The Untangled Daf

Menachos 35 Background and Structure

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:18:49 +0000

The Gemara allows us to observe as the Tefillin as we know them take form, one הלכה למשה מסיני at a time.

Menachos 34b -Overview to sugya of Tefillin; Structure of 34b

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:04:11 +0000

Menachos 34b -Overview to sugya of Tefillin; Structure of 34b

Menachos 33b-34a - Doorposts: Definitions

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:00:28 +0000

Menachos 33b-34a - Doorposts: Definitions

Menachos 32 Structure and Progression

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:22:51 +0000

Menachos 32 structure and progression

Menachos 31-34 -Overview to sugya of Mezuzah

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:20:37 +0000

Menachos 31-34 -Overview to sugya of Mezuzah

Menachos 29-30 - General Structure

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:22:42 +0000

How the Gemara ends up creating an entire sugya of Hilchos Sefer Torah while supposedly discussing Mezuzah

Menachos 28 - Context for Menorah discussion

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:07:12 +0000

Menachos 28 - Context for Menorah discussion

Menachos 27b - From Parah Adumah to Biah Reikanis and Back

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:17:55 +0000

Menachos 27b - From Parah Adumah to Biah Reikanis and Back

Menachos 19a-b - Overall Structure

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:54:05 +0000

Menachos 19a-b - Overall Structure

Menachos 13b - Pondering Why Likut Levonah does not have the status of Kemitzah

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:38:27 +0000

Menachos 13b - Pondering Why Likut Levonah does not have the status of Kemitzah

Menachos 13b - The mystifying Placement of the sugya of Likut Levonah

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:37:17 +0000

Setting the groundwork for the analysis of the status of Likut Levonah

Menachos 13a-b - Reish Lakish's revolutionary reading of Rabi Yosi

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:33:49 +0000

Menachos 13a-b - Reish Lakish's revolutionary reading of Rabi Yosi

Overview of 2nd Perek of Menachos

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:16:38 +0000

Applying the Basic Guidelines of Pigul to Compound Korbanos

Zevachim 68a - Intersection of 3 concepts known to us exclusively thru the Oral Torah

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:59:25 +0000

An entire edificd of halachah emerges from the application of various principles derived through Torah Shebe'Al Peh.

Zevachim 67a-68a - The evolving understanding of Rabi Yehoshua's chiddush

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:17:39 +0000

Three stages in the deveopment of our understanding of Rav Ada bar Ahava's explanation of Rabi Yehoshua's shittah.

Zevachim 66b-67a Mishnah - Rabi Yehoshua's surprising chiddush

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:08:07 +0000

The Mishnah and Tosefta deal extensively with Rabi Yehoshua's surprising shittah but never offer an explanation or rationale.

Zevachim 65b - An Island of Chattas Ha'Of in the middle of a stream of Olas Ha'Of

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:39:56 +0000

We end up with a sugya of Chattas haof sandwiched between the two sugyos of olas ha'of.

Zevachim 65a the Unfolding of Olas Ha'Of

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:34:01 +0000

The Gemara presents the Toras Kohanim on the entire passuk for a comprehensive picture of the critical parts of avodas olas ha'of

Zevachim 64b - Structure of the Mishnayos and focusing on melikah of chattas ha'of

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:04:29 +0000

Making sense out of the flow and zooming on melikah of chattas ha'of

Zevachim 63b - The Missing Toras Kohanim

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:46:27 +0000

The source of the basic halachah concerning where the chatas ha'of's blood is sprinkled does not appear in the Toras Kohanim and is instead brought in the name of early Amoraim.

Zevachim 63a - The Chafetz Chaim's redemption of R' Yochanan's teaching

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:20:05 +0000

R' Yochanan's chiddush about an acceptable place for shechting kodashim kalim is, seemingly inexplicably, ommited from its proper place in Eizehu Mekoman.

Zevachim 61b An incidental revelation about eating Kodshei Kodashim without a standing Ohel MOed

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:36:44 +0000

The sugya of אף על פי שנסע אהל מועד הוא is fragmented into three sugyos, one of them ours.

