Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 32 Today's daf is sponsored by Barbara Goldschlag for a refuah shleima for Jeremy, Yirmiyahu ben Baila Frumit. Today's daf is also sponsored by Rochie Sommer In loving memory of her Zayde, Aryeh Leib Ben Tzadok whose yahrzeit was on 30 Cheshvan. "I was not zoche to meet him. In his small neighborhood in Brooklyn, he was a role model for his community in his shul and throu...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 31 Today's daf is sponsored by David and Gitta Neufeld and family in honor of their dear Bubby Fran Stokar on her 90th birthday. "Your resilience, simchat hachaim and love for everyone make us proud to be your honorary children. May you continue to "shep nachas" from all!" Today's daf is also sponsored anonymously for the refuah sheleima of Yosef ben Rina and the continue...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 30 Today's daf is sponsored by Laura Shechter in loving memory of Cili Tzivia bat Moshe in honor of her 1st yahrtzeit. "She may have been my husband's grandmother in blood, but I loved her like my own. I know she would be proud of my continued learning of the daf, since she herself had the legacy of her grandmother teaching Torah weekly in her village in Czechia. I love y...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 30 Today's daf is sponsored by Laura Shechter in loving memory of Cili Tzivia bat Moshe in honor of her 1st yahrtzeit. "She may have been my husband's grandmother in blood, but I loved her like my own. I know she would be proud of my continued learning of the daf, since she herself had the legacy of her grandmother teaching Torah weekly in her village in Czechia. I love y...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 29 Today's daf is sponsored by Natalie Taylor in loving memory of Harav Professor Yaakov Ross who passed away this past week, on the 26th of Cheshvan.  Today's daf is also sponsored by Emma Rinberg in loving memory of her dear friend Helen Taylor's stone setting. "Helen is missed by her husband, children , grandchildren and sisters. Also by her close friends - we think of...

Raba distinguishes between two cases of hearing half a shofar blast – in one he allows it (one who hears half a blast in a pit and half out of the pit) but not in the other (half before dawn and half after dawn). Why? In the case where it is permitted, the Gemara questions this based on other sources that seem to indicate that one cannot hear half a shofar blast. Raba statement is reinterpreted si...

Pictures Hadran Women of Minneapolis is sponsoring the month of Kislev in memory of our Daf Yomi study partner, Monica Howell. Most in our group were connected via our shul, our neighborhood, or just from around town. Monica showed up to our first Siyum pre-Covid and introduced herself to us, she was the only newcomer to our group. Soon after that Siyum the world turned virtual and we never saw Mo...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 26 Pictures Today's daf is sponsored by Becki Goldstein to celebrate her granddaughter Sarai's eight birthday and the anniversary of her parents Kobi and Rotem. "Born at week 25 at 890 grams Parshat Chaye Sara, rabbanim suggested to name her Sarai, a stronger name than Sara. So began weeks of tfilot across the globe for a refua shlaima while Sarai tested our emunah and wo...

Today's daf is sponsored by Betsy Mehlman in memory of her beloved uncle Carl Feldman, Akiva ben Efraim vSarah, who passed away at the age of 93 last week. "A kind and loving person, Carl was dedicated to his family and the community. Always ready with a smile, he exemplified caring and compassion. May his memory be blessed." There were a number of cases where the witnesses said something which di...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 24 Pictures Today's daf is sponsored by my parents, Robert and Paula Cohen, myself and my siblings in memory of my grandmother, Sonja Waschitz, Sarah bat Yitchak and Yenta Rachel z"l, whose first yahrzeit is today. "My grandmother was a beautiful woman who rebuilt her life a number of times - first by leaving her family behind in Vienna in 1939 to create a new life for he...

Pictures Why were beacons only lit on 29 days months and not 30 day months? Why not the reverse? How many times of cedar trees are there? Some say four and some say ten. One of them is coral wood and a statement of Rav is brought to explain the complicated manner in which they would be able to get it out of the water. It was considered very valuable. All the trees the gentiles uprooted in Jerusale...

Pictures Why were beacons only lit on 29 days months and not 30 day months? Why not the reverse? How many times of cedar trees are there? Some say four and some say ten. One of them is coral wood and a statement of Rav is brought to explain the complicated manner in which they would be able to get it out of the water. It was considered very valuable. All the trees the gentiles uprooted in Jerusale...

