Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

The righteous love life and hone their sensitivity to learning the pitfalls of evil from the wicked • The wicked are stultified, inhibiting their receptivity to learning goodness and choosing to heal • The knowledge of death can help crack the monotonous inertia of sinfulness, facilitating our return to God

Purification for non-sanctified purposes does not require intention; the inadvertent act of immersion is sufficient • Why is an immersion within a rainwater waterfall unable to purify? Why does a detached wave from the sea need 40 se'ah to purify a person according to the Shach, Taz, and Meiri? • What type of incidental water contact with fruits engender their susceptibility to ritual impurity? • Can one have intentions to achieve specific levels of purification while no longer immersed? • Is the first tithe equivalent to unsanctified products or does their higher level of sanctity require specific intentions to permit their handling?

Freedom to choose eternal life is a gift inherent in each moment of our lives • We may elevate ourselves to become angelic • Was Hadrian superior to Moses?

Navigating the unique pedagogy and fraught parameters of Jewish cosmogony

Free will is a lifelong gift that overshadows the ever shifting influences of fortune and circumstance • Through immersively pursuing knowledge of the Divine Will one can have confidence in finding the path to cultivate eternal intimacy with God

The Lubavicher Rebbe asked Rav Moshe: does the command of ascension to the temple on pilgrimage festivals include the act of ascending, or is it merely a practical requirement to fulfill the command of placing oneself there? • Who is exempt from the command of ascension and how are the various exemptions derived? • Can spiritual bureaucratic errors happen? • Can a person merit additional years to his life?

When is one required to rend their garment? • After his ascension, was Eliyahu HaNavi's rebbetzin permitted to remarry? • Were the eighty men on their way to Jerusalem after Gedalia was assassinated permitted to gash their flesh? • Was Rabbi Akiva permitted to strike himself until he bled after Rabbi Eliezer died? • Is one required to inform a would-be mourner of his loss?

All men know they are subject to death and yet experience the illusion of physical immortality - how shall we be judged for our resulting errors? • The believers in pure random fate who deny Providence and Justice shall inexorably lose their grip on moral living under the seductive pressures of evil • To survive, all men must pursue their physical sustenance, yet to endure, all men must pursue their spiritual sustenance • Pursuit of the latter without the former yields to failure in both domains

Are Tefillin required or prohibited during the intermediate days of the festival? • Are there any restrictions on how to make tzitzis for oneself during the intermediate days of the festival? • Biblical and rabbinic aspects of mourning • May a mourner comb his hair? • May a mourner take a hot shower before the festival?

It is the thought that counts • Successful results are not a function of righteous intent, but rather depend on the resonance of our strivings with the Divine Will • A degenerative consequence of the tragedy of Adam and Eve, exacerbated by the tragedy of Cain and Abel, was the engenderment of spiritual blemish warranting mortality to become a ubiquitous human experience to achieve rectification