Daf Yomi: Introduction to Chullin

In case anyone who is starting Daf Yomi with Chullin would like a quick overview, here is the Introduction sheet I plan to distribute to my shiur. You can also download it as a pdf here, and this may help; it doesn't quite look right on here.

Key mitzvot / laws

	Chumash	Mishneh Torah	Shulchan Aruch
Shechitah	Devarim 12:13-21	Hilchot Shechitah 1-4	Yoreh Deah 1-13, 17-27
Tereifot	Shemot 22:30 Vayyikra 17:15, 22:8	Hilchot Shechitah 3, 5-11	Yoreh Deah 29-60
Kosher creatures	Vayyikra 11; Devarim 14	Hilchot Maachalot Asurot 1-3	Yoreh Deah 79-86
Oto v'et Bno [an animal and its young]	Vayyikra 22:28	Hilchot Shechitah 12	Yoreh Deah 16
Kisui haDam [covering the blood]	Vayyikra 17:13 Devarim 12:16, 12:24, 12:27, 15:23	Hilchot Shechitah 14	Yoreh Deah 28
Gid haNasheh [sciatic neurovascular bundle]	Bereishit 32:33	Hilchot Maachalot Asurot 8	Yoreh Deah 65
Chelev [Forbidden Fat]	Vayyikra 3:17, 7:23-25	Hilchot Maachalot Asurot 7	Yoreh Deah 64
Meat and Milk	Shemot 23:19, 34:26 Devarim 14:21	Hilchot Maachalot Asurot 9	Yoreh Deah 87-97
Eating Blood	Vayyikra 3:17, 7:26-27; 17:10-14, 19:26 Devarim 12:16, 12:23-25	Hilchot Maachalot Asurot 6-7	Yoreh Deah 66-78
Zroa, Lichayayim, Keivah [chullin gifts for kohanim]	Devarim 18:3	Hilchot Bikurim 9	Yoreh Deah 61
Reishit haGez [shearings for kohanim]	Devarim 18:4	Hilchot Bikurim 10	Yoreh Deah 333
Shiluach haKen [sending away mother bird]	Devarim 22:6-7	Hilchot Shechitah 13	Yoreh Deah 292

The two vessels to be cut in shechitah (the simanim)

Kaneh = Trachea Veshet = Esophagus

The five principle disqualifications of the shechitah act

Hagramah (Veering); Ikur (Pulling); Chaladah (Burrowing); Derasah (Pressing); Shehiyah (Pausing)

The digestive tract of a bird (http://www.backyardnature.net/birdguts.htm)

Digestive Tract (in order)
Crop	Zefek	זפק
Gizzard	Kurkivan	קורקבן

The digestive tract of a ruminant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant)

Digestive Tract (in order)
Esophagus	Veshet	וושט
Rumen	Keres haPnimi	כרס הפנימי
Reticulum	Beit haKosot	בית הכוסות
Omasum	Hemses	המסס
Abomasum	Keivah	קיבה
Small intestine	Mei'ayim	מעיים

Masechet Chullin, Chapter by Chapter

1: HaKol Shochtin

Shocheit; Knife; The act of shechitah; Thought during shechitah; Safek & Chazakah; Melikah; Tumat Kelim

2: HaShocheit

The site of shechitah; The act of shechitah; Shechitah of a dying animal; Thought during shechitah

3: Elu Treifot

Treifot; How psak works; Creation; Signs of kosher birds; Signs of kosher eggs; Signs of kosher locusts; Signs of kosher fish; Crawling creatures

4: Beheimah haMekashah

Defining birth; Defining a fetus; Ben Pekuah; Treifot; Shilya

5: Oto v'et Bno

Oto v'et Bno; Koy; Separate korbanot for separate sins

6: Kisui haDam

Kisui haDam; Mitzvot that override Shabbat and Yom Tov; Status of improper shechitah; Humility

7: Gid haNasheh

Gid haNasheh; Exaggeration; Yaakov and the angel; Yosef's dreams; The world's tzaddikim; Noachide laws; Chelev; Deception; Ever min haChai; Issur chal al issur; Basar shenitalem min ha'ayin; Nichush; Bitul; Kulya

