Ein Yaakov
Ein Yaakov 142 Shiurim
Kesubos 111a
An Ein Yaakov class on Kesubos 111a (perek 13), exploring the teaching that only those who live in Eretz Yisrael merit techiyas hameisim -- derived from the pasuk 'noten neshama la'am aleha' -- and Rabbi Abahu's surprising extension that even a non-Jewish maidservant living in Eretz Yisrael is guaranteed a share in Olam Haba.
Berachos 62b
On the Ein Yaakov aggada of Berachos 62b (perek HaRoeh): David's declaration that he could have killed Shaul -- who, as a rodef, he was technically permitted to kill -- but had mercy on him instead, continuing with the story of cutting Shaul's garment, counting Bnei Yisrael, and proper conduct on Har HaBayis.
Shabbos 12b
Explores the Mishnah's prohibition against reading by candlelight on Shabbos lest one adjust the wick, Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha's near-violation of his own leniency, and a discussion of Megillas Taanis.
Berachos 62b
On Rav Tanchum bar Chanilai's teaching that tzniyus in the bathroom protects a person from snakes, scorpions, and mazikim, and a digression into why some gedolim asked not to be eulogized.
Bava Metzia 59b; later 60a–61b
Continuing through Bava Metzia's perek of business ethics, this chaburah shiur covers the extra stringency of not wronging a convert, the Mishnah's rules against unfair competition and geneivas da'as, and the prohibition on false weights hidden in salt. It closes with a digression into the Radziner Rebbe's rediscovered techeiles and why it was never widely accepted.
Shabbos 30a
On the aggadic discussion -- sparked by a halachic question about extinguishing a fire for a sick person on Shabbos -- of Shlomo HaMelech's statement that a live dog is better than a dead lion, and what it means for how we regard the living versus the deceased.
Berachos 58a
A Gemara shiur on Berachos tracing the blind Rav Sheshes, who identified the king's approach by its silence rather than its noise, drawing the parallel that malchusa d'ara is k'ein malchusa d'rakiya. The shiur's centerpiece is the chassidic maaseh of how that same teaching converted Vilna's leading misnaged, Reb Meir Rafaels, into one of the Alter Rebbe's foremost chassidim, before returning to the Gemara's story of Rav Shila and the moser he struck down in self-defense.
Kiddushin 33b
A Gemara-based discussion of when the mitzvah of standing applies -- for a rider versus a walker, the three-cubit distance rule -- flowing into why some mitzvot depend on living in Eretz Yisrael and others don't.
Gittin 86a
Gittin aggada on the destruction of Jerusalem and the timing of the exile, followed by halacha on using non-Jewish courts and the Rambam's sources for grounds for divorce.
Gittin 90a–90b
Gittin and Sotah content: Rabbi Meir's levels of tzniyus, the halachos of sending away a wife out of hatred, and the idea that a heavenly voice announces a shidduch before birth.
Taanis 16b
Taanis aggada on the qualities required of a shliach tzibur, the Tzemach Tzedek's lesson to a frightened shochet, and halachos around the daily haircut of a king.
Taanis 17b–18a
A brief overview of Megillas Taanis's structure and one of its episodes -- Yehuda ben Shammai's public protest.
Taanis 19a
Taanis aggada on the timing of rain before and after the Churban, with the miracle of Nakdimon's wells and the sun standing still for Moshe, Yehoshua, and Nakdimon.
Taanis 21a
Taanis aggada: Nachum Ish Gamzu's mission to Caesar with a box that turns out to hold sand with miraculous properties, and Rabbi Akiva's view that everything -- not just mostly everything -- is truly for the good.
Taanis 21b
The story of Abba Umna, a doctor so careful about tzedakah and dignity that Abaye tests his honesty, alongside a halachic discussion of stealing in order to give charity.
Taanis 22a
Stories of hidden righteousness: a prison guard who saves Jewish women, clowns who bring peace, and Yirmiyahu's own self-judgment before his death.
Taanis 22b–23a
Taanis aggada on the timing of rain, Shimon ben Shetach's twice-weekly rainfall, Choni HaMe'agel's circle, and whether a person can really be a trusted ben bayis to Hashem.
Taanis 23b
Taanis aggada: Choni HaMe'agel's grandchildren and his famously long nap, a Nasi's household troubles, and the story of Rav Mani and Rabbi Yitzchak ben Elyashiv's fortunes being swapped.
