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Zevachim 33b - Entering the World of a Tamei Eating or Touching Kodashim or Terumah

Oct 17, 2025

7:49

The need to notice the Gemara's abrupt shift of focus, as well as to construct a coherent picture from the pieces presented by the Gemara.

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Zevachim 33a (Extra-curricular) - Hakol Bichsav

Oct 16, 2025

3:08

A fundamental principle related to the architecture and construction of the Beis HaMikdash makes an appearance in our sugya.

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Zevachim 33a pt. 3 - Fundamental semichah issues stumbled upon inadvertantly

Oct 16, 2025

5:19

The Gemara's off-topic question on the Tosefta yields fundamental insights about general semichah issues.

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Zevachim 33a pt. 2 - A sharp detour from Biah Bemiktzas

Oct 16, 2025

3:57

The Gemara temporarily steps away from our main (though itself tangential) sugya of biah bemiktzas to examine a Tosefta that had been brought as evidence.

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Zevachim 33a pt. 1 - Four step structure of the broader sugya

Oct 16, 2025

7:34

Appreciating each step of the unfolding process in its own context.

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Zevachim 28a - A seeming side issue is dealt with before plunging into the Torah source of Piggul

Oct 13, 2025

2:32

Another example of the Gemara's methodical treatment of issues as they arise, not necessarily in order of their centrality.

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Zevachim 32b - Entering the world of biah bemiktzas

Oct 15, 2025

6:35

Having stumbled upon the concept of ביאה במקצת, the Gemara decides to make this the locus classicus of that topic.

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Zevachim 32a - Comparing the MIshnah to its Root Source in the Toras Kohanim

Oct 15, 2025

3:54

The Gemara compares the derivative Mishnah with the Toras Kohanim which serves as its source.

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Zevachim 32a -(34a) - Overview of the Gemara's sprawling survey of various sugyos

Oct 15, 2025

5:30

The first "mission cycle" drifts further and further away from our Mishnah and our topics of discussion, and deals with a wide-ranging list of issues.

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Zevachim (31b-) 32a - The Puzzling Structure of the third perek's opening Mishnah

Oct 15, 2025

4:56

What appears to be the sequel to the opening Mishnah of the 2nd perek somehow finds its way into the middle of the discussion of מחשבה הפוסלת

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Zevachim 28a - The Chafetz Chaim's intervention in an exegetical sugya

Oct 13, 2025

5:47

The Chafetz Chaim restructures yet another sugya in his Likutei Halachos, this time just to allow the exegetical process to unfold in sequence.

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Zevachim 27b - An Accidental Discovery of Great Import

Oct 12, 2025

3:03

The Gemara unexpectedly stumbles upon a fundamental distinction between the respective natures of the inner and outer Mizbeiachs.

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Zevachim 26b pt. 3 - Bringing it back to our Sugya

Oct 10, 2025

5:04

Understanding our sugya based on the background from the 3rd Perek

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Zevachim 26 pt. 2, Introducing the issues being imported from the 3rd Perek

Oct 10, 2025

6:09

Background from the 3rd perek which is necessary for understanding our Sugya

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Zevachim 26a pt. 1, A Borrowed Sugya

Oct 10, 2025

4:29

Appreciating that an entire, out-of-place sugya will unfold within our real sugya

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Zevachim 26a - A Sugya in Exile

Oct 10, 2025

6:15

An integral sugya from Eizehu Mekoman gets displaced, only to be repatriated by the Chafetz Chaim

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Zevachim 24a-b - Using Prefab Sugyos to allow the basis of the Mishnah to emerge organically

Oct 8, 2025

7:36

Navigating the sugya of עבודה בשמאל.

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Zevachim 24a - A Nonchalant but Explosive Revelation

Oct 8, 2025

9:24

The Gemara unassumingly, in passing, mentions a paradigm-shifting historical fact with wide ranging ramifications.

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Zevachim 24a - A Day in the Life of the Talmud

Oct 8, 2025

11:11

Using a metaphor to envision the Gemara's multiple tracks of operations

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Zevachim 23b - Buried Treasure - A major revelation about Ritzui Tzitz is hidden in a tangent within a tangent

Oct 8, 2025

10:30

Understanding the mechanics of ritzui tzitz and how an important aspect of it is revealed in our incidental suya

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Zevachim 23a- An oasis of Pesachim in the Midst of Zevachim

Oct 8, 2025

7:26

An incidental foray into the world of Korban Pesach yields a new discovery not found anywhere in Pesachim

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Zevachim 22b - The 3-Story Structure of Ziknei Darom

Oct 6, 2025

5:02

Ziknei Darom is the tip of an iceberg that needs to be mined and analyzed in order to understand their innovation.

