes for muzzling an animal? Does a worker have to work with both his hands and feet? If one was working with one grapevine, may he eat from another grapevine?
Bava Metzia 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-28 Threshing terumah and maaser. Asking a non-Jew to do a prohibition on your behalf. Is an owner obligated to remove external impediments which would stop the animal eating?
Bava Metzia 89 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-27 Different concepts learned from threshing. Can a worker toast grain and eat it while he is working? Salting produce and the maaser obligation.
Bava Metzia 88 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-26 At which point does produce becomes obligated in maaser? Source that a human worker may eat detached produce and that that animals may eat from attached produce.
Bava Metzia 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-25 Righteous promise a little and do a lot, the wicked say a lot, and do not even do a little. Why the angels asked about Sarah’s whereabouts? The Biblical food entitlements of certain workers.
Bava Metzia 86 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-24 Rabbah dying while being pursued by the authorities. The greatness of Avraham's feast. Avraham’s desire to find guests.
Bava Metzia 85 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-23 Rebbi's efforts to bring children to Torah. The importance of the blessing before learning Torah. The greatness of Rabbi Chiya and how he would ensure that Torah would never be forgotten.
Bava Metzia 84 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-22 The beauty of various sages. The story of Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish. Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Shimon’s suffering, death, and delayed burial.
Bava Metzia 83 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-21 Rabbah bar bar Chanan and the porters who broke his barrel. Day laborers hired without stipulating terms, or with a commitment to feed them. Rabbi Elazar the son of Rabbi Shimon’s role as officer to arrest thieves.
Bava Metzia 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-20 A lender who has received collateral - what type of guardian is he considered? Must the collateral be equal to the loan? A porter who breaks a barrel he is transporting.
Bava Metzia 81 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-19 The status of a borrower once the loan period ends. The donkey that traveled by the Pekod River. Different responses to a request to watch an item for someone.
Bava Metzia 80 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-18 Who is responsible for breaking the plow’s blade? How increased volume impacts a load. The status of an artisan after he has completed the job.
Bava Metzia 79 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-17 A rented donkey which dies midway. A boat rental which sinks midway in its journey. Women riding a donkey.
Bava Metzia 78 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-16 One rented a donkey to lead it on a mountain but led it in a valley, or vice versa, and it died. Anyone who violates the owner’s intent is considered a thief. What happens if the animal is seized for service by the government?
Bava Metzia 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-15 Workers hired to draw water for a field, and then it rains. Does the employee or the employer have the upper hand? Reneging on a land sale after partial payment.
Bava Metzia 76 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-14 If one hires craftsmen and they deceive each other, they have nothing but complaints against one another, but no monetary claim. Does one rely on what the agent purports or does one only rely on the principal? Once the workers have arrived at work they need to be paid.
Bava Metzia 75 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-13 The case of "seah b'seah". Advance and subsequent interest. The various interest prohibitions and who violates them. Lending money without witnesses.
Bava Metzia 74 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-12 An agent’s liability for failing to purchase an item while its price is low. Law of "simtuta". Which processes may be lacking in produce and still be considered as if it is in his possession.
Bava Metzia 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-11 Advance payment for future wine of a vineyard at a reduced price. Removing sharecroppers too early from the land. Subjugating fellow Jews.
Bava Metzia 72 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-10 If a non-Jewish lender or borrower converts, how does one deal with the interest? Is a document with interest totally invalid or can the principal be collected? Lending produce with an established market price.
Bava Metzia 71 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-09 The reward of lending without interest. Borrowing with interest from a non-Jew with an intermediary. Non-Jews and agency.
Bava Metzia 70 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-08 Can orphans receive interest? The ownership of "tzon barzel" properties. Lending to a non-Jew with interest.
Bava Metzia 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-07 1. Unilaterally dividing a partnership of money vs. a partnership of merchandise. The distinction between lending money and rental of articles. The Torah only forbade interest paid]from the borrower to the lender.
Bava Metzia 68 : Marc Chipkin ; 2024-05-06 Leasing back to the borrower for a fixed amount. Joint ventures with half-loan half-profits structures. How much the managing partner must be paid?
Bava Metzia 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-05 A mistaken waiver is not an effective waiver. Dealing with pledged properly where the borrower can evict the lender by paying early. Different methods to avoid the problem of the yield of the property being considered interest.
Bava Metzia 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-04 Reassuring someone is not a binding commitment. An asmachta (exaggerated statement) as it relates to a borrower’s commitment that if he fails to pay, the lender keeps his field.
Bava Metzia 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-03 One may increase the rent of his property for delayed payment, but one may not increase the purchase price of a sale because of delayed payment. A "tarsha" - selling on credit at a higher price. Partial payment for a purchase which is completed retroactively upon full payment.
Bava Metzia 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-02 Advance purchase of produce which grows on its own. A transaction which is close to profit and far from loss. Using a borrower’s property for free or at a discount.
Bava Metzia 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-01 The final explanation of our mishna. Goods can be converted into money and vice versa. Rabbi Yehuda's view that interest contingent on one side of an agreement is permitted.
Bava Metzia 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-30 Does the court require the return of interest paid? Two people who were traveling, and only one had a flask of water. If both drink from it, they will both die from thirst, but if one drinks it, he will survive to reach a settlement. Tearing up a document containing interest provisions.
Bava Metzia 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-29 Interest prohibited from the Torah vs prohibited rabbinically. The connection between stealing, overcharging and interest. Various commandments connected to coming out of Egypt.
Bava Metzia 60 : Marc Chipkin: 2014-04-28 Mixing produce to deceive buyers. Practices to attract customers, and improving the appearance of merchandise. The difference between neshech and tarbit.
Bava Metzia 59 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-27 The severity of embarrassing someone in public. The gates of tears and ona'ah are never closed. "The Torah is not in heaven".
Bava Metzia 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-26 Half shekels sent with agents that got lost or stolen. Animals for which one bears responsibility. Wronging someone with words.
Bava Metzia 57 : Marc Chipkin: The items not subject to ona'ah - can the sale be voided? Deconsecrating hekdesh onto something less valuable. Interest does not apply to hekdesh.
Bava Metzia 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-24 Maaser sheni of demai. Items not subject to ona'ah. Items planted in the ground before they take root.
Bava Metzia 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-23 The five laws which apply to a minimum of a perutah. There are five surcharges of a fifth. The Sages treated their laws as strictly as Biblical laws.
Bava Metzia 54 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-22 Is the "fifth" a 20% surcharge or 25%? Is adding a fifth essential to redemption? Adding a fifth onto the fifth.
Bava Metzia 53 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-21 Maaser sheni worth less than the minimum amount. Maaser sheni entering and leaving Jerusalem. Does the "fifth" added onto maaser sheni redemption need to have a minimum value?
Bava Metzia 52 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-20 Rate of ona'ah for deficient coins. Time limits for returning deficient coins. Deconsecrating maaser sheni on a deficient coin.
Bava Metzia 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-19 A defrauded seller can always retract. There is no ona'ah for a householder. Entering into a sale on condition that there is no claim of ona'ah.
Bava Metzia 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-18 Does an overcharge of less than a sixth take effect immediately? If the overcharge is greater than a sixth can one retract indefinitely? Halacha : for less than a sixth, the sale is valid, and the deviation is waived immediately. If it is greater than a sixth, the sale can be voided. If the deviation is a sixth, the sale is valid, but he returns the difference. These last two claims must be made before enough time elapses to show the purchase to a merchant or relative.
Bava Metzia 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-17 Does retracting from a verbal commitment constitute lack of trustworthiness? Definition of ona'ah- over and under charging.
Bava Metzia 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-16 The "mi she'para" curse on someone who retracts from a purchase after giving money. Do we actually say the curse or just warn about it? Does a down payment acquire equal to its value, or the entire purchase?
Bava Metzia 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-15 Whose utensil is used to perform chalipin? Can an insignificant item be used for chalipin? Does an item have to be pulled into ones possession to acquire it from the the Torah?
Bava Metzia 46 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-14 Various chalipin discussions - can coins be acquired through chalipin, assessment of a item's value for chalipin, using disqualified coins for chalipin.
Bava Metzia 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-13 Maaser sheni being deconsecrated onto gold coins. Various explanations of this dispute. Coins and chalipin.
Bava Metzia 44 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-12 Is mere intention enough to be considered misappropriation? When exchanging gold coins for silver coins, the buyer’s acquiring of the gold coins acquires the silver coins for the seller, but the seller’s acquiring of the silver coins does not acquire the gold coins for the buyer.
Bava Metzia 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-11 Depositing money with different people. Misappropriation of a deposit - at what time is the person considered responsible?
Bava Metzia 42 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-10 Safeguarding money. Blessing is only found in that which is hidden from the eye. The mother hiding a deposit which she thought was her sons.
Bava Metzia 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-09 A guardian who steals a deposit and returns it without the owner’s knowledge, or to the wrong place. Does misappropriation of a deposit requires a partial loss for the guardian to be liable?
Bava Metzia 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-08 Deducting normal depreciation from produce. Can one deduct on the basis of a percentage? If one may mix settled sediment back into oil when selling it.
Bava Metzia 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-07 All those who accept to manage a relative’s property, we evaluate the profits for them like a sharecropper’s normal share. A young child is not installed in a captive’s property, nor is a relative installed in a young child's property. The doubtful estate of captives.
Bava Metzia 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-06 What to do with deposited produce which is starting to decay. Produce which is becoming excessively ruined may be sold. Laws of a captive’s property.
Bava Metzia 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-05 Stealing money from one of two people, you have to pay both back vs two people who deposit an item with someone, only the lower amount needs to be returned. Definite vs doubtful claims.
Bava Metzia 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-04 A guardian who gave over an item to another guardian, is he liable if something happens? Being negligent and then something unavoidable happens.
Bava Metzia 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-03 People often believe that the lender’s honesty brought about his wealth. Until when can property which was appraised and seized to pay a debt be returned? A rented cow can be on-lent.
Bava Metzia 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-02 How a guardian acquires the double payment. Agreeing to pay is tantamount to paying. Payments of heirs, partial payments, or a wife’s property.
Bava Metzia 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-01 Who is defined as one's main teacher? Comparing the study of different areas of Torah. A guardian who pays the owner when he could have exempted himself via an oath receives the additional payments if the thief is found.
Bava Metzia 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-31 Not listening to one’s father to transgress a sin. One has to unload an animal for free but can get compensation for loading an animal. The prohibition of causing suffering to animals.
Bava Metzia 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-30 Saving land from damage. When a running or grazing animal is considered lost. Many double expressions in the Torah.
Bava Metzia 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-29 A found garment should be spread out for its benefit, but not for the finder’s benefit.Tthere are times that you may hide. Jerusalem was destroyed only because they judged there according to Torah law...?!
Bava Metzia 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-28 What one can do with money received from the sale of a lost item. Looking after a scroll, and a garment.
Bava Metzia 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-27 Until when is one obligated to announce a lost item? How a lost item is announced. Lost animals which incur a cost to maintain.
Bava Metzia 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-26 Laws derived from the verse about lost items. Lost items worth less than a perutah don't have to be returned. Is the law to return lost objects based on providing identifying marks Biblical or Rabbinical?
Bava Metzia 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-25 Coins found near animal dealers in Jerusalem are assumed to be maaser sheni. If someone saw a sela fall from one of two people, he must return it, because the owner does not despair of it. Possible transgressions for unlawfully taking a lost item to keep.
Bava Metzia 25 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-24 Produce or money found in front of a container. Three coins one upon the other must be returned. Something hidden, or possibly hidden, may not be touched.
Bava Metzia 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-23 Returning new articles to a Torah scholar. One who finds something in a major thoroughfare, they belong to the finder. Finding slaughtered animals.
Bava Metzia 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-22 Indentifying marks- if they are likely to be trampled upon, if they could have come about on its own. Is the place where an item is found, or the number of items found, significant?
Bava Metzia 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-21 Separating terumah on behalf of someone. A lost item swept away by a river is permitted to be kept by the finder - and this resolves the "despair with awareness" discussion.
Bava Metzia 21: Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-20 Finds that have to be announced and those that can be kept. Quantity of item lost vs the effort in recovering it. Despair without awareness ie where the owner would despair of retrieving his article if he would know it was lost, but is not yet aware.
Bava Metzia 20: Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-19 Returning the receipt from a ketubah. A document of the Beth Din is returned to the one named in the document. A receipt found in the lender’s possession, even if it is written in his own handwriting, merely mocks the borrower, and is invalid.
Bava Metzia 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-18 Why returning a get will not cause a loss to possible buyers of her fields’ produce. A sickbed will compared to a normal gift document. Preventing people from falsely removing gifts from a beneficiary.
Bava Metzia 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-17 Ripping a get to show it has been paid. Using a lost get which was found. Using specific signs to identify a get.
Bava Metzia 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-16 Being established as a liar regarding a particular transaction. Returning a document dated that day. If someone claims he paid an obligation imposed by an act of Beth Din, he is not believed.
Bava Metzia 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-15 If the robber purchased the field from the owner after “selling” it. Transacting with something that has not entered the world. Are we concerned about repayment of a lost document?
Bava Metzia 15 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-14 Are the improvements the buyer made to the land reimbursed? One who bought property knowing the seller did not own it.
Bava Metzia 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-13 Leaving out a guarantee clause is assumed to be a scribal error. When protests come out against a field being sold. Payment of improvements for stolen land.
Bava Metzia 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-12 Documents of acquisition may be written beforehand. Are we worried about collusion leading to unlawfully collecting property from earlier purchasers? What can a document without a property lien be used to collect?
Bava Metzia 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-11 Acquiring through a courtyard. The finds of a young child belong to his father. Dispute about returning found loan documents, when the debtor admits.
Bava Metzia 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-10 If one must stand at the side of his field to acquire. Rabban Gamliel on the ship. It is different when another mind transfers ownership to the recipient.
Bava Metzia 10: Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-09 A person’s four amot acquire for him anywhere. Acquiring through a courtyard - is that more like one's hand or one's agent? An agent for a transgression.
Bava Metzia 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-08 Acquiring a bridle held up by a rider and someone holding its end. Pulling an animal to acquire utensils thereon. Can one gather pe'ah on behalf of a poor person?
Bava Metzia 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-07 Can one acquire a found item on behalf of someone else or does one need to acquire it partially for himself? Riding an animal vs leading it. Transferring the reins of an animal.
Bava Metzia 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-06 Each person is entitled to as far as his hand can grasp. A get on a string. A lost document - to whom can it be returned?
Bava Metzia 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-05 A person is reluctant to swear falsely more than taking a doubtful amount. Someone who grabs a cloak away in front of the judges. A Kohen who siezes a doubtful firstborn animal.
Bava Metzia 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-04 The shepherd who was caught eating two of the sheep in his care. An ordinary shepherd is invalid as a witness. Is a person suspect in monetary matters, also suspect regarding swearing?
Bava Metzia 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-03 If partial admission requires an oath, then certainly witnesses who testify to part of a debt would obligate an oath? Denying a portion and admitting the other portion and giving it back immediately - "heilach".
Bava Metzia 3: Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-02 Thwarting a deceiver. Rabbi Chiya maintains that one swears when part of a debt is established by witnesses.
Bava Metzia 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-01 Two people holding a cloak and saying they found it and it is all theirs. Each has to swear about a portion thereof.
Bava Kamma 119 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-29 Destroying an informer’s property. Robbing someone is like taking his life. Which leftover materials may be kept by the craftsman, and which belong to the owner.
Bava Kamma 118 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-28 Returning an item in the same area from where it was taken. Returning stolen sheep without notifying the owner. Purchasing items from those suspected of stealing from their owners.
Bava Kamma 117 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-27 Showing someone’s property to idolators under duress. Rav Kahana’s death and subsequent revival due to Rebbe Yochanan. If someone stole a field, and a river flooded it what is his responsibility therefor?
Bava Kamma 116 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-26 What people can claim from others if they save their property. Dividing the cost of saving a caravan. Liability for causing someone’s field to be confiscated.
Bava Kamma 115 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-25 Takanat hashuk - the owner has to pay the purchaser for the stolen item. Spilling out one’s own wine to save someone else’s honey. Terumah and maaser from items which stand to be lost.
Bava Kamma 114 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-24 Difference between a ganav and a gazlan. Woman and minors are believed when they speak innocently for Rabbinical laws.
Bava Kamma 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-23 Tax collections which are illegitimate. Treating non Jews fairly can result in kiddush Hashem. The law of the land is law.
Bava Kamma 112 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-22 Whether children need to return items their father stole. Accepting testimony in the litigant’s absence. The process when a defendant requests time to prove that a document is forged.
Bava Kamma 111 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-21 When the money and asham are given to different mishmarot. Do children have to pay back items that their father stole?
Bava Kamma 110 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-20 The rights of kohanim over offerings. Atonement after stealing from a convert. The 24 kohanic gifts.
Bava Kamma 109 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-19 A robber forgiving a robbery payment to himself. If a Kohen robs a convert, who receives the payment?
Bava Kamma 108 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-18 A person swore it was stolen, then swore it was lost. A custodian who voluntarily paid after swearing about a theft becomes entitled to the double payment. If a thief’s confession to the owner or custodian exempts him from a double payment.
Bava Kamma 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-17 Status of a minor regarding a deposit. Guardian's swearing about part of a deposit. Does a guardian have to misappropriate the item before he swears about it?
Bava Kamma 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-16 One who swears falsely to deny a claim, then is disproven by witnesses, is exempt from paying. A thief who slaughters a stolen animal after being found guilty in court.
Bava Kamma 105 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-15 Returning an item worth less than a perutah. One who falsely swears he did not steal chametz which is now worthless. One who falsely denies having a deposit in his possession, has become a robber through his denial, even without swearing, and is liable for unavoidable mishaps which befall it
Bava Kamma 104 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-14 An agent appointed in front of witnesses: is he able to be relied upon? The additional fifth payment is a monetary obligation to the victim, and not just for atonement.
Bava Kamma 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-13 Buying land purportedly on behalf of a powerful person. One who swears falsely denying a robbery. One must ensure payment reaches his robbery victim after he swears denying it.
Bava Kamma 102 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-12 Shemittah fruit used for laundering, or medicinal purposes. An agent not following instructions. Does a seller have to know the ultimate principal?
Bava Kamma 101 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-11 Paying for the lesser of the improvement in the item and the expense thereof. Dying a garment with orlah fruit. Is wood is subject to shemittah sanctity?
Bava Kamma 100 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-10 Going beyond the letter of the law. Judging the law of “garmi,” -obligating payment for certain cases of indirectly caused damage. A dyer who improperly dyes wool given to him.
Bava Kamma 99 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-09 Delaying a laborers wages. How a craftsman earns his fee. Experts who make a mistake.
Bava Kamma 98 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-08 Throwing someone's coin into the sea yet being exempt. Destroying anothers loan document. Damage that is not apparent.
Bava Kamma 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-07 One who seizes someone’s slave and uses him for work. A cracked vs disqualified coin. A loan with payment fixed on a coin, and the coin is disqualified, or added to.
Bava Kamma 96 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-06 If one stole something and improved it and then sold it he gets the benefit of the improvement. What is defined as a permanent change, and what is reversible?
Bava Kamma 95 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-02-05 Various opinions as to whether a robber returns the shearings and offspring of a stolen animal. Does the robber have the right to improvements he made?
Bava Kamma 94 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-04 Certain opinions that hold that an item which underwent a change in the robbers possession is not acquired. Should one accept the repayment of illegally obtained money? Should children return interest that their late father acquired illegally?
Bava Kamma 93 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-03 Requesting judgement from Heaven on someone else results in you being judged first. An ordinary person's curse shouldn't be light in your eyes. A robber who changes an item pays the value as of the time of stealing it.
Bava Kamma 92 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-02 Even after paying for injury, one must request forgiveness. If you pray for someone else and you need that yourself you will be answered first. People of similar characters stick together.
Bava Kamma 91 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-02-01 An assessment is made for damages, to determine if the weapon was capable of inflicting the damage. Can one hurt oneself? The prohibition to cut down a fruit tree.
Bava Kamma 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-31 Who owns the essence of the slave? Selling a slave but keeping rights to his work for a period. If the weapon must be examined by the judges, or just the witnesses.
Bava Kamma 89 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-30 The proceeds of a sold ketubah belong to the wife. Why a woman does not sell her ketubah to pay damages. A woman who damages her husband.
Bava Kamma 88 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-29 Why a slave cannot be a witness. Why a convert, although he can be a witness, can't be a king. The mother who transferred property to her son during her husband's lifetime.
Bava Kamma 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-28 A blind person's exemption from various mitzvot. Do a minor's damages belong to her or her father? Liability of a parent if they damage a child.
Bava Kamma 86 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-27 Paying damages for a temporary loss in value. How to calculate embarrassment. Embarrassing a sleeping person who then dies in his sleep.
Bava Kamma 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-26 Paying for pain, medical costs and loss of employment and how these are assessed.
Bava Kamma 84 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-25 Further derivations of why "an eye for an eye" means monetary compensation and can't be taken literally. What judges in Babylon can adjudicate and what only judges in Israel can adjudicate.
Bava Kamma 83 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-24 One is not allowed to keep a dangerous dog at home. Five payments made for wounding someone. An "eye for an eye" is not taken literally.
Bava Kamma 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-23 The ten enactments of Ezra. Ten things said about Jerusalem.
Bava Kamma 81 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-22 The ten enactments of Joshua when he divided the land amongst the tribes, to ensure harmony,
Bava Kamma 80 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-21 Various laws pertaining to raising small animals in Israel. Owning a cat. Anyone who is treated badly, will not quickly be treated well.
Bava Kamma 79 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-20 Does a guardian become responsible for an item as soon as he agrees to watch it? The difference between a thief and a robber. Why does a thief pay 5x for an ox and 4x for a sheep?
Bava Kamma 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-19 What did the word "seh" connotate? Paying for a stolen olah offering. Does the thief pay a multiple of the animal if he retains a portion of it?
Bava Kamma 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-18 Anything which stands to be redeemed is considered like it is already redeemed. If the slaughter wouldn't result in a penalty would the selling of the animal? The status of a crossbreed animal.
Bava Kamma 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-17 The effect of consecrating a stolen animal. Difference between animals for which one bears financial responsibility vs not. Slaughtering that is not fit to be eaten is not considered slaughter.
Bava Kamma 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-16 One who admits to a fine while witnesses are approaching. Admitting where his admission does not obligate him in anything. Sumchos' case of multiple witnesses.
Bava Kamma 74 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-15 Various cases where witnesses are contradicted.
Bava Kamma 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-14 Changing testimony immediately after giving it. How this impacts conspiring witnesses. Contradiction of the witness is the beginning of hazamma.
Bava Kamma 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-13 When is slaughter defined to have taken place? If witnesses to the theft and/or sale or slaughter are found to be conspiring (zommemim). Are such witnesses disqualified retroactively?
Bava Kamma 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-12 How a person could be liable for a four or five times payment even though the animal was slaughtered on Shabbat. The status of food cooked on Shabbat.
Bava Kamma 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-11 Writing an power of attorney for movables. Testimony about half a matter. A sale effectuated through breaking Shabbat.
Bava Kamma 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-10 Can one redeem an item that was stolen from him? In order to consecrate an item do you have to own it as well as have it your possession? Comparing maaser sheni and revai fruit.
Bava Kamma 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-09 Stealing from a thief. Dispute whether one who sells or slaughters a stolen animal before the owner gives up on recovering it is liable the 4 or 5 times penalty. Consecration of a stolen animal.
Bava Kamma 67 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-08 A thief acquires an item through a change in name. Ulla's view - ye'ush doesn't result in the thief acquiring the item. Multiple payments are specific to an ox and sheep.
Bava Kamma 66 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-07 A physical change to a stolen item causes the thief to acquire it. If the owner of a stolen item despairs of retrieving it- what is the effect thereof? The significance of a change of name.
Bava Kamma 65 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-06 A thief pays the principal according to its value when he stole it; and he pays double and the four- and fivefold payment according to its value at the time of appearance in court. Active destruction constitutes a new act of theft, payment according to new value. A significant physical change in a thief's possession.
Bava Kamma 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-05 Alternative derivations of paying double. One who admits to liability for a fine, and then witnesses came and testified as much, is exempt from the double amount. A thief pays double even without swearing.
Bava Kamma 63 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-04 Obligation of paying double for stolen items is learned from the verse. A guardian of an object who falsely claims the item was lost versus claiming it was stolen.
Bava Kamma 62 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-03 Being aware of the contents of a container. Chanukah lights in the public domain. The rule of double payment for a thief is more inclusive than the rule of fourfold of fivefold payment.
Bava Kamma 61 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-01-02 King David's questions. The exemption of fire which crosses barriers. Hidden items burned by fire.
Bava Kamma 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-01-01 Why the verse mentions various items regarding a fire. What to do during a plague. The righteous are punished first.
Bava Kamma 59 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-31 Assessing damage to undeveloped grain based on the field’s current value or harvest time value. Assessing the future weakening of something.
Bava Kamma 58 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-30 Damage caused by an animal falling into a garden. Value of damage is assessed in a greater context.
Bava Kamma 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-29 What type of guardian is the finder of a lost object? Returning a lost item without the owner’s knowledge. One who volunteers to pay for a rented cow which was stolen from him.
Bava Kamma 56 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-28 Different cases whereby a person is not liable in human court but liable in Heaven. Taking control of an animal not through action.
Bava Kamma 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-27 Two versions of the 10 commandments. Kilayim of sea creatures, and a wagon pulled together by a goat and fish. Sufficient guarding with regard to a sheep.
Bava Kamma 54 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-26 The source for animals being damaged in a pit. Are animals assumed to look where they walk. The inclusion of all animals in the liability of a pit, and many other laws.
Bava Kamma 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-25 An ox falling into a pit forwards or backwards. Collecting damages from multiple people. A person, an ox and a pit all causing damage.
Bava Kamma 52 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-24 The first partner of a pit left it covered and the second found it uncovered. A cover strong enough for oxen but not for camels, was weakened by camels and oxen fell in. A cover vulnerable to camels, but instead became wormy from within.
Bava Kamma 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-23 Fatal impact from a pit less than ten tefachim deep. Multiple people involved in digging a pit. When a pit of two partners becomes the second one’s responsibility.
Bava Kamma 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-22 Definition of a pit and where it has to be to make one liable for damages. Nechunya, the well digger’s daughter and son. The air of the pit and the damage it causes.
Bava Kamma 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-21 Assessing the damages when when a person struck a pregnant woman and caused a miscarriage. What the wife of a deceased convert acquires. The status of collateral of a deceased convert.
Bava Kamma 48 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-20 A woman going to bake in her friend's house. An ox falling into a well. The payment of kofer when an ox kills a person in a pit.
Bava Kamma 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-19 If a potter brought his pots into a homeowner’s courtyard without permission, and the homeowner’s animal damaged the pots, he is exempt from paying, and if the animal was harmed by the pots, the potter is liable. An animal causing damage to itself.
Bava Kamma 46 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-18 If an ox gored a cow and its fetus was found dead at its side- how is the damage evaluated?
Bava Kamma 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-17 A guardian returning an ox after it is condemned to death. Different levels of guarding for a tam and a mu'ad.
Bava Kamma 44 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-16 An ox was rubbing itself against a wall, and it collapsed onto a person and killed him. An ox which intended to kill an animal and killed a person is exempt from being stoned. Having the same owner at the the time of death as well as the time of sentencing the ox to death.
Bava Kamma 43 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-15 In which case do a woman's heirs inherit the payment for damages. The payment of kofer is connected to the killing of the animal. If damages are paid for unintentionally killing by fire.
Bava Kamma 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-14 More expositions of the phrase "the owner of the ox should be clean" : exemption of paying the value of a fetus, the exemption of paying the value of a slave.
Bava Kamma 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-13 How an ox can become a mu’ad to kill people before being stoned. A ox due to is be stoned is forbidden for any benefit. The exemption of half a kofer payment.
Bava Kamma 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-12 Is the kofer payment an atonement payment or monetary restitution? On whose life do we assess it? A borrowed ox which is discovered to be a mu’ad.
Bava Kamma 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-11 If damages of an incompetent person’s ox are collected from him. Appointment of a guardian for an incompetent person. Is the half damage of a tam included in mu'ad?
Bava Kamma 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-10 Oxen belonging to the Temple and to non-Jews - how they are treated re damages. Comparing the actions of Lot’s two daughters.
