Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
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Bechorot 18b Don’t Get it Done. Do It. - דניחא ליה דליתעביד מצוה בממוניה
Our hurried lives focus on getting things done. But growth happens from doing the right things not just from getting them done. This is especially true with respect to Torah and Mitzvot.
Bechorot 17b-18a Coincidence (Simultaneity) - אי אפשר לצמצם
The Gemarra explores the statistical chances of exact coincidence both in nature and in humanly engineered events, and our ability to measure it. It emerges that the human capacity of certainty and exactitude is inherently limited.
Bechorot 9a & 13a The Value of Money - ספק פטר חמור וחיוב עריפתו
Although the Torah is critical of a person who protects his assets against the rights of the kohein to the redemption of his first born donkey, nevertheless the Torah itself is protective of a person’s money wherever possible.
Bechorot 13a A Mitzvah to Destroy Assets - מצוות הפדיה קודמת למצוות עריפה
The instruction to behead an unredeemed first-born donkey is one of the stranger ones in the Torah. Yet in it we will appreciate the depths of the Torah’s understanding of the extent of human meanness and its root cause.