Taanis 24a
The story of Eleazar ben Baraisa giving away all his money to charity, a Nasi's failed fast for rain, and how the Baal Shem Tov saw hidden zechus in a simple beggar's blessing.
Taanis 24a
Taanis stories about fasts for rain -- Rav Nachman's fast, Rav Yehuda removing his shoes -- woven together with classroom anecdotes about motivating students.
Taanis 24b
Stories of Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa -- his brief prayers, his wife's miraculous oven, and the debate over Moshe's prayer stopping the hail in Mitzrayim.
Taanis 25a
The story behind a rumor about Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa's goat, the prohibition on benefiting from a miracle, and the clouds debating whose fields deserve rain.
Taanis 25b
A Taanis sugya asking whether a tzaddik's merit, like a tree's branch, can ever cease to regrow, plus the halachos of the Thirteen Fasts and when Hallel is said.
Taanis 27b
A short piece on the role of each mishmar's prayers and why a fast decreed for infant choking is suspended in deference to the honor of Shabbos.
Moed Katan 5b; later 8b–9a
Halachos of marrying and getting a haircut on Chol HaMoed, the prohibition on mixing one simcha into another, and the Baal Shem Tov's vision of eating meat with the strength of an ox.
Ein Yaakov — Moed Katan 16b
Explores the meaning of David HaMelech's last words, the surprising authority of a maid to issue a cherem, and a story of a snake bite following from it.
Kesubos 105a
Stories warning against bribery in judgment -- how even a hidden bribe blinds a scholar's judgment, and why a judge must recuse himself the moment he discovers one.
Kesubos 105b
The story of Rav Anan's extreme caution about accepting anything from a litigant, tied to bikkurim as a gift to a scholar, and a story about Eliyahu HaNavi and the Alter Rebbe.
Taanis 24b
Taanis aggada connecting unseasonal rain to divine displeasure, a count of Elisha's students, and a discussion of poverty and wealth.
Kesubos 110b–111a
The Rav Zeira-Rav Yehuda machloket on the obligation to live in Eretz Yisrael, the special status of dying there, and the idea that learning Chassidus hastens Mashiach.
Kesubos 111a
Continues the sugya on leaving Bavel, the 'dough' metaphor for Klal Yisrael there, and why the dead buried in Bavel are spared the pains of tunneling underground at techiyas hameisim.
Kesubos 111a
Compares techiyas hameisim for tzaddikim in Eretz Yisrael versus the diaspora, Yaakov's and Yosef's requests to be carried out of Mitzrayim, and the story of Reb Berel Wolf's embalming concerns.
Kesubos 111b
A Sanhedrin-style aggada on which gentile nations are excluded from techiyas hameisim, and the idea that every Jew, without exception, has a share in Olam Haba.
Kesubos 111b
Fantastic aggada describing the agricultural abundance of the Messianic era -- wheat on mountaintops, enormous vegetables, and a single grape yielding thirty barrels of wine.
Kesubos 111b
A short piece on the description of Eretz Yisrael's bounty -- figs yielding honey -- and whether this abundance was only for the future or already present.
Kesubos 112a
Aggada comparing Eretz Yisrael to a deer whose skin never quite fits, Rabbi Elazar's three avoided curses, and the vision of fruitless trees one day bearing fruit.
Nedarim 10a
A short sugya questioning why early piety sometimes required a korban -- the nazir's choice to forgo wine treated almost as a sin -- and a related halacha-versus-angelic-authority debate.
Nedarim 20b
Covers the halachic category of a rebellious and criminal child, why a wife initiating intimacy is said to merit great children, and the procedure for annulling a neder through 'pesach charatah.'
Nedarim 35b; later 38a
Explores who the Kohanim really represent, when payment for teaching Torah is permitted, and the authority behind the Masoretic text's cantillation and verse divisions.
Nedarim 38a
Surveys evidence that the Prophets were independently wealthy -- Shmuel, Rebbi, Amos, Yonah -- and why that wealth was a halachic necessity for a prophet or Kohen's integrity.
Nedarim 64b
Ties the story of Datan and Aviram to a Rebbe story about praying for children, then turns to the halachos of nedarim -- loopholes, the Sotah test, and why making vows should be avoided altogether.
Nedarim 66b
The story of a husband's neder over his wife's name, Bava ben Buta's resolution, plus guidance on cleanliness in group learning and the dangers of arrogance in inherited Torah knowledge.
Nazir 52b
Stories of Isi bar Yehuda missing a shiur and a frightening nazirite episode, followed by a chassidic reading of the Mishnah pairing chesed and gevurah.