Today's daf is sponsored by Leah Brick "in honor of my son, Shua Brick, on the occasion of his Chag Hasmicha from Yeshiva University. I am always so proud of you." There are two versions of the story in which witnesses were detained in Lod on Shabbat and told not to continue because many witnesses had come. According to the version in the Mishnah, Rabbi Akiva did it and Rabban Gamliel rebuked him....

Today's daf is sponsored by Leah Brick "in honor of my son, Shua Brick, on the occasion of his Chag Hasmicha from Yeshiva University. I am always so proud of you." There are two versions of the story in which witnesses were detained in Lod on Shabbat and told not to continue because many witnesses had come. According to the version in the Mishnah, Rabbi Akiva did it and Rabban Gamliel rebuked him....

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 21 Whether or not one needs to keep two days of chag depends on whether or not messengers could reach there both in Nissan and in Tishrei. If in Tishrei there was not enough time to come, but in Nissan there was (due to many days in Tishrei where one cannot travel), even in Nissan one needs to keep two days of Pesach. Several stories/practices are told regarding Yom Kippu...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 20 Today's daf is sponsored by Diana Bloom "in loving memory of my Zeyde, Israel Marmurek Israel ben Manes, on the occasion of his yahrzeit on 17 Cheshvan." The court in Israel sent a message to Mar Ukva in Babylonia that Nissan is always a 29 day month. They are two different version of Rav Nachman's reaction to this – whether he questioned it or tried to prove it from a...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 19 There is a controversy over whether or not Megillat Taanit was canceled after the destruction of the Temple. Some amoraim raise a number of difficulties from tannaitic sources against the opinion of Rav and Rabbi Chanina that the Megillat Taanit was canceled. Through one of the sources brought, we learn that the Megillat Taanit forbade fasting and eulogies not only on...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 18 Today's Daf is sponsored by Rina Goldberg in memory of her aunt, Valley Densa, z"l, "who lived to the age of 100 plus. She, like her siblings, was educated in the Hildesheimer Yeshiva in Berlin and lived a life replete with Chesed." And by the Fortinskys "Mazal tov to Goody and Eric Weil, on Netanel and Adina's wedding."  Is repentance strong enough to repeal a divine...

Today's daf is dedicated in memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on his first yahrzeit. And for a refuah shleima to Hannah bat Hessa.  There is a Beit Shamai/Beit Hillel debate regarding what will happen to the middle person ( beinoni ) during the resurrection of the dead. Will they descend to Hell to achieve atonement and then after suffering there, will be raised up, based on the prayer of Chana, "God...

Today's daf is sponsored by Stacey Goodstein Ashtamker in memory of her beloved mother Arlene Goodstein whose 6th yahrzeit is today. "My mother was a very special woman who loved to learn and who was especially committed to Judaism and built a strong Jewish home. She would be amazed that I began this daf yomi journey and that I have been studying the daf every day for close to 2 years. She is espe...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 15 Today's daf is sponsored by Beth Kissileff ,on the 18 of Heshvan, in memory of the eleven Jews killed at Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life synagogues in Pittsburgh in 2018. "They were all people who came early to shul and were concerned about creating community, in their individual ways and within their own limits and abilities. Hashem yikom damam." Joyce Fienberg...

How do the three statements of Shmuel works together and can be explained in a way that his statements don't contradict each other? There is a debate between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yosi HaGalili about why vegetables are not treated like grains, grapes and olives regarding the stage at which maaser and shmita is determined. The Mishna brought a debate between Beit Shamai and Beit Hillel regarding th...

Today's daf is sponsored by Debbie Gevir to commemorate the 3 rd  Yarzheit of her dear father, Joseph Gindsberg on the 17 th of Cheshvan.  "Amongst his many unique qualities, my father had a love for language and a particular expertise in using it to enhance Torah reading and liturgical practice. I am sure he would be proud to know that my Aramaic is improving daily by learning daf yomi with Rabba...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 12 Pictures Today's daf is sponsored anonymously in memory of the Chazon Ish, Avraham Yeshaya ben Shmaryahu Yosef. Rabbi Eliezer said that on the 17th of Marcheshvan the flood began and that God changed the rules of nature. Two questions are asked about this: 1. It is written in the second month and that it is Iyar.  2. What is the change from the rules of nature - after...

Study Guide Rosh Hashanah 11 Pictures This month of learning is sponsored in memory of Dr. Chaya R. Gorsetman, Chaya bat Esriel ה'Naomi z'l during the period of shloshim by her husband, children, and grandchildren. " We especially wanted to sponsor Talmud learning in honor of Chaya because Chaya learned gemara with her father, Esriel, starting in the sixth grade. This was an unusual opportunity fo...