Matmonim: Daf Yomi by Rabbi David Lapin
Matmonim means "hidden treasures." In less than 20 minutes each episode highlights, develops and explains one actionable insight from the Daf Yomi Talmud study cycle. People around the world, from uninitiated seeker to seasoned scholar, are finding inspiration, meaning, and relevance in the wisdom that the Matmonim exposes from every page of Talmud. Matmonim will give you skills to deepen your own learning to get greater satisfaction from the effort you are investing. The podcast is given as a live class each morning at the Raanana Kollel in Israel and focuses on the Daf of the day.
Episodes
Trust, whether in Hashem in another or even in oneself, is empowering and transformative.
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Effort is always needed to avoid danger and remove danger from others. But the reality is that the world, and life itself, is dangerous. The quest for work environments that are safe and free of toxicity is unrealistic. A healthy environment is not one where there is no danger, but one where danger is mitigated and navigated.
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Gifts from Hashem should be seen as rights that He has given us, not as property, לה' הארץ ומלואו.
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Moral conscience is not a humanistic term but a religious term that stems from an awareness of the Divine.
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The Torah is not a set of fundamentalist laws. Every Mitzva and Halacha has reason and rationale. Understanding the reason provides context and meaning to the Mitzvah beyond the axiom of it being G-d’s will.
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Truth is to be found in the mastery of apparently contradictory polarities. This is the complexity of a life of meaning.
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Making a concession even when we are not legally required to, saves us from the devastating impact of negative energy.
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We are responsible for our own choices. Yet, there are times when intentionally or unintentionally we enable others to do wrong. In these cases, we share responsibility with the other for his or her wrongdoing. Similarly, when we play a part in enabling others to make positive choices, we share in some of the credit for the outcomes of those choices.
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We reveal the soul of the prohibition of charging interest as the foundation of the Torah’s economic model of free market capitalism governed by strict principles of Divine Law and Ethics and recognizing that only in true partnership with labor (whether physical or intellectual) can capital create value and wealth.
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Context determines when a statement is merely an effort to provide a reassuring voice to the other party and when it reflects contractual intent.
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The intentions of deeds and transactions can sometimes be determined by words, agreements, and contracts. Often however, deeds need to be interpreted by the context in which they occur.
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Trade Finance presents interesting challenges in the laws of interest bearing credit.
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Lending and borrowing with interest is a unique law that is foundational to faith and community.
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Arelius, Meditations. How applicable is this in Torah?
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We can cause damage to the property of others or to their persons. Perhaps the worst damage that we can cause though, is damage to their heart.
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The right to cancel a sale can stem either from one party having mislead the other, or from having transgressed the prohibition of אונאה
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When a transaction is designed for a spiritual reason rather than an economic one, money is valued subjectively rather than by the currency market.
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The Torah expects high levels of personal mastery from us. Even to having a grievance against one who wronged us needs us to have an Halachik basis that permits such a grievance.
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An item sold by an individual from his or her personal collection has a narrative attached to it unlike a generic item bought in a store. The narrative attaches a different value to the item.
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