Nazir 4b
Explores the halachos of an eternal nazir (nazir olam), the effect of tumah on the nazirite period, and Rabbi Elazar HaKappar's surprising view that a nazir is considered a sinner.
Nazir 23a
Explores a case where a woman's vow is annulled by her husband, and the idea that wrong intent combined with a wrong outcome is a double fault -- with a parable about two men sharing a korban Pesach.
Nazir 32b; later 39a
A nazir sugya testing a scientific question -- whether hair grows from the root or the tip -- using live lice as Talmudic evidence, alongside the halachos of hair-cutting according to Rav Huna.
Ein Yaakov — Gittin 7a
Explores the halachos of tzedakah relative to one's income, whether France counts as 'Eretz Yisrael' for writing a get, and the fine line between overcharging and forbidden interest.
Gittin 28b; later 31b and 35a
Covers the halachic presumption that a missing husband is alive, a strange wind in the story of Yonah, and a widow's false oath over a hidden coin.
Gittin 43a; later 45a
Stories of Rabbah bar Rav Huna's shifting rulings, a scholar who understood bird-speech while imprisoned, and whether a husband can divorce his wife over a bad rumor.
Gittin 49b; later 52a, 55a–55b
Opens with a sugya on paying damages from one's best property and a guardian's responsibility for orphans, then turns to the famous aggada of the mixed-up party invitation between Kamtza and Bar Kamtza that set the Temple's destruction in motion.
Gittin 56a
Continues the Gittin aggada on the siege of Jerusalem -- Vespasian becoming Caesar, Marta bat Baitos's wealth, Rabbi Tzadok's forty-year fast, and the famous escape of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai from the city.
Gittin 58a
A short piece connecting a teaching about the brain's structure to the Gemara's account of gold coverings used for children in the Temple.
Gittin 59a
A speculative aggada exploring what might have happened had Nadav and Avihu survived, alongside reflections on Shmuel, Shlomo, and Ezra's leadership.
Yoma 77a
A sugya built on the pesukim in Daniel describing the angel Gavriel's report after contending with the Sar of Paras, tied to Yechezkel's vision of the elders offering ketores.
Shabbos 28b
A short piece on the unusual animal (possibly a unicorn-like creature) the Gemara says Adam offered as his first korban, and the translation debate over the word 'tachash.'
Yoma 53b
A short aggadic piece on a student's proper way to leave his rebbi, the direction of exit from the Temple, and why the right hand is offered first in greeting.
Ein Yaakov — Yoma 54b
A Baraisa-based class on why creation is said to have spread outward from Zion, the differing punishments for golden-calf worshippers, and the debate over teaching women Chumash.
Shabbos 32b
A sugya weighing neglect of mezuzah, tzitzis, and Torah study as possible causes of a child's early death, with the halachos of removing a mezuzah when moving.
Yoma 66b
A Yoma sugya on the stations built between Jerusalem and the cliff for the sa'ir la'azazel, and the honor shown by Jerusalem's most prominent citizens who escorted the Kohen partway along the route.
Yoma 66b
A Yoma sugya on the stations built along the route to the cliff for the sa'ir la'azazel, and the exact distance between them.
Shabbos 49b
A Shabbos sugya exploring why the Mishnah counts 39 melachos (forty minus one), tied to the episode of Yosef's brothers and a case of washing with perfumed water on Shabbos.
Yoma 67a
Continues the Yoma sugya on the sa'ir la'azazel's journey, explaining why the stations along the way offered the Kohen food and drink even though the Gemara says he never actually needed it.
A Lame Wife, a Hidden Tragedy, and the Meaning of 'Tied'
Ein Yaakov aggada beginning chapter five -- a story about tznius in marriage, the Rebbe concealing a painful loss from his mother, and the recurring theme of things 'bound together.'
Yoma 69b
A Gemara sugya on the exact wording the Anshei Knesses HaGedolah used to nullify the yetzer hara for avodah zarah, and the tradition that incubating eggs failed to hatch on that day.
Shabbos 54b
A sugya on the obligation to rebuke wrongdoing even on Shabbos, the Tosafos distinction between Torah-level and rabbinic 'putting a stumbling block,' and the Rebbe's view on teaching Noahide law to non-Jews.
Shabbos 55a
Aggada on a mark distinguishing the righteous from the wicked in a time of judgment, the critical role of rebuke, and when the merit of the Avos stopped protecting their descendants.
