daf yomi arcade · chullin 84 · 2026-07-23
יֹאכַל אָדָם וְיִשְׁתֶּה פָּחוֹת מִמַּה שֶּׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ
Chullin 84 finishes the technical laws of covering the blood and then turns, unexpectedly, into a page of household economics. Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya draws a ladder: a person's stewpot should hold vegetables, fish, or meat depending on exactly how many dinars he has — and three generations of sages can't agree how strictly to keep it. Slide your fortune. Fill your pot. Then see if you can predict the bracket.
before you slide — how the daf gets here
🪤 Trap your own
The mitzva to cover a kill's blood is written "who traps" — yet the law reaches tame fowl too, like geese and chickens that never roam. The extra word teaches derech eretz: a person shouldn't eat meat as a matter of course (84a:17–18).
🍖 Only for craving
"You may eat meat" (Deut. 12:20) only when your soul craves it — not from the marketplace out of habit, and not by slaughtering your only cow or your only sheep (84a:19–20).
💰 The dinar ladder
From here, Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya sets four real brackets — a hundred dinars, a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand — each with its own stewpot (84a:21).
🫖 Know your generation
Rav, Rabbi Yochanan, and Rav Nachman each read the ladder differently — each one frailer than the last (84a:22).
the stewpot ladder
bonus toy — diagnose your cup
Rabbi Yochanan: better to drink from כָּסָא דְּחָרָשִׁין — a cup a witch has handled — than from a cup of lukewarm water, which he calls genuinely dangerous. But he immediately narrows the warning three times over (84b:2). Answer honestly.
five verses for the household — Proverbs 27:26–27 (84a:23–24)
Tap a phrase to see what the Gemara reads out of it.
learn the real daf
Chullin 84 opens by closing out the mishna's puzzle over covering the blood: consecrated birds and animals are excluded from kisui hadam through a web of derivations — Rav Yosef reads the mishna as blending Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Shimon, the Gemara mines "וְשָׁפַךְ וְכִסָּה" and "חַיָּה אוֹ עוֹף," and the heretic Ya'akov challenges Rava that if a wild animal counts as domesticated for kashrut signs, a domesticated animal's blood should count as a wild animal's for covering too — Rava answers that its blood is compared to water, which prompts the Gemara to ask whether that same comparison lets one immerse impure items in blood, closed off by three exclusions folded into the verse "מַעְיָן... וּבוֹר... מִקְוֵה מַיִם" (84a:1–16).
Then comes the ladder this game is built from — the trapping law's lesson in restraint, Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya's four brackets, and Rabbi Yochanan's frugal-living and cup-of-lukewarm-water advice (84a:17–84b:4).
The daf closes on a live dispute: Rav Eina rules that one who slaughters for a critically ill person on Shabbat must cover the blood — Rabba calls it an astonishing error. Rabbi Yosei tries a kal va'chomer from circumcision to show the covering of a koy's blood can't override a Festival; the Sages volley back with the shofar of Rosh Hashana, and Rabbi Elazar HaKappar the Distinguished lands the refutation that stands (84b:5–14).