Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
Matmonim means "hidden treasures." In less than 20 minutes each episode highlights, develops and explains one actionable insight from the Daf Yomi Talmud study cycle. People around the world, from uninitiated seeker to seasoned scholar, are finding inspiration, meaning, and relevance in the wisdom that the Matmonim exposes from every page of Talmud. Matmonim will give you skills to deepen your own learning to get greater satisfaction from the effort you are investing. The podcast is given as a live class each morning at the Raanana Kollel in Israel and focuses on the Daf of the day.
Episodes
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Shevuot 5a The Subconscious - ונעלם
Normally a shogeig (unintentional action) means that at the time of the action we had no knowledge that what we were ding was wrong. In the case of שגגת טומאת מקדש וקדשיו the un intentionality that triggers the obligation to bring a קר...
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Shevuot 4a Contradictions in Halacha - ומשנה לא זזה ממקומה
Halacha is a living process. Poskim (halachik decisors), like all of us, are works in progress. Their decisions at a given time are snapshots of their evolution at that time. Their later opinions, when different from earlier o...
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Shevuot 2a Overture_ What is an Oath - סדר ישועות
Universally, oaths are taken seriously as a way of assuring facts in the future and establishing facts in the past. This is because the idea of oaths is a natural law built into the creation
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Makkot 23b Finale_Reward, Sanctity and Freedom - רצה הקבה לזכות את ישראל
ר' חנניא בן עקשיא אומר: רצה הקדוש ברוך הוא לזכות את ישראל לפיכך הרבה להם תורה ומצות, שנאמר: ה' חפץ למען צדקו יגדיל תורה ויאדיר
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Makkot 21b-22a Deconstructing Complexity - יש חורש תלם אחד
The value of an object, action or idea is a function of the number and complexity of its individual components. Connoisseurs appreciate this.
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Makkot 20b Gender Differences_ Appearance and Behavior - לא ילבש
Gender confusion is initiated not only by cross-dressing and make-up, but also by cross-gender behavior Sour...
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Makkot 18b Prosperity and Sacrifice - ביכורים הנחה מעכבת
National prosperity is a blessing from Hashem that is conditional on the sacrifices that individuals make.Source S...
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Makkot 17a Wholeness - בריה
When the Torah names something not as a description of a commodity but as the definition of a specific object’s wholeness, it becomes a “beriah”, something whose identity is complete and cannot be adulterated.
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Makkot 16a Awareness - התראה
Doing something by mistake (שוגג) and doing it intentionally (מזיד) are two points on a single spectrum of awareness. Full awareness of what one is doing creates the conditions for a מזיד; anything less than full awareness already moves the dia...
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Makkot 15b Educating vs Intimidating - התראת ספק
Just as in the Torah, the purpose of Azhara is to educate us in values not to threaten us with punishment, so too hatra’ah (warning) is to educate the person about the consequences of his actions, not to intimidate him with fe...
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Makkot 13-14b Growth and Discomfort - אזהרה מנין
How we respond to resistance determines our growth. Growth happens when we resist the forces of nature; and with resistance comes discomfort. Sometimes we choose our areas of resistance and embrace them. At other times resistance is impos...
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Makkot 11a How Hashgacha (Destiny) Really Works - שהיה להם לבקש רחמים
Experts expound on why various things happen. In reality they are explaining how they happen but not why they happen. The why is far too complex for the human mind to grasp.
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Makkot 10a Character Counts - תלמיד שאינו הגון
Teaching torah to an individual of poor character is high risk – both to Torah and to the teacher.Source Sheet...
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Makkot 9a Common Decency - שהיה לו ללמוד דרך ארץ
Why is common decency not so common at all? Is decency, derech erettz, innate or learned?Source Sheet...
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Makkot 8a Tradition – יש אם למסורת (ב)
Sometimes, the tradition handed down to us, requires a less literal interpretation of a text. Provided the text can be applied to the traditional interpretation, tradition trumps literalness.
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Makkot 7a Judgement - אי אפשר דלא יכחיש אחד מהם את חבירו
Even reported facts and established stats can often be unreliable. Judgement is an intuitive balance of facts, statistics and reasonable assumptions.
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Makkot 4b We Don’t do Leftovers - לאו הניתק לעשה
Mostly an active transgression of a Torah law entails punishment, but there are times when the transgression can be unwound thereby removing the need for punishment.
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Makkot 3a Self-Incrimination - באומר עדות שקר העדתי
Once evidence is accepted in Beit Din it creates a new reality that cannot be undone except by Hazzama.So...
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Makkot 2 a-b Skin in the Game - עדות שאתה יכול להזימה
To truly trust what an individual says, he or she need to have “skin in the game”; they must be at risk in the event that their statements are false.
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Sanhedrin 113a The Power of One - עיר שיש בה אפילו מזוזה אחת
Never underestimate the power of a single, ordinary individual doing a single “ordinary” action, to have extraordinary impact on masses of people.
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Sanhedrin 111b-112a Seeing the Invisible - מי גרם להם שידורו בתוכה
Our physical eye only sees beauty and ugliness on the surface. The eyes of our soul can see beneath the surface.So...
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Sanhedrin 109a Science and Faith- נבנה מגדל ונעלה לרקיע
Science is simply the discovery of Hashem’s ways, it is part of knowing Hashem. The challenge to faith is not from science but from the secular world view that naturally accompanies it. This secular world view of science and technology originat...
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Sanhedrin 108a The Preservation of Nature - אם אדם חטא בהמה מה חטאה
Our stewardship of nature goes beyond protecting the environment from physical destruction. We are also stewards of the environment’s moral and spiritual quality.
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Sanhedrin 107a-b Beauty in Appropriateness - בעא אברהם רחמי דליהווי ביה זקנה
When contemporary society’s view of aesthetics is different from the Torah’s we need to notice the gap and realign our own sensitivities to the Torah’s. When it comes to beauty, the Torah appreciates context and appropriateness
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