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Daily daf, close reading, live-room clarity.
Daf Yomi by YCT with Rabbi Dov Linzer follows the daily daf through dense sugyot with patient, conversational precision. Recent Menahot classes move through korbanot, smicha, tenufa, nesachim, menorah oil, wine standards, and the small textual turns that make a sugya move.
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Daf Yomi by YCT with Rabbi Dov Linzer is a daily Talmud learning show with the texture of a live class. It begins where the daf begins. A line is located, a phrase is translated, and then the teaching asks what that phrase is doing there. Recent episodes in Menahot are especially concrete, moving through korbanot, smicha, tenufa, nesachim, menorah oil, wine quality, flour and oil measurements, and the categories that govern offerings. The material can be technical. The delivery keeps it social and usable. Hebrew and Aramaic terms remain in the foreground, but they are continually surrounded by practical explanation, repetition, and quick reframing. A discussion of smicha does not stay abstract; it becomes a question of whether every owner must place hands on a korban, and why tenufa can be done by one person for a group. A discussion of sweet wine turns into a small drama about contradiction, amendment, Rashi, Tosos, and what counts as kosher after the fact. A question about shaloli shmo becomes a broader question about whether an offering keeps its earlier identity after it stops working for its owner. The show often finds its energy in those hinge points. It asks why Menahot is suddenly talking about animal sacrifices. It notices when a rule seems to fall between categories. It treats an extra o, a possessive korbanot, or a missing distinction as something worth slowing down for. The classroom feel matters. Side questions and brief corrections are part of the method, not interruptions. The teaching will double back over ratios, readings, and assumptions until the structure is clear enough to continue. It is serious study, but not stiff study. The tone is warm, occasionally dry, and grounded in the practical work of following the daf every day. Listeners who want polished inspiration may find it too granular. Listeners who like watching a sugya get assembled piece by piece will find a steady companion. Its strength is not simplification. Its strength is making technical Talmudic reasoning feel like something a room of learners can stay inside together.
Made for: Best for listeners with some comfort around Talmud vocabulary who want daily, text-centered learning in English. It also suits learners who enjoy halakhic categories, close readings, and classroom-style back-and-forth.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the daf's technical vocabulary intact while making the logic audible step by step. Its live-class format preserves the corrections, side questions, and repeated passes that make difficult sugyot easier to inhabit.
The daf yomi is a daily study the Babylonian Talmud, one double-sided page, or daf, per day, covering the entire Talmud in seven-and-a-half years. Rabbi Linzer presents the daf in English, in an engaging and lively style, with depth and clarity, and in a way that is accessible to those with all backgrounds. These podcasts are live recordings of Rabbi Linzer's morning daf yomi class at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, and are approximately 50 minutes in length. For an archive of previous daf yomi classes, and for more audio recordings of classes and lectures by R. Linzer, please visit our website at www.yctorah.org.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close textual reading becomes a lively public argument, with Rabbi Dov Linzer showing how legal distinctions acquire conceptual weight.
Rabbi Dov Linzer moves through each daf as a working argument, locating the line, recalling the preceding discussion and following the Gemara's objections wherever they lead.
A porous boat becomes a legal problem, and Rabbi Dov Linzer helps you argue it through.
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A single "o" shapes whether sacrifices share nesachim or require separate accompaniments.
Menachos 91 makes practical accounting depend on a very small word. The episode follows the nesachim - wine, mincha, oil, and flour - that come with an olah or shlamim, then lingers over the extra "o" in "min ha-bakar o min ha-tzon." One reading uses that word to exclude bird…
A brisk Gemara class that moves from the menorah's lamps to a larger question about substitution and what the Torah includes.
This episode keeps close to the sugya's line of reasoning, moving from whether the menorah's lamps are joined to the structure or distinct enough to make cleaning easier, then on to the kikar of gold, the half-log measure, and the way Torah wording draws the boundary between…
Temple measures, pouring logic, and the preserved hin stay under close review.
