Daf Yomi

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.