Bava Kamma 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-09 Is a mu'ad for one species considered mu'ad for another? Establishment of different patterns of goring.
Bava Kamma 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-08 Oxen goring multiple times and how to distribute the damage payments. Hitting a person's ear. Money designed for the poor.
Bava Kamma 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-12-07 An act punishable by death is exempt from payment, even where t person is not liable to death. Disputes about the cause of damage. Claiming wheat and admitting barley.
Bava Kamma 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-06 Changes in value of the oxen after the damage. What is the exact case of the damaging tam ox mentioned in the Torah? The damager never profits but also never had to pay more than half the damage.
Bava Kamma 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-05 Requirements for going into exile for inadvertent killing. Two animals or people damaging each other. Is the injured party merely a creditor or does he become a part owner of the damaging ox?
Bava Kamma 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-04 Damage caused by a beam in the public domain. Running on erev Shabbat. If one enters a carpenter’s shop with permission and is struck by a chip of wood.
Bava Kamma 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-04 Damage caused by someone who stops in the public domain. Damage caused by someone tripping and then the person behind him falls over him. What happens if a third person trips over the second person?
Bava Kamma 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-02 Hiding dangerous items. Ways to become pious. Putting straw into the public domain.
Bava Kamma 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-12-01 Damages occurring at the time of a fall, and damages occurring after the time of the fall. Declaring dangerous items ownerless - does that absolve a person of responsibility? Two items for which a person technically isn't responsible for but the Torah considers it as if they were his.
Bava Kamma 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-30 Taking the law into one's own hands. Moving a public path through one’s field to the side of the field. Slipping on water in the public domain.
Bava Kamma 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-29 Causing embarrassment requires intention. A victim is expected to save themselves. Why is a person who trips over a barrel in the public domain exempt from paying - surely he's meant to be looking where he is going?
Bava Kamma 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-28 Comparison of the stringencies of the various types of damages. Paying kofer for regel. A person is always considered forewarned.
Bava Kamma 25 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-27 Rabbi Tarfon's opinion that keren damage in the injured party's property pays full damage. The principle of "dayo" which limits a kal v'chomer. Various issues regarding tumah.
Bava Kamma 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-26 How an animal becomes a mu'ad and how it reverts to a tam. The status of an animal that damages more frequently. Are the warnings effective in making the owner a mu'ad or the ox a mu'ad?
Bava Kamma 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-25 Further discussion about whether fire is like arrows or like his animal. Whose property is the mouth of an animal?
Bava Kamma 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-24 Is fire considered a person's arrows or his property? Burning a stack of grain and killing someone else in the process.
Bava Kamma 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-23 The dangers of an uninhibited house. An animal turning its head to eat. Animals jumping off the roof.
Bava Kamma 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-22 Assessing how much to value what an animal eats. One person benefits when another doesn't suffer. Building a stone of hekdesh into a house.
Bava Kamma 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-21 Are the ever quarter damages? The trail of an animal that causes damage. What is considered normal eating for an animal?
Bava Kamma 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-20 Various laws of tzer'rorot - paying from the body of the animal or property. Can one warn on tzer'rorot? The opinion of Sumchus - paying full damage for tzer'rorot.
Bava Kamma 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-19 The honour shown to King Hezekiah. Whoever occupies himself with Torah learning and bestowing kindness merits the inheritance of two tribes. Damages of tzo'rorot.
Bava Kamma 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-18 Squatting on small jugs. Different ways a lion attacks its prey. The difference between a tam and a mu'ad animal.
Bava Kamma 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-17 Source that women are included in the laws of damages. The half damages payment for when a tam animal damages- is it monetary restitution or a fine? The prohibition of keeping dangerous items in one's house.
Bava Kamma 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-16 Different permutations of a jointly owned courtyard. Assigning various rights to people in a courtyard. Only land can be collected from orphans.
Bava Kamma 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-15 A bechor, ma'aser and shelamim offering and how they differ. An ownerless animal that damaged. The status of a jointly owned courtyard.
Bava Kamma 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-11-14 Are slaves considered equivalent to land or movables? One would be liable for damaging kodshim kalim.
Bava Kamma 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-13 Evaluating a carcass for a thief or robber. An amniotic sac which emerges over two days. Is a guardian who transfers responsibility over to another guardian responsible for damages?
Bava Kamma 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-12 Causing a portion of damage yet being liable for all the damage. Leaning on someone is considered your force. The owner of the killed animal must deal with the carcass.
Bava Kamma 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-11 If brothers who divide an estate are like heirs or purchasers. Regarding beautification of a mitzvah, one must spend up to a third of the cost of the mitzvah itself. Leaving an ox or pit vs. leaving a fire to be watched by a mentally incompetent person.
Bava Kamma 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-10 Further discussion about relative vs objective valuation of land. One buyer of 3 grades of land is able to direct claimants to a particular quality of land. The obligations of a second buyer- does he acquire all the rights of the first buyer?
Bava Kamma 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-09 Compensation with land vs other assets. Receiving maaser ani where one’s property has decreased in value. Is valuation of land relative or objective?
Bava Kamma 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-08 The "common characteristic" mentioned in the mishna- 4 answers. He shall pay “his” best field or “his” best vineyard- do we look at the perspective of the damager or the injured party?
Bava Kamma 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-07 Why aren't all 24 damagers taught? Paying with ones best quality land. The unique characteristics of the main categories of damage.
Bava Kamma 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-06 How to explain the mishna according to Rav and Shmuel regarding ma'aveh. Why intentional damages of slaves are exempt. Additional categories of damage - 13 or 24?
Bava Kamma 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-05 The source of of damaging via teeth and trampling. The half damages paid for damage caused by pebbles. What is the damager called mav’eh?
Bava Kamma 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-04 The 4 major categories of damage. Are the subcategories similar in law to the major categories? The subcategories of goring.
Kiddushin 82 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-03 Professions that should be avoided by various people, and ideal professions. The power of learning Torah.
Kiddushin 81 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-02 Receiving lashes for yichud. Intention for a sin still requires atonement. Yichud with relatives.
Kiddushin 80 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-11-01 When one must prove his wife’s or children’s lineage. The power of chazakah. Yichud: A man with two women, and a woman with two men.
Kiddushin 79 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-31 How we treat presumptions - do we go according to the current state and say it existed previously or do we say the last known state has prevailed until recently?
Kiddushin 67: Marc Chipkin: 19-10-2023 The rules of lineage where kiddushin is permitted or forbidden. The source that kiddushin is ineffective with a person who would be prohibited by a karet liability.
Kiddushin 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-30 How many sets of lashes a Kohen receives for a forbidden relationship. A Kohen marrying a convert’s daughter. A father's credibility as to the status of his son.
Kiddushin 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-29 How the status of a chalal affects their children. Prohibitions taking effect on other prohibitions. Only a Cohen can cause a woman to become a chalala.
Kiddushin 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-28 Investigating the lineage of a potential wife. The requirement of pure lineage for members of Sanhedrin. Positions of authority for converts.
Kiddushin 75: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-27 Dispute about whose relations disqualify a woman to Kehunah. Can a mamzer and sh'tuki marry? The status of the Kutim.
Kiddushin 74: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-26 Limitations on the believability of a seller or judge. Why a "sh'tuki" called a beduki? All those forbidden to enter the congregation are permitted to marry one another- what is this adding?
Kiddushin 73: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-25 Can a convert marry a mamzeret? How we treat a "sh'tuki". What is defined as an "assufi"?
Kiddushin 72: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-24 Different areas regarding genealogy. Persians are compared to bears. Prophetic statements of Rebbi at the time of his death. Will mamzerim be purified in future?
Kiddushin 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-23 All lands are like dough (i.e., a mixture of genealogically pure and impure people) compared to Israel and Israel is like dough compared to Babylon. Difference between the written form and pronunciation of Hashem’s Names. Those with tainted lineage are generally resentful at being rejected by others, and are therefore quarrelsome.
Kiddushin 70: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-22 The punishment of marrying a woman not genealogically fit. A person who derides others should be checked for that fault himself. Anyone claiming to be a descendant of the Chashmonaim is actually a slave.
Kiddushin 69: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-21 Can a mamzer "purify" his descendents? Ezra brought 10 genealogical classes of people up from Babylon. Sources for this teaching.
Kiddushin 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-20 The meaning of a loved and hated wife. The source of why kiddushin is ineffective with a slave, as well as a non-Jew.
Kiddushin 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-18 A single witness tells a man that his wife committed adultery. King Yannai’s lineage is challenged, and his murderous reaction. Dealing with a mikveh that was presumed full but was going to be deficient.
Kiddushin 65: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-17 If a man and woman disagree if they married. The status of a marriage with only one witness.
Kiddushin 64: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-16 A father’s testimony that she was married and divorced vs. captured. A husband’s testimony regarding his wife’s status for yibum. A man with two sets of daughters.
Kiddushin 63: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-15 If one promises to do something for a woman is that good enough for kiddushin or does he have to give money in addition? On condition that my father will approve. Dealing with someone who claims to be married to a man's daughter.
Kiddushin 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-14 A person attempts to do kiddushin after a particular future event. Designating produce as terumah to take effect when picked. Doing kiddushin with an unborn child.
Kiddushin 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-13 Clefts and ridges in a field - how they are treated in terms of consecration, sake and kiddushin. Doubling a condition.
Kiddushin 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-12 "From now and after 30 days, from now and after 20 days, from now and after 10 days "- who's kiddushin is effective? When does kiddushin take place if he promises her money? "On condition that I have a certain amount of money".
Kiddushin 59: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-11 Acquiring something when someone else was trying first. Kiddushin after 30 days, can the woman retract in the interim? What is the meaning of "from now and after 30 days"?
Kiddushin 58: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-10 Only idolatry and shemittah produce confer their prohibited status onto their payments. Does one have monetary ownership over terumah and maaser?
Kiddushin 57: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-09 When an eglah arufah and the metzora's birds become forbidden for benefit. The prohibition of benefit of milk and meat.
Kiddushin 56: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-08 When prohibited transactions with maaser sheni money are voided and when we require the person to go to Jerusalem with the item. Kiddushin made with items which are prohibited in benefit is invalid.
Kiddushin 55: Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-07 Dealing with animals found near Jerusalem. Can meilah be performed intentionally?
Kiddushin 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-06 Kiddushin done with the garments of a Kohen. The Torah wasn't given to angels. The status of 4th year fruit.
Kiddushin 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-05 A Kohen can never divide his share of one offering against another. Using maaser sheni for kiddushin. Using hekdesh for kiddushin.
Kiddushin 52 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-04 The halacha follows Abaye vs Rava in the 6 cases of יעל קג"ם. Kiddushin with stolen goods. Trying to mekadesh a woman with a portion of meat from an offering.
Kiddushin 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-10-03 Whatever cannot take effect one after the other, cannot even be done simultaneously. Kiddushin which is not given to a possibility of permitted relations does not take effect. A man with 2 groups of daughters.
Kiddushin 50 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-02 Unmentioned conditions are not considered significant. When a person is particular about a specific place to give kiddushin or a get. Sending of bridal gifts after an ineffective betrothal.
Kiddushin 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-10-01 Promising to be of lower status and he is of higher status is ineffective. Become betrothed to me on condition that I am wise, wealthy etc. 90% of various traits were concentrated amongst a particular land or group of people.
Kiddushin 48 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-30 Definition of how an artisan earns his wage. Kiddushin with a loan and a bit extra. Promising a woman a certain item and giving her something different.
Kiddushin 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-29 Is one embarrassed to demand a portion of money owed to them? Does an unspent loan belongs to the lender or borrower? Using a document of debt for kiddushin.
Kiddushin 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-28 Can a young girl reject kiddushin she accepted? Combining multiple dates for kiddushin, and where she eats them as she receives them. The status of money given to marry one’s sister.
Kiddushin 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-27 A young girl who fell to yibum after accepting kiddushin without her father's consent. Not being deceitful. A young girl who got engaged with her father's consent but married without it.
Kiddushin 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-26 Ma'amar without the yevamah’s consent. A na'arah cannot appoint an agent to accept her get. A minor who accepted kiddushin without her father’s knowledge.
Kiddushin 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-25 Was King David responsible for the death of Uriah? Can an agent become a witness? Can a na'arah accept her own kiddushin?
Kiddushin 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-24 The division of the land by the princes. Brothers dividing assets are like purchasers regarding a discrepancy in the division. There is no agency for a sin.
Kiddushin 41 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-23 Doing a mitzvah oneself is greater than doing it through an agent. Various cases relating to the source of appointing an agent.
Kiddushin 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-22 Hashem considers a good thought as if the person did it. A person should always view himself as if he is half-guilty and half-meritorious. Is Torah study greater, or is performance of mitzvot greater? The righteous are like a tree planted in a pure place with branches hanging over an impure place.
Kiddushin 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-21 Orlah and kilayim outside of Israel. A person who is half-half. There is no reward for mitzvot in this world.
Kiddushin 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-20 Calculation of how long the manna fell for. The source that Moses was born and died on the seventh of Adar. Where do chadash, orlah and kilayim apply?
Kiddushin 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-19 Most agricultural mitzvot are only applicable in Israel. Does the prohibition of chadash apply everywhere? Mitzvot which only apply after possession and settlement.
Kiddushin 36 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-18 We are still called sons of Hashem even if we sin. Which steps of offerings do women not perform. A sotah does wave her mincha offering.
Kiddushin 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-17 The source that women are obligated in negative commandments. Three exceptions to this rule.
Kiddushin 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-16 The exemption of women from positive time-bound commandments and various exceptions: sources and discussion.
Kiddushin 33: Marc Chipkin: 2023-09-15 Interrupting work to stand for the elderly or those bringing bikkurim. What if ones son is ones teacher? Standing for a sefer Torah.
Kiddushin 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-14 Does the cost of honouring ones parents have to come from one's own money? Who is entitled to waive their honour? Standing in honour of the elderly.
Kiddushin 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-13 Honoring and fearing ones parents. The story of Dama ben Netina. How far honouring ones parents extends.
Kiddushin 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-12 Teaching Torah to one’s grandson. Splitting ones Torah learning into 3 parts. Torah is the antidote to the evil inclination.
Kiddushin 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-11 Mitzvot that a father has to do for his son, from which mothers are exempt. Order of preference regarding these mitzvot.
Kiddushin 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-10 Extending am oath regarding a slave. What items can be used for "chalipin". How the Temple acquires.
Kiddushin 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-09 Further discussion of "agav". Acquiring 10 fields or animals at once. The source of "gilgul shevua".
Kiddushin 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-08 Methods for acquiring unmovable and movable property. When does a document acquire? Acquiring movable items with land - "agav".
Kiddushin 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-07 Is the tongue is considered an exposed limb? Why a bone in a mouth is considered an interposition. Methods for acquiring animals, including elephants.
Kiddushin 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-06 A Caananite slave goes free for destruction of the tooth, eye, or ends of limbs which do not regenerate. Damages caused by sound. Requirement of destructive intent for the slave to go free.
Kiddushin 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-05 Three opinions regarding freeing a slave with money or a document and whether it can be done through himself or others. Can a slave appoint an agent?
Kiddushin 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-04 Various reasons why a slave wouldn't be able to stay on past the time. Why pierce specifically the ear and why specifically on the doorpost. Methods of acquiring a Canaanite slave.
Kiddushin 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-03 Redemption by halves and by relatives. What can be used to bore the slave's ear to the door? A Kohen becoming a nirtza. The beautiful captive.
Kiddushin 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-02 Ruling leniently for changes in value. Sins cause further sins. Can a Jewish slave sold to a Non-Jew be redeemed by halves?
Kiddushin 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-09-01 Can a minor soon perform yi'ud? Does yi'ud retroactively use the original money as kiddushin? Selling on condition that yi'ud can't be performed.
Kiddushin 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-31 Selling Jewish servants twice. A father selling or marrying off his daughter after she was previously sold or married off. The effect of yi'ud.
Kiddushin 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-30 How much is a Jewish slave given at the end of his service? Which kinds of servants must serve the master’s sons? An idolater or convert inheriting his father.
Kiddushin 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-29 The source for acquiring an Hebrew slave with a document. Differences between a Hebrew slave and maidservant regarding ways in which they are freed. Does a Hebrew slave who escapes receive severance gifts?
Kiddushin 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-28 Further discussion of the difference between a person who sold themselves into slavery and one who the Beth Din sold. Source of various slaves going free at Yovel. The redemption of a Jewish slave sold to a non-Jew.
Kiddushin 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-27 The source of why only bi'ah acquires a yevamah. How to acquire a Jewish servant. Do the laws of someone sold by Beth Din apply to one who sold himself?
Kiddushin 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-26 Marrying a woman with an item he stole from her. Is the obligation of a person’s property is beholden to a debt after their death? Source of a woman being permitted to anyone after the death of her husband.
Kiddushin 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-25 Do we consider that even if something is not worth the minimum amount in this place, somewhere else it would be worth more? The concern of possible witnesses elsewhere. A woman kept quiet after money was given.
Kiddushin 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-08-24 Why we are not concerned about various defects with the purchase of a slave. Why Beit Shammai require a much higher amount of money for kiddushin than Beit Hillel.
Kiddushin 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-23 Does the beginning of the act of relations acquire for kiddushin or the end? Do relations (done for kiddushin) effect nisuin as well? When a Kohen's wife would be allowed to eat terumah.
Kiddushin 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-22 The document of kiddushin is written by the husband. Can it be written not for the sake of the woman, or without her consent? The source that relations can effect kiddushin.
Kiddushin 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-21 Giving items which need evaluation. Offering a maneh and giving only a dinar. Offering a maneh and providing collateral.
Kiddushin 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-20 Kiddushin money not given by the husband or not received by the wife. "Half” a man marrying vs. marrying “half” a woman. Using 2 halves of a peruta.
Kiddushin 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-19 Speaking with a woman about matters of her get or kiddushin, and then giving her a get or kiddushin without explaining. Trying to marry a woman by forgiving a loan. A present on condition that out is returned.
Kiddushin 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-18 The source for a document being effective for kiddushin, and that money cannot effect divorce. Rav Huna says that chuppah can effect kiddushin. Comparison of the common characteristics of kiddushin. How kiddushin is accomplished with money.
Kiddushin 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-17 The need for separate sources for the father’s rights to his daughter’s kiddushin and earnings. Sometimes a seemingly superfluous phrase is written for a particular reason. The necessity for two sources of kiddushin with money. The source of kiddushin through bi'ah.
Kiddushin 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-16 Why did the mishna mention numbers? Chalitzah isn't more powerful than a get. The father's rights over his daughter at different ages.
Kiddushin 2: Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-15 Methods through which a woman becomes acquired and acquires herself. Why our Mishnah uses the expression,”a woman is acquired", whereas the second chapter starts with "a man marries". The meaning of the word kiddushin. The use of the word "derech".
Gittin 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-14 Grounds for a man to divorce his wife. The man who marries the divorcee. The altar sheds tears for the man who divorces the wife of his youth.
Gittin 89 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-13 Do we place reliance on rumours of marriage or illicit relations etc? Laws of mitigating factors which neutralise a rumour. If a woman rumoured to have received kiddushin accepts kiddushin from another man.
Gittin 88 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-12 Where witnesses sign a get. Hashem's kindness in bringing the destruction earlier. A forced get.
Gittin 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-11 Definition of common text and specific text in a combined get. Two gittin written side-by-side, with Hebrew and Greek signatures running under both. A get of two columns, and other irregular placements of signatures.
Gittin 86 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-10 Three invalid gittin- written by the husband and no witnesses, an undated get (with witnesses), a get with a date but only one witness. Rabbi Elazar's opinion that the witnesses who see the transfer of the get are critical. Two identical gittin which were confused.
Gittin 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-09 Exclusions of those ineligible for marriage. Exclusions relating to the mechanics of marriage. The precise wording of a get.
Gittin 84 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-08 “This is your get, on condition that you marry x". Conditions which are impossible, or forbidden. Analysis of conditions which go against what is written in the Torah.
Gittin 83 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-07 Various challenges raised against Rabbi Eliezer who validated a limited get. If a woman marries a third party in the interim, even Rabbi Eliezer would agree that she could marry that previously forbidden man. Permanent conditions vs. temporary conditions.
Gittin 82 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-06 The effect of one who divorces his wife and tells her, “You are permitted to every man but x". With kiddushin what if he says "You are married to me insofar as you are prohibited to all men except x"
Gittin 81 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-05 If a written get or rumors of a divorce disqualify to Kehunah. Concern for a second marriage where one spent the night with his divorcee. A bare get.
Gittin 80 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-04 Situations and resultant penalties regarding : invalid dates in a get, incorrect names or places mentioned in a get. What happens if inadvertently the wife gives the get and the husband gives a receipt?
Gittin 79 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-08-03 The airspace of a courtyard. Differences between the laws of Shabbat vs gittin. An "old" get.
Gittin 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-02 A woman who found the get behind her husband. If the get lands between him and her. If the get is in her hand, but a string attached to it is in his hand.
Gittin 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-08-01 How late is considered significant? Possessing a get (or stealing) through the medium of a courtyard. How a woman takes possession of a get with her courtyard if whatever the woman acquires, the husband acquires?
Gittin 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-31 If the husband makes a condition before two witnesses, then makes another before other witnesses. "This is your get any time I pass from your presence for thirty days". A condition of not returning for twelve months, and the husband dying in the interim.
Gittin 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-30 Is giving something to a person against his will considered giving? This is your get, but the paper remains mine. The duration of various conditions.
Gittin 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-29 When a get takes effect if it was given on condition the wife gives money to the husband. If his condition to give a cloak may be fulfilled with money. Can the husband forgive the condition of giving the money?
Gittin 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-28 When a house collapses on one who said, “This is your get from today if I die from this illness”. Concern for relations or kiddushin with a wife whose divorce is pending.
Gittin 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-27 A get made contingent on the husband’s death. The date of the document proves its intent to be effective retroactively. The laws of an ill person’s get are the same as those for his gift.
Gittin 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-26 A deaf-mute who is able to communicate in writing. Do instructions need to be given directly to the scribe and witnesses?
Gittin 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-25 Lists of potentially harmful things or activities. If a get may be written for a husband while he is seized by kurdiakos. The status of someone who has had good throat cut.
Gittin 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-24 Various medical treatments according to the Talmud.
Gittin 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-23 The capture of Ashmedai and the shamir. Ashmedai’s activities on the way to King Solomon. Ashmedai deposes Solomon, and Solomon's return
Gittin 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-22 Can an agent appoint someone else to write a get? Instructions to ten people to write or deliver a get. The danger of drinking fresh wine.
Gittin 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-21 Someone being led out for execution or in a pit instructing to divorce his wife. Telling two or three people to write a get, if they can appoint others. Can an agent pass on verbal instructions?
Gittin 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-20 Various stages of a minor’s ability to perform transactions. Is a person particular when he mentions a specific place? Which phrases of the husband are instructions to write and deliver a get.
Gittin 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-19 The credibility of a third party. A case where we believe neither the husband nor the wife nor the third party. A engaged na'arah - can she receive her get?
Gittin 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-18 Where the agent misrepresented what the wife said. Can a woman appoint an agent to receive a get from the husband's agent? Agents who don't fulfill their agency initially - are they able to correct this?
Gittin 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-17 Giving a double greeting. When the husband can retract if he or the wife appoint an agent. Can a man act as an agent to receive a wife's get, or a woman act an agent to take a get to a wife?
Gittin 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-16 Activities done for Non-Jews to promote harmony. Lending utensils or assisting someone who is suspected regarding shemittah or maaser observance. The concern that a suspected person exchanged one’s permitted food for forbidden food.
Gittin 60 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-07-15 Reading from a sefer of haftarahs. Was the Torah given scroll by scroll or as a complete unit? The size of the written Torah vs the Oral law
Gittin 60 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-07-15 Reading from a book of haftarahs. Was the Torah given scroll by scroll, or as one complete unit
Gittin 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-14 Purchases and sales of young children. The order of aliyos to promote harmony. Aliyah procedure when a Kohen or Levi is not present.
Gittin 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-13 The beauty of the people of Jerusalem. The destruction of Beitar. The carpenter and his apprentice. Buying from a sikrikon.
Gittin 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-12 Onkelus asking different people if he should convert. The blood of Zechariah on the floor of the Temple. "For your sake we are killed all day long"- different explanations
Gittin 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-11 The story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza. Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai’s three requests of Vespasian. Titus’s wickedness, and his punishment through the gnat. Link to article mentioned in the shiur https://aish.com/51207337/
Gittin 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-10 Divorcing a woman surreptitiously. "Takanat hashavin". Does a stolen chatat offering atone? Purchasing land from a sikrikon idolater who seized land from a Jew.
Gittin 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-09 Eating terumah - with what do you pay the Kohen back? Claiming his friend’s tahor items became tamei, or his sacrifice became piggul. Whether a scribe is believed when he says the sefer Torah he was paid to write is invalid.
Gittin 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-08 Damaging another’s property in a way that is physically unrecognizable. Difference if done intentionally or unintentionally. Do we penalize the unintentional action as a result of the intentional?
Gittin 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2023=07-07 A guardian tithing and performing other transactions on behalf of orphans. Orphans always have the upper hand. Does the guardian have to swear at the end of his appointment?
Gittin 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-06 Compensation for improvements - different understandings of the case. A person who finds a lost object - does he have to swear? Why we make a person swear if he partially admits a claim.
Gittin 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-05 The strength of the kablan. Do orphans includes adult orphans? Collecting from gifted properties where unsold properties are available.
Gittin 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-04 Payment when one’s ox gores an ox of hekdesh. Why a damaged party, creditor and woman receive different grades of land. Is there a difference which grade of land a woman would collect if she is divorced as opposed to widowed?
Gittin 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-03 One who sells his field during a time when yovel is in force, does he say the verses for bikkurim? Three different grades of land paid to three different types of “creditors”. Assessing relative grades of land of the damager and the victim.
Gittin 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-02 Redeeming one who sold himself and his children to idolaters. Reish Lakish and the cannibals. An idolater’s purchase of land in Israel - does the land retain it's holiness or not? Saying the verses of bikkurim.
Gittin 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-07-01 Why one who divorces because of his wife’s bad reputation or neder cannot remarry her. A neder made publicly. Divorcing an ayalonit.
Gittin 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-29 A slave forcibly taken by an idolater. If a person sins and dies do we penalize his children? If purchase money is refunded for a slave sold to someone out of Israel, or land sold during yovel?
Gittin 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2013-06-28 Selling just the right to a penalty payment of a slave. A half-slave who marries a free woman. A half-slavewoman who marries someone, becomes fully freed, and marries someone else.
Gittin 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-27 A master writing his possessions over to two slaves. Compensation for a half-slave who is damaged or killed. The status of a slave awaiting a document of emancipation.
Gittin 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-26 A slave who was designated as security for a loan and was subsequently freed. A half-slave, half-free man. Freeing half a slave.
Gittin 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-25 Activities which prove that a slave has been freed. Can an slave declared ownerless get married? A slave who denies having been freed by his master.
Gittin 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-24 Me'ilah relating to a slave. A convert who dies and leaves over slaves. Declaring a slave ownerless or giving up on retrieving a slave.
Gittin 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-23 Source that an idolater can acquire another idolater for his labour. The prohibition to free a slave, and the exception. The effect of concecrating ones slave.
Gittin 37 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-06-22 The meaning of the word pruzbul. Pruzbul only takes effect if the borrower owns land. Which loans are canceled in shemittah? Paying a loan canceled by shemittah. The status of a captured slave who was ransomed.
Gittin 36 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-06-21 The societal benefit of signing a get. The institution of pruzbul by Hillel. The source of "hefker Beit Din hefker".
Gittin 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-20 Why Beth Din refrained from making a widow swear before collecting her ketubah. Can a widow vow to collect after she remarries? When one comes to a Rabbi to annul his neder, does he have to detail the circumstances under which the neder was made, or not?
Gittin 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-19 Is a show of intent significant enough to void a get? Writing all established names in a get.
Gittin 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-18 A husband can not appoint an ad-hoc Beit Din and nullify the get, for the benefit of society. What if the husband disregarded this and did so anyway? Can an agency given in front of numerous people be nullified in front of a portion of them?
Gittin 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-17 How a husband can void a get en route to his wife. Different expressions used when trying to void the get. Can the husband use a previously voided get?
Gittin 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-16 Relying on fruit or money set aside for taking off terumah. The power of different winds.
