Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Today's daf is sponsored by Sarah Zahavi in honor of her sister Hasya and her love of learning. Today's daf is sponsored by Hinda Herman in memory of her dear mother Ethel Bat Chaim on her yahrzeit. Today's daf is sponsored by Linda Freedman in memory of her father Leon Pultman on his 8th yahrzeit. Husband of Thelma Pultman and father of Linda, Sheila and Gwen. "Dad had a special love of learning...

Today's daf is dedicated in memory of Faye Darack, one of Hadran's dedicated learners who passed away yesterday. Yehi zichra baruch. Beit Shamai holds that if one sanctified something by mistake, it is effective. Beit Hillel disagree. An example is brought in the Mishna of one who said that the first black ox to leave my house will be sanctified and a white ox left the house first. Or the first go...

Study Guide Nazir 30 This month's learning is sponsored by Amy Cohn in memory of her father, Professor Dov Zlotnick who taught his five girls the love of learning! "We miss you!" Today's daf is sponsored by Leah Goldford on the first yahrzeit of her father, Moshe ben Mayer known as Moe. "We miss your humor, your daily check-in calls, and mostly your amazing hugs. Still can't quite believe you're g...

Study Guide Nazir 29 This week's learning is dedicated by Phyllis & Yossie Hecht in memory of Phyllis's father's 14th yahrzeit, l'zecher HaRav Yerachmiel Binyanim ben Zalman Tzvi Witkin. "Jerry Witkin, as he was affectionately known to all, was a true source of nachat to his friends, family and clal yisrael . Dad was a friend to all, activist and champion of causes and sameach b'chelko . As this w...

Study Guide Nazir 28 Today's daf is sponsored by Carol Robinson and Arthur Gould in memory of Carol's mother, Irma Robinson, Hudda Bat Moshe, z"l. Today is her 8th yahrtzeit. "Irma moved from New Haven to Chicago to marry Lou and build a rich life there including lifelong friends, work she loved at a nearby high school library, and active participation in her synagogue. She lived with Alzheimer's...

Today's daf is sponsored by Carol Robinson and Art Gould in memory of Art's mother Shirley, Sarah bat Avraham v'Ziche Reicha. Today is her 9th yahrtzeit. "She was a life-long learner and a striver; a woman born before her time. She sewed, she made mosaics; she was always busy with something. She lives on in the tallitot and quilts she made for so many members of her family and her synagogue." Rav...

Today's daf is sponsored by Catriella Freedman in memory of her father, Zvi Stein, Zvi ben Harav Mordechai David, on his 3rd yahrzeit. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of you, your warmth, your humor and smile, your optimism." Today's daf is sponsored by Carol Robinson and Art Gould in memory of Art's father Joseph, Yosef ben Shlomo Shabtai v'Rachel z"l. Today is his 24nd yahrzei...

Today's daf is sponsored by Savta Becki Goldstein in honor of her two eldest grandsons chayalim Eitan Efrayim and Gilad Yoel on their twentieth birthdays. "With gratitude to Hashem for the z'chut of reaching this milestone with them. Our wishes for briut and simcha and hatzlacha in their endeavors and may Hashem keep them safe and all our chayalim . Amen." A woman who was a nazir and separated ani...

Today's daf is sponsored by Terri Krivosha for the refuah shleima of her husband Harav Hayim Yehuda Ben Faiga Rivah and their daughter, Tamar Davida bat Sarah Leah. If a woman becomes a nazir and her husband nullifies the vow without her knowledge and she drinks wine not knowing that she is no longer a nazir, she does not get lashes by Torah law. However, Rabbi Yehuda adds that she gets lashes by...

This week's learning is sponsored by Ruth Rotenberg "in commemoration of our daughter, Tanielle Gavre'ea Margalit's yahrzeit. Hard to believe it is 18 years. You continue to live within us and inspire us and so many others. Thank you to Rabbanit Farber for your tireless and inspired teaching and leadership." Two more sources  (altogether five. including the sources on Nazir 21) are brought to answ...

Study Guide Nazir 21 Reish Lakish held that if one says "I will be a nazir" and another said "and me" and another said "and me", it is effective only if it was said immediately after ( toch k'dei dibur ). Support for this is brought from a braita. They also try to prove it from the fact that our Mishna listed only two people who responded "and me" and not more. But that answer is rejected as the t...

Study Guide Nazir 20 There were different traditions about whether Helene the Queen was a nazir for fourteen years or twenty-one. According to Rabbi Yehuda's version that it was fourteen, was it that she kept seven outside of Israel and then seven more when she got to Israel (and did not become impure to a dead person) as per Beit Hillel's opinion or was it based on Beit Shamai that she added anot...

Study Guide Nazir 19 Today's daf is dedicated l'ilui nishmat Chana bat Reb Shimon by her sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and all who knew and loved her. A braita states that a woman who became a nazir, became impure to a dead person and then her husband nullified her vow, after she had separated birds for her sacrifice, she brings the sin offering but not the burnt offering. Rav Chisda c...

Study Guide Nazir 18 In the fourth attempt to answer Rabbi Ashi's question, we find a source explicitly stating that one who vowed to be a nazir while impure does not shave one's hair on the seventh day of purification. Rav Chisda attributes a braita we saw on a previous page a Mishna in Keritut 20b - one to Rebbi and one to Rabbi Yosi son of Rabbi Yehuda - regarding their debate about when a nazi...

Study Guide Nazir 17 Today's daf is dedicated for a refuah shleima for Benaya Chaim ben Avital Ora who is undergoing surgery this morning. After raising several sources against Reish Lakish's opinion, and particularly one that couldn't be resolved, Mar son of Rav Ashi reinterprets the debate between him and Rabbi Yochanan. They both hold that a person who takes upon being a nazir in a cemetery is...

Study Guide Nazir 16 Today's daf is sponsored by Joyce Bendavid in honor of Rabbanit Michelle. "Thank you to Rabbanit Michelle Farber for the clarity of your teaching as you motivate us to continue learning the daily daf." If Rabbi Yossi holds that part of the day is considered a whole day regarding the impurity of a zava , how could one ever become a zava gedola ? The Gemara brings two possible a...

Study Guide Nazir 15  Today's daf is dedicated to our am azing mom and grandma - Patty Belkin! Love, Jason, Erica, Raquel, Eli, Ariel, and Gili. Today's daf is dedicated for the rescue and healing of the victims of the earthquake. May we find more living and help more of those displaced. Our thoughts and prayer are with them and their families. The Gemara proves the words of Rabbi Yossi bar Rabbi...

Today's daf is sponsored by David and Mitzi Geffen in loving memory of David's grandmother, Rabbanit Sara Hene Geffen on her Tu B'Shevat yahrzeit. "She and her husband Rav Tuvia Geffen, Rabbi of Sherith Israel in Atlanta, brought up their 8 children with love and learning." Rava's question is explained as referring both to a case where one said they will be a nazir in twenty days and a nazir now a...

This month's learning is sponsored by Hadran of Silver Spring in memory of Nicki Toys, Nechama bat Shmuel Tzadok. "Nicki was creative, talented, and filled with so much love and goodness. She had an incredible attitude about life, family, and faith that every one of us should aspire to achieve. May her memory always be a blessing."  This week's learning is sponsored in loving memory of Miriam Baum...

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 that if one appointed a messenger to betroth a woman for him, without specifying which woman, and the messenger died before ret...

Study Guide Nazir 10 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 Yehuda says, as in the previous Mishna, Beit Shamai mea...