Ein Yaakov
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.
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.
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 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.
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.