Daf Yomi

Makkot 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-04-15 A sanhedrin avoiding capital punishment. Exile is given for an unintentional murder, through a downwards movement.

Makkot 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-14 Two witnesses compared to three witnesses. If one of the witnesses is found to be a relative or disqualified witness, the entire testimony is void. Why the people involved in an event do not disqualify all witnesses. Witnesses watching from different windows.

Makkot 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-13 The conspiring witnesses have to be shown to have been in a different plane at the time they purported to see the crime. The conspiring witnesses are killed only if their victim was convicted and not if he was already executed.

Makkot 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-12 If three lugin of drawn water with the color of wine disqualify a mikveh. Receiving lashes as well as having to pay money. Receiving lashes for sins not involving an action.

Makkot 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-11 Assessing conspiring witnesses' payment of a Ketubah. Does shemittah cancel a ten-year loan? Lending money on condition that shemittah does not cancel a debt.

Makkot 2 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-10 Conspiring witnesses who get lashed instead of the reciprocal punishment. The meaning of the verse “they exonerate the innocent one and convict the guilty one”.

Sanhedrin 113 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-09 Property escaping destruction of an idolatrous city. Joshua’s curse over rebuilding Jericho is fulfilled. Eliyahu and the key of rain.

Sanhedrin 112 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-08 The process for trying idol-worshippers until establishing an idolatrous city. What is done with jointly owned property? Different categories of sacrifices of an idolatrous city.

Sanhedrin 111 : Marc Chipkin: 2025-04-07 Moses displayed less faith than the Patriarchs. Moses needed the attribute of “slow to anger”. Various conditions needed for a subverted city.

Sanhedrin 110 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-04-06 The influence of a wife. Which death did Korach receive? The 10 tribes- will they return in future?