Daf Yomi

Avodah Zara 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-15 Circumcision performed by a non-Jew, or a woman. Using a pagan doctor : a patient who may live and may die if he is not treated, may not receive treatment from a pagan doctor, because it is likely the doctor will kill him, but if he will definitely die if left untreated, we may be healed by them.

Avodah Zara 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-14 Can a non-Jewess delivering, or nurse, a Jewish baby? The difference between a heretic and an apostate? Giving excuses as to why we don't take a person out of a pit.

Avodah Zara 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-06-1 3 The sun stood still for Joshua. Seclusion with idolators. How to protect oneself when traveling with an idolator.

Avodah Zara 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-12 Discussions if a Jew can buy a sacrifice from a non-Jew. The song of the cows.

Avodah Zara 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-11 What if idolators capture a woman? Discussion about the parah adumah and if it can be bought from a non-Jew. The story of Dama Ben Netuna.

Avodah Zara 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-10 A partnership of a Jew and non-Jew. The prohibition of leaving one’s animal with an idolator. Preferences of idolators.

Avodah Zara 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-09 Renting houses or fields to idolators, inside and out of Israel. Renting a bathhouse to an idolator.

Avodah Zara 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-08 Different interpretations of "lo techanen". The prohibition to gaze at a woman or her clothing. The steps of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair (basis of Mesilat Yesharim).

Avodah Zara 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-07-07 A person can only learn Torah successfully from the area his heart desires to learn. Learn a lot first and then delve into it more deeply. The person that wants life should guard his tongue from speaking evil.