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Yoma 44: The Challenge of the Holiness of the Space
On the incense as a mechanism of atonement. Specifically for lashon hara, evil speech. Which aligns neatly, in terms of the scent and spread of it atoning for…
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Yoma 43: How Is This Day Different from All Other Days?
The need to read the parah adumah verses very carefully, in terms of establishing what the halakhah is, and all of the details pertaining to the parah adumah…
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Yoma 42: Elazar Was a Kohen
A dispute between Rav and Shmuel - who are Amoraim! - on whether the slaughter of the Yom Kippur Korban or the parah adumah can be done by a non-kohen. Namely…
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Yoma 41: Love, Devotion, and Ignorance in Amoraic Babylonia
A parallel to the lots selecting the goats - birds! Including Sotah. But also if one choose bird korbanot because of the expense. And then what happens to the…
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Yoma 40: Sleight of Hand
On whether the lottery is necessary as an element of the Yom Kippur device. Which leads to a dispute between R. Shimon and R. Yehudah,on the role of the Vidui…
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Yoma 39: Shimon HaTzadik and God's Presence in the Beit HaMikdash
The mishnah describes the procedure of the kohen gadol choosing the lots to determine which goat is to go God as a korban, and which to Azazel. The lottery…
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Yoma 38: Nikanor's Doors
The Gates of Nikanor - when they brought back the big heavy doors for the gate, there was a terrible storm, so they tossed one door to alleviate the effects of…
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Yoma 37: On the Heads of the Goats
How the Vidui is based on biblical verses. Also, the mishnah on the ordering of the kohanim, as well as the lottery to decide which goat goes to God as a…
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Yoma 36: Atonement
Where and how the kohen sets up the animal for the korban of Yom Kippur, including semichat yadaim and the vidui confession, an element of Yom Kippur that…
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Yoma 35: Famously Frozen Hillel and Talmud Torah for All
Beit HaParvah - what is this? Why is it called this, when Parvah seems to have been a sorcerer? How would a chamber of the Beit HaMikdash be named after a…
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Yoma 34: A Highly Sensitive Kohen Gadol
Procedural details about the day that is Yom Kippur: havitin, nisakhin, and more, based on the close read of the biblical verses. Also: When the kohen gadol is…
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Yoma 33: Every Chance to Do a Mitzvah
What was the daily avodah (not the Yom Kippur part of the day)? Aligning the procedure with the biblical text that orders it, and ordering the day, at least as…
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Yoma 32: Wardrobe Functions
Why does the Gemara take so much time and space for the 5 immersions and 10 sanctifications of hand and feet washing in Yom Kippur? Interspersed, he changes…
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Yoma 31: Warming the Cold, Cold Water
Closing the debate between Ben Zoma and R. Yehudah, not wholly satisfactorily. The washing sanctification and the immersing was all done in a holy chamber near…
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Yoma 30: The Other White Sheet
A new mishnah focused in the kohen's washing of hands and feet, and immersing in the mikveh (10 and 5 times, respectively). With measures in place to preserve…
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Yoma 29: A Hot Oven, a Cold Oven, the Smell of Meat, and the Dawn
In memory of Yardaena's father, Dr. Michael Osband, z"l, whose yahrzeit is today. || Some "wise statements"... And accompanying reminders, as it were, to help…
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Yoma 28: Avraham's Yeshiva Days
Why the non-kohen subject to death for setting up the logs. Is this activity its own separate act? Plus, this smacks of the Second Temple. And - the new…
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Yoma 27: Lottery after Lottery
Arranging the wood for the fire - if a non-kohen does this, he is subject to death. If he did it, he should disassemble and reassemble it (which latter part…
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Yoma 26: The Incense Blessing of Prosperity
Lotteries #3 and #4, per day in the Beit HaMikdash! For the ketoret, incense, only those who had never done it before were eligible. A blessing of prosperity…
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Yoma 25: Breaking Down the Morning to Its Many Parts
The second lottery... A whole slew of tasks, and a question whether there's a new lottery for each task. Also, the details of every step of the way, and…
