Today’s daf is dedicated to Rebecca Eisen and Joshua Adler on the birth of their first child, a daughter, Maya Sari Adler, born on Thursday, January 12, 2023 in Toronto. “May she grow up connected to Torah, Israel, and her Jewish identity. Mazel tov!”  Today’s daf is dedicated for the refuah shleima of Hannah bat…

Today’s daf is sponsored by Goody and Eric Weil to our beloved mother/mother-in-law, Lili Weil z”l on the Shloshim since her passing. Aside from the many acts of chessed and philanthropic organizations she created, Lili was also a pioneer of women’s learning. Several years after making Aliya from France in 1970, she wanted to learn…

This is the daf for Shabbat. For Friday’s daf please click here. We derive from Avshalom who was a nazir olam that if one’s hair gets too long, one can trim it. But at what intervals did Avshalom cut his hair? Three opinions are brought and the GEmara both raises questions and explains these three…

Today’s daf is sponsored by Blima Slutzky in memory of her mother, Mazal (Tina) bat Rina and David. Today’s daf is dedicated in memory of those murdered in the terrorist attack on Friday night in Neve Yaakov and for a refuah shleima to those injured there and from the attack in Ir David. Five Mishnayot…

Today’s daf is sponsored by Jane and David Shapiro in honor of their Skokie daf yomi compatriots: Shira & Norman Eliaser, Nina Black, and Rav Marianne Novak. “You keep us engaged, enthusiastic, and inspired by the daf every day.” The Mishnayot discuss various languages used to accept a nazirite term and how many days one…

Today’s daf is sponsored by Dalia Gamson in memory of Efraim ben Yitzchak Shmuel. The Mishna lists several cases where one accepted to be a nazir for a time period based on an object, like the hair on my head, dush of the earth…). They are considered a nazir forever, but tana kama and Rebbi…

One who vowed to be a nazir not to eat figs, is that person considered a nazir? Are they forbidden from eating figs? Or is it just an absurd statement that means nothing? Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai disagree about this case. There are three different explanations about what Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai actually…

Today’s daf is sponsored by Tina Lamm in memory of her grandfather, Gershon Katz, Gershon ben Yochanan HaCohen v’Chaya Toba, whose yahrzeit is today. If someone said, “My cow/door said I am a nazir if I stand up/open,” Beit Shamai and Beit Hillel disagree about whether the person becomes a nazir by this declaration. Rabbi…

Today’s daf is sponsored by Caroline Ben-Ari. “In honor of the 30th anniversary of the first time I read Torah, of the special birthday of my daughter Ilana, and of Tu B’Shvat, Chag La’ilanot.” Today’s daf is sponsored by Terri Krivosha in memory of her father, Nachum Meir ben Malka on his second yahrzeit. Yehi…

This is the daf for Shabbat. For Friday’s daf please click here. Today’s daf is sponsored by Susan Gruber Vishner, in loving memory of her father, Everett Gruber, Yehudah Gedalia ben Sender Chaim v’Perl, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. “My father deeply loved Jewish learning, Torah study, and his family.” Rabbi Yochanan explains…