Gittin 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-15 Lending money to a Kohen with the agreement to keep his terumah as payment. If the borrower died before the collection was made. A Yisrael separating ma'aser for a Levi - how he deals with the terumat ma'aser.
Gittin 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-06-14 The mechanics of an agent instructed to deliver a get appointing another agent in his place. Differences between in Israel and outside of Israel. What happens if the agent dies.
Gittin 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-13 Giving a get or eating terumah on the assumption that the elderly husband is still alive. But saying “Here is your get to take effect one hour before I die" the woman is forbidden to eat terumah? Circumstances of an increased concern of death – e.g. someone sentenced to execution
Gittin 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-06-12 Using a lost get which was found. Using distinctive marks to identify a document. Definition of finding “immediately”.
Gittin 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-11 Can a scribe write the standard part of various documents before the time and leave the essential details to be completed when required? Why a predated get is invalid for an engaged woman.
Gittin 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-10 The concept of retroactive clarification : does it make a difference if it is up to the individual or whether it is dependent on another party? Application of this principle with regards to separating wine before Shabbat.
Gittin 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-09 A woman acting as an agent for her own get. A get had to be written for the sake of the specific woman.
Gittin 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-08 All are qualified to write a get, even a deaf-mute, an insane person, and a minor. A slave being an agent vs a non-Jew.
Gittin 22: Marc Chipkin: 2023-06-07 Acquiring a plant in a perforated pot. The main source of a plant's nourishment. A get written on an erased or unfinished parchment.
Gittin 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-06 A slave functioning as a courtyard to acquire a get. An agent to receive a get. Writing a get on an item attached to the ground.
Gittin 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-05 Engraving a get. Giving a get and trying to retain the surrounding paper. If a woman is in possession of the husband’s slave who has a get written on his hand.
Gittin 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-04 Writing on top of writing regarding Shabbat and get. Options for witnesses who do not know how to sign their names. A man gives his wife a get on an apparently blank paper.
Gittin 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-03 At which stage of collection does a ketubah become subject to shemittah? Predating is allowed for a ketubah in certain situations. Do multiple witnesses instructed to write a get all sign as witnesses, or as merely to fulfill the condition of the husband?
Gittin 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-06-02 Which exile was worse - the Roman or the Persian? The requirement of a date in a get. Does the husband retain rights to his wife’s produce until the time of the get’s writing or signing?
Gittin 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-06-01 Connecting mikvah waters while standing in it. Combining methods of washing one’s body regarding tumah and taharah. Do two witnesses need to say "it was written and signed in front of us "?
Gittin 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-31 An agent who testifies about half of the writing or signing. A get can only be verified either via the standard way of verifying documents or else via the rabbinic decree of allowing the agent to testify - can't mix and match.
Gittin 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-30 If payment sent to a lender can be retracted by the borrower. The intimidating men in Nehardea. Does saying "deliver this" mean "acquire this"? What to do if the sender or recipient dies while the money is in transit.
Gittin 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-29 Slaves prefer a life free of responsibility. A get cannot be given after death. The acquisition of "ma'amad shloshtan".
Gittin 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-28 Can one force his slave to work without feeding him? Injuring a slave.
Gittin 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-27 Documents clearly signed by Non-Jews. Can one retract a document of emancipation of a slave once given to an agent? Seizing property on behalf of a third-party where it disadvantages others.
Gittin 10 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-26 Get signed by a Cuthean, and do we trust them? A Jew signing with a Cuthean. Documents signed in non-Jewish courts.
Gittin 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-25 Ways to free a slave. Using a stencil for witnesses that don't know how to sign. A document given after death is ineffective.
Gittin 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-24 Dispute about the status of the Mediterranean Sea. How Suria is viewed compared to Israel. A slave who brings a document - different opinions if he becomes free and acquires property.
Gittin 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-23 The prohibitions of music and wedding crowns. Even those with minimal means should give charity. A get on a boat.
Gittin 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-22 How much of the writing of a get must be witnessed by the agent. The status of Babylon re a get. The danger of being overly strict in one's household.
Gittin 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-21 A person who cannot say it was written and signed in front of me. Having one witness was done to be lenient with a woman. Before how many people does a get need to be delivered?
Gittin 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-20 Illegitimate signatures, such as relatives, are worse than no signatures and invalidate a document. How Rabbah and Rava explain the mishna according to their respective opinions.
Gittin 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-19 Why two witnesses are not required to confirm signatures. Why Rava and Rabbah do not accept the each other’s explanation. Rabbi Meir does not require writing lishma and Rabbi Eliezer does not require signing lishma.
Gittin 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-18 One who brings a get from overseas has to say "it was written in my presence and signed in my presence.” The reason is either because people overseas aren't aware of the need for the get to be "lishma", or we want the husband not to be able to object to it. Why one witness is sufficient to make this declaration.
Sotah 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-17 Qualities lost with the passing of great sages. The power of the kedushah in the Ova L'tzion prayer. The signs of the footsteps of Moshiach.
Sotah 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-16 What to do with demai. The urim and turim. The shamir worm.
Sotah 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-15 It should always be the left hand which pushes away, and the right should bring close. What happens if the murderer’s identity becomes known. What ended when wickedness increased?
Sotah 46 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-14 Comparing the eglah arufah to the parah adumah. The importance of accompaniment. The incident of Elisha and the bears.
Sotah 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-13 How many members of the Sanhedrin participate in the eglah arufah procedure? Two corpses on top of each other. From which part of the corpse does one measure?
Sotah 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-12 Who is the one who is frightened and fainthearted, who returns home from war? Different types of wars. How many judges are needed for the eglah arufah procedure?
Sotah 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-11 Pinchas was descended from both Joseph and Yitro. The three exemptions from going to war. Those people who don't even report for military service.
Sotah 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-10 The Kohen anointed for war and his address before the battle. Goliath and his mother. What to do if one feels worried.
Sotah 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-09 When can we take out more than one Torah. The procedure for hakhel. The evils of flattery.
Sotah 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-08 Illustrations of humility. The respect one should have for the congregation. The blessings of the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur.
Sotah 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-07 One may not speak once the sefer Torah has been opened. The sequence of events of Birkat Kohanim.
Sotah 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-06 Many details of Birkat Kohanim. The trait of miserliness. A shul of kohanim.
Sotah 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-05 Who jumped into the Red Sea first? Each mitzvah consists of multiple components. The various covenants made with the Jewish people.
Sotah 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-04 The miracles that happened on the day the Jews crossed the Jordan. Joseph does not succumb to Potipher's wife. Pharoah's oath.
Sotah 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-05-03 Details of the spies. Uzza's punishment. How the Torah was written on the stones.
Sotah 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-02 The height of the waters when the Jews crossed the Jordan river. The size of the fruit carried by the spies. How Joshua and Calev were saved from the evil intentions of the other spies.
Sotah 33: Marc Chipkin: 2023-05-01 In what language can the Shema and Amidah be said? The location of Har Gerizim and Har Eival.
Sotah 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-30 Statements and procedures that can be said in any language and those that have to be said specifically in Hebrew. Description of the blessings and curses said on Har Gerizim and Har Eival. A person should say his praise in a low voice, and his disgrace in a loud voice.
Sotah 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-29 The difference between serving Hashem out of fear or love. One witness to defilment is enough to stop the woman drinking and collecting her ketubah. Conflicting testimony from single witnesses.
Sotah 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-28 A second-level tamei item does not make a third-level item if it is chullin. How the song at the sea was recited. Even babies sang it.
Sotah 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-27 Defilement for terumah is relevant during husband’s lifetime. Kehunah is only after his death. The source for a third-level degree of tumah for terumah.
Sotah 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-26 The same way the waters check her, they also check the adulterer. The source that a sotah is forbidden to her husband out of doubt. The sotah is the paradigm for the laws of doubtful impurity.
Sotah 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-25 If a person has no other choice: should they rather marry a woman of ill repute or the daughter of a woman of ill repute? Excluding the blind, crippled, and mute from sotah.
Sotah 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-24 Is a ayalonit subject to the sotah ritual? A woman can be warned even against men where marriage is unable to take place. The meaning of "not a man".
Sotah 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-23 Does a woman who transgresses the code of Jewish conduct require a warning to forfeit her ketubah? Can a husband retract his warning?
Sotah 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-22 Women do not drink the sotah waters nor receive their ketubah, either because they are not married, or else their marriage is forbidden, or else the husband is not able to warn his wife.
Sotah 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-21 Rebbi's understanding of how merit can protect a woman but not disparage the waters. Cases where the minchat sotah is burned. Differences between a male Kohen and a female kohenet. Differences between males and females for various laws.
Sotah 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-20 One who studied Torah and Mishnah but did not serve Torah scholars. A righteous maiden. Seven types of false ascetics. Be careful of hypocrites.
Sotah 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-19 For a mitzvah is a lamp, and the Torah is light. Which merit suspends the punishment of a sotah - Torah or mitzvot? A foolish pious person.
Sotah 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-18 The guilty sotah’s death, merits delaying punishment. Using a sefer Torah for a sotah, or another sotah’s scroll
Sotah 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-17 The sotah’s minchah is waved by the Kohen and sotah together. The order of drinking vs. offering the minchah. If the sotah is compelled to drink if she refuses.
Sotah 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-16 Erasing two sotah scrolls into one cup. Additional possibilities of sin that are included in the oath. Does a yevamah who has illicit relations become forbidden to the yavam?
Sotah 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-15 What verses are required to be written in the scroll? A husband and wife, if they are meritorious, the Shechinah is between them. The reward of Avraham saying "I am dust and ashes".
Sotah 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-14 Can ashes be used for sotah waters in place of earth? Three things which must be visible. Does the earth have to go in after the waters or can it precede them?
Sotah 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-13 Why the sotah's mincha offering is different from all other mincha offerings. The earthenware vessel used for the procedure.
Sotah 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-12 How does one follow in Hashem's ways? Why Moses wanted to go into Israel. The procedure for bringing a minchah.
Sotah 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-11 Esav's attempt to prevent Yaakov’s burial in ma'arat ha'machpelah. Moses seeks and finds Joseph’s bones. Moses at the time of his death.
Sotah 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-10 Amram’s divorce and remarrying Yocheved on Miriam’s advice. Pharaoh's daughter retrieves Moshe from the Nile. Moshe’s mother is brought to nurse him.
Sotah 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-09 Pharaoh the new king and his scheme to enslave the Jews. The implementation of the enslavement. The two midwives.
Sotah 10 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-08 Five people were created with a unique attribute and this eventually caused their downfall. Avraham's "eshel"- what was it? The details of the story of Yehuda and Tamar.
Sotah 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-07 Anyone who sets their eyes on something not for for them, not only won't they get it, they will lose what they currently have. Samson followed his eyes and was ultimately punished for that. Delilah and how she behaved.
Sotah 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-06 Not performing mitzvot in bundles. Concern for immoral thoughts re: sotah and stoning. Measure for measure and how it applies to the Sotah's behavior.
Sotah 7 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-05 Can the husband can be trusted to escort the sotah alone to Jerusalem? The attempts made to persuade the sotah to confess. Rueben and Judah's confessions.
Sotah 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-04 A sotah about whom there are witnesses overseas who saw her adultery. What one does with a mincha offering of a sotah who confessed.
Sotah 5 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-04-03 More discussion about the evils of arrogance. Why a sotah has to do chalitzah and not yibum.
Sotah 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-02 The time period of seclusion. The importance of washing ones hands. The evils of arrogance.
Sotah 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-04-01 A person’s private wrongdoings are publicized. Is the spirit that passes over a husband causing him to warn his wife a good one or not? Mitzvot and sins accompany a person in future.
Sotah 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-31 How many witnesses are required for warning and seclusion? Why Sotah follows Nazir. The basis and difficulty of matching men and women for marriage.
Nazir 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-30 Emissions of a zav. Was Shmuel a nazir? Is it best to say a blessing or to respond to it?
Nazir 65 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-29 The laws of discovered graves for removal and inspection. Leniencies with tzara'at.
Nazir 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-28 The principle of floating tumah. Various questions of floating tumah on top of something in the water. Tumah of the deep on the seventh day of purification.
Nazir 63 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-27 The principle and definition and source of "tumah of the deep". Whether forfeiture is determined by the moment of tumah or by knowledge of it.
Nazir 62 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-26 Non-Jews accepting vows. A stringency of slaves compared to women. Whether an escaped slave nezirut is presumed to continue or not.
Nazir 61 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-25 The source that a slave can become a nazir and that a non-Jew cannot be. Non-Jews cannot become impure.
Nazir 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-24 The offerings of a nazir who was possibly impure and possibly a metzora. The offerings if he is definitely impure and doubtfully a metzora, or vice versa. Why one shaving cannot be used for two different obligations.
Nazir 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-23 The prohibition of a man dressing like a woman and vice versa. If one of two doubtfully impure nazirim dies, what did the surviving one do to become pure?
Nazir 58 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-22 Is shaving ones whole head a violation of shaving your pe'ahs? Where do we learn that a positive commandment overrides a negative commandment, and why by a nazir do we see that a positive commandment overrides both a negative and positive commandment.
Nazir 57 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-21 Where two nezirim are told that one of them became tamei. Cutting ones pe'ahs - how this applies to woman and children.
Nazir 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-20 A doubtful nazir who is also a doubtful metzora. Any teaching from a long line of sources, we are allowed to say the first and last sources, not intermediate names.
Nazir 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-19 Outside of Eretz Yisrael is considered impure. A moving tent. Tzaraat days may be counted towards a lenghty nezirut.
Nazir 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-18 A limb from a corpse which doesn't have sufficient flesh to regenerate. Sources of tumah for which a nazir wouldn't shave.
Nazir 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-17 Further discussion about the impurity of a spine and skull of a corpse. Crushed bones.
Nazir 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-16 Is an ant missing a limb still considered a whole creature? Are a spine and skull enough to separately make the nazir restart his term or do they have to be together to do so?
Nazir 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-15 Corpse dust only applies when it did not contain any other decaying elements. The status of the hair of a corpse? What is considered a mixture of items with a corpse?
Nazir 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-14 Does decomposed flesh from a neveilah continue to convey tumah? The connection of a stream of liquid or melted food. The size of a “ladleful” of corpse-dust.
Nazir 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-13 Rabbi Akiva's exposition of the verses of a nazir and Kohen Gadol. The various sources of tumah for which a nazir will forfeit his term of nezirut.
Nazir 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-12 A nazir and Kohen Gadol may become tamei through contact with tzaraat and zivah. The source that a Kohen Gadol and nazir become tamei for a meit mitzvah. Even someone going to perform pesach or milah becomes tamei for a meit mitzvah.
Nazir 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-11 Kohen Gadol and nazir become tamei for meit mitzvah, who takes precedence? The relative holiness of various types of Kohanim Gadolim.
Nazir 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-10 When do a nazir's prohibitions get lifted? Is the waving procedure essential? The status of shaving when an offering is not valid.
Nazir 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-09 At which point can different people come into the Temple. The shaving procedure of a nazir and why it cannot be done at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Burning of the nazir's hair.
Nazir 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-08 The respective stringencies of the three nazir prohibitions. The purification process of an impure nazir, and a dispute if shaving was delayed until the eighth day.
Nazir 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-07 How impurity and entering a house can occur simultaneously since even if he was tahor when entering, he always becomes tamei before he “enters” the tent, no matter how he enters, since most of his body must be inside to be deemed “entering”. Status of a person who is deathly ill. Can a Kohen become impure for a relative's body that isn't whole?
Nazir 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-06 Leaving two hairs behind after shaving ones head. Can a nazir shampoo his hair? Warnings given to a nazir.
Nazir 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-05 More sources that a metzora shaves with a razor. Cutting off one's pe'ahs. The source of the rule that a positive commandment overrides a prohibition.
Nazir 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-04 The amount of hair required for lashes, shaving at completion of nezirut, and forfeiture of nezirut. The three shavings which are a mitzvah: nazir, metzora, and Leviim. A metzora shaves even his beard, which is done with a razor.
Nazir 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-03 From where does hair start growing? What implements are forbidden for a nazir to use on his head?
Nazir 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-03-02 The ten cases of a revi'it (five red and five white). Separate punishments for each type of grapevine product eaten. Does one get lashed for a generalised prohibition?
Nazir 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-03-01 An item that has absorbed forbidden taste is forbidden. Meat and milk is a novelty. Do the two verses of a nazir and a chatat offering teach the same law?
Nazir 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-28 Combination of a small amount of a forbidden item together with a permitted amount. Eating an olive amount of food within a certain time period - is that rabbinic or from the Torah?
Nazir 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-27 How to expound different verses which contain general and specific statements.
Nazir 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-26 Accepting nezirut regarding the different status of a koy. The amount required for a nazir to be liable for eating and drinking grapes. Eating a grapevine.
Nazir 33: Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-25 Six people who made conflicting nezirut declarations regarding someone’s identity.
Nazir 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-24 A person regrets taking a vow of nezirut and then before asking for annulment starts drinking wine- how do we deal with him? Vowing around the period of the destruction of the Temple - what happened.
Nazir 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-23 Is consecration in error effective? Different interpretations of "the black bull that will come out of my house first will be consecrated". Various types of bulls and for what they are best suited.
Nazir 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-22 A son can use his father's nezirut funds for himself. Do the laws of inheritance affect the distribution of these funds?
Nazir 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-21 Son or relatives can reject nezirut by protesting or shaving. Education of children in mitzvot. A child a year before barmitzvah can make a vow.
Nazir 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-20 One can't even swap a sacrifice that you set aside for a sin for an equivalent sin. The latest time for a husband to nullify his wife's nezirut. Not wasting a sacrifice.
Nazir 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-19 Sometimes animals are considered specified. Can the son use animals the father designated for his own nezirut?
Nazir 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-18 Unspecified money for bird obligations. If money was removed what is the status of the remaining amount? Which items are equal to money to be considered unspecified?
Nazir 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-17 How unspecified nazir funds, which include a chatat, can be used for voluntary offerings. What is done with the offspring or temurah or various sacrifices. Halacha Moshe m'Sinai regarding chatat and asham offerings.
Nazir 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-16 Sacrifices or money that was set aside before a husband revoked his wife's nezirut. A husband’s obligation to provide his wife's sacrifices. The four rams of a nazir which are not accompanied by bread.
Nazir 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-15 Needing atonement for intention to do a sin. Lot's daughter's behavior analysed. The righteousness of Yael.
Nazir 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-14 A husband only cancels a vow from the revocation onward not retroactively. The case of a woman who accepted to be a nazir with her friend and the latter's husband nullified the vow.
Nazir 21: Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-13 If each vower connects to the one before him, or to the first person? Does a husband’s nullification voids his wife’s nedarim retroactively? What is to be done with sacrifices separated before the husband nullified the vow?
Nazir 20: Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-12 How much time does a nazir outside Israel have to repeat when he comes to Israel? Contradictory testimony about the number of nezirut terms declared. Different cases of someone saying “And I” after hearing a nezirut declaration.
Nazir 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2023-02-11 Rabbi Eliezer Hakappar's opinion that a nazir is a sinner. Does one need two days of nezirut to have passed to be liable for offerings if he became impure?
Nazir 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-10 Different opinions regarding which day a nazir can start recounting his days after being impure. The case of only bringing one set of sacrifices for various episodes of impurity.
Nazir 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-09 Taking on a term of nezirut while in a cemetery. Can one leave immediately and thereby avoid lashes? Does the nazir who took the vow inside the cemetery have to shave at the end of the 7 day purification period?
Nazir 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-08 If one holds that part of the day is like the whole day, how can a woman become a zava gedolah. The date of shaving for nezirut, and tumah on the final day. Declaring nezirut in a cemetery.
Nazir 15: Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-07 A nazir for 100 days and a nazir for my son - is this concurrent or not? Part of a period is like the whole period- how this applies to mourning and ziva.
Nazir 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-06 Nested terms of nezirut. The effect of becoming impure during an interrupted nezirut. A nazir who offered his sacrifices but didn't yet cut his hair and then becomes impure.
Nazir 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-05 Different variations of "I will be a nazir when my wife has a son /child ". What if someone says "and I will be one too"? When one thirty-day nezirut interrupts another.
Nazir 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-04 If one says to his agent, “Go and be engage a woman for me,” without specifying anyone, he is forbidden in all women in the world. Implications of saying "it is upon me to ‘shave’ half a nazir".
Nazir 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-03 The effect of saying "I am a nazir from this cup of wine". "I know there is the concept of being a nazir but didn't know it forbade wine "."I am a nazir but I dig graves for a living ".
Nazir 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-02 “This cow says, ‘I am a nazir if I stand up,’” – or “This door says, ‘I am a nazir if I am opened,’” - how do we interpret that?
Nazir 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-02-01 The effect of a person saying he wants to be a "nazir from figs". Can one retract a consecration? The effect of a person saying he wants to bring a voluntary meal offering of barley.
Nazir 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-31 A nazir l"ike the hairs on my head"- is that one long term or many separate ones. “I am a nazir for a houseful” or “for a boxful" we all about his intent. Will a person put himself to a circumstance whose status of doubt is more stringent than its certainty?
Nazir 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-30 A nazir “from here until the end of the world,” is only a nazir for thirty days. Becoming a nazir while traveling. A nazir for thirty days and one hour” is two terms of nezirut.
Nazir 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-29 Part of a day is like the whole day applies for 2 terms of nezirut. A nazir who became impure on the 30th day. A nazir for 100 days that became impure only has to forfeit 30 days according to Rabbi Eliezer.
Nazir 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-28 How often did Avshalom trim his hair? A standard term of nezirut is 30 days - discussion thereof.
Nazir 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-27 Differences between a Samsonite nazir and a permanent nazir. A Samsonite nazir can become impure. The handsome nazir who was approved of by Shimon Hatzaddik.
Nazir 3: Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-26 Various partial expressions which are considered acceptance of nezirut. Does a person vow in reference to something mentioned nearby in the verse to the term he intends? Can one only accept a portion of nezirut restrictions?
Nazir 2: Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-25 All substitute terms for nezirut are effective like a full declaration of nezirut. Why Nazir is brought here. Partial declarations of nezirut.
Nedarim 91 - Marc Chipkin - 2023-01-24 Does the wife of a Kohen that was raped receive her ketubah? Is a woman believed to say her husband divorced her? Incidents of possible adultery.
Nedarim 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-23 Must a neder take effect before being annulled by a husband? Does the same concept apply when you ask a Rabbi for annulment? Three statements of women were originally believed for them to be divorced and collect their ketubah. Can a woman who claimed she was defiled still eat terumah?
Nedarim 89 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-22 Does nullification depends on the woman’s status at time the neder was declared or time of its taking effect? Nine cases where a girl’s neder cannot be revoked.
Nedarim 88 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-21 “Partial knowledge” regarding nullification and a blind person’s inadvertent killing. Giving property to a woman such that her husband will not acquire it. Transferring ownership through one’s wife for a shituf.
Nedarim 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-20 Mistaken annulment vs mistaken tearing on hearing of a death. Definition of "toch k'dei dibur" and exceptions. 3 way dispute on partial confirmation or partial revocation.
Nedarim 86 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-19 Can a woman consecrate her hands if she has to produce for her husband? Hekdesh, chametz, and freeing a slave release property from a lien. An annulment based on a mistaken identity of the vower or object of the neder, is not valid.
Nedarim 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-18 How do we see the unseparated portion of terumah and maaser? The benefit of gratitude. Consecrating something not yet in the world.
Nedarim 84 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-17 Is the husband considered a "person" when the wife vows? Is maaser ani considered a benefit? Maaser ani of demai.
Nedarim 83 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-16 There is no halfway nezirut. Refraining from becoming impure with a corpse is considered affliction.
Nedarim 82 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-15 Is abstaining from relationships caked self-affliction? Annulment of a vow relating to a third party.
Nedarim 81 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-14 Not laundering can lead to insanity. Why children of great Sages often don't achieve the same level as their parents. The importance of the blessing over the Torah.
Nedarim 80 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-13 How do we explain the terms "if I bathe" and "if I don't bathe". Difference between affliction of Yom Kippur and that of a vow.
Nedarim 79 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-12 Keeping quiet to upset your wife does not work with vows. Vows of self affliction versus views that interfere in a husband and wife's relationship
Nedarim 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-11 A Rabbi can't use the words of a husband and vice versa. The source for three laymen or one expert. Connection between vows and sacrifices slaughtered outside the Temple.
Nedarim 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-10 Nullifying a vow not for a Shabbat need. Does using 3 people on Shabbat look like a court case? Implied nullifications.
Nedarim 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-09 Planting tamei seeds. The verse regarding vows overrides the kal v'chomer. The amount of time a father/husband has to nullify the vow.
Nedarim 75: Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-08 Further discussion about a yavam annuling his yevamah's vows. Pre- confirming or pre-nullifying a wife's vows. Do the vows take effect for an instant even if they can be pre-nullified?
Nedarim 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-07 Can a yavam annul his yevamah's vows? Does it make a difference is there is only one yavam as opposed to two?
Nedarim 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-06 Can a man appoint an administrator to annul his wife's vows? A deaf man and his wife's vows. Can a man can revoke vows of two wives simultaneously? Annuling vows after the expected time of marriage.
Nedarim 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-05 Is divorce considered like silence or confirmation? Can one revoke nedarim without hearing them?
Nedarim 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-04 A girl who gets engaged and divorced and re-engaged to another fiancee. Her father and the latest fiancee annul her views.
Nedarim 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-03 Confirmed for today, revoked tomorrow. Confirmation or annulment for a specific time, even less than a day. The advantage that the father had over the husband and vice versa.
Nedarim 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-02 Can one annul confirmation or nullification? One who made a confirmation contingent on a nullification.
Nedarim 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2023-01-01 Another source for the joint revocation of vows. When the father and the arusah annul the vow do each of them annul half or do they just weaken it?
Nedarim 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-31 Father and husband jointly revoke nedarim of a naarah who is an arusah. If one party confirmed the neder, it is not revoked, even if the other party revoked it.
Nedarim 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-30 A neder which is partially nullified is nullified entirely. Rabbi Yishmael's makeover of a young girl got her married. The Sages going to extraordinary ways to preserve peace.
Nedarim 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-29 Annuling an oath about a person has to be fine in their presence. Situations that are like "nolad" but aren't. Allowing a neder based on a wife's ketubah.
Nedarim 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-28 Different permutations of openings to annul a vow. Honor of parents and of Hashem. 4 types of people are considered dead.
Nedarim 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-27 When does the rainfall begin? Which is considered the main Adar? Vows automatically adjusted for obvious circumstances.
Nedarim 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-26 Rabbi Tarfon gets captured. Not using the Torah for personal benefit. Informing people that you are a talmid chacham.
Nedarim 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-25 Is the yovel year included in the shmittah cycle or does it stand independently? Does a person put himself in a situation of uncertainty? A vow "until the harvest".
Nedarim 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-24 Making a vow for a particular time period. Getting confused between "today" vs "a day".
Nedarim 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-23 Why the growths of konamot are forbidden. Permitted items growing from forbidden items.
Nedarim 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-22 Items that can be nullified vs items that can't be nullified. Working with non- observant Jews. Shmittah can get nullified and orlah and kilayim cannot.
Nedarim 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-21 Vowing to forbid a fruit includes it's future growth. Different applications with shmittah, orlah and terumah.
Nedarim 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-20 What is included in a vow about a house? The dargash bed. The outer boundaries of a city or house regarding nedarim.
Nedarim 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-19 The difference between "dagan" and "tevuah". Rental from a ship and a house. The importance of humility.
Nedarim 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-18 Dispute regarding an item that an agent would consult about, and how that relates to me'ilah. The difference between fowl and fish when one vows that he is forbidden to benefit from meat.
Nedarim 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-17 Dispute about derivatives of dates and winter-grapes. Which oils are forbidden with a vow. Vegetables during shmittah.
Nedarim 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-16 Flavour imparted from food forbidden by a vow. Is whey included in a vow from milk? Does a vow forbidding grapes and olives include wine and olive oil?
Nedarim 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-15 Why Rebbi wouldn't laugh. The incident at Rabbi Simon's wedding. Using the definitive term "the" is significant when it comes to vows.
Nedarim 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-14 Rabbi Akiva and his wife's story. How Rabbi Akiva became wealthy. The medical benefits of a turmunita egg.