8: Kol haBasar

Meat and poultry and milk; Hand-washing; Absorption of taste; Bitul; Udders; Blood; Heart; Liver; Salting; Pickling; Issurei hanaah; Stomach

9: Ha'Or vehaRotev

Meat and tumat ochlin; Types of tumah for animal parts

10: HaZroa vehaLechayyayim

Matnot kehunah from animals; Giving the matnot aniyyim

11: Reishit haGez

Reishit haGez; Partnership in mitzvah obligations; Matnot kehunah from tereifot

12: Shiluach haKen

Shiluach haKen; "Tzippor" in Torah; The reward for mitzvot

Helpful websites and sefarim (note: I am not endorsing the contents of any shiur/sefer)

• טמוני חול: Chullin Illuminated (English) – R' Yaakov Dovid Lach
• שיחת חולין (Hebrew) – R' Amitai Ben David
• Powerpoint of poultry and animal digestive systems - http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/agents/training/DigestivePhysiology.ppt
• Photos of chicken carcasses and organs -http://www.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/Factsheets/Marketing/Processing_chickens.pdf

Audio daf shiurim on Chullin (note: I have not actually listened to these shiurim)

• Kollel Iyun haDaf http://www.dafyomi.co.il/
• Ohr Somayach http://ohr.edu/explore_judaism/daf_yomi/weekly_dafootnotes/1428
• Dafcast http://dafcast.net/?id=XLN
• Daf Yomi downloads http://www.dafyomi.org/download.php?masechta=chulin
• E-Daf http://e-daf.com/index.asp
• YUTorah.org http://www.yutorah.com/daf.cfm

Alcoholism: Do we avoid knowing about it?

We had a program Sunday night on Alcoholism in the Jewish Community [audio available here]. The speakers were credentialed, the flyer was attractive, but the turnout was not great (25-30 people).

Let me re-phrase: Those who turned out were great. But not many turned out.

There are many 'external' reasons we didn't have a strong showing, including:
* Father's Day
* Dinnertime
* Nice weather on a Sunday evening in June
* The program was not announced in many shuls [although it was Facebooked and tweeted, and there were flyers in many shuls]

In truth, I knew about the logistical challenges with our date and our publicity in advance, but the subject is important to me. I fear that Jewish communities enable addiction to alcohol. We provide wine and liquor at our tables and in our synagogues, we make people uncomfortable in refusing it, we often glorify it. We provide a convenient and comfortable place for people to drink, and we do all of that around our children. So I wanted this program, and I couldn't get any other date/time, so this was it.

But was it really just a case of bad timing, or weak PR? Given that JACS Toronto hosts programs serving hundreds of people each week, shouldn't we have been able to attract more attendees?

Might we be ducking the issue?

Might it be that:
* The topic is frightening?
* We think that by showing up at this sort of program, we might be broadcasting that we have a problem ourselves, or in our families?
* We want to think alcholism is someone else's problem, and so we dismiss anything with the word 'alcoholism' like we dismiss anything with the words 'Bosnia-Herzegovina'?

Do your communities get a better showing for this sort of program - and other than immediately after a specific, addiction-related catastrophe takes place?

Is Re-Routing causing the spread of Anxiety and Depression?

[Just saw this important read: Gafni Attacks Over Lack Of Construction Of Ashqelon Hospital]

Air Canada employees are on strike. Canada's postal workers went on strike, too, and are now locked out. To which people have said, "That's okay; we have other airlines, and we don't mail anything anyway." The local news station polled listeners the other day, asking, "Are strikes an effective form of labor action anymore?"

I think the answer is likely No – and this is part of a much bigger issue, which is affecting people all over the world in a very negative way.

The issue is Re-Routing, to use Internet parlance.

From a networking perspective: When a network is populated with enough nodes, and features a high enough degree of connectivity between those nodes, each individual node becomes insignificant. If one node or group of nodes goes down, traffic just re-routes around them and the system continues to thrive.

