Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin

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Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin episodes

October 09 Bechorot 21b The Profit Motive or Piety - אם במוכר או בלוקח תליא מלתא
The seller of a cow that has not previously given birth is conflited between preserving the price by not revealing the fact to the buyer, and the piety of potentially causing the buyer to transgress by eating kodshim outside the beit hamikdash. Can the buyer rely on the seller’s piety? The Rambam and the Rosh disagree (as do the Shulchan Aruch and the Ramah in 316)
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18 min
October 08 Bechorot 20a A System Built for Intimacy - רובא דתלי במעשה
Intimacy within the system of the human couple is more natural than it is for random male and female animals in a herd.
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22 min
October 07 Bechorot 19a The Special Treatment of the Bechor - הנקבה בכור לכל מילי היא
The key to understanding the special status given to the first born in the Torah and its linkage to yetziat mitzrayim (the Exodus from Egypt), lies in the truthfulness of translation.
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October 06 Bechorot 18b Don’t Get it Done. Do It. - דניחא ליה דליתעביד מצוה בממוניה
Our hurried lives focus on getting things done. But growth happens from doing the right things not just from getting them done. This is especially true with respect to Torah and Mitzvot.
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23 min
October 05 Bechorot 17b-18a Coincidence (Simultaneity) - אי אפשר לצמצם
The Gemarra explores the statistical chances of exact coincidence both in nature and in humanly engineered events, and our ability to measure it. It emerges that the human capacity of certainty and exactitude is inherently limited.
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19 min
October 01 Bechorot 9a & 13a The Value of Money - ספק פטר חמור וחיוב עריפתו
Although the Torah is critical of a person who protects his assets against the rights of the kohein to the redemption of his first born donkey, nevertheless the Torah itself is protective of a person’s money wherever possible.
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September 30 Bechorot 13a A Mitzvah to Destroy Assets - מצוות הפדיה קודמת למצוות עריפה
The instruction to behead an unredeemed first-born donkey is one of the stranger ones in the Torah. Yet in it we will appreciate the depths of the Torah’s understanding of the extent of human meanness and its root cause.
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September 29 Bechorot 11a-12a The Rights of Initiators - אין לו שה פודהו בשויו
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September 28 Bechorot 11a Initiators Have Greater Rights - אין לו שה פודהו בשויו
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17 min
September 25 Bechorot 8b Knowledge vs. Wisdom - ר' יהושוע בן חנניה וסבי דבי אתונה
The wisdom of the Torah is sourced from a completely different place than the wisdom of the nations of the world.
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21 min

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Matmonim means "hidden treasures." In less than 20 minutes each episode highlights, develops and explains one actionable insight from the Daf Yomi Talmud study cycle. People around the world, from…