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Zevachim 22a - The Chafetz Chaim's reversal of the sequence

Oct 6, 2025

5:22

Understanding why the Chafetz Chaim saw the need to switch the order of the statements of Reish Lakish

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Intro to Chagigah (10 min.) - Shalosh Mitzvos Nitztavu Yisrael BaRegel

Oct 5, 2025

9:55

The differing pedagogical approaches of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Rambam in laying the groundwork for the halachos of special regel korbanos. Also especially relevant to Chagigah 6b.

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Zevachim 19b (Bottom) - Reconstructive Interpretation

Oct 4, 2025

7:02

The Gemara uses creative thinking to reconstruct the reasoning of Rebbi and R' Elazar b. R. Shimon; Rashi uses creative thinking to reconstruct the reasoning of the Gemara.

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Zevachim 18b-19a - Far from Random

Oct 2, 2025

5:18

A careful reading shows that the Gemara moves methodically and in sequence through the section of Tosefta under analysis.

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Zevachim 18b - An example of Derech Gilgul

Oct 2, 2025

3:12

The Gemara enters into tangential issues not directly related to the main topic under discussion.

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Zevachim 18a - Migration of the Tosefta

Oct 2, 2025

3:53

A classic example of how the Mesadrei HaShas used the materials at their disposal to re-engineer the contours of halachic discussion.

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Zevachim 15b, Structure and Innovation of the first segment of the Mishnah

Sep 29, 2025

4:22

The structure and progression of the segment printed on 15b.

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Zevachim Ch. 2, Intro to First Half of the Perek

Sep 29, 2025

4:27

The first three Mishnayos (15b, 25a, 26a) are actually one structured Mishnah

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Zevachim 12a, pt. 2 - The unexpected impact of the ability to turn a Korban Pesach into a Shelamim

Sep 26, 2025

7:39

The halachah of a KP shechted at the wrong time with the wrong intent, which seems like something of a curiosity, turns out to have major practical ramifications for the kashrus of normative Korban Pesach.

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Zevachim (11b-) 12a, pt. 1 - Contextualizing the machlokes bet. Ben Beseira & Rabi Yehoshua

Sep 26, 2025

4:47

The tug of war between the Mishnah and the Tosefta about where to present the question of Korban Pesach shechted the morning of 14th Nisan shelo lishmo.

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Zevachim 11b - Extracurricular Segment - The concept of Mara DiTalmuda

Sep 26, 2025

4:52

Factors taken into consideration by the Rishonim on how to pasken in a machlokes Tannaim.

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Zevachim 11a - Utilizing Tosefta Pesachim to explain Yosi ben Choni's shittah

Sep 25, 2025

7:17

A cryptic opinion of Yosi ben Choni is made sense of through a parallel discussion in Tosefta Pesachim.

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Zevachim 10a-11a - A Cryptic passuk linking Asham to Chattas

Sep 25, 2025

8:32

The seemingly superfluous "כחטאת כאשם" becomes the basis of a major machlokes between R. Eliezer and the Chachamim

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Zevachim 6a, Digression to Olah's kapparah for Asei, pt. 2

Sep 21, 2025

7:38

The Chafetz Chaim's rearrangement of the Sugya

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Zevachim 6a, Digression to Olah's Kapparah for Asei, Pt. 1

Sep 21, 2025

4:23

Pondering the sharp digression from shelo lishma to general kapparah issues

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Zevachim 8a-10b - Eight min. overview

Sep 22, 2025

8:23

A bird's-eye Overview of the order of business for these next three blatt

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Zevachim 6a pt. 3 - The fundamental role of Kapparah in a korban

Sep 21, 2025

7:09

A seemingly innocent question about one detail of halachah opens a window into the fundamental nature of korbanos

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Zevachim 6a pt 2 - The Structure of an איבעיא להו and resolution

Sep 21, 2025

2:55

The joint effort of named and unnamed Sages leads to clarification of the Torah's intent

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Zevachim 6a - The next step: Kapparah of korban shelo lishma

Sep 20, 2025

5:57

Shelo Lishmah unfolds further to reveal additional folds and wrinkles that need to be ironed out.

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Zevachim 5a - General direction and structure of Daf Hey

Sep 19, 2025

7:44

An exchange between Reish Lakish and Rabi Elazar in Eretz Yisrael becomes the cornerstone of three fundamental conversations between the Amoraim of Bavel a generation later

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Zevachim 3a - The Woven Talmud & First Encounter With Sifra

Sep 17, 2025

8:42

Spaghetti Junction and Introducing the Sifra/Toras Kohanim

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Zevachim 2b - Shabbos With Rava in Bei Charmach

Sep 17, 2025

4:42

Getting Ahead of Ourselves, and a glimpse into the Halachic mind of Rava

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Zevachim 2a - The Evolution of Insight

Sep 17, 2025

7:06

Structure and direction of Zevachim 2a

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Intro to Zevachim 1 - The Mission

Sep 17, 2025

3:45

4-minute segment Introducing the basic mission of Tractate Zevachim

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General Introduction, Vision and Methodology

Sep 17, 2025

7:35

A 7-minute description of our vision for rejuvenated Gemara (Talmud) study

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