The same thing is happening in our highly populated and highly connected world: There are so many people, and they are so highly connected, that each individual person loses special status, becoming eminently replaceable.

* You're on strike? I can find other workers, or I can eliminate your job altogether.

* You want to raise the cost of your goods or your service? I'll outsource to India.

* Think your television network is crucial, or you are an irreplaceable performer? Think again, there are 500 more like you.

* Want to protest the government's politics? You are a tiny, irrelevant demographic.

* Trying to make your mark in publishing? Best of luck; everyone has a blog, a book, a column.

* Philanthropy is your thing? There are millions of others doing it, too, and even your small local charities are drawing on grants from afar.

We're past the age of people being rendered obsolete by technology - now, we are rendered obsolete by each other.

Of course, not everything can be easily replaced, yet. Certain government services cannot be replaced, and so people cannot yet avoid government. Protesters who manage to attract enough friends – using that same population growth and connectivity – can still get noticed, albeit rarely.

The general rule, though, is that because there are so many people, and because they are so connected, no one is irreplaceable. The recipients of everything we provide can Re-Route around us.

And one major problem is this: Many of us, perhaps most of us, find our personal meaning and value in our relationships with others, and our ability to make an impact upon the world. Rav Chaim of Volozhin insisted that we were created only to help others, and Charlie Brown (להבדיל, fine) followed his lead. We rate ourselves based on how others view us, whether others care about us, whether others will remember us afterward. How does it feel, then, to discover that others don't think about us at all? That others don't need us? That others will find replacements for us fairly easily?

I suspect this is one of the reasons for the global growth in Depression and Anxiety diagnosis. The phenomenon is beyond any particular society and its pace, work habits, diet or values. I think it's partially attributable to the fact that people everywhere recognize that the world can Re-Route around them, and this realization is devastating.

Answers? Perhaps one answer is to find our satisfaction elsewhere; certainly, Kohelet would prescribe that. Perhaps another answer is to make ourselves valuable in small circles, or to people who can't find easy replacements. I don't know.

Class: Medical Imaging on Shabbat

[Update - June 19: The audio for the shiur and the source sheets (with updated vignettes) are now available on-line here.]

I'm in preparations for our next Medical Halachah shiur, this Sunday morning. As those of you who have read previous posts on this series know, this is meant to be a practical, halachah-oriented series (as opposed to a series on abstract cases like separating conjoined twins), especially as it is given for CME credit.

The topic is "Medical Imaging on Shabbat". Here are the vignettes I plan to use; feedback would be helpful.

Vignette #1 – Alan, 11, is standing on the sidewalk on Shabbat when he is struck by a bicycle. He falls to the ground, and suffers what seems to be a fractured wrist. May he undergo an X-Ray on Shabbat? Does the answer change if he was struck by an automobile? Does the answer change if this is a digital X-Ray?

Vignette #2 – Susan, 56, presents in the emergency room in mid-winter, on Shabbat, with a bad cough, fever and chest pains. The symptoms look like pneumonia. May the physician order a chest X-ray in order to rule out lung cancer? What about a CT scan?

Vignette #3 – Janet, 35, is undergoing IVF. Her schedule requires ultrasounds on Day 4 and Day 6 of her second week of injections. Assuming Janet can arrive at the hospital without violating Shabbat, is she permitted to have the actual ultrasound?

Wow, does that feel good. Thank you, Dirk Nowitzki!

I grew up as a New York Ranger fan just a few miles from Nassau Coliseum when the hated New York Islanders were winning four Stanley Cups in a row in the '80s. I think that's why I am so thrilled about the Dallas Mavericks beating the arrogant Miami Heat for the NBA Championship last night.

Those Islander teams were entirely too good - Billy Smith, Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Clark Gillies, Denis Potvin and so on - so the only thing we Ranger fans could do was accuse them of lack of class. [This charge coming from fans who chanted obscenities about Denis Potvin and domestic abuse... or who urged Flyers goalie Bryan Hextall to buy a Porsche because his predecessor, Pelle Lindbergh had been killed in a car accident in a Porsche... ah, the memories.] In some sense, we were the equivalent of Jews in the ghetto finding negative things to say about their powerful oppressors, regardless of how absurd or far-fetched, just to be able to say something at all.

