Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Study Guide Nazir 59 Today's daf is sponsored by Rochie Sommer in honor of Meryl Sasnovitz. "Happy gold plus silver birthday to Mama, Savti, and Savti Raba extraordinaire." Today's daf is sponsored by Elisheva Gray. "With much gratitude and appreciation to Rabbanit Michelle, Rabbanit Leah Sarna and Maggie Sandler for the two wonderful supplementary courses these last weeks. It was all wonderful le...

Study Guide Nazir 58 The Gemara brings two different braitot that each derive something different from the word 'and his head' that the leper is commanded to shave. One learns that the commandment of a leper to shave overrides the prohibition of shaving off one's sidelocks. The other learns that it refers to a leper who is a  nazir and even though a nazir is commanded by both a negative and positi...

Study Guide Nazir 56 Today's daf is sponsored by Ruth Leah Kahan with gratitude to HKB"H for her recovery and return to health one year after being caught in a chlorine gas leak. "Thanks to my family and friends around the world for their unstinting encouragement and support." Two further questions are raised against Rav Chisda's understanding of our Mishna from tannaitic sources. One relates to a...

Study Guide Nazir 55 Today's daf is sponsored by Rochelle Cheifetz to commemorate the yartzeit of her aunt, Rose Rubelow, Rochel Leah bat Rav Moshe and Tzippora Mashbaum. Yehi zichra baruch .  There is a tannaitic debate regarding one who enters a place outside of Israel in a box. Is the debate based on whether the impurity outside of Israel instituted by the rabbis was regarding the earth (concer...

Regarding a limb from a dead or live body without enough flesh, that Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish disagree about, how large is it? The Gemara proves how Reish Lakish thinks the nazir shaves even if it is less than the size of a barley and it is a uniquely derived halacha from a drasha on a verse. When the Mishna says that one begins the count from the beginning, it in unclear whether they mean...

Study Guide Nazir 53 Rami bar Hama asked: Is one stricter with the spinal cord or skull that if one has a quarter  kav of bones from them, does the nazir need to shave on account of them, as opposed to other bones where a half kav is needed? The first answer, given by Rava from our Mishna is rejected. A second answer is brought from an opinion of Shamai brought on Nazir 52b, but is rejected as wel...

Study Guide Nazir 52 Today's daf is sponsored by Mark and Rena Septee Goldstein in memory of Moe Septee. "A wonderful man, on the occasion of his 26th yahrzeit." The entire Hadran zoom family is devastated by the loss of our dear friend and chevruta, Carol Robinson Gould. Her gentle and warm presence was a perfect start to our day. We already miss her. With love and comfort to Art and to the whole...

Rabbi Yehuda questioned the law in our Mishna as quoted by Sumchus "on a corpse and on an olive bulk from a dead corpse" - if an olive bulk is enough to make the nazir shave, obviously a whole corpse. Since Rabbi Yehuda was angry at this, Rabbi Yosi tries to explain the Mishna. However, his answer is rejected, but the Gemara quotes Rabbi Yochanan and Rava who each bring different ways to understan...

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Study Guide Nazir 48 Today's daf is sponsored by Gabrielle & Daniel Altman in memory of the 18th yahrzeit of our treasured mother, Honorable Myriam J. Altman, z"l, loved and missed forever, and still our North Star." Both by the kohen gadol and the nazir, the verses give a list of all the relatives to whom they cannot become impure. In the kohen gadol verses, the word "to his father" comes to excl...

Today's daf is sponsored by Bracha Stuart in loving memory of her brother Aryeh Leib ben Simcha HaKohen on his second yahrtzeit. "I miss you every day. May your neshama have an Aliyah on this day and also in the merit of my learning the daf with this holy Hadrian community." What happens when someone becomes impure after the blood of one of the sacrifices is sprinkled? Rabbi Eliezer and the rabbis...