Nedarim 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-13 Is roasted food is included in "tavshil"? Eating with one's fingers. Rabbi Yehudah’s shining face.
Nedarim 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-12 The incident of Beit Choron. Forbidding benefit on a son who is a thief but allowing a grandson to benefit of her is virtuous. Discussion of kinyan sudar.
Nedarim 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-11 Can a person prohibit his property to another for even after it leaves his ownership? Exchanges of and growths from a forbidden item - are they treated the same as the original item? A wife borrowing for support which is collected from the husband.
Nedarim 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-10 Can partners who vowed against each other make use of their joint courtyard? How big is the courtyard? Ownership of a bathhouse in the city - is a person allowed to use the facility?
Nedarim 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-09 Making something ownerless in front of two people is ineffective whereas in front of three people it works. Partners who share a courtyard and are forbidden to benefit from each other - can they enter the courtyard?
Nedarim 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-08 Retracting the hefker of a field. Being mafkir for a limited time is highly unusual and indicates he intends for its return. The problem of separating tithes for something de'orayta for something de'rabbanan and vice versa.
Nedarim 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-07 Why it is forbidden to borrow articles from a person forbidden to benefit from him? Methods for providing goods indirectly to a person who is forbidden to benefit from that person in cases of need.
Nedarim 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-06 ls working in the same field considered a benefit? How the shmittah year affects a person who is forbidden to receive benefit from another.
Nedarim 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-05 Aftereffects of illness, including forgetting one’s learning. When it is a person's time to die, he is powerless to stop it. Bathing in the same bath and sleeping in the same bed as someone from whom it is forbidden to receive benefit.
Nedarim 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-04 Anyone who does not visit the sick, is as if he spills blood. The reward of one who performs bikkur cholim. Using a river as a mikveh.
Nedarim 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-03 Visiting the sick in the case of a existing vow. The source for bikkur cholim. Seven things were created before the world. Visiting the sick has no limit.
Nedarim 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-02 Moses was strong, wealthy, wise and humble. All prophets were wealthy. Feeding a kosher and non-kosher animal of someone who is forbidden to receive benefit.
Nedarim 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-12-01 Accepting payment for teaching Torah. The trop is an essential part of the Torah. Why children cannot be taught new material on Shabbat.
Nedarim 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-30 All sacrifices require consent of the owner for sacrificing, except for one who is mechusah kappara. Separating terumah from his own produce on his friend’s produce.
Nedarim 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-29 If a person declares a konam, is that item subject to me'ilah? Who commits me'ilah? Are the Kohanim our agents or heavenly agents?
Nedarim 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-28 Returning a lost object - different permutations
Nedarim 33: Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-27 Forbidding benefit from a person - how that applies to food. Paying a debt for someone who is forbidden for benefit. Can one return a lost object to one for whom he is forbidden to benefit?
Nedarim 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-26 The greatness of circumcision. Why was Abraham punished? Various gematrias.
Nedarim 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-25 Cutheans and which vows would forbid them. Forbidding benefit from Jews. The greatness of circumcision.
Nedarim 30: Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-24 Meaning of various vows: not to benefit from seafarers, or "the dark-haired", or "those that are born".
Nedarim 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-23 Can a sanctified item's holiness disappear by itself? Physical vs monetary holiness. Consecrating an item after a period of time.
Nedarim 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-22 False vows to extortionists and tax collectors. The law of the land has to be kept. These saplings are holy if they are not cut.
Nedarim 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-21 Further discussion of "if a part of a vow is annulled, all of it is annulled ". How we treat circumstances beyond a person's control.
Nedarim 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-20 Different permutations of the concept of "if part of a vow is annulled, all of it is annulled ".
Nedarim 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-19 A person swears according to his own intent. Moses made the Jewish people swear to keep the Torah. Unintentional nedarim.
Nedarim 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-18 Vows relating to gifts given in appreciation. Exaggerated vows and oaths.
Nedarim 23 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-17 Finding an opening for a vow. Wives going against their husband’s vows. Kol nidrei.
Nedarim 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-16 Various openings for vows which shouldn't be used. A person who vows is as if he has built a private alter and if he fulfills it, it's as if he had sacrificed upon it. The terrible trait of anger.
Nedarim 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-15 Four types of nedarim which do not take effect. Using vows as bargaining tools. Using regret to annul a vow.
Nedarim 20 : Marc Chipkin :2022-11-14 Accepting a lenient interpretation of a neder. The trait of shame. Issues of intimacy between a man and his wife.
Nedarim 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-13 Further discussion about nazarite vows. What is defined as uncertain? A permanent nazir and a Samsonite nazir.
Nedarim 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-12 One term of nezirut can take place with another. An oath cannot be taken together with another. Unspecified vows are treated stringently.
Nedarim 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-11 Another source for the non-effectivity of an oath against the Torah. A vow within a vow and an oath within an oath.
Nedarim 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-10 Shevua vs neder. How an oath to eat can mean the opposite. Vowing against a mitzvah
Nedarim 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-09 Conditions attached to a vow. Rabbinic prohibition against violating a vow.
Nedarim 14 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-08 Attaching a vow to something that is inherently forbidden. In certain cases we make a person annul such a vow. Making a vow on the Torah.
Nedarim 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-07 The status of a bechor offering. Ha-korban is different from hakorban. The stringency of vows over oaths and vice versa.
Nedarim 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-06 Does one attach an item to its original state or current state? One has to attach an item to something that is forbidden through human intervention not forbidden by the Torah. The breads of a todah offering.
Nedarim 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-05 Can one infer a positive statement from a negative statement? The meaning of the word "lachullin".
Nedarim 10: Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-03 Is it commendable to become a nazir? Different forms of equivalent statements. Why would the Rabbis require a person to use such terms?
Nedarim 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-03 What does “Like the vows of the wicked” mean? Difference between a neder and nedavah. The story of Shimon Hatzaddik and the handsome nazir with beautiful hair.
Nedarim 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-11-02 One may swear to fulfill a mitzvah. Dreaming about excommunication. The sun will be taken out of it's sheath in the future.
Nedarim 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-11-01 Partial declarations as they relate to charity and designating a bathroom. Excommunicating a person - why and the sensitivity required when done.
Nedarim 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-31 Continuation of the discussion about partial and ambiguous vows. Partial vows relating to kiddushin and pe'ah.
Nedarim 5: Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-30 A neder forbidding both parties from each other. Different opinions about ambiguous statements.
Nedarim 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-29 How the prohibition of "deley" applies to a nazir. "I am vowed from you"- what significance does that statement have in isolation?
Nedarim 3 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-28 Further discussion about partial vows. The source thereof and how it relates to a nazir.
Nedarim 2: Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-27 All substitute terms for nedarim qualify as nedarim. The reason for the order of the mishna. The difference between a substitute term for a neder and a partial neder.
Ketubot 112 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-26 The fertility of Israel. Why is the land of Israel compared to a deer? Expressing love for the land.
Ketubot 111 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-25 The 3 oaths. Burial in Israel vs outside. Resurrection of the dead in future.
Ketubot 110 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-24 A borrower who has land sold to him. What is done when two people owe each other the same amount of money? One cannot make his wife move from a town to a city because city life is difficult.
Ketubot 109 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-23 A father who renages on the promised dowry. Can a person signed as a witness claim that the field was stolen from him? Is a person who owns a field entitled to a path thereto?
Ketubot 108 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-22 Doing things for someone who is prohibited from getting benefit from that person. How to divide up a small estate. Cases of partial admission.
Ketubot 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-21 A husband that goes overseas and his wife demands sustenance. In what situations does the court definitely grant it and in which situations is there a dispute?
Ketubot 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-20 The number of students that stayed by various Rabbis. People who were paid from the leftover temple chamber money. What type of money was use to purchase service vessels in the Temple?
Ketubot 105 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-19 The judges of Jerusalem. The severe prohibition of bribing a judge and how far that extends.
Ketubot 104 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-18 Rebbi's day of death. Can a woman always claim her ketubah or is there a time limit?
Ketubot 103 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-17 Forcing people not to act selfishly. A widow is entitled to the same living conditions and privileges as when her husband was alive. Rebbi's instructions upon his deathbed. The greatness of Rabbi Chiya.
Ketubot 102 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-16 Commitments to a stepdaughter. One has to use money for pidyon haven. Financial agreements made before a marriage.
Ketubot 101 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-15 A woman who refuses her husband, a secondary forbidden relative and a ayalonit - all don't receive a ketubah. Do they receive other marriage benefits?
Ketubot 100 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-14 The Beth Din has got flexibility to sell property at a certain amount less than market value. The orphans are responsible to guarantee the property. Public announcements and when they are made.
Ketubot 99 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-13 An agent who sells less land than he was instructed to. Selling to more than one person.
Ketubot 98 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-12 Selling property outside of Beth Din. Selling property for more or less than its value. How much responsibility given to a person's agent?
Ketubot 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-11 How often does a widow sell property? Is a sale of land rescinded if the seller no longer needs the money for his original intentions? Selling property outside of the Beth Din.
Ketubot 96 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-10 If a widow finds a lost object she can keep it. A widow who seized movables for her sustainence- can she keep them? Who is considered the rightful owner of the property - the widow or the orphans?
Ketubot 95 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-09 Going round in circles until a compromise is reached. Can "free" property be collected if liened property gets ruined? "My property shall go to you, and after you to this other person"
Ketubot 94 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-08 Earlier ketubot take precedence over later ketubot. One partner is viewed as the agent of the other in a legal dispute. Judges using their discretion.
Ketubot 93 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-07 Game theory and wives that have to split an estate. Various explanations about why the split is done that way.
Ketubot 92 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-06 Selling fields with, and without, a guarantee. Collection by a creditor of a previously sold field. When the seller of the field can intercede when the creditor comes to collect from the buyer
Ketubot 91 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-05 Further discussions about ketubat b'nin dichrin. Valuing the estate at the time of death.
Ketubot 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-10-04 The effect of "ketubat b'nin dichrin" when the estate is small. Can a ketubah be considered surplus for another one?
Ketubot 89 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-03 Producing either a get or ketubah - what can a woman collect? The writing of a receipt. How Beis Din prevents a wife from collecting her ketubah a second time.
Ketubot 88 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-10-02 The difference between an oath from the Torah and a rabbinic oath. Can a wife or creditor collect in the absence of the husband or borrower? What mishna does Rabbi Shimon comment on?
Ketubot 86 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-30 If a creditor sells a loan document to another, and afterwards, he forgives the debt, the debt is forgiven. What if debtor does not want to pay his debt? If one sets up his wife as a storekeeper, or he appointed her as an administrator of his business, he may impose an oath on her whenever he wants.
Ketubot 83 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-27 The effect of a husband writing to his wife "I have no claim or argument with respect to your property". What rights can be divested by the husband?
Ketubot 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-29 An agent pays a debt but doesn't get the document back. An item is found after the death of a person and the claimant says that it is a deposit. Two people with the same name say the gift is for them.
Ketubot 84 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-28 A husband always inherits from his wife. If there are multiple claims on an estate who is considered the weakest among them? When does seizing a debtor’s property work?
Ketubot 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-26 Can a yavam agree to divide the estate with another brother? Once the yavam marries the yevamah she is considered his full wife. All of husband’s possessions are pledged to the ketubah.
Ketubot 81 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-25 Whose responsibility is it to bury a woman awaiting yibum? Inferences from the ketubah. Can a yavam split the deceased brother’s estate with another brother?
Ketubot 80 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-24 Improving a property without the owners knowledge - what level of compensation do you get? Can a husband sell his rights to someone else? The status of a woman awaiting yibum and how we deal with her property
Ketubot 79 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-23 Documents of evasion. Which assets are the best to buy? Is there a difference between the ownership of an offspring of a slave and the offspring of an animal?
Ketubot 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-22 The difference between when a woman inherits properties before or after engagement. If she sells property can the husband retrieve it from the buyer?
Ketubot 77 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-21 Men with blemishes - can they be forced to divorce their wives? Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi jumps into Gan Eden alive.
Ketubot 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-20 The difference when the husband’s disputant is the father or the bride. The case where one exchanges a cow for a donkey. Is epilepsy like a hidden blemish or a revealed one?
Ketubot 75 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-19 What a woman is willing to put up with to be married. All blemishes that disqualify Kohanim from their service are considered blemishes for a marriage. In whose domain the woman is found when the blemishes are discovered is important.
Ketubot 74 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-18 Engaging a woman on condition but marrying without one. What actions are possible with an agent. Vows can be retroactively undone.
Ketubot 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-17 Engaging a woman with a condition but marrying her without a condition. Case of one woman like two woman.
Ketubot 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-16 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting. Transgressing the law of Moshe and the rule of Jewish practice- various examples. Doing kiddushin with a woman that has vows.
Ketubot 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-15 A husband can support his wife through a trustee for up to 30 days. It is a hardship for a woman to be without jewelry and perfume. Forbidding a woman to go to her father's house.
Ketubot 70 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-14 When are purchases and sales made by minors valid? A husband who makes a vow against his wife for up to 30 days must use a third party to support her. Why the third party is not an agent.
Ketubot 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-13 Can a mortgaged property be collected for a dowry? A daughter is like a creditor of the estate. Can a third party listen to a daughter's instructions?
Ketubot 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-12 How swindlers can save people who give charity. Assessing the dowry for an orphan girl. The right to dowry and the right to sustenance
Ketubot 67 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-11 Allocating tzedakah to orphans. Providing a pauper with a horse to ride on and a slave to run before him. Mar Ukva’s feet get burned.
Ketubot 66 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-09-10 Payments for humiliation belong partly to the husband. How various items are evaluated for the purposes of the ketubah. The daughter of Nakdimon ben Guryon.
Ketubot 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-09 Providing a woman with wine. Shoes are given to woman for Yomtov. A woman eats with her husband on Friday night.
Ketubot 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-08 We issue a certificate of rebelliousness against a rebellious arusah, but we do not issue one against a rebellious woman awaiting yibum. Why the compensation for a rebellious husband is different than that for a rebellious wife. Providing for a wife through a third party
Ketubot 63 : Marc Chipkin : 202-09-07 Rabbi Akiva and Rachel's greatness. A wife or husband who rebels against their spouse is penalized.
Ketubot 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-09-01 A bride prepares for 12 months for her wedding. A ketanah, both she and her father may delay the wedding. Why a fiancé of a Kohen does not eat terumah.
Ketubot 56 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-31 The woman only gets the additional amount in the ketubah from the time of marriage. Can a woman agree to receive less or is that going against a stipulation of the Torah?
Ketubot 55 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-30 Additional amounts added onto a ketubah. Disputes between the academies of Pumbedisa and Mata Mechasya. Law of a gift of a person on his deathbed.
Ketubot 54 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-29 Daughters of various women - do they receive sustenance? Is a woman's clothing dedicated from the ketubah? One may add onto the kesubah, without concern for embarrassing those who cannot afford it.
Ketubot 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-28 Does a woman who sells her ketubah to her husband lose the stipulations of the male children? Is a person who is engaged obligated to bury his fiancee? Does an orphaned girl who is engaged receive support from the estate?
Ketubot 52 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-27 Redeeming the wife of a forbidden marriage. One may not ransom captives more than their value for the benefit of the world. How much should a father commit to the dowry?
Ketubot 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-26 Certain unwritten conditions are considered implicit. Is a Yisrael's wife who was raped sometimes forbidden to her husband? The status of captives of kings and bandits.
Ketubot 50 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-25 One who gives generously to charity, should not give more than a fifth. Teaching a child under the age of six. Just as the sons inherent only from land, so too the daughters are only sustained from land.
Ketubot 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-04 A bride even though she has only been handed over to the husband’s agents never goes back to being under her father’s jurisdiction. The obligation to support one’s sons and daughters. Shaming fathers who do not support their children when they are minors.
Ketubot 48 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-23 A woman rises to her husband’s status. The difference between a father going insane versus travelling overseas regarding providing support to the family. Once the father has handed his daughter over to the husband’s agents, she is in her husband’s jurisdiction.
Ketubot 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-22 Can a father can consume the produce from his daughter’s properties? Does a husband have a right to the dowry if the wife dies before the marriage? Definition of the terms "she'arah, kesutah, ona'ah".
Ketubot 46 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-21 The source for the warning of a defamer. Does the defamer get punished if he had not yet had relations yet? The source that a father receives his daughter’s engagement money.
Ketubot 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-20 If a na'arah becomes a bogeret does her punishment change? Why does the defamer not have to pay in that case? Where did the stoning take plans?
Ketubot 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-19 A second document nullifies the first document. A betrothed naarah who committed adultery is only stoned outside her father’s house if she was conceived and born Jewish. Does an orphan girl get the fine for defamation?
Ketubot 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-18 A daughter who is being supported by her brothers from her father’s estate, to whom do her earnings belong? Does the father or daughter receives the ketubah from the first of two marriages?
Ketubot 42 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-17 Is an admission after a denial considered a monetary payment or a fine? Once awarded by the court does a fine metamorphosise into a monetary payment? Bequeathing a payment owed to ones sons.
Ketubot 41 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-16 Does admission of liability exempt one from a fine? Is half damages compensation or a fine? Collection of fines outside of Israel.
Ketubot 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-15 Why the case of a violator marrying an unfit woman is not a case of a positive commandment overriding a negative commandment? The fine excludes compensation for embarrassment and depreciation. The father receives the compensation for embarrassment and depreciation.
Ketubot 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-14 What if the na'arah dies, or gets engaged, or gets married before the fine gets paid? The differences between a rapist and seducer. In both cases the woman or her father can refuse the marriage.
Ketubot 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-13 Does a previously engaged woman receive a fine? The fifty silver shekalim paid by the violator and seducer.
Ketubot 37 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-12 Why there are two sources for the principle of "Kam Lei m'deraba minei"? Atonement money is not accepted for the life of a murderer. The source of those executed with a sword, that it is from the neck.
Ketubot 36 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-11 Different opinions as to specific woman being able to claim that they were virgins. Does a captive woman receive a penalty and can she eat terumah?
Ketubot 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-10 Striking a man vs an animal. Does a sin done inadvertently exempt one from monetary payment? Summary of various discussions so far in the chapter.
Ketubot 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-09 A thief who steals a sheep or ox and his agent kills or sells it. Different opinions about the forbidden state of food cooked on Shabbat. Rabbi Meir's view of a monetary penalty.
Ketubot 33: Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-08 Conspiring witnesses do not receive a warning. Is one who is warned for a severe matter considered warned for a lighter matter?
Ketubot 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-07 Mishnah in Makkot says one would get lashed not pay a fine - why different from Ketubot? Source for Ulla and Rabbi Yochanan.
Ketubot 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-06 The difference between stealing forbidden fat and eating it, and shooting an arrow through a silk. Stealing a purse on Shabbat.
Ketubot 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-05 Rabbi Nechunya ben HaKanah holds that a fine is not given to one who is liable for karet. The four types of death penalties today. Does death by the hand of Heaven exempt from a monetary punishment?
Ketubot 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-04 Sources for a violator or seducer of a na'arah. The fine had to be paid even to woman with whom there is a violation of a negative commandment, and even subject to karet.
Ketubot 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-08-03 Living in proximity to ones ex-wife. Testifying as an adult about something seen as a child - what is accepted and what is not accepted. If a brother marries someone unsuitable.
Ketubot 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-02 Troops that conquer a city - how do we view the women therein? The status of the women when there is a single hiding space. Is a woman's maidservent believed when testifying the woman was not violated?
Ketubot 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-08-01 Ezra penalized the levi'im and took away their right to maaser rishon. Two witnesses - do they have to testify at the same time?
Ketubot 25: Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-31 Further discussion whether doing birkat Kohanim is sufficient to be considered a Kohen. The status of terumah and challah nowadays. Elevating a person to the status of a Kohen based on incidents.
Ketubot 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-30 I am a Kohen and my friend is a Kohen. Are we concerned about collusion? Do we elevate a Kohen who eats terumah to the status of one who has good Kohanic yichus?
Ketubot 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-29 People sometimes get engaged and divorce privately. Shmuel’s daughters were taken captive. Testimony of one witness is believed with regard to a captive woman.
Ketubot 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-28 The source of the principle that, “the mouth that forbids is the mouth that permits”. A woman said: “I am married,” and then went back and said, “I am unmarried. The difference between contradictory testimony that a man died, or a woman was divorced.
Ketubot 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-27 Dealing with a case of where two people signed on a document and one of them died. A witness who signed a document and a judge who signed the certification can combine to authenticate it. If two of the three judges recognize the signatures on a document, how they can authenticate it.
Ketubot 20: Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-26 Different ways to authenticate the witnesses’ signatures. A witness using notes to remember testimony or being reminded by someone else. Remembering testimony after sixty years have passed.
Ketubot 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-25 Discussion about the status of various types of documents : document written on trust, paid-up loan documents, "passim" documents, documents written with prior notification of non-intent, documents with conditions attached.
Ketubot 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-24 Other cases that the Mishnah could have chosen. Why did the Torah say that one who admits to part of a claim must swear that the denial of the other part is true? If witnesses claimed the signatures are theirs but they were forced with a financial threat.
Ketubot 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-23 How do we dance before the bride? We nullify our learning to carry the dead out to burial, and to accompany a bride to the chuppah. Why did the mishna teach the case of buying a field from the father?
Ketubot 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-22 A woman is claiming her ketubah had to bring witnesses that she was married as a virgin. The same mouth that has forbidden is the mouth that has permitted. Passing a barrel of wine before a bride.
Ketubot 15: Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-21 Two majorities required when permitting a doubtful case to a Kohen. Any doubt relating to something stationed in its place is treated as having the probability of fifty-fifty, whether this leads to a leniency or stringency. The status of an abandoned baby.
Ketubot 14 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-20 The case of the widow of a doubtful chalal - can she marry a Kohen? Keeping quiet after being accused of having disqualifying lineage.
Ketubot 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-19 A woman speaking to a man. Ruins in a city vs. ruins in a field. Is the daughter considered disqualified?
Ketubot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-18 The Judean custom of seclusion pre-wedding. Kohanim and higher ketubot. One claims “certainly” and the other one claims “perhaps”
Ketubot 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-17 Is a considered a benefit to convert? A convert may renounce their conversion when they get older. Definition of "injury by wood".
Ketubot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-16 Is a ketubah from the the Torah or a rabbinic decree? Different tests to see if a woman is/was a virgin. Etymology of various words.
Ketubot 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-15 The husband's claim of an "open entrance" will forbid his wife to him as well as she loses her ketubah. Why Batsheva was permitted to King David.
Ketubot 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-14 The text of sheva brachot. Blessings that used to be said and wine that used to be drunk in the house of mourning.
Ketubot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-13 Finalisation of discussion about having relations for the first time on Shabbat with a virgin bride. Length of time to say sheva brachot depends on the prior marital status of the couple. The text of the blessing of erusin.
Ketubot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-12 Further discussion about having relations for the first time on Shabbat with a virgin bride. Exemption from saying Shema due to preoccupation.
Ketubot 5: Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-11 Why can't a virgin get married on a Friday night? The reason a widow gets married on a Thursday. Having relations for the first time on a Friday night.
Ketubot 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-10 What to do when the groom's father or the bride's mother die just before the wedding. Do people treat mourning with less severity than nidda?
Ketubot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-09 The Rabbis have the power to uproot a person's kiddushin. Women can get married any day in places where courts sat in judgment daily. When it became dangerous to marry on a Wednesday, people began to marry on a Tuesday.
Ketubot 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-08 Why a virgin gets married on a Wednesday. If the wedding had to be postponed due to circumstances beyond the grooms control he does not have to support his wife. Do unavoidable circumstances apply to a "get"?
Yevamot 122 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-07 Testifying on the basis of a disembodied voice. Believing the non-Jewish innkeeper. Do we interrogate woman who testify that a man has died?
Yevamot 121 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-06 A person that falls into water, when do we allow his wife to be remarried? Holding onto the daf. Believing innocent conversation.
Yevamot 120 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-05 Identifying a dead body to permit the wife to remarry. Is a mole a reliable form of identification? One may not testify that a man is dead until they see that his soul has departed even though he appears mortally wounded.
Yevamot 119 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-04 Why a woman may not marry a stranger until she determines her co-wife is pregnant. Statistical majorities vs ones that are able to be seen now. Two brothers’ wives who testify to their husbands’ death.
Yevamot 118 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-03 A co-wife may be so vindictive that she could say something that will even hurt herself. Ensuring that no transgression is done can result in penalties being paid. Is a get sometimes defined as a benefit for a woman?
Yevamot 117 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-07-02 Does a woman collect her kesubah when she testifies that her husband has died? Certain women are not believed to testify about the death of the husband. Is a woman permitted to marry when a single witness is contradicted by a second witness?
Yevamot 116 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-07-01 What is considered strife between a man and his wife? Does a woman have to look disheveled before she is believed? How closely do we pattern a decree on the original circumstances?
Yevamot 115 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-30 If a woman established for us that there was a war on the world, do we believe her that her husband died in the war? A woman's weapons are always on her. Do we need to be concerned regarding two people sharing the same name regarding testimony?
Yevamot 114 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-29 Does the Beth Din have the obligation to stop a child sinning? Difference between a non-Jew and Jewish child putting out a fire in Shabbat. Why a woman is not believed to say her husband died during wartime.
Yevamot 113 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-28 Why a ketanah married to a Kohen may eat terumah while a chareshet may not. Why a ketanah receives a kesubah but a chareshet does not. An insane woman cannot be divorced.
Yevamot 112 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-27 Three woman who get divorced from their husbands but still receive a ketubah. Why a chareshet may get divorced but a cheresh may not divorce. Why marriages were instituted for a cheresh/chareshet but not a shoteh/shotah
Yevamot 111 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-26 Rav Chisda in the name of Rav holds – A chareshet is partially acquired and partially left unacquired, and the ketanah these is a doubt whether she is acquired or not. The status of minors in terms of yibum.
Yevamot 110 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-25 Must a married ketanah have relations after adulthood to be considered a Torah marriage? Can a chareshet do chalitzah? Does it make a difference if she only became a chareshet after marriage?
Yevamot 109 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-24 If one divorces a woman, remarries her, then dies childless, does yibum apply? A person should always cleave to three things and distance himself from three things. Whoever says that he only has Torah, but does not do mitzvot, does not even have the reward for learning Torah.
Yevamot 108 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-23 What is considered mi’un? Is accepting kiddushin from another man regarded as a form of mi’un? Where a get follows mi’un, she is forbidden to return to him. In a case where mi’un follows a get, she is permitted to return to him.
Yevamot 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-22 Does mi'un apply to married girls or only ones that are engaged? A minor yevamah who did mi’un to one brother- is she permitted to the other brother? Dies mi’un have to be done before the husband?
Yevamot 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-21 A mistaken chalitzah is valid. How much of the chalitzah procedure is written down? Wind blowing the spittle.
Yevamot 105 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-20 Descendants from Beis Eli who engaged in Torah and chesed and lived longer. Does one directs his eyes downwards or upwards when davening? Abdan's punishment.
Yevamot 104 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-19 Chalitzah at night, or with the left shoe. Which actions are essential for chalitzah.
Yevamot 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-18 Types of shoes allowed for chalitzah. The meaning of the word "regel". Clothing and houses with tzara'at.
Yevamot 102 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-17 Types of shoes that are able to be used for chalitzah. Chalitzah requires intention. The meaning of "chalitzah".
Yevamot 101 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-16 Striking or cursing a doubtful father. Chalitzah can be performed before a panel of laymen as long as they can dictate the instructions. Establishing a place for the chalitzah to take place.
Yevamot 100 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-15 People who don't receive terumah at the granary. What to do with a doubtful Kohen's mincha. The importance of Kohanic lineage.
Yevamot 99 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-14 Confusion with children and how to deal with that. A man and a woman can sometimes have children belonging to five different genealogical categories. A Kohenet's child and her maids event's child get mixed up. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZNF0UtLcfuxn5LvN4WWUsQGoOJ6zlRb/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 98 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-13 Twin brothers conceived after their mother converted are related maternally but not paternally. How many prophecies did Jonah receive? Five women whose male children became mixed up.
Yevamot 97 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-12 Until when is one considered a minor if signs of puberty do not emerge? The sources that only relatives of one’s married wife are forbidden, not of a woman violated or seduced by him. Covert brothers marrying the other’s widow.
Yevamot 96 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-11 When does a minor disqualify his adult brothers from doing yibum? When two brothers who are minors have relations with the yevamah one after the other. The importance of quoting a teaching in the name of the one who said it.