It took me years of sports fanhood to overcome the memories of being a grade schooler and high schooler surrounded by fans of a team that won many more games, and many more titles, than we did. In the last several years, though, as I found very little time to pay attention to sports, the whole issue receded in my mind -

- Until there arose a team so arrogant, so classless and yet so talented, that it was the New York Islanders of the '80s all over again, and for real. Who cares if it was the wrong sport, and it revolved around a player [Lebron James] I had admired until then for his work ethic and humanity? Conspiring to join forces as though three powerful players could constitute a team, declaring themselves a dynasty before they had won a single game, celebrating and partying on an international stage - yes, I was good and ready to despise them.

Humility is good, Lebron, and it doesn't come from saying, "I'm humble," as you like to declare. It comes about when you suffer humbling experiences.

So now that Dallas has dispatched the Heat, I'm feeling pretty good. Is it beneath me? Probably. File it under indulging my inner child.

Faith vs. Intellect?

In a post back in March ("Anti-Academic Judaism") I discussed a trend, in some Jewish circles, against the intellectual, analytic approach of academia; there is a school of thought which views such a derech as a dangerous challenge to religious faith.

In a thought-provoking debate in the comments, as well as on another blog, various posters discussed multiple aspects of the issue.

Last week, in preparing a Shavuot shiur, I came across the following relevant passage in Rav Kook's Orot Yisrael (Chapter 1); I think one could take it in multiple directions, but I like it anyway:

The original Hebrew:

חולשת האדם גורמת, שבהיותו מוכשר למחקר שכלי יוחלש בו יסוד הנטיה האמונית, ובהיותו שלם באמונה הוא עלול למעט בהשכלה וחכמת לב. אבל תכלית דרך הישרה היא, שכל כח לא ימעט את חברו, ולא יתמעט על ידו, כ״א יתגלה בכל מלא עזו, כאילו היה הוא השולט לבדו. כת האמונה צריך שיהיה שלם כ"כ כאילו אין לו שום אפשריות של מחקר, ולעומת זה צריך שיהיה כח החכמה כ״כ מעולה ומזורז כמו לא היה כלל כח של אמונה בנפש. ״אדם ובהמה״ — ערומים בדעת ומשימים עצמם כבהמה.

My translation:
"Human frailty causes a person who is gifted in intellectual analysis to have a weaker inclination toward faith, and a person who is whole in faith to reduce his intellectual insight and wisdom of the heart. But the goal of the straight path is that each strength not reduce the other, and not be reduced by the other, but rather that both be revealed in their full strength, as though it alone was in control.

"Faith must be as complete as if there was no possibility of analysis, and complementing this must be a force of intellect which is elevated and energized, as though there were no force of faith in the soul. "Man and animal (Tehillim 36)" – clever in intellect, and making themselves as [unthinking] beasts."

What do you think?

Proper care and feeding of the Rabbi

I wrote this in a different forum quite a few years ago, and still get a smile out of reading it...

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Fortunately, there is a simple, creative solution: Create periodic Rabbinic Off-Shabbos Weekends, in which the rabbi remains in town and is in his usual on-call mode, but he is relieved of responsibility for speeches, classes and krias haTorah. Such weekends should be instituted by the board, to reduce any rabbinic guilt feelings associated with taking a break.

Second, eliminate causes of daily exhaustion for your rabbi’s batteries.
Tests show that the primary daily drain for many rabbinic batteries comes from making sure that the synagogue maintains a viable morning and evening minyan. Allowing this frequent insult to your rabbi’s power cells fairly guarantees their early demise.
Be smart; require that your board members take weekly shifts at the minyan. Your rabbi will thank you for it.

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A second example: In maximizing rabbinic sensitivity, engineers leave rabbinic empathy circuits in a state of heightened emotional vulnerability. Repeated exposure to complaints will shorten the life of your rabbi’s systems. Please make sure to protect your rabbi from repeated outbursts of whining.

