Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Facilities and bathhouse etiquette: disrobing modestly and conscientiously • Ingress and egress: which patron has the right of way? • Being victimized should not cloud one's identity • Calcutated emotion: engendering love, aloofness, and humility in the pursuit of wisdom, wealth, and life • Top dog: life offers opportunities to choose • Social connections: how they orient us towards hope & impact us - it is our choice how to actualize the impact • The dead have nothing to lose, praise them for their eternal good

Questionable eruvin: If, how, and when they are effective • Retroactive eruvin • Justification for setting up eruvei techumin: why run away from the chazzan?

Through service of Torah scholars one can increase exposure, breadth, depth, and impact of Torah learning; gadol shimushan m'limudan • In the world of Truth, righteous children can mount a successful defense for wicked parents to join them by broadening their identity

Eruvin: Understanding King Solomon's fence around the Torah • Eruvei Chatzeiros : Halachic elimination of private property • Shitufei Mavo'os: Privatization of communal property • Enough food for two meals: hops, wheat grass, Brussels sprout stalks, wine, beer • Rava taps his inner Ben Azzai: Can apples be used for eruvin? Tithe of the poor: give each individual substantially and to satiation • Spices may be used as Eruv food according to Rambam, Tur disagrees • The Onion: Dead serious • Eruv beer: Oktoberfest or a half-pint? • Folk remedies for anxiety and a weak heart

Pasi Bera'os: minimal enclosures for private domains • Calculating the techum from the city's outskirts • The Torah is 3,200 times greater than the universe • The completely wicked have hope! All are instruments of the Divine Will • Rabbinic legislation: an organic flowering drawn from the intimate interface between the oral law and mortal experience

The structural changes needed to permit carrying in alleys with narrow entryways • Sharpening the mind: a bit of disorientation dislodges dulling assumptions • May vitriol or iron sulfate be added to scribal ink? • Conscientious writing as required for valid bills of divorce and Parshas Sotah for the suspected adulteress • Words of the Living God: Legitimate conflict • Humility: the secret to grasping Truth • To be or not to be, no longer a question

Public domains can be converted to other domains yet are impervious to eruvin • Enclosing alleyways to convert them to private domains • Conflicting halachic opinions yield chumros & kulos (leniencies & stringencies): proceed with caution • Striving for internal consistency

Humility brings forth truth • Choose life: follow the guidance of our sages • Subjective observer: humans perceive through personal filters • Lost opportunity costs • Oppression: keys to break the cycle

Mazal • Free will • Kleptomania • Muktza • Annulment of vows on Shabbos

Hand washing before meals through the lens of Judeo Christian debate • Meal time etiquette: a matter of life and death • Enjoying the fruits of one's labor • Focusing our efforts towards the highest good • Reish Lakish: rogue to rav • The ascendancy of action • Tzeddaka: a superior investment