Shabbos 55a–55b
Aggada on four righteous people said to have died only because of the serpent's decree (not personal sin), and what the word 'choteh' (sinner) really implies.
Shabbos 55b
A close textual reading asking whether the sons of Eli HaKohen truly committed the sins attributed to them, using the Kri-Ktiv (read versus written) discrepancy in the text.
Yoma 71a
Covers the etiquette of addressing a Kohen Gadol in public versus private, Rava's farewell blessing formula, and the value of marrying into a talmid chacham's family.
Shabbos 56a
A sugya examining the accusations against Dovid HaMelech regarding Uriah's death, the controversy of a soldier's conditional get before battle, and Mephivoshes's disputed property.
Shabbos 56b
A Shabbos sugya reconciling two pesukim about Shlomo HaMelech -- one saying his wives turned his heart, the other that his heart remained like his father Dovid's -- resolving the contradiction without concluding that Shlomo actually sinned.
Shabbos 59a
A short, lighter piece recounting a dream vision of the Baal Shem Tov and the Arizal, and a question about wearing a crown (keilila).
Yoma 73b
Explores why the manna itself is called a form of affliction, how seeing food affects satisfaction, and a side discussion on drunkenness and moral conduct from Sotah.
Shabbos 60a
Covers the halacha against wearing nail-studded sandals on Shabbos (tied to a story of mistaken panic in a cave), and the Rebbe's custom of buttoning right over left.
Shabbos 69b
A short halachic piece on counting the first day in a timed obligation, and a property dispute over shared fruit.
Shabbos 74b
A Shabbos sugya on the melacha of tying knots, catching the chilazon snail for techeiles dye, and sewing thread -- plus a question on whether a particular religion counts as avodah zarah.
Shabbos 75a
A short piece on restoring one of Hashem's names, the mitzvah to study the stars, and old halachic remedies involving insects.
Shabbos 77b
Aggada answering a series of Rav Yehuda's natural-world riddles -- why goats lead sheep, why a camel's tail is short, and why the 'goat' kingdom of Greece preceded the 'sheep' kingdom of Israel.
Shabbos 83b
Covers a sugya on doubt in niddah status, the cult of Baal Z'vuv, and the prohibition against moving a neighbor's boundary marker (hasagas gevul).
Shabbos 86a
A niddah sugya on the halachic shift from a three-day to a five-day waiting period, and the distinction between the prohibition and the status of tumah.
Shabbos 87a
A sugya noticing that the Torah twice describes Moshe bringing the people's words back to Hashem, and what that repetition teaches about the exchange leading up to naaseh v'nishma at Har Sinai.
Shabbos 88a
Explores the meaning of 'tapuach' in Shir HaShirim, the principle of 'we will do' before 'we will hear,' and stories of embracing suffering with joy from Reb Zusha and the Tzemach Tzedek.
Shabbos 89b
A short piece on a verse likening sin to whiteness, calculating how many years of responsibility a person bears, and Yitzchak's plea on behalf of his descendants.
Shabbos 90a; later carrying discussion
A Shabbos sugya on carrying a load above ten tefachim, a measurement debate over the Leviim's height, and when a live person on a bed is exempt from liability.
Shabbos 96b
Explores a disputed gezeirah shavah, Moshe's halachic dilemma over executing the mekoshesh for gathering wood on Shabbos, and the account of Miriam and Aharon's divine rebuke.
Shabbos 104a
Explores the mystical meaning behind letters like mem and peh having both open and closed forms, tied to the balance of revealed and hidden Torah, with the story behind the title 'gute Yid.'
Ein Yaakov — Shabbos 107b
A short piece dividing the day into three-hour segments and examining the Gemara's statements on lice reproduction against modern science.
Shabbos 108a
A short halachic piece distinguishing neveilah from treifah, and the tumah status of a non-Jew's body.
Shabbos 109b
A fantastical aggada about a scholar punished with a snake for defying the Sages, and practical folk-advice for escaping or defending against a snake.
Shabbos 113b
A short piece on a wordplay in Megillas Rus and an omen in where Rus chose to sit among the harvesters.
Shabbos 115a
A halacha sugya on rescuing holy books on Shabbos, Rabbi Yishmael catching a scribe erasing Divine names, and the custom of reciting Tehillim chapters by age.
Shabbos 118a
Explores the Chabad custom of not formally washing between the third Shabbos meal, the mitzvah of oneg Shabbos through food, and how sleep itself is part of that pleasure.
Shabbos 118b
A short piece on fulfilling the third Shabbos meal with just fruit, and the proper timing of mikvah relative to prayer.