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I always said that when I got out of the Shul Rabbinate I would stop staying up all night for Shavuos...

Why I don't recycle

[This week's Haveil Havalim is here; enjoy!]

Yes, of course I recycle plastic, cardboard, etc; I even compost; this is about recycling class material.

In my Modest Proposal for an Eco-Rabbinate post a few years back, I wrote, "Rabbis need to recycle more. I propose that rabbis should be permitted - nay, encouraged! - to recycle speeches and divrei torah after allowing them a two-year composting period."

That post was written tongue-in-cheek, but the issue of rabbinic recycling of material is actually one I think about quite a bit. I've taught enough shiurim and given enough derashos over the years - 363 on torontotorah.com's on-line audio archive from the past two years, and a lot more was never recorded - that I certainly could make use of old material for a good, long time to come.

But I don't like to do it; I don't like to re-use an old shiur, or derashah. I do it on occasions when starting fresh isn't an option – 2 out of my 5 Shavuos night shiurim this year will be re-treads – or when people request a re-run, but even then it doesn't sit well with me.

* I don't like it because it feels lazy, and I don't like seeing myself as lazy.

* I don't like it because then I miss the chance to learn something new. Giving shiurim should be an expanding experience for the maggid shiur, too.

* I don't like it because I'm apt to pull out the shiur without really reviewing it, and therefore I won't deliver it well.

* I don't like it because I'm worried someone will know that I've given it before, and think less of me for it.

* I don't like it because going to the old-shiur tank for that shiur now means I can't do it again soon, and maybe I'll have a greater need for it down the line.

* I don't like it because the issues and questions that are on my mind today aren't the same as the ones that were on my mind two, five, ten and fifteen years ago. This is especially true for derashos.

But mostly, I don't like it because I have a potent insecurity, a confident voice inside my head that says, day after day, that my learning isn't solid enough yet. No matter how well I prepare a topic, I always feel I don't quite have it. Probably comes from being a middle child… As a result, I always look back at old derashos and shiurim and feel like they weren't good enough, like they were probably missing something, like I must have misunderstood or misapplied a source. So it's rare for me to back to the well; I much prefer to start from scratch with something new.

Makes life harder, of course.

C'est la vie.

Five years since I last saw this

It's been almost five years since I last saw this, but I'm up late working on a shiur and I remembered it out of the blue. Gd bless the Internet, nothing ever disappears: Denis Leary, Kevin Youkilis and Mel Gibson.

You want us to make ourselves vulnerable to this?

CNN has this article running today, on "crimes against humanity" in Syria:

Report: Syrian abuses could be 'crimes against humanity'
The Syrian regime has carried out a "systematic" series of abuses against protesters that could "qualify as crimes against humanity," and the United Nations must hold the government accountable, a leading humanitarian watchdog organization said Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch makes these assertions in a report titled "'We've Never Seen Such Horror': Crimes against Humanity in Daraa."

The 57-page document contains chilling detail from dozens of victims and witnesses to abuses in Daraa province, the southwestern Syrian powder keg where the anti-government protest movement began in mid-March before spreading across the country. The government reacted with a tough crackdown against protesters.

At present, the report says, there have been about 887 deaths "across Syria," including at least 418 people in Daraa province.

"For more than two months now, Syrian security forces have been killing and torturing their own people with complete impunity," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

"They need to stop -- and if they don't, it is the Security Council's responsibility to make sure that the people responsible face justice."

'We've never seen such horror', indeed.

So tell me - You want us to hand such people the Golan Heights, so that they can do this to us, too? If Syrians will do this to their own, why do you think they'll do any differently to Israelis?

Parenting from the Torah, Week 2: Handling Sibling Rivalry

This Shabbos we'll tackle our second topic in "Parenting from the Torah": Handling Sibling Rivalry.