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Yoma 24: Courtyard Commotion
On the 4 services that if a non-kohen did them, he'd be deserving of a death sentence. Is terumat ha-deshen one of these 4? The dispute here is between Rav and…
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Yoma 23: Hold a Grudge Like a Snake
Follow up on why the thumb, and only one finger was acceptable for the lottery to be chosen to do terumat ha-deshen. Also, Revenge and holding a grudge are…
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Yoma 22: Safety Precautions
The basics of every day for the kohanim in the Beit HaMikdash, beginning with clearing out the ashes from the previous day. They chose who did what by racing…
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Yoma 21: 10 Most Amazing Miracles
A discussion of the 10 miracles that took place in the Beit HaMikdash. Including the miracle that kept each person from hearing a neighbor's confession. Plus…
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Yoma 20: When the Cock Crows
And now for some aggadah: Why hasn't mashiach come? Presumably because of the promiscuity and sin that were getting in the way of his arrival. And the Satan…
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Yoma 19: Sadducee Drama and Keeping the Kohen Gadol Awake
More on preparing the kohen gadol before Yom Kippur. For example, assessing the fitness if the given kohen gadol in the lishkat ha-gazit - done by the…
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Yoma 18: As Yom Kippur Draws Near
More on prepping the kohen gadol - reading the account of the service to him to make sure he's on top of the details he must do on Yom Kippur. The question of…
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Yoma 17: The Kohen Gadol Eats First
The layout of the Temple - a contradiction between a mishnah in Tamid vs. one in Middot. Is this a debate in methodology or in content? Also, the oral nature…
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Yoma 16: The Four Corners of the Beit HaMikdash
The layout of 4 different chambers and their functions in the Ezrat Nashim of the Beit HaMikdash. And the implications of the complicated functioning in the…
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Yoma 15: From Dusk to Dawn
On the lighting of the menorah... and how it is the Avodah, the worship, from dusk to dawn. Plus the order and interplay between the menorah lamps and the…
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Yoma 14: Kohen Gadol Bootcamp
A new mishnah! With more of the activities that the kohen gadol must do during the week before Yom Kippur. It is his main responsibility, after all. Plus…
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Yoma 13: The Kohen's Backup Wife and Conditional Divorce
On the backup wife for the kohen gadol on Yom Kippur (though it is basically rejected as a plan). He can be married to two women (even though it's an era when…
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Yoma 12: Always Bring a Hostess Gift
On the status of Jerusalem. Specifically with regard to ritual Impurity. How does the city itself compare to synagogues and batei midrashot? Is Jerusalem on…
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Yoma 11: The Mezuzah-less Gates of Mehoza
On mezuzot. In Mehoza. It was a Jewish city, so why didn't the town gates have a mezuzah? Or were they really gates? Or would that really matter for the need…
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Yoma 10: The One Mezuzah in the Beit HaMikdash
A historical bent, an awareness to the order of events and countries as they came into being. From Genesis on down. Which empire swallowed which? Also, a…
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Yoma 9: Blaming the Babylonians
Comparing the First and Second Temples. First, the numbers. Second, the grievous sins that brought each down. And how to characterize the different eras? Also…
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Yoma 8: The Annual Changing of the Kohen Gadol
More on the separation 7 days before Yom Kippur or the parah adumah (red heifer), as it happens, where each kohen then needs sprinkling as part of the process…
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Yoma 7: Keep Quiet, and They Won't Know
Impurity is permitted in the context of the community -- the case of a kohen offering the omer korban, and it becomes impure. What to do if there is no other…
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Yoma 6: The Impure Kohen's Avodah
Back to the kohen separating from his family - why must he separate? Beyond the parallels we have already discussed, the concern is what if the kohen gadol's…
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Yoma 5: When It Comes to the Yom Kippur Avodah, Details Really Matter
R. Yochanan vs. R. Akiva, on what elements of the inauguration of the Mishkan were essential,and whether any of those elements could have been cut, and the…