Yevamot 95 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-10 The source that a woman is permitted to her husband who had relations with her sister. Is a woman permitted to her husband who had relations with her mother? Rabbi Yose's view.
Yevamot 94 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-06-09 Is a woman believed to say, “My yavam died, that I might marry another.”? A get that does not work except to disqualify a woman from marrying into the Kehunah. A man marries his wife’s sister when he was told his wife and brother-in-law died overseas
Yevamot 93 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-08 Can a person transfer something that has not yet come into the world? The testimony of a single witness concerning a yevamah.
Yevamot 92 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-07 A woman relies on the court to remarry. Women acting on the basis of incorrect testimony. Does kiddushin takes effect with a yevamah and someone other than the yavam.
Yevamot 91 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-06 A Levi's daughter is treated stringently in this instance. Various lenient opinions on the penalties. Examination of the principle "what could the woman have done?"
Yevamot 90 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-05 Further discussion of how the Rabbis have the power to uproot a Torah law. Passive neglect of a law is allowed for example shofar or lulav on Shabbat. The Rabbis encouraged marital strife in this instance.
Yevamot 89 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-04 Why the woman needs a get from both husbands, and why she gets no ketubah from either of them. Separating terumah from impure produce for pure produce. The power of the Beth Din to uproot a Torah law.
Yevamot 88 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-03 One witness is believed to permit a woman to remarry- different sources. A woman who contradicts a witness.
Yevamot 87 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-02 The widowed or divorced daughter of a Kohen does not return to her right to the breast and thigh. If she had a child or is pregnant she can't eat terumah. Believing a single witness.
Yevamot 86 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-06-01 Rabbi Meir's opinion - maaser rishon is forbidden to non-Levi'im. Can maaser rishon be given to a Kohen? Why the Levi'im were penalized.
Yevamot 85 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-31 Woman married in a rabbinically forbidden way do not receive a ketubah. How the Rabbis saw fit to discourage problematic unions.
Yevamot 84 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-30 Four categories of women, some who are permitted to their husbands and prohibited to their yavams, some who are prohibited to their husbands and permitted to their yavams, some who are permitted to both, and some who are forbidden to both. Why did the mishna discuss the case of a widow? Daughters of Kohanim are not prohibited from marrying chalalim.
Yevamot 83 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-29 Different areas in halachah which follow Rabbi Yose and Rabbi Shimon. Why a tumtum can't do chalitzah. Different views of what an androgenous is.
Yevamot 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-28 Nullification of tamei kodesh meat with tahor kodesh meat. The case of two boxes of grain, one of chullin and one of terumah falling into 2 baskets. Adding a se’ah of liquid to a mikveh and then removing a se’ah of mikveh water.
Yevamot 81: Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-27 What a Kohen sris chama's wife is allowed to eat. Certain items are too significant to be nullified.
Yevamot 80 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-27 When is a child born in the eighth month of pregnancy considered viable? Signs of a sris chamah.
Yevamot 79 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-25 The 3 defining characteristics of the Jewish people. The decrees against the Givonim. What type of saris is forbidden to do chalitzah?
Yevamot 78 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-24 First and second generation Egyptian converts. Which parent did the child follow? The reason for the famine during King David's reign.
Yevamot 77 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-23 King David's lineage. Common characteristics between Ammonite converts, a Kohen Gadol and a widow and a chalal. Why can't female Egyptian converts enter the congregation immediately?
Yevamot 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-22 Who can a man with damaged genitals marry? Medical procedures to cure a cut genital (not to be tried at home). Various nationalities and if they can convert to Judaism.
Yevamot 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-21 Various verses regarding the purification required to eat terumah. Definition of and examples of wounded or crushed or cut male reproductive organs.
Yevamot 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-20 Further discussion about whether an uncircumcised person can eat ma'aser sheni. The source that all those that are impure may not eat terumah. Three stages of becoming pure to eat ma'aser sheni, terumah, and kodshim
Yevamot 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-19 The various stringencies of terumah and bikkirim and maaser sheni. Not eating certain items when either the person or the item is tamei. Why kodesh is holier than terumah.
Yevamot 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-18 Circumcision wasn't performed in the desert. Is a mashuch prohibited from eating terumah? Can an uncircumcised person sprinkle the parah adumah waters?
Yevamot 71 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-17 Having circumcised children and slaves at the time of slaughtering and eating the korban Pesach. Uncircumcised people can be sprinkled upon to remove the impurity of a corpse. Which part of circumcision was given to Avraham.
Yevamot 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-16 The source that a Kohen who is uncircumcised is prohibited to eat terumah. A gezeirah shava had to be "free". An onein can eat terumah.
Yevamot 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-15 More men who disqualify a woman from marrying into the Kehunah or eating terumah. Why a violated daughter of a Kohen may eat terumah and there is no concern of pregnancy. If an engaged couple has relations - is the child a mamzer?
Yevamot 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-14 The nine year old that disqualifes from terumah. The source that a person of blemished lineage disqualifies a woman from terumah and the kehunah. A Leviah and Yisraelit become forbidden to the Kehunah if they had relations with a forbidden person.
Yevamot 67 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-13 The status of a fetus and it's effect on the slaves eating terumah. The inheritance of a Kohen - would this help the slaves? Other marriages which disqualify people from eating terumah and also doesn't entitle then to eat it
Yevamot 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-12 The difference between tzon barzel and melog slaves regarding eating terumah. Three reasons why melog slaves brought into a prohibited marriage may not eat terumah. Can the husband offer the wife money or must he give back the appraised item?
Yevamot 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-11 May former husbands demand a refund for their kesubah payment from a childless wife? Are woman commanded in the mitzvah of procreation? Deviating from the truth.
Yevamot 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-10 When a wife does not bear children after ten years of marriage. Our forefathers were sterile. Definition of chazaka.
Yevamot 63 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-09 The meaning of "I will make him a helpmate opposite him". A bad wife is more bitter than death. The sin of not trying to have children.
Yevamot 62 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-08 Fulfilling the mitzvah of procreation. Three things Moshe did based on his own reasoning that Hashem agreed with. The death of Rebbe Akiva's students.
Yevamot 61 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-07 Non-Jews do not transmit tumah via a tent. How Yehoshua ben Gamla became Kohen Gadol. Who is a zonah?
Yevamot 60 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-06 Can a chalal arise from the violation of a positive commandment? Can a Kohen become tamei for his sister who died as an arusah? If a girl converted at a very young age, is she for to marry a Kohen?
Yevamot 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-05 Can a Kohen Gadol marry a bogeret? What type of intercourse would disqualify a woman from marrying into the Kehunah?
Yevamot 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-04 The oath of a sotah includes an arusah and a woman awaiting yibum. Can a daughter of a kohen still eat terumah if she was given a get by her yavam who is a Kohen?
Yevamot 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-03 If a maimed Kohen married the daughter of converts, can she eat terumah? Is there halachic significance to a Kohen’s chuppah with those disqualified from the Kehunah?
Yevamot 56 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-05-02 To what extent does the yavam acquire the yevamah with an inferior form of yibum? Are coerced woman allowed back to their husbands?
Yevamot 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-05-01 The prohibition of one’s wife’s sister, applies to both the paternal or maternal sister. Why is there a mention of kares by the prohibition of having relations with one’s sister? The definition of the beginning of intercourse.
Yevamot 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-30 A number of unlikely scenarios where a yavam acquires his yevamah. The beginning of intercourse is already forbidden- what is the source of this?
Yevamot 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-29 Further discussions about marrying a yevamah with whom chalitzah was performed. Do the Rabbis ssue decrees after chalitzah or bi'ah or not. Yibum does not require intention.
Yevamot 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-28 Giving lashes for permissive behavior. The procedure for ma'amer. Doing chalitzah and then kiddushin with the yevama.
Yevampot 51 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-27 Different explanations of Rabban Gamliel's and the Rabbi's opinion of various acts performed after each other
Yevamot 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-26 Can years can be added onto a person’s lifespan? The effectiveness of get, ma'amer, yibum and chalitza performed after each other.
Yevamot 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-25 Various opinions of who is a mamzer. Menashe murdered Isaiah. The greatness of prophesy of Moses.
Yevamot 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-24 Forced conversions. Does the beautiful captive cut or grow her nails? Can one keep an uncircumcised slave?
Yevamot 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-23 Why we attempt to dissuade a prospective convert from converting. What we tell a prospective convert. Naomi and Ruth's reconstructed conversation.
Yevamot 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-22 A slave who immerses himself for the sake of becoming a free man. What is needed to convert - circumcision or immersion or both?
Yevamot 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-21 Is a child born from an slave or non-Jew who had relations with a Jewish woman a mamzer or not? What is the status if the person is half-slave and half-free? Dancing camels.
Yevamot 44 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-20 One brother is permitted to do yibum to multiple yevamot if he wants. Why there is not more than one act of yibum or one act of chalitzah. To what extent are children born from forbidden relationships tainted?
Yevamot 43 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-19 The power of an unattributed mishnah. The waiting period before becoming engaged for a nursing woman and a widow. Rabbi Yose's view of why a widow can't get engaged during the mourning period.
Yevamot 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-18 The difference between waiting after chalitzah versus the giving of a get. Why must all women wait three months to remarry after their previous marriage? Why a man is not permitted to marry a pregnant woman.
Yevamot 41 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-17 A yevamah who was initially permitted to the yavam then forbidden, and then permitted again. Why a women may not do chalitzah within the first three months after her husband passed away. Who supports the yevamah before yibum is done?
Yevamot 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-16 Does the yavam or father gets the inheritance when yibum is performed? Secondary relatives of a chalutzah.
Yevamot 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-15 Abaye’s and Rava’s explanations of the mishna according to Beis Shammai. The yevamah is considered a full wife. Is the mitzvah of yibum is preferable to the mitzvah of chalitzah?
Yevamot 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-14 Continuation of cases of doubtful paternity regarding inheritance. The status of a woman waiting for yibum regarding various possessions she brings into the marriage.
Yevamot 37 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-13 Following the majority of woman who give birth after 9 months. Marrying woman in different places. Inheritance where paternity is in doubt.
Yevamot 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-12 Further discussion of whether chalitzah of a pregnant woman is or isn't valid even if she miscarries. Situations where we rule like Reish Lakish. Rabbinic penalties forcing a husband to divorce his wife.
Yevamot 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-11 Exceptions to the rule that a woman has to wait three months before remarrying. The effect of yibum or chalitzah with a pregnant woman who subsequently miscarries.
Yevamot 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-10 Doing one act of eating and becoming liable for 4 chatat offerings and 1 asham. Sinning while trying to do a mitzvah. Becoming pregnant after the first act of intercourse.
Yevamot 33: Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-09 More extensive prohibitions, more inclusive prohibitions and simultaneous prohibitions. Implications if wives get swapped
Yevamot 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-08 A yevama falling from 2 houses. A yavam has relations with the yevamah who is his wife’s sister. Can one prohibition fall on another?
Yevamot 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-07 Questionable kiddushin and questionable divorces. Why a get is dated but a document of kiddushin isn't.
Yevamot 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-06 Various cases of 3 brothers, 2 of whom are married to 2 sisters https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIFJ8_w4U9FAPJ_gMsGSid4Jw-9gZAiI/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-04-05 Rabbi Shimon's source that there is no yibum or chalitzah for a relative of a zekukah. Beit Shammai's view of the strength of ma'amer.
Yevamot 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-04 Why Rabbi Yochanan didn't agree with the mishna about 2 sisters. Why certain teachings are seemingly repeated. Constructing cases where 2 sisters would be allowed to 2 brothers with all 15 woman of the first mishna. https://drive.google.com/file/d/153A64lqXOQKexf-FbLWTEEW7OvjhfVL_/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-02 When are the people instrumental in releasing a woman from her husband allowed to marry such a woman? Non-symmetrical nature between a man's relatives and a woman's relatives. A defective chalitza.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMAd-2MYKVhNDtSIQw43E3eRylpiwrCc/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-03 When the yavam does chalitzah with the tzarot, the sisters are released but not vice versa. Chalitza after ma'amar or a get. A yevamah that was initially permitted, who then became forbidden, and then permitted again. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bk89fr0EVfIn-vigoJuK79KvutqwMFFh/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-04-01 Circumstantial evidence of adultery. One is not allowed to marry a woman if he testifies about her death or divorce. A person is considered related to themselves and can't give self-incriminating evidence.
Yevamot 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-31 It is mitzvah for the eldest brother to do yibum. Accepting converts when Jews are powerful. Rumours of adultery.
Yevamot 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-30 The exclusion of a daughter from a slavewoman and gentile woman.The source for patrilineal descent. Confusion between which sister had kiddushin done to her https://drive.google.com/file/d/177dhXXWtDlYgUMqyPu4of0ehEkV8TFt_/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-29 Are there secondary forbidden relatives for converts? Any type of brother will make the widow fall to yibum. Any type of son will exempt from yibum. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DpJH9JwDbPmB6UBq7ViGm2F4vO1_v8P/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 21: Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-28 What happens if a Kohen Gadol did yibum? The source for secondary forbidden relatives. The list of secondary forbidden relatives. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2geq8jrjJnSB8BIJICjav7WVhoHTX7F/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-27 Definition of issur mitzvah and issur kedusha. Why a Kohen Gadol can't do yibum to a woman who was just engaged to his brother -different explanations.
Yevamot 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-26 Rabbi Oshaya and Rav Pappa's explanation of Rabbi Shimon's view about a non-coexisting brother. Can two sisters fall to yibum at the same time? Is ma'amer treated similarly to yibum or kiddushin?
Yevamot 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-25 Further discussion of the concept of "zikah". Can one nullify the mitzvah of yibum? Rabbi Simon's view of how a non-coexisting brother can apply.
Yevamot 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-24 Why there is no concern that a non-Jew today is from the 10 lost tribes. Sources for brothers having to co-exist and that yibum only applies to paternal brothers. The concept of "zikah". https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gXQqv_SCg0WlHyNhfMh3GOWK61TU1uHp/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-23 Clarifying Rebbe Dosa ben Harkinas’ position regarding the co-wife of a daughter. Rabbi Akiva's fame. Why converts from Tarmod wouldn't be accepted.
Yevamot 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-22 A solution is proposed to the co-wife of an ervah but not implemented. Further attempts to prove if Beit Shammai followed their opinion.
Yevamot 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-21 Did Beit Shammai follow their own opinion? The prohibition of "factions" only applies in the same city. Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel always treated each other with live and respect despite their own opinions.
Yevamot 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-20 The co-wife and co-wife's co-wife. Beit Shammai allows the co-wife of an ervah. Not splitting into factions. https://drive.google.com/file/d/174Fmd8s5tksYVgqRMS-XhHKIs4L3MY1A/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-19 Co-wife of someone who does "mi'un". Co-wife of an ayalonit. Woman who can use birth control. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFKkzjqKUzKVumfJTVa5JYnNhfNFPCOH/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-18 The co-wife of a sotah. Co-wife of someone who remarries his divorcee. One who has water in his well should not spill it out if others may need it.
Yevamot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-17 Why aren't 16 woman mentioned in the mishnah? A woman raped by the father. Doing chalitzah to the yevamah and then marrying her. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VO05qr2mFvL1A8Zrn89NXZorBvhJ83Dt/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-16 Sources for various offerings broght on behalf of the community, the Kohen Gadol, the nasi, and an individual. The cases when two sisters fall to two brothers for yibum, and each is an ervah to each of the brothers, or just to one of them.https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-CHAnc4RB36ELsqTmYHgTOxb67woO68/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-15 Three explanations of what the word "Aleha" is coming to teach. A careful reading of the mishna according to Rava. The yevamah after yibum has the full status of a wife.
Yevamot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-14 The strength of a "met mitzvah". Applications of Rabbi Yishmael's principles.
Yevamot 6 :Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-13 The limitations of honoring parents. Fearing the Sanctuary. Not applying the death penalty on Shabbat.
Yevamot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-12 Where do we learn that a positive commandment overrides an (ordinary) negative commandment, and a negative commandment which has karet attached to it?
Yevamot 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-11 The principle and source of a positive commandment overriding a negative commandment. Deriving lessons from juxtaposed verses in the Torah- focus on tzitzit.
Yevamot 3 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-10 Why the mishna is phrased as it is - why in that order, why it teaches "exempt" not "forbidden", why chalitza is first, why mention 15 etc. The source of a co-wife being forbidden. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15nHuSSjXZ3__NTNyDVYWElWxmliD2GEV/view?usp=drivesdk
Yevamot 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-09 The 15 cases of woman who will exempt their co-wives from both yibum and chalitza. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RC6u4RqYPrl5AxHWVtz2fta7mKXJOzqt/view?usp=drivesdk
Chagiga 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-08 What items in the Temple can't be purified if they become impure. A person's table is like the Alter. The fire of Gehinnom does not have an effect on Torah scholars.
Chagiga 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-07 Pottery from Modi'im and inward is considered pure. Amei ha'aretz tax collectors - when can we believe them? Everyone is considered pure at the time of Yomtov.
Chagiga 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-06 Why those in the Galil do not bring kodesh wine or oil to the Temple. What if a Kohen improperly accepted the terumah before the pressing season? Checking a beit hapras.
Chagiga 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-03-05 A vessel combines what is in it with regard to kodesh, but not with regard to terumah. Where we derive the 4th level of tumah in kodesh. How we treat a tamei hand that touches another.
Chagiga 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-04 Do we pattern a decree over the exact circumstances that were in place originally or do we broaden it? Concern over the spit of an am ha'aretz. Going against the Saducees when it comes to a tevul yom.
Chagiga 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-03 Why there is a concern of animosity of an am ha’aretz for kodesh but not terumah. Why wine and oil brought by amei ha’aretz are accepted all year. When is an am ha’aretz believed when he says he did a proper tevillah?
Chagiga 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-02 Stringencies of kodesh over terumah. Are there two cases in the Mishnah where there is a concern of chatzitzah or just one?
Chagiga 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-03-01 Diversion of intention and how it affects the tumah status of an item.
Chagiga 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-28 Using a wave as a mikveh. Intention for a specific status - until when can have it? Can a mikveh be "raised" or "lowered"?
Chagiga 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-27 Sources for the prohibition of doing work on Chol Ha'moed. Different levels of purification depending on the degree of holiness.
Chagiga 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-26 What offerings can an individual bring on Yomtov. The source of tashlumim for Shavuot.
Chagiga 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-25 Rabbi Akiva didn't get harmed in Pardes. The differences between humans, angels and animals. Dispute about leaving on an offering's head on Yomtov.
Chagiga 15: Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-24 The 4 Rabbis that went into Pardes. What Acher saw that caused him to go astray. Rabbi Meir’s unsuccessful attempts to get Acher to do teshuvah. How Rabbi Meir was allowed to learn Torah from Acher.
Chagiga 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-23 Various anthropomorphic statements. Isaiah's 18 curses. The teaching of ma'aseh merkava by different Rabbis.
Chagiga 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-22 The distance between the heavens. People who can learn, and the dangers of learning ma'aseh merkava. The difference between the visions of Isaiah and Ezekiel.
Chagiga 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-21 Ma’aseh Bereishit, the creation of the heavens and the earth. The light of the first day was hidden for the tzadikim in the future. The seven heavens.
Chagiga 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-20 Laws only hinted to in the Torah. The laws of aravot, illicit relations, should not be expounded among three people.
Chagiga 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-19 Releasing vows hovers in the air and has no support from Torah sources. The laws of Shabbat, chagigahs, and me’ilah are like mountains suspended by a hair. Why would this be - what is only hinted to?
Chagiga 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-18 The concept of compensation. A crooked thing cannot be straightened. Reviewing one’s learning one hundred times versus one hundred and one times.
Chagiga 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-17 The chagiga can come from maaser funds. What can one easy to fulfill the mitzvah of simcha? Different options based on your financial standing and family size.
Chagiga 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-16 The meaning of "ra'ayon". Bringing a sacrifice each time one appears in the Temple. The olar-re’iyah is mandatory korban, and this must be brought from unsanctified money.
Chagiga 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-15 The obligation of a young child to ascend. The value of the olat re'eiyah and shal'mei chagiga. The nature of the sacrifices before Har Sinai.
Chagiga 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-14 Verses which upset Rabbi Yochanan. Doing a good deed and being punished for it? Is there crying in front of Hashem?
Chagiga 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-13 Definition of sunshine who is mentally unwell. What do we learn from the phrase "all your males". Different verses which brought the Sages to tears.
Chagiga 3 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-12 Walking up to the Temple with both feet. Why the small children are brought for the mitzvah of Hakhel. Discerning different opinions from the Rabbis.
Chagiga 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-11 Who is obligated and who is exempt from appearing in the Temple on the festivals. Definition of "cheresh".
Moed Katan 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-10 Those comforting the mourner should wait for him to speak first. Analogies for the soul leaving the body. When to say "lech b'shalom" and "lech l'shalom".
Moed Katan 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-09 The death of Miriam. The meaning of death at different ages. The Sages conversations the the Angel of Death.
Moed Katan 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-08 Overturning the beds. Mourning and burial practices instituted out of concern for the honour of the poor. One should not mourn excessively over his dead.
Moed Katan 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-07 Doing k'riya on a sefer Torah that gets burned, and on seeing Jerusalem and the Temple in ruins. Multiple k'riyot and what can be repaired. Not informing a sick person that his close relative has passed away.
Moed Katan 25: Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-06 For whom does someone do k'riya? Rav Huna’s burial in Rebbi Chiya’s crypt. Several eulogies that were said over great sages.
Moed Katan 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-05 What mourning practices are suspended on Shabbat? When is k'riya effective? Shavuot is considered 7 days.
Moed Katan 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-04 what happens when the Nasi dies? Practices of mourning during shloshim - not getting married, not wearing new clothes. What level of mourning is there on Shabbat?
Moed Katan 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-03 Arriving during shiva. Following the main member of the household. Differences between mourning for a parent and other relatives.
Moed Katan 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-02-02 Tefillin during shiva. Greeting a mourner, and a mourner greeting others.
Moed Katan 20: Marc Chipkin: 2022-02-01 The source of shiva. Hearing news of a death long after the event. For whom does one mourn?
Moed Katan 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-31 Writing tefillin and mezuzot on Chol Ha'moed. Which restrictions are cancelled by a Festival. The source that a mourner does not cut his hair during sheloshim.
Moed Katan 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-30 Cutting nails during Chol Ha'moed and in mourning. How to dispose of nail cuttings. A woman is designated for a particular man - sources in Tanach.
Moed Katan 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-29 Excommunicating the suspected Rabbi. The meaning of the word "shamta". A mourner and Kohen who are allowed to cut their hair during Chol Ha'moed.
Moed Katan 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-28 The various levels of excommunication, and how Israel is different from Babylon. The greatness of King David.
Moed Katan 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-27 Sources for various mourning practices- not cutting hair, wearing tefillin, not greeting people, not laundering clothes, not washing the body, not learning Torah. Do these same practices apply to people who are excommunicated, or to people who are metzoras?
Moed Katan 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-26 Why haircutting and laundering are prohibited on Chol Ha'moed. When someone who returns from overseas is forbidden to get a haircut during Chol Ha'moed. Mourning is pushed aside by a Yomtov.
Moed Katan 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-25 Penalising a child for his father's behaviour. Work allowed for someone who is indigent. The difference between work allowed on erev Pesach and that allowed on Chol Ha'moed.
Moed Katan 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-24 When non-Jewish contractors are allowed to work for Jews. Laws of Chol Ha'moed cannot be derived from one another. Important people are held to a higher standard.
Moed Katan 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-23 Making a railing for a roof or balcony. Repairs on Chol Ha'moed. Is work permitted during mourning to prevent financial loss like it is during Chol Ha'moed?
Moed Katan 10: Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-22 Sowing on Chol Ha'moed. Discerning a person's intention. Dealing with a large loss on Chol Ha'moed.
Moed Katan 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-21 Not mixing one simcha with another. The dedication of the first Temple overrode Yom Kippur. Applying cosmetics on Chol Ha'moed.
Moed Katan 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-20 Source of examining tzara'at by day. Prohibition of reintering bones on Chol Ha'moed. Not getting married on. Chol Ha'moed.
Moed Katan 7: Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-19 Trapping rodents on Chol Ha'moed. Does a Kohen check for tzara'at on Chol Ha'moed or not? Sources that becoming a metzora is dependent on the Kohen’s declaration.
Moed Katan 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-18 Inspecting fields for kilayim on Chol Ha'moed. Which crops may be watered on Chol Ha'moed.
Moed Katan 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-17 It is permitted to dig new cisterns on Chol Hamoed if the public needs them? The source for marking graves. What is a Beit Hapras?
Moed Katan 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-16 Why it is forbidden to water even an irrigated field with water from a pool of rainwater. Why one may not dig out a new irrigation canal during Shemittah. Definition of fixing a damaged irrigation canal during Chol HaMoed.
Moed Katan 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-15 Why watering seeds during Shemittah is permitted. A general statement followed by a specific prohibition followed by another general statement. Until when one may plow before Shemittah?
Moed Katan 2: Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-14 What types of field is one allowed to water on Chol Ha'moed, and how? Weeding and sowing on Shabbat and with regard to the prohibition of kilayim.
Megilla 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-13 Does one close the sefer Torah before saying the blessing beforehand? The reward for hagbah and gelila. Improper handling of the sefer Torah.
Megilla 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-12 Torah readings and haftorot for all the Yomtovim. Wherever you find mention of Hashem’s might you find mention of His humility. The significance of the korbanot.
Megilla 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-11 When to read Parshat Shekalim, and Parshat Zachor when Rosh Chodesh Adar falls on erev Shabbat. Is the weekly parsha read when you read the 4 special parshiyot?
Megilla 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-10 Interrupting learning to escort the deceased and accompany a bride. The special holiness of shuls and houses of study. What do we read for Parshat Shekalim?
Megilla 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-09 What various Rabbis attributed their long life to. What should a person do if he needs to enter a shul to call someone out. Using Torah scholars.
Megilla 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-08 Selling a sefer Torah. Selling a public shul to an individual. For what purpose can a shul that is sold be used?
Megilla 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-07 Selling a shul. Was Jerusalem divided amongst all the tribes? Items used for a mitzvah and those that attain inherent holiness.
Megilla 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-06 Inappropriate statements by a chazan. Which sections of the Torah are translated despite their depiction of negative events, and which aren't. Mocking idol worship.
Megilla 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2022-01-05 The various roles of the one who is Maftir. Can a blind person lead the community for the first blessing before the Shema? Kohanim disqualified from bircat kohanim.
Megilla 23 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-04 The difference on coming to shul and leaving between Yom Tov, Shabbat and Yom Kippur. What do the different number of Torah readers correspond to? Procedures that require a minyan and the sources therefor.
Megilla 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-03 How do we divide the Torah reading on Rosh chodesh? How many people read from the Torah on a fast? Rav's behavior on a fast day.
Megilla 21: Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-02 The Torah is read standing. Blessings before and after the megilla. What the three aliyot and ten pesukim of kriat HaTorah correspond to.
Megilla 20: Marc Chipkin: 2022-01-01 The sources for various mitzvot done during the day. Alot hashachar is the beginning of the day. Mitzvot done during the whole day and whole night
Megilla 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-31 A town dweller that went to a walled city, or vice versa. How much of the megilla must be read? Can a deaf person read the megilla?
Megilla 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-30 If a word is worth one sela, silence is worth two. Reading the megilla in a foreign language. One has to read the megilla in order and not even one verse can be left out.
Megilla 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-29 Torah learning is greater than honoring one’s father and mother. Sources for reading the megilla, Hallel and the Shema in order. The order of the blessings in the Shemoneh Esrei.
Megilla 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-28 Haman is forced to lead Mordechai in royal clothing through the streets. Haman's downfall. Joseph and the brothers in Egypt.
Megilla 15: Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-27 Esther's fateful decision. Fasting on Pesach. Reasons why Esther invited Haman to the seudah with Achashverosh
Megilla 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-26 The removal of the signet ring. Why Hallel is not recited on Purim. The 48 prophets and 7 prophetesses.
Megilla 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-25 Was Esther's real name Hadassah? Esther's modesty came from Shaul and Rachel. Haman's anti Semitic slander.
Megilla 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-24 The use of Temple items at the feast. Achashverosh gets drunk and angry. Was Mordechai from the tribe of Judah or Benjamin?