.Today's daf is sponsored by Rachel Savin in memory of her father, Shalom ben Shmuel, on his first yahrzeit At what point in the process is the nazir permitted to drink wine and become impure to dead people? There is a debate between tanna kama and Rabbi Shimon and from a braita, the rabbis hold like Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Eliezer like tanna kama. From where do each of them derive their opinions?...

Today's daf is sponsored by Amy Goldstein in loving memory of her dear mother, Carolyn Barnett-Goldstein, Chayah bat Modechai ve-Chanah, on her fourth yahrzeit. "I love you and miss you, Your love of Judaism, art and music lives on in all of your family." Today's daf is sponsored by Yiska and Shaul Weisband in memory of Menachem Yunitzman HaKohen ben Esther V'Tzvi. Today's daf is sponsored by Medi...

Study Guide Nazir 44 Today's daf is dedicated in memory of our fellow Hadran learner, Miriam Kerzner. In her eighties, Miriam was drawn into the world of Gemara's intricacies and excitements, enchanted by Rabbanit Michelle's teachings and enthralled with the intellectual challenges. Talmud became an integral and vibrant part of her life during the long days of Corona and nurtured her during her il...

Today's daf is sponsored by Betsy Mehlman in memory of her father, Zvi Menachem Mendel ben Shlomo z"l, Harold Mondshein, on his 39th yahrzeit that was on the 11th of Adar. Today's daf is sponsored in memory of Shael Bellows who passed away this week.  Today's daf is sponsored by Amy Cohn in memory of her sister Cindy Navah whose yahrzeit is today. "I can't believe it's been 18 years since your pas...

This month's learning is sponsored by Jon and Yael Cohen in memory of Dr. Robert Van Amerongen. A doctor who has healed thousands of people with his medical expertise, providing endless care and love at all hours of the day and night. May his memory be blessed. This week's learning is sponsored by Jon and Yael Cohen for a refuah shleima for their daughter (and my niece) Naama bat Yael Esther who i...

Today's daf is sponsored anonymously in memory of Moshe ben David, Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt"l. After having suggested that according to the rabbis, one could still possibly not conclude from the word "his beard" that the only way for the leper to shave is with a razor, they reject this suggestion on two counts. Rabbi Eliezer derives from the word "his head," mentioned in a verse regarding the shavi...

Study Guide Nazir 40 Today's daf is sponsored by Abby Flamholz in honor of Sigal Spitzer Flamholz on her birthday. "An inspirational mom, wife, daughter, businesswoman, and daf learner." From where do we derive that the shaving of a nazir needs to be performed with a razor? Rav Chisda brings a number of rulings regarding shaving of a nazir at the end of the term and cutting hair during the term (r...

Today's daf is sponsored in honor of the birthday of Audrey Mondrow, a daf yomi learner, by her children and grandchildren. "Thank you for modeling for us how to always grow and learn." Today's daf is sponsored in honor of the bat mitzvah of Avigayil bat Yonatan v'Ilana this weekend in Riverdale. "Avigayil, your whole family is so proud of you, of your love of Torah and your dedication to learning...

Study Guide Nazir 37 Today's daf is sponsored by the Tannenbaum family in loving memory of Miriam's father, Jacob Zemsky, Yaakov Yitchak ben Moshe Nachum HaLevi z"l on his 19th yahrzeit. "He embodied Ahavat Yisrael, as was manifested in causes for both the klal and even more so, through his helping so many on the prat level. May his inspiration continue to guide us.  תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים."...

Study Guide Nazir 36 Today's daf is sponsored by Sylvia (Sara Devora) Simmons in memory of her father, Avraham Nachum ben Yisrael Simmons z"l on his yahrzeit. A survivor of Kovno ghetto, "a brand plucked from burning fire." Today's daf is sponsored anonymously in memory of Moshe ben Amram, Moshe Rabbeinu. Today's daf is sponsored in memory of Elan Ganeles who was murdered yesterday.  Rabbi Yochana...

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