Horayot 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-14 A Kohen Gadol tears his garment when a relative dies “from below, and an ordinary Kohen tears it “from above.” Precedence of a man vs. a woman. A Kohen precedes a Levi, however a mamzer talmid chacham precedes a Kohen Gadol.

Horayot 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-13 The hiding of the aron kodesh. Simanim of Rosh Hashana. Differences between various Kohanim gedolim.

Horayot 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-12 Eating forbidden fat as a commoner vs a king. The category of an apostate. How the incense for annointment was produced and the miracles that occurred.

Horayot 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-11 A king and a Kohen Gadol who sinned and left their positions, or sinned before assuming their positions. Fortunate is the generation whose ruler brings an offering when he sins. Hashem’s paths are straight, the righteous walk in them and the wicked stumble in them. An example of this is Lot and his daughters.

Horayot 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-10 Sources that the king and Kohen Gadol cannot come to poverty. The status of the Kohen Gadol for a sliding-scale offering. Cases of exemption for impurity relating to the Temple and sacrificial food.

Horayot 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-09 The Beth Din is not liable to bring a communal offering unless they rule to permit something whose intentional transgression incurs karet, and its unintentional transgression obligates a chatat. The Beth Din is not liable to bring a communal offering if the sin would result in a sliding scale offering.

Horayot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-08 The Kohen Gadol brings a bull when he rules mistakenly and acts on his ruling A Kohen Gadol who rules and sins together with the congregation is atoned with their offering. Does a mistake about idolatry require a prior ruling of the Kohen Gadol?

Horayot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-09-07 The congregation doesn't die. A sin offering of partners.

Horayot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-06 Who actually brings the sin offering : the Beth Din, the people or both? The effect of a tribal court.

Horayot 4 :Marc Chipkin : 2025-09-05 Only part of a mitzvah being uprooted would result in a communal offering, if the whole of the mitzvah is uprooted nothing is required. If even the Saducees wouldn't agree with a ruling then it is an obvious error and no communal offering would be required. A deficient Beth Din.