Megilla 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-23 The Jewish people will never be abandoned. Kings who ruled over the whole world. The miscalculations of the seventy years of exile.
Megilla 10: Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-22 Does the holiness of Jerusalem extend until today? "In the days of" is ominous. Various Rabbis would open their discussion of Megillat Esther with different verses.
Megilla 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-21 Writing the Torah in other languages. The translation of the Torah into Greek. Differences between various types of Kohen Gadol
Megilla 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-20 Vowing not to get benefit from someone. The differences between a neder and nedavah. Proving various halachot of a zav and metzora.
Megilla 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-19 Establishing Megillat Esther as part of the canon. Megillat Esther was written with divine inspiration. Becoming drunk on Purim.
Megilla 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-18 Identifying the different fortress cities and why they were called different names. Germamya of Edom. The status of mitzvot performed in Adar Rishon.
Megilla 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-17 Days that we push off until later when they fall on Shabbat. Rebbi's unusual behavior. Is Tiberius considered a walled city?
Megilla 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-16 Women are obligated to read the megilla. The source of the megilla being read both at night and day. What happens with large towns and walled cities when Purim falls on a Friday or a Shabbat?
Megilla 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-15 The Targum of the Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim. Reading the megilla takes precedence over the Temple service and learning, but "meit mitzvah" trumps everything.
Megillah 2: Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-14 The Megillah can be read from 11th -15th Adar. In which circumstances can this occur and what is the source therefor?
Ta'anit 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-13 The reasons why Tu be'av is such a joyous day. Borrowing clothes so as not to embarrass people. The circle of the righteous.
Ta'anit 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-12 When do the mourning practices of Av start and finish? What learning is permitted on Tisha be'av? Anyone who works on Tisha be'av and does not mourn over Jerusalem, will not merit to see her in her joy when the redemption occurs.
Ta'anit 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-11 The 5 tragedies that happened on Tisha be'av. Most of the burning took place on 10 Av. Going to court with a non-Jew during Adar and not Av.
Ta'anit 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-10 The history of the additional wood offering. When do we say Hallel? The tragedies that happened on 17 Tammuz.
Ta'anit 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-09 How the twenty-four mishmarot were established. The importance of the korbanot. Why the ma'amadot do not fast on Sundays.
Ta'anit 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-08 Doing birchat kohanim multiple times a day. The mishmarot and ma'amadot. The tragedies that occurred on 17 Tammuz and Tisha be'av
Ta'anit 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-07 Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa’s poverty and the miracles that occurred. Why Rabbi Akiva was answered and not Rabbi Eliezer. How Shmuel HaKatan interpreted rain falling before sunrise and after sunset.
Ta'anit 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-06 The overly strict nature of Rebbe Yose of Yukrat. Prayer leaders getting answered immediately. Benefitting from miracles.
Ta'anit 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-05 Stories of Choni Hama'agel and how he prayed for rain, and feel asleep. Abba Chilkiyah and his wife praying for rain. Other righteous people and how they prayed for rain.
Ta'anit 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-12-04 Ordinary people who are destined for Olam Habah. Armies passing through the land. Is it advisable for an individual to fast for a personal distress?
Ta'anit 21: Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-03 Ilfa leaves yeshiva and Rav Yochanan stays. Stories of Nachum Ish Gamzu. What is defined as a plague in a city.
Ta'anit 20: Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-02 The sun broke through for 3 people. Rabbi Eleazar and the ugly man. The greatness of Rav Adda bar Ahava and Rav Huna.
Ta'anit 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-12-01 Various calamities for which we cry out immediately. The difference between a drought and a famine. Different types of rain and their benefits.
Ta'anit 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-30 Different days mentioned in Megillat Ta'anit and the conduct the days before and after.
Ta'anit 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-29 The frequency of haircuts for the King, Kohen Gadol and an ordinary Kohen. Why the prohibition for an ordinary Kohen to grow his hair long does not apply today. The difference between the prohibition for a Kohen to drink wine versus growing his hair long.
Ta'anit 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-28 The repentance of Nineveh. What are the 24 blessings and at what point are they said? Not saying Amen in the Temple.
Ta'anit 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-27 The procedure of the last 7 days - taking out the Ark, words of reproof, extra blessings added in. Putting ashes on the Ark and on people's head
Ta'anit 14 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-26 When do pregnant and nursing woman fast? Can you decree more than 13 fasts on the community? What happens if there is no relief after the 13 fasts?
Ta'anit 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-25 Dealing with communal matters on a fast. The prohibition against washing on fast days and during mourning. When is Aneinu said?
Ta'anit 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-24 Can one fast for less than the whole day? Taking on the fast beforehand. Repaying a fast. The second and third sets of fast days for rain.
Ta'anit 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-23 The danger of separating from the community. A person will justify his own judgement. The attitude towards a voluntary fast.
Ta'anit 10: Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-22 The importance of the land of Israel. From when do we start to ask for rain? The restrictions of the first three fasts.
Ta'anit 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-21 Take maaser so that you will become wealthy. The three gifts that were given in the merit of Moses, Aharon and Miriam. The source of rain.
Ta'anit 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-20 The importance of praying with feeling. People of faith. Comparing those who speak lashon hara to the snake. Blessing is not found except in an object that is hidden from the eye
Ta'anit 7: Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-19 The day of rain is as great as the resurrection of the dead and the giving of the Torah. The Torah is compared to various items and reasons therefor. What sins cause rain to be withheld?
Ta'anit 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-18 The meaning of "yoreh" and "malkosh". The first rains are split into three - the timing and significance thereof.
Ta'anit 5: Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-17 A devastating famine followed by a miraculous redemption. Heavenly Jerusalem. The sin of idolatry. Jacob never died.
Ta'anit 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-16 Three people asked inappropriately, only two were answered appropriately. Until when does one request rain?
Ta'anit 3 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-15 The source of the water libations on Sukkot. Who is the Rabbi Yehoshua in our mishna? Mentioning dew, wind and clouds.
Ta'anit 2: Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-14 When does one start mentioning rain? Why rain is an expression of Hashem's strength. The 3 keys that only Hashem keeps.
Rosh Hashana 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-13 Can the shaliach tzibur fulfill everyone's obligation to pray? When, and to whom does that apply? Arranging ones prayer before praying.
Rosh Hashana 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-12 Derivation of the shofar blasts on Rosh Hashana and the number of blasts to sound.
Rosh Hashana 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-11 One is not allowed to violate a prohibition in order to obtain a shofar. Children and woman blowing the shofar. The sounds of the shofar.
Rosh Hashana 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-10 The order of the Rosh Hashanah mussaf amidah. How many verses to say, and which ones does one say for Malchiyot, Zichronot and Shofarot?
Rosh Hashana 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-09 The reasons for the song of the day the levi'im sang in the Temple. The 10 exiles of the shechinah and the Sanhedrin. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai’s nine enactments.
Rosh Hashana 30: Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-08 Blowing the shofar with the Beth Din. New grain is forbidden the whole of 16 Nissan. Witnesses were only accepted until mincha to testify about Rosh Hashana.
Rosh Hashana 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-07 The intention of the baal tokea. Who is obligated in shofar and who can fulfill that obligation. Blowing the shofar on Shabbat.
Rosh Hashana 28 :Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-06 Mitzvot were not given for the purpose of deriving benefit from their fulfillment. Do mitzvot require intention? Adding on to, or subtracting from a mitzvah.
Rosh Hashana 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-05 Hearing two sounds simultaneously. Why we don't blow trumpets with the shofar today. Repairing a broken shofar, inverting a shofar, adding gold to a shofar
Rosh Hashana 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-04 Dispute as to whether a cow’s horn is valid as a shofar. An accuser cannot become a defender. Which type of shofars are used on Rosh Hashanah, fast days and Yovel?
Rosh Hashana 25: Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-03 Rabban Gamliel’s tradition regarding the length of a month. Rosh Chodesh is valid even when Beth Din chooses the wrong date. Rabban Gamliel forces his will on Rabbi Yehoshua. If the Beth Din alone saw the new moon, two of the judges should stand and testify before the others
Rosh Hashana 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-11-02 The moon had to be seen clearly. The head of the Beth Din announces it and the people respond. How could Rabban Gamliel have forms of the moon in his attic to show to witnesses?
Rosh Hashana 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-11-01 Why the lighting of torches is only done when the month is deficient. Different types of wood. The courtyard in which the witnesses gathered.
Rosh Hashana 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-31 Accepting relatives to testify together about the new moon. Other disqualified witnesses. The person testifying has to be known to the Beth Din. How the false testimony of the Baitusim was uncovered.
Rosh Hashana 21: Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-30 Keeping two days of Yomtov even though the messangers got there. Keeping two days of Yom Kippur. If the moon is clearly seen do the witnesses desecrate Shabbat?
Rosh Hashana 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-29 Making Elul full to separate Shabbat from Yom Tov. The "secret of the calculation"
Rosh Hashana 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-28 Why isn't one allowed to fast the day before a Megillat Ta'anit holiday? Which holidays from Megillat Ta'anit are still observed? Do messengers go out for Adar sheni?
Rosh Hashana 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-27 When a decree against a community and an individual can be rescinded. What did "bnei maron" mean? The 6 times a year messengers go out to inform people about the new moon. Was Megillat Ta'anit abolished?
Rosh Hashana 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-26 The 3 books opened on Rosh Hashana and for Judgement Day. G-d forgives those people who overlook nasty things done to them. The 13 attributes of mercy
Rosh Hashana 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-25 The world is judged at 4 times : Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot as well as Rosh Hashana. Three matters cause a person's sins to be recalled. How to revoke a bad judgement.
Rosh Hashana 15: Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-24 An esrog that emerged in one year and was picked in the next- various opinions
Rosh Hashana 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-23 The Rosh Hashanah for trees is in Shevat. Did Rabbi Akiva follow Beit Shammai? Determining the status of an etrog.
Rosh Hashana 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-22 From what crop did the Jews eat the Omer in the first year of entering the land? Different times significant for titles for fruit, grain, vegetables, as well as legumes
Rosh Hashana 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-21 The different constellations and how they were affected during the Flood. 1 Tishrei is the new year for vegetables, maaser and vows.
Rosh Hashana 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-20 Dispute between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua as to when the world was created, when the patriarchs were born and when we will be redeemed. Sarah, Rachel and Chana were remembered, Joseph was released from prison and the slavery was stopped in Egypt all on Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashana 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-19 One day in a year can be considered a whole year. Orlah and revai prohibitions are sometimes extended into the fourth and fifth years. How long it takes a new plant to take root.
Rosh Hashana 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-18 Adding on from profane to holy. Criteria for Yovel to take effect.
Rosh Hashana 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-17 Different options as to when the year for animal tithes begins. 1 Tishrei is the new year for judgement and for calculating sabbatical years.
Rosh Hashana 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-16 The first of Nissan is the Rosh Hashanah for other halachot. Until when can one add an extra month to the year. Renting a house for "a year" vs "this year"
Rosh Hashana 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-15 Additional sources for the prohibition against delaying vows, and why they are needed. Charity pledges should be given as soon as possible. How a year can pass without three festivals
Rosh Hashana 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-14 Compensatory offerings can be brought after Shavuot for 7 days. Other items besides sacrifices are subject to the prohibition of not delaying. An animal that becomes blemished in the middle of a festival
Rosh Hashana 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-13 Further discussion of why Cyrus want as good as he was originally. The prohibition of delaying ones vow.
Rosh Hashana 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-12 An alternative source that the Rosh Hashanah for kings is Nissan. The Rosh Hashanah for non-Jewish kings is Tishrei. Counting the years in the reign of Daryavesh before and after he soured.
Rosh Hashana 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-11 The 4 New Years. The impermissibility of a predated document. The source of counting the new year of a king from Nissan.
Beitzah 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-10 Transferring fruit from another city, or giving it to guests, or depositing an item with someone : whose techum does it follow? Watering an animal before shechitah. Definition of desert animals vs domesticated animals.
Beitzah 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-09 Halachic distinctions between a burning coal and a flame. Drawing water from a communal well for your friend.
Beitzah 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-08 The concept of b'reirah: retroactive designation. Why water and salt in a dough aren't nullified.
Beitzah 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-07 Continuation of discussion of rabbinic prohibitions. Animals and utensils are accorded a techum boundary like that of the feet of their owners. Two people who purchased a barrel of wine and an animal in partnership before Yomtov.
Beitzah 36 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-06 Lowering produce through a skylight versus moving sacks from a storeroom. Moving a vessel for the sake of a muktze item. Removing and returning a filthy vessel.
Beitzah 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-05 Completion of work with regards to taking tithes off produce and the effect of Shabbat, bringing it into a courtyard, using it in a commercial transaction : Different opinions
Beitzah 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-04 Shechting an injured bird on Yom Tov. Many people cooking on Shabbat. Separating tithes and the effect of Shabbat.
Beitzah 33: Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-03 Using a pointed branch as a spit. Splintering wood to make toothpicks. Making piles of hay and wood to kindle a fire
Beitzah 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-10-02 Removing a lid tired to the ground or on a vessel. Hollowing out a lamp. The essential attribute of compassion.
Beitzah 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-10-01 Collection of wood on Yomtov. Which cutting tools are allowed to be used on Yomtov. Removal of produce from a breached storage area.
Beitzah 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-30 Transporting items in a permitted way. It is preferable that people should be unintentional violators, and not be deliberate violators. Why a condition works for sukkah decorations but not for the wood of the sukkah.
Beitzah 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-29 Use of a measuring cup on Yomtov. The honesty of Abba Shaul ben Botnit. Asking a familiar storekeeper for a specific quantity of an item is permitted
Beitzah 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-28 Using a scale on Yomtov. Cutting may on a specific shape. Sharpening a knife on Yomtov.
Beitzah 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-27 Inspecting a bechor before Yom Tov and questioning the Kohen on Yom Tov. Inflicting a blemish on a bechor. Permissible ways to apportion an animal.
Beitzah 26: Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-26 A firstborn animal that feel into a pit on Yomtov - can it be examined on Yomtov? Is there a concept of muktze for half of shabbat?
Beitzah 25: Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-25 Slaughtering a sick animal on Yomtov. Proper etiquette while eating. The strength of the Jewish people
Beitzah 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-24 Capturing animals and birds from various types of enclosures on Yomtov. Finding animals in traps on Yomtov. Gifts from non-Jews on Yomtov.
Beitzah 23 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-23 Perfuming clothing is forbidden on Yomtov. Combing an animal on Yomtov. Unintentional acts on Shabbat.
Beitzah 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-22 Reassembling a candlestick on Yomtov. A non-Jew applying medication. Making "thick" bread on Yomtov.
Beitzah 21: Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-21 Animals half owned by Jews and non-Jews. Preparing food for animals on Yomtov. Inviting non-Jews for meals on Yomtov.
Beitzah 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-20 Which offerings are leaned upon, and when, according to Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel. Hillel avoids a fight. The alter versus the human table.
Beitzah 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-19 Judging a person from his actions. Bringing plot and shlamim on Yomtov - which ones can be brought and which can't. Delaying your offering.
Beitzah 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-18 Four different reasons the Rabbis prohibited immersing keilim on Shabbat and Yom Tov. Purifying water.
Beitzah 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-17 The nusach of the amidah blessing when Shabbat coincides with other special days. Stipulating about an eruv on a two day Yomtov. If a person forgot to prepare an eruv tavshilin what can be do?
Beitzah 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-16 A person’s income is fixed on Rosh Hashanah with some exceptions. The different approaches of Shammai and Hillel for preparing for Shabbat. Minimum size of an eruv tavshilin.
Beitzah 15: Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-15 Sending shatnetz to a friend on Yomtov. Wearing tefillin on Shabbat. The source for eruv tavshilin.
Beitzah 14 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-14 The difference between crushing salt and other spices. Selection on Yomtov. Sending presents to friends on Yomtov
Beitzah 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-13 Separating tithes off wheat and legumes. What if the tithes are taken off in the incorrect order? The difference between g’mar melachah for Shabbat and maaser.
Beitzah 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-12 The principle of "mitoch"- since certain melacha was permitted for a food-related purpose, it is also permitted when there is no food-related purpose. Giving Kohanic gifts to a Kohen on Yomtov
Beitzah 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-11 Moving a pestle. Trampling on an unprocessed hide. Shutters on a stall.
Beitzah 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-10 Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel revert to their familiar positions. How to remove the muktzeh status of the birds in the dovecote. Designating three doves but finding only two.
Beitzah 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-09 Moving a dovecote ladder. When is ma'arit ayin forbidden? The status of other ladders.
Beitzah 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-08 The meaning of "the ashes of a stove are permitted". Designating dirt before Yomtov. Covering the blood of a koy.
Beitzah 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-07 Eggs found inside a chicken - can they be eaten with meat? What is the minimum prohibition against keeping leaven on Pesach? Kisui hadam on Yomtov.
Beitzah 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-06 Burying a corpse on Yom Tov. A chick that was hatched on Yom Tov. An egg, upon its exit from the mother hen, becomes fully formed.
Beitzah 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-05 The 2 days of Rosh Hashana - what is the status of the egg born on day 1? Is Rosh Hashana considered one long day of holiness or 2?
Beitzah 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-09-04 Shabbat and Yomtov one after each other - status of the egg on day 2. The 2 days of Yomtov outside of Israel - status of the egg on day 2. Why we keep 2 days of Yomtov outside of Israel even today.
Beitzah 3: Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-03 Two further reasons why an egg laid on Yom Tov is prohibited. Is an egg more closely related to a fruit or to juice? The status of a doubtful egg.
Beitzah 2 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-02 An egg laid on Yomtov is allowed according to Beit Shammai and forbidden according to Beit Hillel. We are more stringent with muktze on Yomtov than on Shabbat. 2 explanations of the dispute between Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel
Sukkah 56 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-09-01 How the mishmarot split the offerings. The order of the blessings on the first night of Sukkot. Penalising the watch of Bilgah.
Sukkah 55 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-31 Only one set of blasts are sounded per mussaf. The division of the Sukkot sacrifices between the mishmarot. The 70 bulls correspond to the 70 nations.
Sukkah 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-30 When the shofar was sounded in the water drawing ceremony. The maximum amount of shofar blasts that were sounded throughout the year.
Sukkah 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-29 A person’s feet are his guarantors. Not sleeping during Simchat Beit Hasho'eva. The source for the 15 psalms of ascents.
Sukkah 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-28 Separating the men and women in the Temple. The great eulogy in future. The pernicious and ubiquitous evil inclination.
Sukkah 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-27 Was the main part of the singing that accompanied the sacrifices vocal or instrumental? Whoever never saw the celebration of the water drawing never saw rejoicing in his life. The gigantic shul in Alexandria.
Sukkah 50 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-26 Why one can't leave the water for the libation in a concentrated vessel overnight. Using uncovered water for the libation is forbidden. Constructing service vessels out of wood.
Sukkah 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-25 Pelting the Saducee with etrogim. The importance of the drainpipes next to the Alter. Kindness is greater than charity.
Sukkah 48 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-24 Simchah on Shemini Atzeret. How does one invalidate the sukkah? The water libation ceremony.
Sukkah 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-23 Sh'mini Atzeret - sitting in the sukkah, saying shehecheyanu, the differences between it and Sukkot
Sukkah 46 :Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-22 Does one say a blessing over (a) the lulav and (b) the sukkah once for the festival or every day? Blessings over various mitzvot and does that change if you do multiple mitzvot? When do the etrog and sukkah become fit for mundane use?
Sukkah 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-21 The aravah ceremony in the Temple. The source of "isru chag". The 36 tzadikim in every generation.
Sukkah 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-20 Why we don't take aravah all 7 days. The aravah is a custom of the prophets. The aravah is taken on its own
Sukkah 43 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-19 Why do we not take the lulav if the first day falls on Shabbat? Taking the aravah on the seventh day even on Shabbat. How is the aravah ceremony performed?
Sukkah 42 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-18 One preoccupied with a mitzvah is exempt even if he sinned instead. When a child's obligation to do mitzvot begins. The lulav and aravah are taken for 6 or 7 days on the Temple
Sukkah 41 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-17 First and second degree shemittah produce. Instituting practices "zecher l'mikdash" - to remember the Temple. Giving the lulav as a gift in order for it to be returned. How much the mitzvah of lulav was cherished.
Sukkah 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-16 A lulav of shemittah is not treated like normal wood since it's benefit coincides with its use. Transferal of the holiness of shemittah produce onto other items. The severity of doing commerce with shemittah produce.
Sukkah 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-15 Saying a blessing over a mitzvah needs to be done immediately preceding its performance. An etrog of the shemittah year should be given as a gift and not sold.
Sukkah 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-14 How and when to shake the lulav. Interrupting ones meal to shake the lulav. Listening is like answering.
Sukkah 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-13 Using the 4 species as sechach. Taking something indirectly. Smelling the etrog and hadas.
Sukkah 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-12 Physical blemishes on an etrog. A nibbled etrog. Binding the bundle with its own species.
Sukkah 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-11 What is the "pri eitz hadar"? The definition of ownership of an etrog. Food related disqualifications relating to the etrog.
Sukkah 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-10 Disqualifications of the willow. How many items make up the 4 species?
Sukkah 33: Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-09 Disqualifications of the hadas. Did the principle of rejection apply to mitzvot? Removing berries on Yomtov.
Sukkah 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-08 Disqualifications of the lulav. The entrance to Gehinnom. The Torah's way are pleasant. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hBHsNOxZhhHb560WyMxPhnv0VmXgJ7W0/view?usp=drivesdk
Sukkah 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-08-07 A stolen sukkah. Do the 4 species need to be beautiful?
Sukkah 30: Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-06 A stolen lulav is unfit due to the concept of "mitzvah ha'ba b'aveirah"- a mitzvah performed by means of a transgression, even though from a perspective of ownership it would belong to the theif.
Sukkah 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-05 Making your sukkah your permanent residence and your home temporary. Rain in the sukkah and coming back afterwards. Natural occurrences which serve as an omen of Hashem’s dissatisfaction with the world
Sukkah 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-04 The greatness of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. Woman are exempt from sukkah but obligated to afflict themselves on Yom Kippur. Which children are exempted from the sukkah?
Sukkah 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-03 Being strict with eating outside the sukkah. Rabbi Eliezer's unique view with regards to staying and eating in your own sukkah.
Sukkah 26: Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-02 Travellers are exempt from the sukkah while they are on their way. People in distress are exempt from the sukkah. Sleeping and even napping is forbidden outside the sukkah
Sukkah 25: Marc Chipkin: 2021-08-01 If you are busy with a mitzvah you are exempt from another - sources are saying Shema and Pesach sheni. Mourners should have to sit in the sukkah
Sukkah 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-31 Rabbi Meir is concerned about death in hakachik matters. Can you write a get on an animal? Using a tree as the wall of a sukkah.
Sukkah 23 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-30 A sukkah on top of a boat, an animal or a tree - are they kosher? Using animals as walls for the sukkah.
Sukkah 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-29 A sukkah with roofing on different levels. A thick sukkah https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wyWnoLnx9pgYMkbSgNK4kNb_4oL5YORL/view?usp=drivesdk
Sukkah 21: Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-28 Man made tents and the parah aduma preparation. Is a bed considered permanent relative to a sukkah? Putting sechach on something that is susceptible to tumah
Sukkah 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-27 Different types of mats and whether they can be used as sechach. Sleeping under a bed in the sukkah
Sukkah 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-26 Sechach sticking out of a sukkah. Making a sukkah in the shape of a tent https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Myxsm8Ss9jAvK2_7uNuVR0-blu5ny3Kz/view?usp=drivesdk
Sukkah 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-25 Even on the side, a small sukkah can be invalidated with unsuitable sechach. Does the law of lavud apply to a gap in the middle of the sukkah? "Pi tikrah yored v'sotem"- the law of a descending wall
Sukkah 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-24 Dofen Akuma - the bent wall. Unfit sechach and open airspace
Sukkah 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-23 Hollowing out a haystack to use as a sukkah. Constructing walls from the top down. Using the principle of lavud twice.
Sukkah 15 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-22 Loosening and/or removing boards of a roof in order to turn it into a sukkah. Using non-suitable materials as sechach
Sukkah 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-21 Intention vs action regarding "handles" of food. The use of 4 handbreadth wide boards as sechach. Placing a board on its side
Sukkah 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-20 A natural binding is acceptable as sechach. Types of maror. Can there be leftover produce on branches used for sechach?
Sukkah 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-19 Various sources for sechach needing to grow from the ground and not be susceptible to impurity. Why bundles of straw or wood can't be used as sechach
Sukkah 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-18 Qualifications for sechach - has to grow from the ground, be detached from the ground and not be susceptible to impurity. Concept of "ta'aseh v'lo min ha'asuyi" - it has to be made and not come into being automatically : tzitzit and sukkah examples
Sukkah 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-17 How much space should there be between the upper and lower sukkah to invalidate the lower one. Sukkah decorations. Different canopy beds in the sukkah
Sukkah 9 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-16 Making a sukkah for the sake of the festival. Deriving benefit from a sukkah. A sukkah underneath another sukkah
Sukkah 8 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-15 Calculation of the minimum size of a round sukkah. Potters huts regarding mezuza and sukkah. Sukkot of GaNBaCh and RaKBaSh are valid sukkot
Sukkah 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-14 Where do you put the third wall of the sukkah? If it is fit for a sukkah then it is fit to carry into it on the Shabbat of Sukkot. Rabbis who hold that a sukkah should be more a more permanent structure https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Dc2mMwWV-5L-q9jL5TPdIpGzQ2M5yRz/view?usp=drivesdk
Sukkah 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-13 The halachot of shiurim, chatzitzahs and mechitzas, are Halacha l’Moshe m’Sinai. A sukkah needs a minimum of 3 walls - how big does the third wall have to be?
Sukkah 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-12 The source that a succah must be at least ten tefachim in height. Hashem never came down to earth and Moshe and Eliyahu never went up to heaven
Sukkah 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-11 Different ways to decrease the ensure the height of the sukkah is acceptable: abandoning items in the sukkah, putting platforms in the sukkah, digging holes in the sukkah. Bent walls and imaginary walls
Sukkah 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-10 Dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai about the size of a sukkah. Various laws about a house less than 4x4 amot
Sukkah 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-09 Minimum and maximum height of a sukkah. Why are we taught that a sukkah that is too high is disqualified? Three sources that a sukkah can't be too high. Queen Helen's sukkah
Yoma 88 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-08 The correct time for ne'ilah. Having a seminal emission on Yom Kippur
Yoma 87 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-07 Once a person sins and then repeats it, it becomes permitted to him (!?). How to appease someone that was wronged. When and what do we say for vuduy
Yoma 86 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-06 Chillul Hashem. The greatness of teshuva. Concealing ones sins
Yoma 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-07-05 Determining whether a person is still alive. The source for the law that saving a life overrides Shabbat. Rebbi's view that Yom Kippur can atone even without repentance
Yoma 84 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-04 Diseases that are considered life threatening. The greatest people should break Shabbat to save a life. The quicker one acts the better when it comes to saving someone's life
Yoma 83 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-03 Believing a sick person. We are always lenient when it comes to saving a life. Feeding a person the less severe item. The cure for bulmus.
Yoma 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-02 Training children to fast. One never had to give up ones life except for the 3 cardinal sins
Yoma 81 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-07-01 Eating and drinking don't combine. Adding on from the mundane weekday to the holy. Eating and drinking on erev Yom Kippur is as if you fasted
Yoma 80 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-30 The source of an egg-size food transmitting impurity. The size of food forbidden on Yom Kippur is uniform but the amount of liquid is variable. All types of food combine to reach the forbidden amount
Yoma 79 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-29 The size of a date pip relative to the whole date. What one can eat outside of the sukkah. A large date is definitely bigger than an olive, but is it bigger than an egg?
Yoma 78 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-28 Permissible ways of cooling off on Yom Kippur. Wearing non-leather shoes on Yom Kippur. Children can eat, drink and wash on Yom Kippur but can't wear leather shoes
Yoma 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-27 Gavriel stands up for the Jewish people. Sources for why not wearing shoes and abstinence from marital relations are considered afflictions. Exceptions to the prohibition of washing
Yoma 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-26 The height of the manna. Drinking is considered in the same category as eating on Yom Kippur. The source ot not washing and not anointing bring called affliction
Yoma 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-25 The manna - how it tasted, how it looked, what feel along with it, how different classes of people experienced it. The quail that fell for a month
Yoma 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-24 Is a half-amount forbidden from the Torah? What is defined as affliction on Yom Kippur?