Zevachim 61b-63a - A Maseches Middos Oasis in the middle of Zevachim

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:50:32 +0000

A nine part tour through the history and features of the Mizbeiach

Zevachim 60a-b -From Eretz Yisrael to Bavel and Back - the sugya of eating KKL in the absence of the mizbeiach

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:44:54 +0000

Unraveling the components of this two part sugya

Zevachim 60-63 Sequence of Two General Sugyos

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:04:29 +0000

Mapping out the general contours of the two sugyos leading up to the next Mishnah and how they relate back to our previous sugyos

Zevachim 59b - Accidentally stumbling upon the dimensions of the Mishkan's Mizbeiach

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:54:10 +0000

Two self-contained Tannaic disputes about the measurements of the Mizbeiach in the Mishkan are brought here (and only here) in purely supportive roles for a different discussion.

Zevachim 59a pt. 2 - R' Yehudah's chiddush with Rava's caveat, in exile

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:48:47 +0000

An important, self-contained sugya appears only here, summoned in tangential service of a different topic.

Zevachim 59a pt. 1 - The conceptually unrelated issue of slaughtering Korbanos in the absence of the Mizbeiach

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:11:03 +0000

A conceptually unrelated halachah, sparking an entire spectrum of attendant sugyos, appears in our perek because it is derived from the passuk that serves as the source of the halachah in our Mishnah.

Zevachim 37a - A second missing sugya of profound significance

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:48:14 +0000

The source for the very fundamental requirement of shefichas shirayim with korbanos other than chattas turns up tangentially in our unrelated sugya and will never be revisited.

Zevachim 37a - A missing sugya of profound significance - Pesach and Ma'aser

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:49:13 +0000

The existential question of whether or not Pesach and Ma'aser are even korbanos is buried in a conceptually unrelated sugya in the "wrong" Perek.

Zevachim (36b-) 37a - פרשת ראה - ודם זבחיך ישפך על מזבח ה' אלקיך

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:46:09 +0000

A seemingly innocuous passuk in Re'eh turns out to harbor deep halachic secrets.

Zevachim 36b - Unpacking the first Mishnah of the 4th Perek

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:53:36 +0000

Taking note of the revolution set out by our Mishnah about the minimum number of matanos necessary to be mechaper.

Zevachim 36b - The Placement of the last Mishnah of the fourth Perek (46b)

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:51:16 +0000

Understanding how the last Mishnah in the perek relates to the structure and direction of the rest of the chapter.

Zevachim Ch. 4 - Structure of the Perek, especially the placement of the first Mishnah

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:50:24 +0000

Understanding why the discussion of the minimum required matanos hadam finds its way into the middle of our treatment of hilchos Piggul.

Zevachim 36b - The Chafetz Chaim Strikes Again

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:59:31 +0000

Another stunning example of the Chafetz Chaim's insistence on reuniting fragmented sugyos into a single edifice.

Zevachim 36b - A displaced, fundamental sugya of eating kodashim while tamei.

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:46:53 +0000

Fundamental aspects of eating Kodashim while Tamei find themselves on our daf for purely technical reasons.

Zevachim 36b - A displaced Piggul sugya

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:45:04 +0000

An application of piggul finds itself in the post-piggul part of the perek for purely technical reasons.

Zevachim 36a - A fundamental precept of Achilas Korbanos, exiled from its place

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:42:59 +0000

The source of the time period within which chattas, asham and other korbanos must be eaten, is cited here, out of context, and nowhere else in Shas.

Zevachim 36a - R' Yehudah's novel pesul of מחשבת הינוח

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:40:29 +0000

The last Mishnah of the perek shifts to thoughts other than אכילה והקטרה חוץ לזמנו וחוץ למקומו

Zevachim 35b - A ninth-perek sugya found only in the third perek

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:18:07 +0000

A sugya which is entirely about אם עלו לא ירד finds itself embedded in the middle of the third perek.

Zevachim 35a-b - The Missing Explanation of Rabi Eliezer's shita

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:16:38 +0000

The sugya of Rabi Yochanan explaining Rabi Eliezer's reasoning appears only in Menachos, not in Zevachim.

Zevachim 34b (-35a) - Analysis of Tosefta Pesachim

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:21:28 +0000

The Gemara takes a detour to examine the Tosefta from which רב שייא had brought proof to Rav Ashi.

Zevachim 34b - רב שייא's solitary and dramatic contribution to the Talmud

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:19:22 +0000

In what may be his only appearance in Shas, רב שייא swoops in with a stunning proof from Tosefta Pesachim.

