Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
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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...
Chullin 26b Harmony The Integration of Disparateness - סדר הבדלות הוא מונה
For there to be harmony and integration, there must first be the recognition of disparateness. Disparateness, and the abitlity to discern it, is the condition for beauty, harmony, wholeness and integrity. This is the power of havchannah
Chullin 25a Activity & Results - דחק קפיזא בקבא
In exploring differences between the laws of Shabbat and of Tum’ah, we highlight the differences between a focus on activity and a focus on results.
Chullin 20b-21a Preparing How to Answer - אשתומם כשעה חדא
Knowing what to answer is information mastery. Knowing how to answer is human mastery. Sou...
Chullin 20 a-b The Neck - אין עיקור סימנים בעוף
The neck houses three vital channels of life: the simanim, the trachea, oesophagus, and the carotid arteries. In Kodshim the focus is on the arteries, in Chullin on the simanim. Severing the simanim is the condition for ...
Chullin 18a-19a We Are Where Our Heads Are - כאשר ציויתיך
The quality of the things we do is a function of where our heads are in the moment of action. It is this quality that affects who we become through the things that we do.
Chullin 16b-17a Interface Between Kodshim & Chullin - בשר תאוה ונחירה
Shechita as the way to prepare chullin meat, was only instituted after the entrance of Benei Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael
Chullin 15a Halachik Context - כי דריש בפירקא
Halachik principle is broad and widely applicable. Halachik decisions are much more specific to individual, time and circumstance. Leaders calibrate their communications to their specific audiences. Interpreters should cautiously identify inten...
Chullin 14a Shabbat Observance - השוחט בשבת שחיטתו כשרה
Shabbat observance has a different quality to it than almost any other mitzva. Observing Shabbat is taking a position about Truth. Conversely deliberately profaining the Shabbat is also making a statement about Truth.
Chullin 12a Piano Tuning - מיעט המצוי
The laws of Issur veHeter (permitted and forbidden foods) are not only about the substance of the food. They are even more about the act of eating and the meaning attached to those actions.