Yoma 73 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-23 Differences between an ordinary Kohen and the Kohen Gadol. Consulting the Urim v'tumim. The 5 afflictions of Yom Kippur
Yoma 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-22 The number of threads in various items in the Temple. Tearing the kohanic clothing, separating the breastplate from the ephod or removing the staves from the Ark violates a prohibition. A Torah scholar's inside should be the same as his outside
Yoma 71 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-21 The verses of the service of the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur are written out of order. The Kohen Gadol returns home. Differences between the clothing of a normal Kohen and the Kohen Gadol
Yoma 70 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-20 Reading the Torah off by heart. The more people doing something is a greater honour to G-d. When are the mussaf offerings brought on Yom Kippur?
Yoma 69 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-19 Shimon HaTzadik’s encounter with Alexander. Getting rid of the Yetzer Hora for avodah zarah. Why the Men of the Great Assembly got their name
Yoma 68 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-18 The burning of the bull and goat outside of Jerusalem. How the Kohen Gadol knew that the goat had reached the wilderness. Reading the Torah.
Yoma 67 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-17 Accompanying the designated person to the cliff. The actual procedure of throwing the goat. Can one use the bones of the goat at a later stage?
Yoma 66 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-16 The reason why you can't keep a Yom Kippur bull or goat until the following year. The appointed person must lead the goat for Aza'zel into the desert. Different punishments for the people who served the golden calf.
Yoma 65 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-15 Rabbi Yehuda's opinion as to why the remaining goat has to die. Why you can't leave it and use it the following Yom Kippur.
Yoma 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-14 Pushing the goat off the cliff is equivalent to slaughtering it. If something happens to a goat of the original pair what happens to its counterpart?
Yoma 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-13 Difference between the two goats of Yom Kippur and a Pesach offering. The goat for Aza'zel can't be too young or blemished
Yoma 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-12 Which goat would be sent to Aza'zel? The pair of goats should be identical. Slaughtering the goats outside the courtyard.
Yoma 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-11 If the blood spills, from where does the Kohen Gadol continue? Which animals provide atonement for different sections of the nation. The purification of a metzora - if the oil spills from where do you continue?
Yoma 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-10 Two verses that teach the same law can't be generalized. The procedures of the Yom Kippur avodah can't be done out of order- to what does that apply?
Yoma 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-09 Sprinklings done on the inner alter. Where the leftover blood is poured. Rabbinic meilah on the blood.
Yoma 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-08 One bowl inside another. Where the Kohen Gadol stands when sprinkling on the Parochet. Purifying the inner alter
Yoma 57 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-07 Hashem dwells with the Jewish people even though they are impure. Was the blood sprinkled on the Parochet? Blood that got mixed up - what do you do?
Yoma 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-06 Why there were not 2 pedestals in the Temple according to Rabbi Yehuda. The concept of b'reira - retroactive clarification. Bring concerned for exhaustion of the Kohen Gadol
Yoma 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-05 Sprinkling the blood of the bull and the goat - do you sprinkle on the ark cover or just in front? Deriving the number of sprinklings. Counting the sprinklings.
Yoma 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-04 Was the Ark exiled or hidden? The keruvim showed the love of G-d to the Jewish people. The Foundation Stone
Yoma 53 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-03 When is the incense put on the coals? Walking backwards. The Kohen Gadol's short prayer
Yoma 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-06-02 The status of the amah traksin. Words with indeterminate meanings. The Kohen Gadol's entry into the Kodesh Kodashim
Yoma 51 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-06-01 Why the pesach is called a korban yachid and the chagigah a korban tzibur. Was there one parochet or two? The Kohen Gadol's route to the Kodesh Kodashim
Yoma 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-31 The nature of the Kohen Gadol's bull - is it considered a communal or individual offering, and can you do temurah on it?
Yoma 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-30 If a Kohen Gadol dies can another one offer the original one's incense, or use the blood of the original bull or does he have to start from the beginning?
Yoma 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-29 Various questions by Rav Pappas about different ways of taking a kemitzah and chafina of the incense
Yoma 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-28 Why do we carry the incense on the left hand? Kimchit's 7 sons were all Kohanim Gedolim. Kemitzah between the fingers.
Yoma 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-27 The extra pyre on the alter- what was put thereon. Shabbat and tumah bring overriden. Prohibition of extinguishing coals of the alter.
Yoma 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-26 Different types of gold. How many fires were on the alter on a daily basis. The extra fire on Yom Kippur.
Yoma 44 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-25 No one can be in the Heichal when the ketoret is burned. The Torah cares about the money off the Jewish people. The shovel for the incense on Yom Kippur
Yoma 43 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-24 Detailed discussion of the verses of the Parah Adumah service. The Kohen Gadol has to atone for himself before others. The differences between the daily ketoret service and that done on Yom Kippur
Yoma 42 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-23 Different weights of the crimson wool for various procedures. The slaughtering of the Kohen Gadol's bull and the Parah Adumah - can it be done by a non-Kohen?
Yoma 41 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-22 At what point can offerings be designated? A wealthy person bringing the offerings of a poor person. The Kohen Gadol's second confession
Yoma 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-21 Is the drawing of the lots over the two goats essential, or could the Kohen Gadol designate them verbally?
Yoma 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-20 Sin blocks a person's heart. The miracles done during the 40 years of Shimon Hatzadik. Sounds and smells that could be heard in Jericho
Yoma 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-19 The miracles of Nikanor's doors. The house of Garmu and Avtinus- were their actions for the sake of Heaven or not? Zecher tzadik l'vracha- scriptural sources
Yoma 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-18 The lots drawn over the 2 goats. Various improvements to the Temple made by different people
Yoma 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-17 The Kohen Gadol's bull - how it is positioned, and the confession recited over it
Yoma 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-16 Why the Parvah Chamber was called by that name. The Kohen Gadol's expensive white clothing. Hillel being frozen to the skylight in an attempt to learn Torah
Yoma 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-15 Continuation of the order of the service in the Temple and the reasons thereof. Heating up the mikveh in the Temple
Yoma 33: Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-14 Abba Shaul lists all of services in the Temple, all the reasons thereof. Don't pass over mitzvot.
Yoma 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-13 The listing of the service of the day of Yom Kippur. From where do we know that the Kohen Gadol has to immerse and sanctify his hands and feet? What is the exact order of this?
Yoma 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-12 The 5 immersions and 10 sanctifications that the Kohen does on Yom Kippur - when exactly are they performed
Yoma 30: Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-11 Why the Kohen had to wash his hands and feet before serving. Going to the mikveh before doing the service
Yoma 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-10 Thoughts of a sin are worse than the sin itself. Esther compared to a deer and the morning. Consecrating something too early
Yoma 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-09 Determining what time first light can be seen. Avraham kept the Torah before it was given. Where a subsidiary item can be harsher than the main item
Yoma 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-05-08 What part of the service is able to be done by non Kohanim
Yoma 26 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-07 Offering the ketoret makes you wealthy. Who brings the limbs from the ramp to the top of the alter? Maximum number of kohanim that offer the Tamid
Yoma 25 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-06 The second lottery. Do the Kohanim wear holy clothes or regular clothes? How the different parts of the Tamid are offered
Yoma 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-05 How much ash must be removed from the alter daily? Dispute of which avodah a non-Kohen would be liable for
Yoma 23 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-04 Taking revenge and bearing a grudge. The stabbing in the Temple. Is taking the ashes out the city an avodah?
Yoma 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-03 The lottery for taking off the ashes. The prohibition of counting Jews. King David vs King Saul
Yoma 21: Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-02 The miracles that happened in the Temple. The direction of the wind on Sukkot foretold the weather for the future year
Yoma 20 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-05-01 Keeping the Kohen Gadol awake on Yom Kippur night. The Satan has no power on Yom Kippur. The call of the Gever.
Yoma 19 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-30 Administering an oath to the Kohen Gadol. Where the various chambers are located in the Temple. Death of the Tzeduki
Yoma 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-29 Familiarizing the Kohen Gadol with the avodah before Yom Kippur. What the Kohen Gadol shouldn't be eating. Getting married for a day?
Yoma 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-28 Reconciliation between Masechet Tamid and MIddot as to the placement of the various chambers. How much lechem hapanim is the Kohen Gadol entitled to?
Yoma 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-27 The dimensions of the Beit Hamikdash. Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov is the author of Masechet Midot
Yoma 15: Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-26 What is performed first - cleaning of the menorah or burning of the incense? How is the blood of the tamid offering thrown on the alter?
Yoma 14 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-25 Rabbi Akiva's view that the mei chatat water makes a pure person impure. Dispute about the order of the daily service
Yoma 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-23 How the Kohen Gadol can marry 2 wives - different permutations. Serving as an onein in the Temple
Yoma 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-23 The belt of the Kohen Gadol vs the belt of an ordinary Kohem. The status of the backup Kohen
Yoma 11 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-22 What entrances require a mezuza. Mezuzas on a curved doorway. Everyone is obligated in mezuza. Where you place the mezuza
Yoma 10: Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-21 The sons of Yafet. Does the Parhedrin chamber need a mezuza?
Yoma 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-20 The sins that caused the destruction of the first and second Temples. Were earlier generations, or later generations better
Yoma 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-19 Continuation of discussion about the tzitz. How often do you sprinkle onto the Kohen that had been separated? What is the meaning of the Parhedrin chamber?
Yoma 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-18 Tumah - is it fully allowed in the community or reluctantly pushed aside? Does the tzitz have to be on the forehead of the Kohen Gadol to effect acceptance?
Yoma 6 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-17 Why the Kohen Gadol had to separate from his wife. Why aren't we concerned that someone will die in front of the Kohen Gadol and make him impure?
Yoma 5: Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-16 Differences between the inauguration and future generations. How Moshe dressed Aharon
Yoma 4 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-15 Inauguration vs Har Sinai. When did the 40 days start?
Yoma 3: Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-14 Continuing to establish parallels between Yom Kippur and the inauguration as opposed to Sh'mini Atzeret, Shavuot and Rosh Hashana. Reish Lakish's opinion - separation is learned from Mount Sinai
Yoma 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-13 Removing the Kohen Gadol from his house for 7 days before Yom Kippur. Parallels with the inauguration and the ritual of the red heifer
Shekalim 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-12 Where does one burn tamei items in the Temple? Consecrating money these days - is it holy?
Shekalim 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-11 When the community needs to bring the Kohen Gadols offering. Tamei people in Jerusalem. The beauty of the Parochet
Shekalim 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-10 Meat "hidden from the eye". How do we treat lost animals. The minchat chavitin of the Kohen Gadol
Shekalim 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-09 If money is found between the chests what is done with it? Meat in Jerusalem and outside of Jerusalem - the status thereof
Shekalim 18 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-08 Solomon's extra tables and menorahs. The 13 different collection chests in the Temple
Shekalim 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-07 The 13 gates of the courtyard. The water coming from the Temple. The 13 tables in the Temple.
Shekalim 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-06 How the anointing oil was prepared. Rules for anointing a King and the Kohen Gadol. The dimensions of the Ark
Shekalim 15: Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-05 The best way to give tzedakah. Nachum Ish Gamzu and suffering. Where is the Ark to be found?
Shekalim 14 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-04 The house of Garmu and Avtinus refused to reveal their secrets. Moshe's wealth. The system of tokens in the Temple
Shekalim 13 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-03 The hand of the Treasury is always on top. Different officials in the Temple and their responsibilities
Shekalim 12 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-04-02 What we do with a person who consecrated his possessions to the Temple. Redeeming animals from the Temple. Consecrating a female animal instead of a male animal
Shekalim 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-04-01 Were Kohanim gedolim haughty? Can Treasury engage in commerce? How to buy back incense
Shekalim 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-31 What the terumat halishkah is used for besides offerings themselves. What leftover coins from the chamber are used for.
Shekalim 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-30 Is blood of a neveilah tamei or tahor? Rabban Gamliel's insistence that the terumah came from his family first. Source of Mesilat Yesharim
Shekalim 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-29 Further discussions about ma'aser beheima. Being innocent in the eyes of humans as well as Hashem. Laws of the 4 cups
Shekalim 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-28 Leftover money collected for a deceased - what do you do with it? Repeating a teaching in the name of the one who said it. Tithing animals - different time periods
Shekalim 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-27 What do you do with extra coins? Why do we give a half-shekel? A Pesach offering not in it's time is a shlamim
Shekalim 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-26 Further discussion of the kolbon. Agents who lose the half-shekel or from whom the half-shekel is stolen. Committing meilah with the half-shekel
Shekalim 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-25 Accepting funds from foreign nations. Adding on an additional amount on to the half-shekel (called a kolbon)
Shekalim 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-24 Source for marking a grave. Beth Din has the power to declare possessions ownerless ("hefker beit din hefker"). Do Kohanim have to give the half-shekel?
Shekalim 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-23 What happens on the 1st of Adar and the 15th of Adar? Communal offerings are brought from the new shekel from 1 Nissan. How the power of evil can sometimes be greater than the power of good
Pesachim 121 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-22 Piggul and notar make your hands tamei- the reasons therefor. Blessings over the Pesach offering, the chaggiga offering and pidyon haben
Pesachim 120 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-21 Eating after the Pesach offering is forbidden - does that apply to matzah these days? The obligation to eat matzah after the Temple. Status of someone who fell asleep at the table
Pesachim 119 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-19 Following the money. The anointment of David. Who will lead the bentching in the festive meal at the end of days?
Pesachim 118 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-19 Saying "Hallel Hagadol". Reason why we say the Hallel that we do. Different personalities and how verses of Hallel were applicable to them
Pesachim 117 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-18 Who composed Hallel? Brachot of kiddush and amida on Shabbat and Yomtov
Pesachim 116 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-17 Essence of the Haggada in the Gemara : Ma Nishtana, starting with degradation and finishing with praise, whoever doesn't mention Pesach, matzah and maror hasn't fulfilled their obligation
Pesachim 115 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-16 What happens if you only have maror for karpas? The laws of the Hillel sandwich. Dipping maror into charoset.
Pesachim 114 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-15 Saying the blessing over wine first and then the day follows Beit Hillel. Why do we did twice at the seder?
Pesachim 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-14 More practical and mundane advice dispensed by the Sages. Different groups : three of, four of, five of etc
Pesachim 112 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-13 The need to wash hands after different activities. Different pieces of advice that the Rabbis have to their sons or students
Pesachim 111 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-12 Witchcraft and demons- actions to avoid and to counter them
Pesachim 110 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-11 Doing things in pairs - is it dangerous? Prominent people are different.
Pesachim 109 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-10 Keeping children awake on Seder night. What makes people happy on Yomtov? Measurement of a re'veit.
Pesachim 108 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-09 Ensuring you have an appetite for matzah. When do you recline at the seder? Why are women obligated in the 4 cups...
Pesachim 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-08 Eating before kiddush and havdalah - are you allowed to them day kiddush or havdalah thereafter? Using beer for kiddush and havdalah. Chamar medina. From when do you have to stop eating on erev Pesach
Pesachim 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-07 Biblical source of kiddush. What is kiddush rabbah? Until when can one say havdalah?
Pesachim 105 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-06 Shabbat fixes obligation for kiddush and tithes. Prohibition of eating and drinking before havdalah. 8 lessons learned from a baraita about havdalah
Pesachim 104 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-05 Different distinctions to make during havdalah. Short blessings vs long blessings
Pesachim 103 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-04 When Yom Tov falls out after Shabbat, what is the order of all the blessings? Issues relating to havdala.
Pesachim 102 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-03 Implications of leaving a meal in the middle of it. Not doing mitzvot in bundles
Pesachim 101 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-03-02 Kiddush on the place where you have your meal. Leaving in the middle of a meal
Pesachim 100 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-03-01 If you began a meal at a permissible time and it ran into Shabbat what do you do? Reasons why we cover the challah on Shabbat and Yom Tov. Reason for saying kiddush in shul
Pesachim 95 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-24 Similarities and differences between Pesach rishon and Pesach sheni. Which tamei people are allowed to offer Pesach rishon if brought in a state of tumah
Pesachim 99 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-27 When Pesach offerings get mixed up. From what time is one not allowed to eat on erev Pesach
Pesachim 98 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-27 Santifying an animal that cannot be used as a Pesach offering. A Pesach offering that gets mixed in with other sacrifices. Sending a person out to look for a lost Pesach offering.
Pesachim 97 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-26 Circumstances in which a lost and found Pesach offering is sent out to graze or offered as a shlamim
Pesachim 96 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-25 Differences between the Pesach offered in Egypt and the Pesach offered in future generations. Substituting a Pesach offering
Pesachim 94 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-23 Talmudic astronomy. Definition of being far away on erev Pesach
Pesachim 93 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-22 The exact nature of Pesach sheni - three opinions. Definition of being on a distant journey
Pesachim 92 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-21 Three examples of where rabbinical prohibitions get overridden in order to allow a person to bring their Pesach offering and three where they don't. Introduction to Pesach sheni
Pesachim 91 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-02-20 Slaughtering the Pesach offering for someone that will only be fit to eat it later. Can you slaughter the Pesach offering for an individual? Women's obligation regarding Pesach rishon and Pesach sheni
Pesachim 90 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-19 How come you can sell a portion of your korban Pesach, surely it is already holy? Can you slaughter the Pesach offering for people who are not eligible at the time but will be fit later?
Pesachim 89: Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-18 Situations where it is impossible to bring the second Pesach. Encouraging ones children. Can a group eject a greedy person?
Pesachim 88 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-17 How the patriarchs are connected to the temple. People need to consent to have a Pesach offering brought on their behalf. A servant forgetting what his master tells him regarding the Pesach offering - different permutations
Pesachim 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-16 Can a newlywed wife choose to eat either from her father's korban Pesach or her husband's? Hosea's lesson about love. Why were the Jews exiled to Babylon?
Pesachim 86 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-15 What parts of the Temple and Jerusalem were sanctified. Eating the korban Pesach in different groups
Pesachim 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-14 How much meat has to be on the bone to forbid it being broken. Meat that goes beyond its boundaries has to be burned - how does one do that without breaking the bone?
Pesachim 84 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-13 Only somrthing that can been eaten in a grownup ox can be eaten in a young one. Discussing the prohibition of breaking a bone of the Pesach offering
Pesachim 83 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-12 Leftover meat, sinews and bones of the Pesach have got to be destroyed. Why the leftover may can't be burned on Shabbat
Pesachim 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-11 Embarrassing someone who is not careful about a mitzvah. Moshe questions Ajaron. A tamei korban Pesach vs where the owner became tamei
Pesachim 81 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-10 Tumah of the deep: what and who does it atone for
Pesachim 80 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-09 More 50/50 situations. The effect of zavim on Pesach sheni. The power of the tzitz to allow impure offerings to continue
Pesachim 79 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-08 Continuation of discussion of whether you are required to eat the korban Pesach. Pesach Sheni - what happens in the situation where the community is half pure and half impure : 3 opinions
Pesachim 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-07 Can Rabbi Yose's view be reconciled with the mishna? The importance of eating the korban Pesach
Pesachim 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-06 Reasons that the Pesach and certain other sacrifices are offered up in a state of tumah. Is tumah totally allowed for the community or just reluctantly pushed aside?
Pesachim 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-05 Transfer of flavor from one food to another. Hot items, salted or pickled foods will accelerate absorption
Pesachim 75 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-04 Roasted over fire - what does that include and exclude? A surprising lesson from "you should live your fellow as yourself ". The type of coals required for the incense service
Pesachim 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-02-03 Laws of roasting the korban Pesach : have to use a wooden spit, not a metal one. How do you drain out blood out of various items
Pesachim 73 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-02 What does sacrifice achieve if the animal is unable to be eaten. Do you need to explicitly uproot a sacrifice's designation when you slaughter it?
Pesachim 72 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-02-01 Trying to do a mitzvah but doing something wrong instead: offering incorrect sacrifices, eating notar meat, your wife and your yevamah
Pesachim 71 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-31 Can you fulfill your mitzvah of simcha on Yomtov with an animal slaughtered before Yomtov? Ramifications of slaughtering an unfit animal on erev Pesach when it falls on Shabbat
Pesachim 70 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-30 The chagigah offering brought on the 14th of Nissan - under what conditions is it brought and how closely related is it to the korban Pesach.
Pesachim 69 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-29 Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva argument about whether rabbinic prohibitions are overriden when Shabbat falls on erev Pesach. Do preparations for a mitzvah override Shabbat?
Pesachim 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-28 Continuation of the discussion about sending impure people out the camp. The righteous will resurrect the dead in future. The requirement to feast on Shavuot
Pesachim 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-27 Source for bringing the Pesach offering in tumah by the community. Sending out tamei people from different areas of the camp
Pesachim 66 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-26 Ben Beteira hand the leadership to Hillel. The consequences of a person is arrogant or gets angry. Source of bringing the Pesach in tumah
Pesachim 65 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-25 The last group to bring the Pesach offering is called lazy. Status of spilled blood. When erev Pesach falls on Shabbat, what actions are allowed and what is forbidden?
Pesachim 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-24 Rabbi Shimon's view on who can't have chametz on erev Pesach when you slaughter the Pesach offering. Detailed description of the Pesach offering in the temple and the numbers of Jews present.
Pesachim 63 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-23 When does shechita actually considered to have taken place. Where does chametz have to be in order to violate the prohibition of slaughtering of Pesach with chametz in your possession? Who's chametz would make you liable?
Pesachim 62 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-22 Uncircumcised people and the principle of "ho'il". Differences between a Pesach offering that was slaughtered not for its own sake and one that was slaughtered for people that are unable to eat it
Pesachim 61 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-21 Slaughtering a Pesach offering not for the correct owner. Slaughtering a Pesach offering for a mixed group some of which can eat it and others which can't
Pesachim 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-20 Doing any of the 4 essential services of a Pesach offering with the incorrect intention. Slaughtering a Pesach offering not for its own sake during the rest of the year is acceptable
Pesachim 59 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-19 Is the korban Pesach the last item to be offferd? Status of a mechusar keparim's offering
Pesachim 58 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-18 When the tamid offering is brought on a daily basis, and on erev Pesach. What changes if erev Pesach is on Friday, or Shabbat?
Pesachim 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-17 Setting aside peah from vegetables. Strong-armed behavior in the temple. Which is preferable : goat or lamb?
Pesachim 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-16 6 things that the people of Jericho did and 6 things that King Chizkiah did - the Rabbis protested against 3 of them. Why we say "Baruch Shem kavod malchuto l'olam va'ed"
Pesachim 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-15 Is not working on Tisha be'av a sign of haughtiness? Are you forbidden to work the night before Pesach? What work are you permitted to finish in the morning of erev Pesach
Pesachim 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-14 Blessing over a flame. What was created just before shabbat. Difference between Tisha be'av and public fast days
Pesachim 53 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-13 Different time periods and geographical areas for biur. Eating roasted meat on Seder night. Lighting candles on Yom Kippur
Pesachim 52 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-12 Doing melacha on 2nd day Yomtov. When do you have to do "biur" on shmittah produce? Israel is split into 3 areas
Pesachim 51 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-11 Changing the custom of one's father. If people treat something as forbidden, don't treat it as permitted in front of them. Don't deviate from local custom since it will cause dispute
Pesachim 50 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-10 Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Yehuda's differences regarding significant sizes of food. How Hashem's name is written vs how it is read. Inauspicious times for work
Pesachim 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-09 When to destroy chametz if erev Pesach is on Shabbat. Acceptable marriage partners. The Sages dim view of amei ha'aretz
Pesachim 48 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-08 Muktze is a rabbinic requirement. 3 woman kneading matzah and using the same oven. Definition of "si'ur".
Pesachim 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-07 The principle of "ho'il": applied to lechem hapanim, shtei halechem and gid hanashe. Doing one action and being liable for multiple transgressions
Pesachim 46 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-06 Tumah and dough in a kneading bowl. How far you have to travel to pray / wash your hands. How to separate tamei challah on Pesach
Pesachim 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-05 Further discussion about the flavor of an item being equivalent to its essence. Dough as part of a kneading tray- what to do with it on Pesach
Pesachim 44 : Marc Chipkin ; 2021-01-04 Forbidden substances combining with permitted substances. The taste of an item is equivalent to it being there. "K'dei achilat pras"
Pesachim 43 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-03 Mixtures of chametz, chametz nuksheh. Why woman have to eat matzah
Pesachim 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2021-01-02 Mayim shelanu, different mixtures of chametz forbidden on Pesach, unhealthy and healthy foods according to the gemara
Pesachim 41 : Marc Chipkin: 2021-01-01 Cooking the korban Pesach, eating the korban Pesach before nightfall
Pesachim 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-31 Different ways to stop wheat and barley from becoming chametz. Fruit juice does not cause chametz.
Pesachim 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-30 Maror - what types of vegetables are acceptable, permitted ways of preparation
Pesachim 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-29 Does matzah have to belong to you? Using matzah that is both maaser sheni as well as challah. Using unleavened breD of a nazir
Pesachim 37 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-28 How thick can matzah be? Making shapes on matzah. Taking challah on pan baked bread
Pesachim 36 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-27 The meaning of "lechem oni". Matzah made from ma'aser sheni or bikkurim. Matzah can't be "rich man's bread"
Pesachim 35 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-26 With what type of grain does one fulfill their obligation of matzah on Pesach? Status of matzah ashirah- matzah made with wine, honey or oil
Pesachim 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-25 Planting tamei terumah. Lack of attention with regard to holy items.. Higher standards for kodesh.
Pesachim 33 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-24 What is more severe : "karet" or "mitah b'ydei shamayim"? Separation of terumah from chametz. Status of the juice inside grapes
Pesachim 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-23 Terumah- if eaten by a non-Kohen: what are the ramifications? Eaten inadvertently or deliberately, repaid via volume or value? What if it is chametz terumah eaten on Pesach?
Pesachim 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-22 Chametz held as collateral over Pesach. Rabbi Natans rule and Rabbi Yitzchaks rule. Buried chametz
Pesachim 30 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-21 How to kasher various items: pots, ovens, knives, glazed utensils
Pesachim 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-20 Chametz of hekdesh - liable for for meilah or not? Mixture of foods with chametz - is it a) of its own type b) during or after Pesach and c) does it impart a taste
Pesachim 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-19 Comparison between chametz and avodah zara. Chametz kept over Pesach- 3?way dispute
Pesachim 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-18 The status of the product of permissible and forbidden items. Rabbi Yehuda's view that chametz has to be destroyed only by burning it
Pesachim 26 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-17 Various examples of unintended benefits. Using an item after its mitzvah has been performed. Firing up an oven with forbidden substances
Pesachim 25 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-16 Similarities and differences between orlah, milk and meat and chametz. In a life threatening situation you can benefit from forbidden items -except for the 3 cardinal sins
Pesachim 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-15 More attempted sources to say once one can't eat eat it, you are forbidden to get benefit from it. Eating in a normal manner of consumption
Pesachim 23 : Marc Chipkin : 202-12-14 Finishing off the discussion as to whether a prohibition against eating something also implies that you can't benefit from it. Examples include orlah, terumah, shratzim, nazir, chadash
Pesachim 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-13 Exceptions to the "if you can't eat it you can't benefit from it" rule... Tereifah, blood, gid hanashe, ever min hachai
Pesachim 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-12 Any time you can't eat chametz, you can't benefit from chametz - discussion thereof. The source of the prohibition against benefitting from chametz
Pesachim 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-11 Further discussion about an impure needle stuck into an animal. How does one burn pure terumah, doubtful terumah and impure terumah on erev Pesach
Pesachim 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-10 Items in the same vessel - do they combine for tumah purposes? A tamei needle found in the flesh of an animal
Pesachim 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-09 How far did Rabbi Yehuda retract his opinion about the impurity of liquids? Food can transmit tumah to liquids and vice versa but not to utensils
Pesachim 17 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-08 Haggai tests the kohanim. Liquids of the slaughterhouse and liquids of the alter. The power of liquids to transmit tumah
Pesachim 16 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-07 the susceptibility of liquids to both receive, and transmit tumah. The power of the tzitz
Pesachim 15 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-12-06 Is one allowed to save hullin by destroying teruma? Differences between the 6th and 7th hour on erev Pesach. Moldy bread
Pesachim 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-05 Adding a degree of tumah to tamei meat. Food transmitting tumah to other food. The special status of metal regarding tumah
Pesachim 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-04 Until when are you allowed to eat chametz - the 4th hour or the 5th? Acting always beyond suspicion. The 2 loaves in the temple on erev Pesach
Pesachim 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-03 Examining witnesses - how big a discrepancy can be tolerated? How well can a person tell the time? When do different people eat their first meal?
