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What Is the First Mitzvah in the Torah? – Gefet

09.09.2025 | ט״ז באלול תשפ״ה

Gefet- Gemara, Perushim, and Tosafot, an in-depth Iyun gemara shiur.

What is the first mitzvah in the Torah? At what point do we even begin to view commandments that appear in the Torah as “Torah”? The gemara and rishonim on our sugya open up their discussion of this question with an interpretation of several pesukim in Bemidbar. Join us for this Gefet as we approach the end of Masechet Horayot.

Gefet Ep 193

Hoorayot 8b

Gefet with Rabbanit Yael Shimoni and Shalhevet Schwartz is in collaboration with Yeshivat Drisha. Learn more on ⁠⁠hadran.org.il

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Rabbanit Yael Shimoni

Rabbanit Yael Shimoni is the Ramit and Deputy Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Drisha in Kfar Etzion.Rabbanit Shimoni has learned at Migdal Oz, Matan, and the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute for Halakhic Leadership at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and a BEd in Torah Shebe’al Peh and Jewish Thought from Herzog College. She is currently studying towards an MA in Jewish Thought Education at Herzog College. Rabbanit Shimoni taught gemara and halakha at Pelech High School and served as a ramit for shana bet at Migdal Oz. She directs Meshivat Nefesh, the online responsa program of the rabbaniyot of Beit Hillel. She is also a plastic artist and member of “A Studio of Her Own.

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