Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Preparing vegetables for after Yom Kippur • Grinding and chopping finely on Shabbos • Saving holy writ from fire on Shabbos • How the Ritva defends the common practice to extinguish fires, even without clear danger to life

Be supple as a reed • Hashem assists the pursued • The Yetzer Hara pursues each of us

Honoring the wise • The beauty of silence • Is mortality inevitable? • Divine Justice: God seeks the downtrodden • אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה God is not bound by time

Halachic hoops: Transfering from sea to ship and vice versa

Transport: The living carry themselves • Creative activity as done to construct the Mishkan • Selling animals to non-Jews • Removal of Tzora'as blemishes must be through Teshuvah, not merely external • Cutting hair and nails on Shabbos

• Wisdom and Refinement: seven traits to cultivate • Human nature primes us to perceive and achieve elements of the Divine Symphony • The beauty of God's timing • What is a satisfying life well lived?

Daf Yomi Revelation at Sinai

Daf Yomi • Transport on Shabbos: how much parchment, ink, makeup, wax, tar, glue, and cement must be transported to become liable • Range of modesty standards • Klaf, Duchsustus, and Gvil; Writing Torah, Tefillin, and Mezuza

Compassion requires sensitivity. Six days each week~ creative labor makes us receptive to God. Money: approaching God in power, dependence, and gratitude. Omniscient Benefactor: Builder and Destroyer of worlds.

Daf Yomi