The discussion stays on the Beit HaMikdash's liquid measures, moving from hin, log, and revi'it to the practical puzzle of how much remains after a pour. It also touches the hin Moshe used for the anointing oil and why that full measure still matters after its use passed.
A focused Gemara class where olive ripeness, pressing order, and wine impurities become practical legal questions.
Menahot 86 turns sacred oil and wine into a careful lesson in how much law can sit inside a small textual choice. The discussion moves from whether omer oil must come from Eretz Yisrael to a Sifrei limit on bikurim, then settles into the Gemara's question of how olives are…
A careful study of todah breads, sacred measures, and the force of a single word.
This episode turns a compact run of daf study into a clear, patient account of how one word can carry real legal weight. The discussion opens with a long baraita on the todah's breads, asking what mimenu means when the Torah says "from it," then follows that reading through the…
A patient daf shiur on when Temple procedure carries over to a private bama.
Daf 111 frames ritual procedure through the question of place. The shiur opens with three log of water and whether a kli sharis is required on a private bama, even though that vessel is required in the Bais HaMikdash.
A focused review of how the Omer reframes ownership, communal action, and Shemitah law.
Menahot 84 treats the Omer as a way into what ritual rules are meant to guard. The shiur starts with the Mishnah's permission to bring menachot from old or new grain, from Eretz Yisrael or beyond it, then narrows to the Omer and its companion offering.
Daily halacha, case by case.
Parsha questions carried into serious Torah argument.
This episode discusses a Talmudic debate from Menahot 55 about measuring flour for religious offerings, particularly focusing on whether measurements should be based on original or current states, and extends to examples with dried and fresh fruits like dates and figs.
Rabbi Dov Linzer teaches Menahot 84, focusing on the Omer and Shetei HaLechem sacrifices.
Rabbi Dov Linzer discusses Zevachim 111, focusing on debates about sanctifying liquids in vessels and libations on private altars.
This episode discusses a Talmudic passage (Menahot 54) exploring an Agartha about Avraham's dialogue with God regarding the destruction of the temple and the exile of the Jewish people.
This episode discusses a Talmudic debate from Menachot 26 about whether a sacrifice remains valid if the remnants become impure, focusing on interpretations by Rabbi Yeshua and Rabbi Elias.
This episode discusses Talmudic analysis of the prohibition against cutting grains before the Omer offering, focusing on whether it applies to all five grains or just barley.
This episode discusses Talmudic interpretations of sacrificial laws, focusing on the Gemara's analysis of combining prohibitions and the specific requirements for the sin offering of a leader.
This episode analyzes a Talmudic passage from Menachos 94, comparing the rituals of smicha (laying on of hands) and tenufa (waving) in animal sacrifices.
This episode discusses the Talmudic tractate Menahot, focusing on the rules of Smicha (laying hands) on Korbanot (sacrifices), including debates about communal and individual offerings and exceptions like B'chur, Ma'aser, and Pesach.
This episode discusses a Talmudic passage from Menachot 87, focusing on the permissibility of sweet wine (Halistone) used in Nesachim offerings and resolving textual contradictions in the Gemara.
This episode analyzes a Mishnah from Menachos 92 about the rules for laying hands on communal versus individual animal sacrifices in Jewish law.
This episode discusses a Talmudic debate in Menachos about whether a sacrificial offering retains its specific identity and requirements when performed incorrectly.
The daf stays with the menorah and asks a practical question: were the lamps physically attached to it, or separate enough to make cleaning easier?
Menahot 91 on Daf Yomi by YCT with Rabbi Dov Linzer focuses on nesachim, the wine and flour accompaniments for korbanot in Parshat Shlach and Vayikra.
The class opens by returning to whether the omer's oil has to come from Eretz Yisrael, with the teacher noting that earlier sources seem to frame the question around the grain instead.
The class opens with the Beit HaMikdash’s liquid measures and walks through the Mishnah’s list one by one.
Rabbi Dov Linzer starts Menahot 78 by unpacking 'mimenu' and the idea that the todah loaf must come from one whole offering.