Pesachim 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-02 Are you allowed to search for chametz after the time you are meant to have destroyed it? Will a person automatically separate themselves from something that is forbidden? Letting blood from a bechor
Pesachim 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-12-01 Mice moving around chametz, putting out 10 pieces of chametz and only finding 9
Pesachim 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-30 Weasels dragging chametz from house to house. Does a doubtful situation every override a definite one? 9 stores selling Kosher meat and one doesn't - different permutations
Pesachim 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-29 Why don't you use a large flame to check, non Jews suspecting scorcery, where to search in the winery
Pesachim 7: Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-28 The bracha before searching.. Saying a blessing before a mitzvah. Using a candle for the search
Pesachim 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-27 Laws of non-Jewish chametz in a Jew's possession. Going away before Pesach and checking for chametz. How long before Pesach do you have to teach the laws of Pesach
Pesachim 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-26 The source of chametz being forbidden on erev Pesach. "Not seeing" and "not finding" chametz
Pesachim 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-25 Not wanting to pass on bad news. Why don't we search for chametz in the morning instead of the evening before? Is it the landlord's or the tenant's responsibility to search for chametz
Pesachim 3: Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-24 Further proofs that "ohr" means nighttime, the importance of using refined language
Pesachim 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-23 We search for chametz by the "ohr" of the 14th of Nissan - does the word "ohr" mean day or night?
Eruvin 105 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-22 Are you liable for bringing in a sheretz to the Temple, who should do repairs on the Temple - are kohanim preferred?
Eruvin 104 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-21 Scattering salt on the ramp of the alter, making melodious sounds, taking out a sheretz from the Temple
Eruvin 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-20 Fixing a harp string in the temple, removing a wart from an animal on Shabbat, a bandage on a Cohen
Eruvin 102 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-19 Bolting a door on Shabbat, temporary tents, replacing a bandage https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWJDCHyPkPNa3cW9xPvLvO4pzMUI8C87/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 101 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-18 Different types of doors, opening a door with a key https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-VUjrlR0yAjoo-nC5a15dBLJY7tGQ-Oj/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 100 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-17 Roots sticking out of a tree, walking on grass. Eve's curses https://drive.google.com/file/d/150e5NlvqF4ev-5mImKWA71DgCLqCzNHP/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 99 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-16 Standing in one domain and moving things, or drinking something, in another domain. Catching water from a gutter. A public garbage dumphttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1sV_2QmKWCVuyxbK1QlGZCaA4x3GmkMpS/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 98 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-15 Retrieving a scroll from the public domain, the sanctity of holy writings, items on a windowsill https://drive.google.com/file/d/17YZQ4mJZnS_IN1yHAWG4JaG1MJJ5Y7fw/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-14 Buying tefillin from a reputable person, best way to bring tefillin in from the field, water beyond the techum
Eruvin 96 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-13 Intention to fulfill a mitzvah, wearing tefillin at night and on Shabbat, womens relationship with positive time-bound mitzvot
Eruvin 95 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-12 Reacting to changed situations on Shabbat. How many partitions constitute a private domain. What to do if you find tefillin on the field on Shabbat https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjlfG2KLMWuqaabZ5uFy_Lh5xVk1zYBp/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 94 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-11 How to disagree with a Rabbi in his neighborhood. Status of the sides of the reshut harabim. Pi tikra and a slanted roof https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PDhCYNLYC-s5pI_IsWtZkYFSNru-mQhF/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 93 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-10 Do partitions always result in a leniency? People in a karpaf - are they treated as a caravan? Half mechitzas half embankments https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KxkNKLsqQBZf4wPMY3jcoSTnCeYddYdv/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 92 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-09 Small rooves / courtyards completely open to large rooves / courtyards - various examples of how this plays out https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2N_7aTzeh74L8Vfbb4ndDTPgzq44IBj/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 91 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-08 Moving between rooves, courtyards and enclosures. Did the Rabbis decree against certain movements if an eruv was made? https://drive.google.com/file/d/15VgP2bAhKPg5raMMFnQfbCNcR8kMLS1T/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 90 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-07 Carrying from a roof to a gazebo, carrying on a large ship https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LIkfg-JvSAdogY-Hk_DMv-yggvn1KBAl/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 89 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-06 Different options about the status of a roof regarding carrying thereon, imaginary walls, areas completely open to others https://drive.google.com/file/d/1teS9OSM-KcChJpdjZc7stkPymtaxM02B/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 88 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-11-05 Pouring out waste water - when is it permissible https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GB9fXLDyMDoQiY9efppkILNa4b4U76KD/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 87 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-04 Balconies over water, canals under a window- how to permissibly draw water on Shabbat https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RAHUsuoWvRlv9wrTsR9jEn1bFheKsvH9/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 86 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-03 Honouring wealthy people. Does going away for Shabbat restrict other people, partitions in a water hole https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dr1wfKqajHW9_G-F6BXxd7_rZOns9zRW/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 85 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-02 Does use via airspace restrict other people, putting an eruv in an unguarded area where people don’t live https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ufs-DsGkcrkETMWedeBvGrg3D7uZcDxw/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 84 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-11-01 Is it easier to lower something or is it the same effort to lift it https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I0AtyX5Eok_vJ1wYxRmFbC1BAfxkMwfV/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 83 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-10-31 The maths behind how much food is needed for an eruv, how measurements change over time, giving access to residents with easier use of an area https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C6ODScqPRmrTk_y_4dhKu4s4_77MWcsS/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 82 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-10-30 Gamblers and others disqualified from giving testimony, a communal eruv techumim, how old does a child need to be to be considered independent of his mother
Eruvin 81 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-29 Food needed to join an eruv and shituf, the amount of challa that needs to be removed, does paying money acquire an item
Eruvin 80 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-29 Relationship between eruv chatzerot, shituf mavaot, eruv techumim and eruv tavshilin. Renting from a wife. How much food is required for a shituf
Eruvin 79 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-27 Ditches between courtyards and planks to cross them, haystacks in a courtyard vs a house, mechanics of a shituf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aa-0Fpu_Zza4Y1w9H5ln8S9EaFcXcrU-/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 78 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-10-26 Ladders and projections between courtyards https://www.dropbox.com/s/7dginp6vey5n61x/Screenshot%202020-10-25%20at%2022.09.46.png?dl=0
Eruvin 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-25 A wall between 2 courtyards - how thick it has to be to affect carrying, priority given to ease of access, ladders acting as a passageway https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mKWf45UIsg48D0Z-Yut-uwVqM1T40fsT/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 76 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-10-24 Eruv in a guard house, dimensions of windows between courtyards and housrshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1MC8oXKA0zqWY9aydcql9fIk45xTjXRa5/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-23 How an inner courtyard affects an outer courtyards ability to carry, 3 different opinions
Eruvin 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-22 Different configurations of houses, courtyards and alleyways. Shmuel's view of a mavoi. Jews living opposite non Jews https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gXCz-KvT5M86DV8f3cvbvTT9Jatjmfyp/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-21 Further discussions about what determines your eruv - where you eat or where you sleep, the bond of marriage and the master-slave relationship, 5 courtyards opening into each other and opening into the alleyway https://drive.google.com/file/d/19w5H0YDkKuILeJGPb1J76MCzRncPFMbn/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 72 : Marc Chipkin. : 2020-10-20 Do people living in a hall with different partitions have to make an eruv, children living in the same courtyard as their father - do they have to make an eruv https://drive.google.com/file/d/134vo-0qGvs-qbgj2JQWILNHnjMZDxyRC/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-19 Is nullifying rights in a courtyard similar to a business transaction, do partners need to join together in an eruv, are shitufs and eruvs interchangeable?
Eruvin 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-18 Do you have to nullify your rights to all other residents of the courtyard, does the heir step into his father's shoes
Eruvin 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-17 Status of non-religious Jew and eruv, who is defined as an apostate, retraction of previously nullified rights
Eruvin 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-16 Methods of getting hot water to a baby who needs it, can you reacquire your rights to a courtyard after you have renounced them https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iiEli81RLMLt_vqjl1EWGtjZk4ccGRtx/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-15 Partitions erected on Shabbat, preferred entrances, status of a rock in the sea https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCaAX6AS1yydKuMaoGY8jgGcGMMNqk4w/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-14 When you have to make an eruv to carry, when you don't need to make one but you can, the effect of a non Jew arriving on Shabbat https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h2Fi9pPYl9f3cmyHG5R-n-Yh0zUQmPlm/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-13 Different levels of intoxication, when wine enters, secrets leave, how to know the true essence of a person https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dOPMP1zYHvIeuz-lmUJR06-eUw--TahS/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-12 Dealing with an idolater who refuses to rent out his courtyard. Prohibition of praying or rendering judgement when intoxicated, how to safeguard sudden wealth
Eruvin 63 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-10-11 Parameters of a student issuing a ruling in front of his teacher. Caution regarding giving the cohanic gifts to only one Cohen
Eruvin 62 : Marc Chipkin: 2020-10-10 Living in the same courtyard as an idolater, how can you carry there on Shabbat
Eruvin 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-09 People of large cities going through small cities, barriers at the end of a cliff, eruv in a cave
Eruvin 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-08 Status of ladders, Abaye's eruv questions, techum ending in a town https://drive.google.com/file/d/18YQTf7TQIBVadlfy7X8pWb-AnQNXt68j/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-07 Dealing with different measurements, private cities that become public cities, eruv for half the city https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tfDgBIXC1NoKHCv1IPAYg6mY1D1dCJiT/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-06 The way to measure the techum, how to deal with obstacles https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_3Tkfp-CPDEc1oLV-xUa1mupbpLOlLhJ/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-05 Areas around Levitical cities continued, the source for a karpaf, villages in a triangular formation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aVPUFRrBlI9zmTtlblfHVtr4a2LvsJCi/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-04 Are vegetables healthy, working out directions without a compass, the open area beyond the levite cities https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVpwyjtWmw5254w0zgHAfR0mlTRHFSuk/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-02 Torah is not in Heaven, measuring the techum from strangely shaped cities https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjnqxiZjYEGCm8HPrOfbx3TZPLx8YNpM/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-02 Learning Torah out loud, revising Torah, Rabbi Perida's patience
Eruvin 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-10-01 A new king arose over Egypt, the decline of the generations, the speech of Judeans vs the Galilians https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knNqPVEuShHicMxOvUCvTp9jBoU7YEHL/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-30 Starting a trip and turning back, putting one foot out the techum, are techum measurements precise
Eruvin 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-29 Source of 2000 amot for a techum, the significance of a diagonal, what is more significant - you being at the spot of the eruv or your food
Eruvin 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-28 Anything that can't be done one after the other can't be done simultaneously, being stuck in the middle of overlapping eruvs https://drive.google.com/file/d/1chc1gWdRcDrWSnWrKealzmqNMTSJn0j4/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-27 Forcing people not to be like Sodomites, how eruvs join courtyards together, establishing eruvs from a distance https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kkG7naAh-8C6HK1W7d1148z83XyqQV-g/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-26 Mechitzas in water, source of 4 amot, Rabbi Shimon's analogy
Eruvin 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-25 Halachic hierarchies, when is a woman allowed to get remarried, do non-Jewish objects have a techum
Eruvin 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-24 The halacha follows the lenient opinion when it comes to Eruvin, and to mourning, hierarchy of opinions between various Rabbis
Eruvin 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-23 A Jewish city under seige on Shabbat, a person that falls asleep on a journey before Shabbat, the status of rain https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zZBOeZNo9j-cyHpPsds-TVvLKQM7_52F/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-22 Leaving your techum by mistake, using animals and humans as mechitzas, Hatzolah responders coming home on Shabbat
Eruvin 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-21 Moving and stationary ships, does the techum apply above 10 tefachim, days on which Eliyahu the prophet won't come to announce Moshiach
Eruvin 42 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-20 Fruit moved out the techum, measuring your techum in the open, walking around a ship
Eruvin 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-19 Going into shabbat while fasting, what happens if you are forced out of your techum
Eruvin 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-18 Work done by a non Jew for a Jew on Yomtov, do you mention Rosh Chodesh on Rosh Hashana, do you say shehecheyanu on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur?
Eruvin 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-17 Is making an eruv on Yomtov preparing for Shabbat, how the 2 days of Rosh Hashana are viewed
Eruvin 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-16 Eruvs for separate days, are Yomtov and Shabbat considered one long day of holiness or two separate days
Eruvin 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-15 Different views on bereira - retroactive clarification
Eruvin 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-14 Rabbi Yose's view on an eruv, when does the eruv take effect, making a conditional eruv
Eruvin 35 : Marc Chipkin : Losing the key when an eruv is locked up, an eruv that rolls out of the techum or gets burned up, or becomes impure
Eruvin 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-12 Tilting a basket to remove the eruv, an eruv in a wall or in a pit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yUcgyZ5JiKrPR9TsRKvJzlzb1lGW1US6/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-11 Eruvs in strange shaped trees, baskets attached to poles https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AO9om8wXRq7PuDvUat2xjbp0ifM6PNQt/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-08 Different foods suitable for eruv techumim, Chananya's very strict position, measuring items by a person's unique characteristics
Eruvin 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-10 Is there is a presumption that an agent fulfills his agency?, a person and his eruv have to be in the same area
Eruvin 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-09 Putting an eruv techum in a cemetery, using food which has been tithed incorrectly. Use of a mentally incompetent person to place the eruv
Eruvin 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-07 Various foods used in an eruv techum- amounts required and appropriateness thereof
Eruvin 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-06 Can you purchase fish or fowl with maaser sheni money, using minimally edible food for an eruv, bitter and sweet almonds
Eruvin 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-05 Edibility and accessibility of an eruv techum, what you can buy with maaser sheni money
Eruvin 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-04 The Reish Galuta's lunch gets distorted, the size of a royal palace, relinquishing rights in a courtyard https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RnQUDjm5yxbVoE9S8JMKWM9_01fCRGyo/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-03 Making a karpaf smaller, and fit for residential use, carrying in a pavilion https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Em0kPGNePqBfKf-iJSxFj3o00cQS7rFr/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-02 How to adjust a karpaf so it is seen as for to live in, a flooded karpaf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WdsmRGzmpnZ7OFilt410kBToke9EH-HJ/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-09-01 A well vs a spring, what a karpaf has to contain in order to be able to carry inside it, the size of a karpaf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wylka4OZYVQ027sgySluyIq34hRx4N6W/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-31 Hashems punishment of the wicked and reward for the righteous, does the public walking through the area surrounded by well boards affect them? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PQU6_52_zLA32VgVfJeginK_HIghphs9/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 21: Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-30 Are well boards applicable outside of Israel, the size of the Torah, Rabbi Akiva in jail
Eruvin 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-29 When the well runs dry, how much of the cow has to be within the boards https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r4JgrXTzWl6okcyRcY4OgVBD8bX1YFFZ/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-28 Different names, and entrances to Gehinnom, maximum size of well boards https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sq4GjtqUhOzRXkMPBWvfhyzKmfUMxgG-/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-27 Difference between a spring and a pit of water, how Eve was created from Adam, following after a woman https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tTkfhaNwVsLeVMb-zPfdrljKGOJW6F3c/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-26 Assessing a changed situation on Shabbat - do we view it as it was at the beginning of Shabbat or as it currently stands?, leniencies granted to soldiers (no pictures today)
Eruvin 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-25 Different permutations of horizontal and vertical ropes and poles, leniencies for travellers https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NeW1nKKCBsKFKHyO5xNFBFlK0nlmm2Nc/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-24 Lechis that are not man made, the status of living animals as mechitzas, writing a "get" on an animal https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nfwqsB0jeBcejUHLSMzwXuZynb4UtjKq/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-23 The width and strength of a korah, approximation of Pi (and an amazing insight of the Gra!), width of a lechi https://drive.google.com/file/d/11dbtRR9Ph_kaLBrRLKQ7Ww9__FGDhy_G/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 13 : Marc Chipkin :2020-08-22 Rabbi Meir's teachers, heavenly voice saying halacha goes like Beit Hillel
Eruvin 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-21 What is sufficient to close a mavoi, and also a chatzer, a submerged chatzer https://photos.app.goo.gl/pAjZFpa7VSzVcnBv8
Eruvin 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-20 Tzurat hapesach- does it work for wide entrances, how it needs to be constructed https://photos.app.goo.gl/SkxcCH7QG7cexB1q7
Eruvin 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-19 A lechi only seen from the perspective of outside the mavoi, decreasing the width of a mavoi https://photos.app.goo.gl/reRh2DeDYnKF54vw7
Eruvin 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-18 Suspended korahs, multiple lechis, lechis only seen from one side https://photos.app.goo.gl/NoJy1MF4N9sQWZZt5
Eruvin 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-17 Mavois by the sea, diagonal korahs, can you carry directly under a korah https://photos.app.goo.gl/evGomprSjPjydJ457 (this link has all the photos)
Eruvin 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-16 The importance of following a single teacher, carrying into a backyard https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jhIwn3WlZM57qy65Tr09AST5d8h4QN17/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-15 Bent alleyways, definition of the public domain https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIDEeD4087v1TTVIb29TQVrqNgp9PQU1/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RmrPZ9r-991ZQ8_HlJ8pfxDiY5h32jY0/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1shOKic4BFqkXw_pb1oe3kRJzJGQ6CEKN/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tyWQCkmXl8NzCpfnc250k_bvfDN_mUhI/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLniIzsqU9AcEp0FL6EpiGiZ6AFMh67F/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cx09nZhxcMlWHIZ85GKBS1KBsYzSLoY6/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-14 How to rectify a korah that is too high, how long is the minimum size of an alleyway https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QeO8fwRdH9ts3sAEe-PhXbve8Z-jENzL/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/19a06QI-3k91N474jAk4K0R51vcb0ExTz/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WJP8QdV39wHh9hJRIu0OezzOYbsogpov/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PtYfFdM1TZrw7SF4wEo6_uxuyOitgdYI/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-dgaQZqHRO7vdEVEE-_VBkEN1wAyrsq1/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-13 Different measures of an amah, the laws of shiurim, chatzitza and mechitza (sizes, barriers and partitions) have been handed down from Sinai https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Upc7OrIlOpuKoTzL8NtKqCfsOgJM_blh/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-12 Crossbeams as a marker between domains, difference between a mavoi and a sukkah, different sizes of an amah. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V-JUKKr_T6HQmprQ641heEfq7ns76OmI/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CwndPPtUgLoty1PL05XyvvGuSr0sB5CS/view?usp=drivesdk
Eruvin 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-11 Introduction to Eruvin, difference between a sukkah and a pole to fix an eruv, doorways in the temple https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t5UdtIlcliNPzaO9a0j37OxGD-9Zz1wN/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jNi4ZLhPyOqiWRH7CLtS0uSTGizct3AQ/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-cfA_EpDc-5LRKFtvrKIvpyzzbe0Yn-/view?usp=drivesdk
Shabbat 156 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-09 Permissible ways to knead, Jewish view of astrology, charity saves from death
Shabbat 155 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-08 Exertion in order to feed an animal, force feeding different animals, the rich pig and the poor dog
Shabbat 154 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-07 Driving a laden animal on Shabbat, removing sacks off an animal, use of the sides of a tree on Shabbat
Shabbat 153 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-06 Impact of a eulogy, difference between tzadikkim and resha'im in olam ha'ba, hierarchy of the best way to transport your wallet on Shabbat
Shabbat 152 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-05 Drawbacks of getting old, the soul's connection to the corpse, messages from the dead
Shabbat 151 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-04 Preparation of a grave or coffin on Shabbat, permissible actions for a corpse on Shabbat, the wheel of poverty
Shabbat 150 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-03 Permissible and forbidden calculations on Shabbat, walking to the Shabbat boundary on Shabbat in order to leave it straight after Shabbat
Shabbat 149 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-02 Reading from a list on Shabbat, getting someone else punished, the terror caused by Nebuchadnezzar
Shabbat 148 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-08-01 Fixing a broken bone on Shabbat, borrowing on Shabbat, are loans made on Yomtov collectable in court?
Shabbat 147 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-31 Wearing vs carrying clothing on Shabbat, use of towels on Shabbat, the dangers of too much worldly pleasure
Shabbat 146 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-30 Ways to open casks of wine on Shabbat, making a spigot on Shabbat, "ma'arit ayin"- doing things that appear wrong
Shabbat 145 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-29 Extracting liquids out of fruits and pickled vegetables, cooking after cooking, easily cooked items
Shabbat 145 : Marc Chipkin ; 2020-07-28 Liquid expressed intentionally and unintentionally, squeezing juice out of fruit
Shabbat 143 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-27 Clearing away bones and shells from the table, squeezing fruit on Shabbat
Shabbat 142 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-26 Carrying a child with a muktze item in his hand, items that become a base to muktze, moving a lost wallet on Shabbat
Shabbat 133 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-17 Positive mitzvot override negative ones, "ze kel.ml anvehu
Shabbat 132 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-16 Various proofs as to why circumcision overrides Shabbat, why milah is stronger than tzara'at, the temple service as well as Shabbat
Shabbat 131 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-15 Overriding Shabbat for preparations for various mitzvot according to Rabbi Eliezer - omer, shtei halechem, lulav, sukkah, matzah, shofar
Shabbat 130 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-14 Breaking Shabbat for a bris, mitzvot that the Jewish people accepted with joy, status of a courtyard relative to a roof and an alley
Shabbat 129 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-13 The need to be lenient when it comes to saving a life on Shabbat, how long is a woman considered to be in danger during birth, advice about bloodlettimg
Shabbat 128 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-12 All Jews have the status of aristocracy, returning an escaped chicken on Shabbat, breaking Shabbat for a woman in labour
Shabbat 127 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-11 What is defined as more exertion - more trips with less weight or less trips with more weight?, the greatness of hospitality, judging people favourably
Shabbat 126 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-10 Re-inserting a window shutter on Shabbat, moving a cover of vessels and pits, moving items to create space
Shabbat 125 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-09 Use of a broken oven, moving a stone designated as a weight, ways to prepare items to use on Shabbat
Shabbat 124 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-08 Moving objects for the sake of themselves and did the space they occupy, Rabbi Nechemia's strict view of Muktze
Shabbat 123 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-07 Items treated as muktze as a result of a financial loss, or because they are usually used for forbidden purposes, history of Muktze
Shabbat 122 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-06 Can you benefit if a non Jew switches on a light on Shabbat, removing and replacing a door on Shabbat
Shabbat 121 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-05 Non -Jews extinguishing a fire, children extinguishing a fire, killing dangerous animals on Shabbat
Shabbat 120 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-04 Saving a basket with many meals, indirectly extinguishing a fire, erasing Hashems name if written on your skin
Shabbat 119 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-03 Rewards for honouring Shabbat, the power of "Yehe shmei rabbah", why Jerusalem was destroyed
Shabbat 118 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-02 How many meals do you need to eat on Shabbat, oneg Shabbat, and other people who get a great reward
Shabbat 117 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-07-01 Flaying the hide of the Pesach offering on Shabbat, what is defined as an open alleyway. rescuing food and drink on Shabbat
Shabbat 116 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-30 The seven books of the Torah, encounters with evangelicals, when can't you say ketuvim on a Shabbat
Shabbat 115 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-29 What holy writings can be saved from a fire on Shabbat, the status of holy books written in languages other than Hebrew
Shabbat 114 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-28 Keeping clothing clean, who is considered a talmid chacham, preparing on Yom Kippur for afterwards
Shabbat 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-27 Folding clothes, how to act on Shabbat, Ruth and Boaz
Shabbat 112 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-26 Permanent knots vs temporary knots, what to do if your shoe breaks, the drop in spirituality between generations
Shabbat 111 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-25 Prohibition against castration, using vinegar for medicinal purposes on Shabbat, permanent knots on Shabbat
Shabbat 110 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-24 Misbehaving snakes, eating food for medicinal purposes on Shabbat, Talmudic cure for jaundice and ziva
Shabbat 109 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-23 Treatment of wounds on Shabbat, bathing for curative purposes, Talmudic medicines
Shabbat 108 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-22 Removing a fetus from an animal, making brine on Shabbat, curative properties of the Dead Sea
Shabbat 107 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-21 Performing actions that are "patur and mutar", trapping and wounding the 8 sheratzim
Shabbat 106 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-20 Performing destructive acts, trapping animals and insects
Shabbat 105 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-19 Famous abbreviations, weaving, tearing garments out of anger or mourning
Shabbat 104 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-18 Mystical dimensions of the alef-bet, definitions of writing, strange story of Ben Stada
Shabbat 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-17 Hitting a hammer on an anvil, different minimum amounts based on your intention, writing
Shabbat 102 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-16 Dogs intercepting a thrown object, minimum amounts of building, the final hammer blow
Shabbat 101 : Marc Chipkin : 2030-06-15 Transfering to and from a ship, carrying from one ship to another
Shabbat 100 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-14 Throwing objects : against a wall, being affected by the wind, in the sea
Shabbat 99 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-13 Source of the width of the reshut harabim, a thin wall enclosing an area, carrying dirt in and out of a pit
Shabbat 98 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-12 Carrying in a covered reshut harabim, how the boards for the Mishkan were transported, the coverings of the Mishkan
Shabbat 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-11 Tzlofchad's sin, Miriam's tzara'at, throwing an item in the reshut harabim
Shabbat 96 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-10 Throwing and passing items over (and in to) a reshut harabim, what sin did the "mekoshesh" do?
Shabbat 95 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-09 Applying makeup, milking cows, making cheese, different types of flower pots
Shabbat 94 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-08 "Melacha she'ayna tzricha l'gufa"- doing something not for its purpose, a living creature carrying itself, removal of partially detached fingernails
Shabbat 93 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-07 Two people doing an action together: sources and applications
Shabbat 92 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-06 Carrying out in an abnormal manner, how tall was Moshe, carrying items behind yourself
Shabbat 91 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-05 Carrying out smaller amounts than the minimum size, changes of intention while carrying out, status of a threshold
Shabbat 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-04 Carrying out various items on Shabbat including wood, holy items and locusts
Shabbat 89 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-03 Moshe's experiences with angels, sin of the golden calf, Yitzchak's defense of the Jewish people
Shabbat 88 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-02 Famous stories of giving of the Torah - "na'aseh v'nishmah", mountain held over the Jewish people's heads
Shabbat 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-06-01 Continued arguments between Rabanan and Rabbi Yosi as to the chronology of the giving of the Torah
Shabbat 86 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-31 For how long will semen be able to transmit tumah, dispute as to what date the Torah was given
Shabbat 85 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-30 Ways of planting a field so add to avoid kilayim
Shabbat 84 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-29 Tumah status of ships, as well as earthenware vessels
Shabbat 83 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-28 Idolatry : what form of tumah does it transmit, status of a piece of an idol, minimum size of an idol
Shabbat 82 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-27 Carrying out shards on Shabbat, status of idolatry
Shabbat 81 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-26 Carrying out bones, and stones on Shabbat, behavior in the bathroom
Shabbat 80 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-25 Carrying out various items on Shabbat - ink, eye shadow, building materials
Shabbat 79 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-24 Carrying out documents, what part of parchment do you use for writing tefillin and mezuzot
Shabbat 78 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-23 What measurement do you use for something that has more than one use, carrying out tax teceipts
Shabbat 77 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-22 Carrying out various liquids on Shabbat, Hashem creates all creatures for a reason, meanings of Aramaec names of objects
Shabbat 76 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-21 Various measures of animal and human food that are not allowed to be carried out on Shabbat
Shabbat 75 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-20 Continued discussion about the 39 Melachot -including slaughtering, writing and "the final hammer blow"
Shabbat 74 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-19 Analysis of the 39 Melachot, including borer / sorting and tochen / grinding
Shabbat 73 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-18 Intending to do something permissible and instead doing it in an impermissable way, listing of the 39 Melachot
Shabbat 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-17 Does an asham offering have the same parameters as a chatat offering in terms of unwitting actions, comcept of "mit'asek"
Shabbat 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-16 Different levels of awareness, liability for "chatzi shiur"
Shabbat 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-15 Three different opinions as to why there are different categories of melachot
Shabbat 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2020-05-14 Defining "inadvertent" behaviour on Shabbat, what to do if you lose track of time in a desert