Here's a digest of the class:

One challenge is basic competition for resources, for which I suggest that parents make sure they actually are providing for their kids's needs, that they don't compare the children (lest that reinforce the impression that they are being judged, and could be rewarded for supremacy with a greater share of the resources), and that any special treatment be explained (as Maharsha seems to indicate that Yosef did, when he gave special gifts to Binyamin).

Another problem is insensitivity to siblings as real, thinking, feeling people, a phenomenon seen in the line cited from Kohelet in the table below. Parents can respond by highlighting the Torah's emphasis on כמוך, Love your neighbor as yourself.

A third issue is frustration with the sibling's behavior. Parents can manage their kids' expectations; Rav Reisman notes that Yirmiyahu stopped complaining about the treatment he received from the Jews, even as that treatment deteriorated, once he stopped expecting better from them.

While managing those expectations and talking about the other siblings, though, parents should be careful not to put down the other kids; Avot d'Rabbi Natan 12 notes that Aharon made peace between people by praising them to each other ("He loves you" "He wants to apologize to you"), not by denigrating them to each other ("He's just crazy" "He doesn't know how to cope").

A fourth issue is the frustration kids can feel with themselves, when they don't live up to their image of themselves. This can lead to ייאוש, hopelessness. Parents can discuss and validate these feelings, as per Mishlei's advice [source in table below] to talk about problems and worries. They can build their children's self-esteem, as Aharon did in greeting everyone warmly, and so inspiring them to follow a righteous path. And parents can be careful not to tear down their kids when they fail; in Pirkei Chinuch, Rav Aviner recommends directing kids in the respectful, constructive way we would criticize adults (as opposed to, "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, keep your feet off the couch!").

Fifth: Kids often get into such a cycle of fighting that they can't see any other way. Bedtime is always a fight, meals are always a fight, homework is always a fight, family car rides are always a fight, and so on. Parents might break the cycle by describing what success could be like. As the gemara relates, HaShem tried this with Yeravam ben Nevat, as depicted in Sanhedrin 102a, describing how he could walk together with Gd and King David in Gan Eden.

Sixth: Kids take out their tensions and frustrations on their siblings, and parents might mitigate this by teaching their kids to give themselves "time out" when they need it, explaining that no one expects them to be at their best all the time, and that they can learn when to withdraw. As Pirkei Avot observes, people in agitated states should not be interacting with other people.

The last point, at the bottom of the table below, is for parents to explain the importance of Generosity. As noted in the pesukim cited below, HaShem decides the world is worth continuing only when Noach demonstrates that he can give to others - first by feeding the animals, and ultimately by taking some of his food and 'giving it' to Gd as a korban. Children who understand this may be inspired to work on their own generosity.

Of course, certain approaches work better with children of specific ages. This is already a too-short class - I don't know how I'll fit all of this into 45 minutes - and so I'm trying to offer ideas for a range of ages.

The following table comes from the handout I hope to use with the class on Shabbos. The first column on the table describes the problem which leads to fighting, the second column offers an approach the parent can use toward the child, and the third offers a Torah source supporting that approach.

Problem	Approach	Torah Source
Competition for resources	Provide their needs Don't compare Explain special treatment	Prosperity and Justice are keys for Peace (Malbim to Michah 4:4) Kayin vs. Reb Zushe Maharsha on Yosef's gift to Binyamin (Maharsha Megilah 16)
Insensitivity	How would you feel?	ומי יחוש חוץ ממני (Kohelet 2:25) v ואהבת לרעך כמוך (Vayyikra 19:18)
Frustration with the sibling's behavior	Manage expectations Without putting the other down	Yirmiyahu's expectations Aharon's derech of reconciliation (Avot d'Rabbi Natan 12)
Frustration with themselves	Validate Build self-esteem Don't tear them down	דאגה בלב איש ישחנה (Mishlei 12:25) Aharon's derech of respect (Avot d'Rabbi Natan 12) Rav Aviner on the feet
No vision of another way	Describe success	HaShem, Dovid and Yeravam (Sanhedrin 102a)
Spillover	Know when you are vulnerable	אין מרצין לאדם בשעת כעסו (Avot 4:18)
The Generosity of Noach (Bereishit 8:20-21)