Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
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Chullin 78a Every Individual is a Species - אותו ואת בנו
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.
Chullin 77b-78a Homeopathy, Superstition & Prayer – אין בו משום דרכי האמורי
We should be open to thee many routes to healing: some physical, some psychological and some spiritual. Sour...
Chullin 75a Untethered from Source (Part 2) – דגים מאימתי מקבלין טומאה
Halachicly, a live animal is defined by whether or not it has been untethered from its source of life (see also Matmonim 27b)
Chullin 74a-b Halachik & Scientific Definition - בן פקועה_לחרישה ולפדיון
We encounter further examples of how halachik definition is a world of its own separate from scientific definition.
Chullin 73 Understanding Rabbinic Legislation – טומאת טרפה שחוטה
There are different types of rabbinic legislation, but all of them are designed to raise our consciousness of Yirat Shamayim.
Chullin 71a Plugging In - חבל על בן עזאי
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
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.
Chullin 68a Defining Animal Life – בן פקועה
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<...
Chullin 67b The Leviatan - לויתן דג טהור הוא
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.
Chullin 66b Scales & Fins - Balancing Security & Adventure - יגדיל תורה ויאדיר
Adventure is dynamic but dangerous. Security is safe but static. The wonder of Torah lies in its balance of security and adventure.
Chullin 63b Rabbis Are Not Experts In Everything - רבו חכם או רבו צייד
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 ...
Chullin 63a The Bat & The Mole - דבר הלמד מענינו
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)
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
Torah is a body of knowledge, not information. What is the distinction between knowledge and information? Knowledge is whole, information is incomplete.
Chullin 58a What Both Make Neither Has - זה וזה גורם
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.
Chullin 57b What We See and What We Receive - סמוך אהימנותא דשלמה
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.
Chullin 55b I Don't Know - לא ידענא מאי קושיא
“… Negative Capability … is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
Chullin 48a Halachik Decisions
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
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 ele...
Chullin 35b-36a The Unique Quality of the Blood of Korbanot - למשרי דמן דפסולי המוקדשין
How the blood of a korban transforms once the required avodah on the mizbeach has been performed with it.
Chullin 33a & 35b Food - שחיטתו מכשרת ולא דם
For an animal or plant, fueling a noble human life has greater “kedusha” than generating new life.Source...
Chullin 33a Jew and Gentile - מידי דלישראל שרי ולעכום אסור
Jews and Gentiles don’t differ genetically or racially. Their difference is a qualitative one of kedusha. The kedusha of Jewishness is available to any human being. The way a Jew engages with kedusha and with the worl...
Chullin 31a How Accountable is a Robotic Human - לא בענן כוונה לשחיטה
We are obsessed with robots that act like humans. But what about humans who act like robots? How accountable are they for their actions?
Chullin 28b When Advice is Law - עד שישחוט את הוורידים
When a talmid chacham gives advice or expresses an opinion, it is not just his personal view that he is expressing. His personal views infact totally merge with da’at Torah (the view of the Torah according to his understanding of it as...
Chullin 27b Untethered from Source - דגים הכשירם בלא כלום
An animal’s source of vitality is the oxygen it enhales and the food it eats. A fish’s source of vitality is the water in which it lives. Removing a fish from water is like severing an animal’s trachea and oesophagus. A human’s source of vitali...