Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

What activities are prohibited during the intermediate days of the festival? • Understanding the prohibition of breeding a first born animal and other invalidated sacrificial animals • Is working during the intermediate days permitted to prevent losses? • If a person did prohibited work during the intermediate days, are his inheritors similarly restricted from benefiting from that labor?

From our perspective, there is no reliably discernable congruity between fortune and worthiness, misfortune and guilt • When is it permitted to become an informant?

What types of renovation and construction projects may be done on Chol Ha'moed? • Road maintenance is a high priority public need • We are encouraged to pray for divine mercy for suffering penitents • How do we know that various sites transmitting Tumas Ohel (ritual impurity engendered through sharing a covered enclosure with a corpse) must be marked? • Laws pertaining to fields with a grave whose precise location can no longer be identified or has been plowed over • When are we required to take communal responsibility?

Fortune is decreed from heaven • In this world the righteous and wicked can share the same fate • Their divergence of experience becomes apparent in the World of Truth

Who interrupts Torah study to accompany a bride to the wedding canopy or a body to the grave for burial? • The Divine Presence dwells among the Jewish nation even in exile • The sanctity of synagogues and study halls • The four special Torah readings before Passover

How many people ascend for the public Torah reading on fast days? • What restrictions on work are in force on Rosh Chodesh? • Various forms of bowing and prostration and their appropriate expression • May women and children ascend for public Torah readings?• May women and children be included in the quorum of ten for public Torah and Megillah readings?

When is rejoicing praiseworthy? • How can a person enhance their resilience? • How can one cultivate satisfaction with one's lot? • One's toil to fulfill God's Will is a continuous source of protection

How was it permissible for Yehoshua to marry Rachav, a Canaanite convert? • Who were the four most beautiful women in history? • Can God be a crown for the righteous? • Why did Esther invite Haman to her party?

True unmitigated good is not the experience of the wicked • Living without the fear of God is at the root of every branch of evil • Good deeds that are done without the fear of God are inherently inferior, and are rewarded accordingly

Differences between restrictive vows • Differences between various impure discharges • Differences between a quarantined Metzorah and a definitively pronounced Metzorah • What languages and alphabets may be used in Sifrei Torah, Nevi'im, Kesuvim, Tefillin and Mezuzos?