Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

While still empowered, exert yourself to fulfill your Maker's Will • Good deeds and charity are all that help after death • Within the framework of your Divine gifts, accomplish as many mitzvos as possible, take pleasure as much as possible • The measure of one's success is entirely dependent upon one's potential

The rabbinic prohibition of Achos Zekukaso, levirate bonds between two widows who are sisters and their surviving brothers-in-law • If the prohibition was violated, may the new couple stay married? • Various cases where widows who are sisters may both have levirate marriages • When both are necessary, why must a bill of divorce be given before Chalitzah is performed?

See to it that you make a good life for yourself • Pursue peace and avoid strife with your wife • Toil in Torah and livelihood • Channel your desires toward their highest fulfillment within the path of Torah to cultivate eternal life • Actualize your eternal bliss through mastering your fleeting days • Man and woman together were created in the Divine likeness

The bizarre case of quasi-levirate marriage • Chalitzah (severance of the levirate bond) is not considered an imperative in relation to levirate marriage • How do we know that second degree relatives, Shniyos, are prohibited from a biblically derived tradition? • How does the Maggid Mishnah prove the paradoxical nature of forbidden incestuous relationships? • In what manner is the violation of deceptive weights and measures more severe than illicit relationships? • Is one's father-in-law's wife always prohibited? • May stepchildren marry? • May a king's wife remarry?

How can we prime ourselves to be receptive to God's blessings? • Preparing for the king's invitation • How can one channel Divine illumination?

What are the parameters of the prohibition of dividing into factions? • Is Lo Sisgodedu a biblical or rabbinic prohibition? • Is it permitted for residents of walled cities to read the Megillah on the 14th of Adar? • Is making an unnecessary blessing a biblical or rabbinic prohibition? • What is a Bas Kol, heavenly voice, and its role in Halacha? • Is one who considers something permitted nonetheless required to help another avoid doing something that would be prohibited based upon that person's stringency?

Solomon's prophesy • By doing good, the pleasures of life can be experienced with deep satisfaction • Asceticism is inappropriate for one whose deeds are good and straight

Courts are biblically prohibited from administering punishments on Shabbos • Are other facets of judgement restricted? • May a murderer serve in the Temple? • May one bury an unidentified corpse on Shabbos?

Sensitivity towards those who have passed includes not flaunting our ability to fulfill God's commands • Idolaters cut themselves off from their Father, the Creator, and therefore do not benefit from their children after their demise

Rabbinic leniencies within their stringencies against trusting an ignoramus regarding purity • Jerusalem may not have kilns burning so as to restrict smoke pollution in the city • The Jewish nation as a superorganism: The Torah guides us to treat each individual from among the enire people as trustworthy when gathered together • How do we relate to their individual actions after their dispersal? • As a form of endearment, the Table in the Temple was displayed on the pilgrimage festivals • How do we derive that it was eligible to become ritually impure and needed protection? • In the Temple, the Altar brought atonement; today our generosity at the table with those in need effects atonement