Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Deus Absconditus: the unseeable God • Deus Humilitis: providential healing of idolators • The mandate to sell with generosity • The paradox of creaturely desire to be created • The curious case of Divine atonement for the disgruntled moon • The value of polished expressions of truth • No scriptural prophecy is mundane

The unique tereifa of derusa, a mortal wound by being clawed • Clawed by a fox or a dog? • When assessing a claw wound, it is the predatory thought that counts • A backscratch or a lion's swipe? • What to do when the mandates of preventing financial losses among our brethren and honoring the local Rav are in conflict? • Examining a claw wound in context

Where does severance of the spinal cord render an animal tereifah, mortally wounded? • How much healthy liver tissue must be intact, and where, for the animal to be kosher? • Evaluation of various lung wounds and discoloration

When do improper intentions invalidate sacrificial offerings and non-consecrated slaughter? • Who is capable of invalidating slaughter with improper intentions? • When is it appropriate someone to hit there head on a mountain?

Does kosher slaughter require intentionality to be valid? • What is required for valid slaughter of the Red Heifer? • When would a pause within the slaughter render it invalid?

Divergent susceptibilities of earthenware and other vessels to ritual impurity • Divergent susceptibilities of wooden and metal vessels to ritual impurity • The controversy about boneware • Laws of tithing sweet and bitter almonds • Halachic treatment of an undivided inheritance estate

Why must a butcher subject his knife to be examined by a Torah scholar prior to kosher slaughter? • What are the consequences for failing to do so? • Where on the trachea may kosher slaughter be performed?

From where is the mandate to follow the majority derived?

What is required to permit having a Jew who eats non-kosher meat perform kosher slaughter? • When is the slaughter of a Samaritan kosher? • Is the slaughter of a Jewish idolator permitted? • Why does the Rambam prohibit the slaughter of those who deny the authenticity of the Torah, yet permit the slaughter of Sadducees and others who don't accept the oral tradition? • Rav Yosef Karo's shocking interpretation of the Rambam: Biblically recognized kosher slaughter of a non-Jew or ape

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