Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin

Epizody

• Chullin 78a Every Individual is a Species - אותו ואת בנו 17.07.2026 20min

  G-d’s Divine attention is applied to each individual human being in the same way it is applied to an entire species of animal. Source Sheet
• Chullin 77b-78a Homeopathy, Superstition & Prayer – אין בו משום דרכי האמורי 16.07.2026 16min

  We should be open to thee many routes to healing: some physical, some psychological and some spiritual. Source Sheet
• Chullin 75a Untethered from Source (Part 2) – דגים מאימתי מקבלין טומאה 15.07.2026 18min

  Halachicly, a live animal is defined by whether or not it has been untethered from its source of life (see also Matmonim 27b) Source Sheet
• Chullin 74a-b Halachik & Scientific Definition - בן פקועה_לחרישה ולפדיון 14.07.2026 19min

  We encounter further examples of how halachik definition is a world of its own separate from scientific definition. Source Sheet
• Chullin 73 Understanding Rabbinic Legislation – טומאת טרפה שחוטה 12.07.2026 21min

  There are different types of rabbinic legislation, but all of them are designed to raise our consciousness of Yirat Shamayim. Source Sheet
• Chullin 71a Plugging In - חבל על בן עזאי 09.07.2026 16min

  Apprenticeship to a great talmid chacham is an irreplaceable connection to source. Source Sheet
• Chullin 70b Not All Dead Animals Are Equal - בהמה שמת עוברה 08.07.2026 17min

  The Torah distinguishes between kosher dead animals and dead animals that are not kosher. Both are called neveillah, both are tamei and cause contamination, but there is a nuanced difference between them. Source Sheet
• Chullin 68a Defining Animal Life – בן פקועה 07.07.2026 17min

  On daf 27b we learned that an animal’s source of vitality is the oxygen it enhales and the food it eats. When it is untethered from that source it is no longer a nefesh chaya even if biologically it continues to function. Shechita is the act of untethering an animal from its source of chayut, vitality. Source Sheet
• Chullin 67b The Leviatan - לויתן דג טהור הוא 05.07.2026 16min

  We must serve both with yir’ah (awe of Hashem) and ahava (love of Hashem). The outer expression is yir’ah; ahava resides more deeply inside of the individual. Source Sheet
• Chullin 66b Scales & Fins - Balancing Security & Adventure - יגדיל תורה ויאדיר 04.07.2026 19min

  Adventure is dynamic but dangerous. Security is safe but static. The wonder of Torah lies in its balance of security and adventure. Source Sheet
• Chullin 63b Rabbis Are Not Experts In Everything - רבו חכם או רבו צייד 02.07.2026 17min

  Although pesak is not decided solely on scientific criteria especially when these contradict chazal in the Talmud, nevertheless the Gemara shows great respect for scientific expertise and at times uses it for the purpose of input into halachik decisions. Source Sheet
• Chullin 63a The Bat & The Mole - דבר הלמד מענינו 02.07.2026 16min

  When something is physically repulsive it has elements of spiritual repulsiveness as well. Source Sheet
• Chullin 62a Cruelty - Agression, Passion & Sadism - כל עוף הדורס טמא (חלק ב) 30.06.2026 19min

  Hashem despises cruelty irrespective of what motivates it and of how it manifests. Source Sheet
• Chullin 59a & 61a Discovery, Knowledge & Reasoning - כל עוף הדורס טמא 29.06.2026 16min

  Torah is a body of knowledge, not information. What is the distinction between knowledge and information? Knowledge is whole, information is incomplete. Source Sheet
• Chullin 58a What Both Make Neither Has - זה וזה גורם 26.06.2026 19min

  When two or more people collaborate in a creative act, their creation belongs to neither of them, but to a different entity – the partnership between them. Source Sheet
• Chullin 57b What We See and What We Receive - סמוך אהימנותא דשלמה 25.06.2026 20min

  The halachik reality of the world in which a Ben-Torah lives is framed by the Torah as handed down to us by chazal, more than by the empirical knowledge we have of the world around us. Source Sheet
• Chullin 55b I Don't Know - לא ידענא מאי קושיא 24.06.2026 19min

  “… Negative Capability … is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Source Sheet
• Chullin 48a Halachik Decisions 18.06.2026 18min

  Halachik principles is broad and widely applicable. Halachik decisions are made from a tradition or from Halachik reasoning by someone that has both Love and Fear of Hashem.
• Chullin 37a Kashrut is About Human Greatness - השוחט את המסוכנת 05.06.2026 23min

  In matters of Kashrut we tend to zoom in on the object, the food, its contents and components, the way it has been processed, its technology etc. But the Torah’s concern is with the subject, the individual who observes these laws and how it elevates him. Source Sheet
• Chullin 35b-36a The Unique Quality of the Blood of Korbanot - למשרי דמן דפסולי המוקדשין 04.06.2026 18min

  How the blood of a korban transforms once the required avodah on the mizbeach has been performed with it. Source Sheet