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Yoma 4: Moshe's Days in the Cloud
A description of Moshe going up to Mount Sinai to get the Torah. What steps did Moshe need to take, in terms of sequestering before God invited him in. Also…
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Yoma 3: The Sequestering of the Kohen Gadol
The language of "take yourself," for yourself, from that which is yours - in the kohen gadol's contribution (or participation) to the offerings. God wants us…
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Yoma 2: A Great Deal of Sanctity
An introduction to Masekhet Yoma, and the events surrounding and on Yom HaKippurim in the Beit HaMikdash. Note the shift in orientation to that of the…
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Shekalim 22: An Eye to the Future
Meat from korbanot that becomes impure - depending on what kind of korban, what kind of Impurity, and what degree of Impurity... all have impact on how to…
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Shekalim 21: Please Don't Spit
NOTE: The app has again overlapped our voices We have contacted them, but no solution as yet. You have our apologies for this audio irregularity. || Venturing…
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Shekalim 20: Finders Keepers
More on things that are found, the status of which is unknown. Specifically, items found in dangerous settings, where the likelihood of the owner thinking that…
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Shekalim 19: Making Assumptions
Things that are found, and you don't know the halakhic status of those things. For example, coins found out of place in the Treasury of the Temple…
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Shekalim 18: Eleven Menorahs of Gold
The 10 menorahs of King Solomon - what was he thinking? Where were they placed in the Temple? Were they lit? Note the contrast in Shlomo's gold that needed…
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Shekalim 17: Climate Change
When the waters of the sea overtook the land - when that happens and where. Including a play on words from the biblical text to offer an allusion to the areas…
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Shekalim 16: Other Important Items Hidden Away with the Ark
Other things that were hidden away with the ark included the anointing oil. The Gemara provides both a recipe and the narrative of the miracle involved when…
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Shekalim 15: Raiders of the Lost Ark
The 2 chambers in the Temple, one for secret donations and one for the vessels. Every 30 days, they'd review what had been donated, and figure out how best to…
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Shekalim 14: Shoemakers' Children
Nechunya would dig ditches for water, cool and warm, for the pilgrims to Jerusalem. Yet his child died of thirst. Plus another version that seems to be about…
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Shekalim 13: The Priests and the Sages
Shifting from chapter *4* to chapter *5* (Anne misspoke). Every 30 days, they would set the prices for the goods in the treasury, with the Temple's price…
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Shekalim 12: No Backsies, No Exchangies
One who consecrates all possessions with specifying what would be designated for what, then how should those possessions be handled? What if the person's…
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Shekalim 11: Leftover Kedushah
The special ramp built for it with funds from machatzit ha-shekel... Or by the kohanim themselves?! But that may have been pompus... But Shimon HaTzadik and…
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Shekalim 10: Dessert for the Altar
Chapter 4! What is the machatzit ha-shekel used for? A clear list of public korbanot. Also to pay the guards who protected the extra growing grain during a…
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Shekalim 9: The Ladder to Piety
How the kohen handled the collected shekalim, with great care to make it impossible for a kohen to steal from the funds (again, no presumption of perfection!)…
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Shekalim 8: Wandering Where the Machatzit ha-Shekel Takes Us
A long, discursive daf. What happens to the shekalim of machatzit ha-shekel, when they get to Jerusalem? Also: What's What: Ma'aser Behemah. Which leads to a…
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Shekalim 7: Not Just What to Do, But Who To Be
What if you have collected funds for any specifically designated purpose (to ransom a captive, charity, burying the dead...)? It's a machloket, of course…
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Shekalim 6: Surplus Funds
A dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai: what do you do with the coins that exceed the value of the machatzit ha-shekel? Is the extra considered…