Daf Yomi Avoda Zara

Avodah Zarah 2a and Avodah Zarah 2b, starting our journey on how to deal with idolatry and idolaters.

Avodah Zarah 3a and Avodah Zarah 3b, non-Jews’ too late effort to sign up for Torah.

AZ 4a and AZ 4b, how Hashem punishes the Jewish people in a favorable way.

Avodah Zarah 5a and Avodah Zarah 5b, finishing up reward, punishment, and repentance.

Avodah Zarah 6a and Avodah Zarah 6b, whether the holiday is included in the count of three days.

Avodah Zarah 7a and Avodah Zarah 7b, principles of psak and the discarded views of Nachum HaMadi.

Avodah Zarah 8a and Avodah Zarah 8b, non-Jewish holidays and their celebrations.

Avodah Zarah 9a and Avodah Zarah 9b, history and how it affects documents.

Avodah Zarah 10a and Avodah Zarah 10b, dynasties among non-Jewish kingdoms.

Avodah Zarah 11a and Avodah Zarah 11b, what counts as ways of the non-Jews, lists of their holidays, what’s proximity.

Avodah Zarah 12a and Avodah Zarah 12b, the appearance of serving a power other than Hashem.

Avodah Zarah 13a and Avodah Zarah 13b, what we can and cannot buy, and punishments for buying what we should not.

Avodah Zarah 14a and Avodah Zarah 14b, what we can’t sell.

Avodah Zarah 15a and Avodah Zarah 15b, when we have to worry about a sale to a non-Jew or sinning Jew.

Avodah Zarah 16a and Avodah Zarah 16b, large and small animals and their sale.

Avodah Zarah 17a and Avodah Zarah 17b, getting caught by the non-Jewish authorities and how to deal with it.

Avodah Zarah 18a and Avodah Zarah 18b, finishing the story of R. Hanina bץ Teradyon. And more.

Avodah Zarah 19a and Avodah Zarah 19b, the power of Torah and the proper way to study it.

Avodah Zarah 20a and Avodah Zarah 20b, free gifts, rents, and sales.

Avodah Zarah 21a and Avodah Zarah 21b, renting and selling houses and fields, in Israel and out. (To those who worship…)

Avodah Zarah 22a and Avodah Zarah 22b, starting a new chapter, what we suspect idolaters will do, given the chance.

Avodah Zarah 23a and Avodah Zarah 23b, other ways to think of whether idolaters commit bestiality regularly.

Avodah Zarah 24a and Avodah Zarah 24b, why we can or can’t buy animals for sacrifice from idolaters.

Avodah Zarah 25a and Avodah Zarah 25b, how long the sun stood for Yehoshu’a, and reasons not to be alone with an immoral idolater.

Avodah Zarah 26a and Avodah Zarah 26b, whom we heal, whom we don’t, and whom we hope would die.

Avodah Zarah 27a and Avodah Zarah 27b, when we can or cannot accept medical care, and possibly circumcision, from non-Jews.

Avodah Zarah 28a and Avodah Zarah 28b, suggested cures for various ailments.

Avodah Zarah 29a and Avodah Zarah 29b, finishing up some cures, new Mishnah about what belongings of idolaters Jews may not eat, or may not gain benefit from.

Avodah Zarah 30a and Avodah Zarah 30b, cooked or uncovered wine.

Avodah Zarah 31a and Avodah Zarah 31b, what seals we need to be sure non-Jews didn’t tamper.

Avodah Zarah 32a and Avodah Zarah 32b, what we have to treat as containing AZ materials.

Avodah Zarah 33a and Avodah Zarah 33b, containers and which absorb wine, which not.

Avodah Zarah 34a and Avodah Zarah 34b, containers, drying out, and what is part of an animal to be prohibited.

Avodah Zarah 35a and Avodah Zarah 35b, more prohibited items and why, and when Torah scholars should share what they know.

Avodah Zarah 36a and Avodah Zarah 36b, oil and other decrees.

Avodah Zarah 37a and Avodah Zarah 37b, permitting the previously prohibited.

Avodah Zarah 38a and Avodah Zarah 38b, cooking by a non Jew.