Shabbos 118b
Explores Rabbi Yossi's claim about his own bris, trusting the Rebbe's guidance over strict halachic text, and the unresolved vow of Yiftach.
Shabbos 119a
Stories of how different Sages prepared for Shabbos -- Rabbi Chanina's visible joy, Rav Anan's solemn attire -- and the famous tale of Yosef Mokir Shabbos selling a diamond.
Shabbos 119b
Covers the halachic reasoning behind keeping food warm for Shabbos (the blech), modern crockpot questions, and the special Melaveh Malkah customs of the Rebbe.
Shabbos 129a
A sugya permitting urgent, even costly, measures for a sick person on Shabbos -- including lighting a fire and selling a house for shoes after bloodletting.
Ein Yaakov — Shabbos 129b–130a
Covers the halachos of a bris performed on Shabbos, carrying the milah knife, and why the pain of circumcision means no shehecheyanu is said despite the joy.
Shabbos 130a; later 134a
Explores the Rambam's view on martyrdom (mesiras nefesh), why mitzvos are compared to a protective dove, and whether a healing compress of wine and oil is permitted on Shabbos.
Shabbos 145b
A short aggada on mixed-up letters and seals of truth, and why the Sages of Bavel were known for their fine appearance and joyous festivals.
Shabbos 145b
Aggada on the impurity attributed to Babylonians, a dispute over buying from a non-Jewish bakery, and Avraham's early recognition of Hashem.
Shabbos 147b
Covers the halacha against reading captions under artwork on Shabbos, the story of Achav's false prophets, and Reb Mendele Horodoker's encounter with a heavenly teacher.
Shabbos 151b
A Koheles-based class on teshuva before old age, a story of tears affecting a sage's daughter, and dietary guidance for before and after forty.
Shabbos 152a
Explores aging with a positive outlook, physical decline described in Tehillim, and the surprisingly young marriages of several chassidic leaders.
Shabbos 153b
A brief Shabbos sugya permitting carrying short distances, plus an aggadic aside on the impurity-duration of dogs and the idea that birth-weekday shapes character traits.
Eruvin 6b
Explores a heavenly dispute resolved by a bas kol, and the concept of teiku -- a halachic question left permanently unresolved -- through a chassidic lens.
Eruvin 17b
A Shabbos sugya on the source for the prohibition of carrying (hotzaah), an eruv for the desert camp, and the aggadic idea that Adam was originally created with two faces.
Eruvin 19a
Aggada on the different treatment of gentile versus Jewish sinners in Gehinnom, its seven names and three entrances, and a geographic 'map' connecting Bavel to Gan Eden.
Eruvin 21b
Explores how a chumra can take on the force of a rabbinic obligation, the Gemara's view that Jerusalem fell despite outward Torah compliance, and Shlomo HaMelech's enactment of netilas yadayim.
Eruvin 43b
Explores why Mashiach can't arrive on Shabbos itself, whether Eliyahu HaNavi might already be among us unnoticed, and the halacha protecting animals from a grave's shadow.
Eruvin 51b; then 53a
Covers the halachos of techumin (Shabbos walking limits) in modern Israeli cities, then turns to the identity debate between Amrafel and Nimrod at the Cave of Machpeilah.
Eruvin 53b
A lighter aggada built around wordplay riddles -- a mustard-seed puzzle, a hidden rabbi, and Rabbi Yosi HaGelili's encounter with Bruriah.
Eruvin 54a
A philosophical class touching on Aristotle's reported deathbed retraction, the Rambam's view on secular knowledge, and the historical controversy over burning the Rambam's books.
Eruvin 54b
Explores a verse warning against wealth gained through theft, the importance of reviewing one's learning, and why Torah relies on mnemonic devices (simanim) to prevent forgetting.
Eruvin 54b–55b
Continues the theme of acquiring Torah through simanim, the physical scale of the Levite camp, and a surprising halachic debate over whether radishes are life-giving or poisonous depending on the season.
Eruvin 63a
Explores the sin of Aharon's sons offering a fire they weren't commanded to bring, the severe punishment for ruling before one's own rebbi, and a famine caused by giving all Temple gifts to a single Kohen.
Eruvin 63b
Continues the theme of deferring to one's teacher, the halacha disqualifying a drunk person from judging, and Rava's advice to spend surplus earnings on a Sefer Torah.
Eruvin 64a–64b
Covers the halachic effects of drinking a revi'is of wine, the prohibition on passing by food left on the ground, and the story of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin's vow and imprisonment.
