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Rabbi Josh Yuter
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways - Is. 55:8. Jewish stuff + bad jokes. All opinions subject to change.
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Y. Demai 2:1
R. Nahman: Impurity is frequent/common, mourning is not. Sages only issued decrees regarding that which is frequent/comment
#DafYomi
Rava: Does one issue halakhic rulings for the Messinic era?
Abaye: If so, don't teach any of the laws re slaughtering sacrifices! Rather, study and receive reward
#DafYomi 45a
Thank you! This is what happens when you combine sleep deprivation with daf yomi.
Periodic reminder that since the dissolution of the Sanhedrin, no rabbi is a "real" rabbi.

Yes, myself included.
Proposal: A supermarket that resells invalidated sacrificial meat.

We'll call it, "Pigguly Wiggly"
Rava: Any verse that was not explained by R. Yitzhak b. Avudimi and any baraita not explained by R. Ze'eiri was not explained
#DafYomi 43b
You know your life has changed when a breakfast indulgence is Kellog's Corn Flakes
R. Elazar (or R. Yohanan): A man's wife doesn't die until creditors ask him for money and he doesn't have it per Prov. 22:27
#DafYomi 29b
Rabba b. b. Hana cit. R. Yohanan: Every instance of finger and priesthood refers to the right hand
#DafYomi 24b
Mishna: An uncircumcised priest invalidates the service
Gemara: R. Hisda per Ez. 44:9, 7
#DafYomi 22b
One more reason to love the Bar Ilan
Considering how many grad students work in Starbucks...
Rava: אי תניא, תניא - If a baraita is taught, it is taught.
#DafYomi 15b
Mishna (From 11): Ben Azzai: I received a tradition from 72 elder that offerings not brought for their own sake are fit
Gemara: "Elder" singular bec maintained one opinion
Note: Sages didn't accept.
#DafYomi 12b
Ulla cit. R. Yohanan: If someone ate forbidden fat, designated an offering for atonement, and then became an apostate, and then recanted, the offering is still disqualified
#DafYomi 12b
R. Tarfon to R. Akiva: I heard from my teachers and cannot explicate what you teach of your own accord. Akiva, whoever leaves you is like one who leaves life
#DafYomi 13a
Toddler: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Toddler: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Me: WE COME FROM THE LAND OF ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRING BLOW!

Toddler: *giggles*
Rava: A sin offering slaughtered for someone who is not obligated to bring anything is unfit, for there is no one in Israel who isn't obligated to bring an offering for violating a positive commandment
#DafYomi 7a
Seems like a good time to re-up John Stuart Mill on tone policing and civil rhetoric.
Y. Horayot 3:5
R. Shmuel b. R. Yosi b. R. Avun on Prov. 28:11
Rich man wise in own eyes - Master of Talmud
Understanding poor man thinks little - Master of Aggadah (homiletic)
Note: Cf. Bava Batra 145b
#DafYomi
Y. Horayot 3:5
R. Shmuel b. Nahman: Mishna > Talmud per Prov. 4:5
R. Yohanan: Talmud > Mishna per Prov. 16:16
#DafYomi
Y. Horayot 3:5
R. Shimon b. Yohai: Studying scripture is a measure that isn't a measure מידה שאינה מידה
Sages: Scripture = Mishna
#DafYomi
Y. Horayot 3:5
The systematizer takes precedence over the dialectician (parallels the Sinai and uprooter of mountains)
#DafYomi
Y. Horayot 3:5
R. Yohanan: For 40 days Moses studied Torah on Sinai and forgot it and in the end it was given to him as a gift. Why? To return the stupid ones להחזיר את הטיפשים
#DafYomi
הדרן עלך מסכת הוריות והדך עלן
We will return to you tractate Horayot and you will return to us
#DafYomi