Avodah Zarah 39a and Avodah Zarah 39b, worrying about mixtures containing prohibition, knives’ role in rejuvenating taste, who we trust to be observant, and more.

Avodah Zarah 40a and Avodah Zarah 4ob, finishing the chapter with lots of fish.

Avodah Zarah 41a and Avodah Zarah 41b, statues and their remnants.

Avodah Zarah 42a and Avodah Zarah 42b, pursuing the question of an AZ that broke of its own accord, whether it counts as nullifivation.

Avodah Zarah 43a and Avodah Zarah 43b, problematic images.

Avodah Zarah 44a and Avodah Zarah 44b, how to get rid of, when not to benefit, from AZ.

Avodah Zarah 45a and Avodah Zarah 45b, what is included in the mountains that can’t be made an AZ.

Avodah Zarah 46a and Avodah Zarah 46b, what’s considered in the ground or part of the ground, to not be made prohibited by having been worshipped.

Avodah Zarah 47a and Avodah Zarah 47b, many ways we can and cannot use items of or attached to AZ.

Avodah Zarah 48a and Avodah Zarah 48b, an asherah tree and its shade.

Avodah Zarah 49a and Avodah Zarah 49b, finishing the chapter with asherah trees, moving on to detecting Markolis locations.

Avodah Zarah 50a and Avodah Zarah 50b, figuring out when something is Markolis connected.

Avodah Zarah 51a and Avodah Zarah 51b, what is prohibited for being part of AZ worship.

Avodah Zarah 52a and Avodah Zarah 52b, what we can salvage from AZ.

Avodah Zarah 53a and Avodah Zarah 53b, when a non-Jew can and has nullified an AZ.

Avodah Zarah 54a and Avodah Zarah 54b, why Hashem allows idolatry to continue in the world, and the power of the natural order.

Avodah Zarah 55a and Avodah Zarah 55b, finishing why God lets idolatry continue, starting on yeyn nesech, when wine is eligible to be libated to powers other than God.

Avodah Zarah 56a and Avodah Zarah 56b, when it’s wine.

Avodah Zarah 57a and Avodah Zarah 57b, when wine can’t be drunk, when not gotten benefit.

Avodah Zarah 58a and Avodah Zarah 58b, round and round the vineyard, we tell the nazir not to near.

Avodah Zarah 59a and Avodah Zarah 59b, care within halachah and ruling strictly for those insensitive to halachah

Avodah Zarah 60a and Avodah Zarah 60b, ways a non-Jew can and cannot affect wine, with ramifications.

Avodah Zarah 61a and Avodah Zarah 61b, the kind of supervision needed for wine to remain ok.

Avodah Zarah 62a and Avodah Zarah 62b, salary that’s affected by the work.

Avodah Zarah 63a and Avodah Zarah 63b, lines of credit and immediacy of payment.

Avodah Zarah 64a and Avodah Zarah 64b, more stories of R. Nachman and his friends.

Avodah Zarah 65a and Avodah Zarah 65b, pay from non-Jews and then mixtures of permitted and prohibited.

Avodah Zarah 66a and Avodah Zarah 66b, defining mixtures by taste or name, and the status of smell.

Avodah Zarah 67a and Avodah Zarah 67b, smell and taste.

Avodah Zarah 68a and Avodah Zarah 68b, tracking views of giving bad taste.

Avodah Zarah 69a and Avodah Zarah 69b, how far we trust idolaters.

Avodah Zarah 70a and Avodah Zarah 70b, stories of when we can assume no non-Jew touched our wine.

Avodah Zarah 71a and Avodah Zarah 71b, how to do business with yeyn nesech, without doing business with yeyn nesech.

Avodah Zarah 72a and Avodah Zarah 72b, settling whether meshichah acquires, whether a stream is considered connected.

Avodah Zarah 73a and Avodah Zarah 73b, nullifying mixtures of prohibited material.

Avodah Zarah 74a and Avodah Zarah 74b, mixtures and cleaning out AZ tools for Jewish use.

Avodah Zarah 75a and Avodah Zarah 75b, how to render utensils usable and tahor.

Avodah Zarah 76a and Avodah Zarah 76b, the end, with lots of kashrut issues.