Eruvin 64b–65a
Covers the legal exemption for extreme drunkenness, a case involving alleged magic with bread, and the importance of real kavanah in prayer illustrated by Reb Aizik Homler.
Eruvin 65b; later household eruv
A sugya on establishing a single eruv for a home with multiple wives and servants, Rabbeinu Gershom's communal bans, and measuring a circular eruv window.
Eruvin 81a
A sugya questioning whether lentil bread qualifies for an eruv (tied to whether dogs would eat it), plus a side discussion on women and tefillin via the story of Michal, daughter of Shaul.
Ein Yaakov — Eruvin 101a; then Pesachim 2a
Opens Maseches Pesachim with a transitional Eruvin thought, then explores whether 'light' in the Torah can mean nighttime, and the halacha permitting self-defense against a nighttime burglar.
Pesachim 3a
A sugya on the Torah's careful, clean word choices even when describing difficult topics, and a side story testing the lineage of Kohanim through the lechem hapanim.
Ein Yaakov — Pesachim 8a
A sugya on the pilgrimage obligation (aliyah l'regel), why owning property in Israel was a prerequisite, and a surprising halacha about the lack of hot baths in Jerusalem.
Pesachim 25a
Covers the three cardinal sins that override pikuach nefesh, the prohibition of benefiting from consecrated Temple property (me'ilah), and Rabbeinu Gershom's tower escape story.
Pesachim 50b
A sugya on four occupations the Gemara says lack 'simon brachah' (a sign of blessing), tied to the timing of Friday work and the Baal Shem Tov's teaching on earning Olam Haba.
Pesachim 50b
Covers the custom of Torah scribes fasting to avoid wealth, a local market custom, and the debate over which fire was created at the first Motzei Shabbos.
Pesachim 54a
Aggada on the ten things created at twilight before the first Shabbos (including fire and the mule), and whether putting on tefillin at night fulfills the mitzvah.
Ein Yaakov — Pesachim 77a / 78b
A short sugya on the halachos of tumah affecting a communal offering, and whether alternatives must be sought before overriding Shabbos.
Pesachim 87a
Explores the four prophets active in Yoshiyahu's time, why Yonah fled to Tarshish, and the disturbing yet purposeful command given to the prophet Hoshea.
Pesachim 88b; later 93b–94a
Covers Rabban Gamliel's test of a Temple-area lizard, a milk-meat mishap at a wedding, and the Gemara's calculation of the distance light travels between dawn and sunrise.
Pesachim 94a
Explores Talmudic astronomy -- the proportion of stars to the world's size, the sun's seasonal paths, and Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai's heavenly-voice story.
Yoma 9b
A Yerushalmi-based aggada on hidden versus public sin, baseless hatred as the cause of the First Temple's fall, and a surprising debate over whether later generations can surpass the earlier ones.
Yoma 22b
A sugya on the prohibition against directly counting the Jewish people, Shaul's workaround of counting with pottery shards, and the halachic structure of Krias Shema.
Yoma 22b
A short aggada where a bas kol warns against becoming an extreme tzaddik or an extreme rasha, and how to properly discern the yetzer hara from the yetzer tov.
Yoma 22b–23a
A sugya on why we no longer wage war against Amalek now that Sancheriv scrambled the identities of the nations, moving into the aggadah of how Rome came to be founded at the time Shlomo married Pharaoh's daughter.
Yoma 26a
A collection of Temple-era teachings -- the ketores as a source of blessing, the procedure for the Sukkot water libation, when the Four Species may be used, and two kohanim's dispute over claiming a lamb.
Yoma 29a
A wide-ranging class on halachic signs of weather and health, why relearning forgotten material is harder than learning fresh, and the purpose of a Shalom Zachar celebration.
Yoma 36b
A detailed sugya on the proper formula and sequence of vidui (confession), the Rabbi Meir-Chachamim machloket over its order, and the difference between an occasional sinner and a defiant one.
Yoma 38b
A sugya on why we say 'zichron tzadik livrachah' for the righteous but not for the wicked, and the teaching that the world is sustained for the sake of one tzaddik at a time.
Yoma 38b
A chassidic class on the significance of age 36, the purity (guf naki) required for a minor's mitzvos, and Rabbi Yishmael's parable of oil and apricots for good versus bad deeds.
Yoma 44a
A Yoma sugya opening on daf 44a, moving through the dangers of lashon hara connected to the ketores, and the different grades of gold used to construct the Aron.