Zevachim 34b - Fundamental Shirayim Issues

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:17:38 +0000

We abrupty find ourselves thrust into a sugya examining issues of שפיכת שיריים.

Zevachim 34b - Conceptual framework of פסול מהו שיעשה שיריים

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:15:18 +0000

Conceptual framework of פסול מהו שיעשה שיריים.

Zevachim 34b - Placement of פסול מהו שיעשה שיריים

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:13:58 +0000

Understanding why this fundamental discussion between Reish Lakish and Rabi Yochanan is attached to our Mishnah.

Zevachim 34a - Offering Chayos or non-kosher animals on the Mizbeiach

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:12:34 +0000

A fundamental issue buried in foreign territory.

Zevachim 34a - Machlokes Abayei and Rava stranded in Zevachim

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:10:52 +0000

A dispute between Abayei and Rava concerning the issur of eating kodesh which is tamei ends up in Zevachim despite belonging in Makkos.

Zevachim 33b - Bechol Kodesh Lo Siga

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:41:34 +0000

Navigating the potentially confusing landscape of the Gemara's presentation

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

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:34:50 +0000

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.

Zevachim 33a (Extra-curricular) - Hakol Bichsav

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:07:59 +0000

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

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

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:06:36 +0000

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

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

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:05:07 +0000

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.

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

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:03:25 +0000

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

Zevachim 32b - Entering the world of biah bemiktzas

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:25:50 +0000

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

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

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:24:03 +0000

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

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

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:23:22 +0000

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.

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

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:22:07 +0000

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

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

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:35:18 +0000

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

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

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:30:16 +0000

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

Zevachim 27b - An Accidental Discovery of Great Import

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:24:10 +0000

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

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

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:44:08 +0000

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

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

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:42:42 +0000

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

Zevachim 26b pt. 1, A Borrowed Sugya

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:41:27 +0000

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

Zevachim 26a - A Sugya in Exile

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:40:06 +0000

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

Zevachim 26a (Extra-curricular) - Rashi's chiddush about the source of פסול יוצא

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:11:48 +0000

In "innocently" providing us with background information for the basic concept of יוצא, Rashi lets slip a major chiddush, as noted by the Brisker Rav.

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

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:28:15 +0000

Navigating the sugya of עבודה בשמאל.

Zevachim 24a - A Nonchalant but Explosive Revelation

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:35:01 +0000

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

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

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:32:16 +0000

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

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

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:27:39 +0000

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

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

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:15:33 +0000

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

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

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:26:46 +0000

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

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

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:00:41 +0000

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

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

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:19:43 +0000

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.

Zevachim 19b (Bottom) - Reconstructive Interpretation

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:34:11 +0000

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.

Zevachim 18b - Continuing the dicussion of the Tosefta, and n example of Derech Gilgul

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:51:21 +0000

The Gemara uses an additional Braisa to interact with the original Tosefta in Menachos, then digresses on a somewhat tangential issue

Zevachim 18b-19a - Far from Random

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:50:48 +0000

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

Zevachim 18a - Migration of the Tosefta

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:48:26 +0000

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

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

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:12:55 +0000

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

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

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:11:38 +0000

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

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

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:33:53 +0000

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.

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

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:31:30 +0000

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.

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

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:29:24 +0000

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

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

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:23:44 +0000

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

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

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:43:10 +0000

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

Zevachim 8a-10b - Eight min. overview

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:25:38 +0000

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

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

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:55:46 +0000

The Chafetz Chaim's rearrangement of the Sugya

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

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:54:10 +0000

Pondering the sharp digression from shelo lishma to general kapparah issues

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

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:01:52 +0000

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

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

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:09:24 +0000

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

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

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:36:09 +0000

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

Zevachim 5a - Reish Lakish's dramatic discovery

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:25:18 +0000

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

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

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:35:13 +0000

Considering placement of Amoraic teachings, and Introducing the Sifra/Toras Kohanim

Zevachim 2b - Shabbos With Rava in Bei Charmach

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:28:30 +0000

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

Zevachim 2a - The Evolution of Insight

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:21:16 +0000

Structure and direction of Zevachim 2a

Intro to Zevachim 1 - The Mission

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:55:25 +0000

4-minute segment Introducing the basic mission of Tractate Zevachim

General Introduction, Vision and Methodology

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:43:45 +0000

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