Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Study Guide Beitzah 26 This week's learning is sponsored by Dina Becker for a refuah shleima for Reuven Ephraim ben Shoshana (Ron Becker). Today's daf is sponsored by Elana Kermaier in honor of her dear father Moshe Fox's fourth yahrzeit - lilui nishmat Moshe Yehuda ben HaRav Binyaimin v'Chaya Tzipora. My father would be equally surprised and proud that I am learning the Daf. And by Ira and Natany...

Study Guide Beitzah 25 Today's daf is dedicated to Judith Munk z"l by her children Naomi Samuel, Karen Frohlich and Matti Munk and families on her first yahrzeit 19 Tishrei. Judith was born in Hungary, survived the holocaust with only her mother and moved to England after the war. She was intelligent, kind, and knowledgeable in many different topics. She loved learning Torah and attending thought-...

Study Guide Beitzah 24 Today's daf is sponsored by Ahava Liebtag in memory of her grandmother, Hilda Morgenstern, a'h, on her yahrzeit, who often remarked at how much women's learning had grown in her own lifetime. "I know she'd be thrilled about the Hadran community." And for her grandfather, Arthur Morgenstern, who shares her yahrzeit, "who cheered on his children and grandchildren to tackle any...

Study Guide Beitzah 23 Today's daf is sponsored anonymously in memory of Batsheva Esther bat Yosef Shalom, Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky. The Gemara discusses different opinions and different laws related to burning aromatic spices in other to produce scents on Yom Tob. Rabbi Gaviha permitted ketura . Ameimar wants to understand what ketura is and Rav Ashi answers him that it is smoking fruits and...

Study Guide Beitzah 23 Today's daf is sponsored anonymously in memory of Batsheva Esther bat Yosef Shalom, Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky. The Gemara discusses different opinions and different laws related to burning aromatic spices in other to produce scents on Yom Tob. Rabbi Gaviha permitted ketura . Ameimar wants to understand what ketura is and Rav Ashi answers him that it is smoking fruits and...

Study Guide Beitzah 22 Rabban Gamliel was stringent like Beit Shamai in three laws related to Yom Tov. He did not allow one to warm up hot water and wrap it to keep warm on Yom Tov for Shabbat. In what situation was this – with an Eruv Tavshilin or without? Rabbi Huna, Rava and Abaye each explain it in a different way. Rabban Gamliel also was stringent to not allow a menorah that hadfallen to be p...

This month's learning is dedicated for a refuah shleima for Noam Eliezer ben Yael Chaya v'Aytan Yehoshua. Is it possible to slaughter an animal on Yom Tov if it is jointly owned by a Jew and a gentile? How is it different from vow and gift offerings? Is it different preparing a dough owned jointly by a Jew and a gentile? Can one invite a gentile for a meal on the holiday? Should there be a concern...

Study Guide Beitzah 20 This month's learning is dedicated for a refuah shleima for Noam Eliezer ben Yael Chaya v'Aytan Yehoshua. Today's daf is sponsored by Danielle Barta in memory of  Michelle Daman Wasserman - Gittel Frieda bat Sarah whose yahrzeit is tomorrow. "Michelle was taken from us too early, 15 years ago, leaving behind two little girls who have grown into beautiful young women who woul...

Study Guide Beitzah 19 Today's daf is sponsored by Joanna Rom in remembrance of her mother, Rose Rom (Sura Razel), on her thirteenth yahrzeit. "She is still with me every day, my inner teacher." There is a controversy as to whether it is forbidden to purify a vessel bein hashmashot (twilight) on Yom Tov only or is it forbidden also on a weekday during twilight?  What is the basis for the dispute?...

Why is it forbidden to purify vessels in a mikveh on Shabbat? There are four answers to this question. Rabba says that it is a decree that one may come to carry the vessels four cubits in the public domain. On a Yom Tov, they decreed not to permit it as it may lead to people doing it on Shabbat. The Gemara cites five different sources to raise a difficulty against Raba's explanation as there are c...

Study Guide Beitzah 17 Today's learning is sponsored by Leora and Marty Fineberg, in memory of Miriam Adler, Leora's mother, on her third yahrzeit, whose yahrzeit was on Yom Kippur. As a young girl, she begged her father to teach her Gemara so she could expand her knowledge. She would have loved to know that her daughter and daughter-in-law are pursuing that path. Beit Shamai and Beit Hillel disag...

Today's daf is sponsored by Gitta Neufeld in loving memory of our honorary Zaidy, Marvin Stokar, Meir ben Aryeh Leib HaLevi a"h. Zaidy Marvin's delight in Torah learning and particularly the daf yomi still resonate. May he be a meilitz yosher for our cherished Bubbie Fran and his entire family. We miss him so much! A person's livelihood for the year is allocated from Rosh Hashana until Yom Kippur...

Today's daf is sponsored by Odi and Judy, in honor of the birth of baby girl to Elana Perlin, her husband Steven, and her children, Shira and Avi. Tizku l'gadlah l'Torah, l'chupah u'l'ma'asim tovim. And Elana, continued hatzlacha learning the Daf Yomi -- so proud of you that you've been able to keep it up 'til now! And by Eden Prywes in honor of his wife Adele Druck and her mother Susan Fishbein....

Today's daf is dedicated in honor of my brother Jon Cohen who started the daf in Masechet Nidda at the end of the last cycle and has kept it up since!! Happy birthday! Is it possible to grind spices and salt on Yom Tov and if so, what is allowed/forbidden, and is a change necessary? There are two different opinions regarding the Beit Shamai/Beit Hillel dispute in this matter. What about grains? Is...

Study Guide Beitzah 13 This week of learning is sponsored in memory of Florence Pine, Fayga bat Moshe Mordechai v'Sara Rivka, on her first yartzeit, 7 Tishrei, by her daughter, Debbie Pine. "My mother was a passionate supporter of both education for women and Jewish education. She'd be awed by the enthusiasm and commitment of the women of Hadran. She is missed every day, but especially today. Yehi...

Study Guide Beitzah 12 Today's daf is sponsored by Adrienne Robb Fund in honor of Michelle Farber "for all that she does to promote learning! Thanks for coming to Long Island!" Can one carry on Yom Tov in the public domain items that are not needed for eating, such as a child, a lulav, or a Sefer Torah? Beit Shamai does not permit it but Beit Hillel does. Is the root of their debate whether or not...

If one designated birds from one nest and found birds in front of the nest on Yom Tov instead of in the nest, they are forbidden because they may not be the ones he designated. Is it because when there is "majority" and "proximity", we follow the majority? Rava and Abaye explain the case - each in a different way, each showing that this is not a case where proximity is different than the majority....

Study Guide Beitzah 10 Today's daf is sponsored by Lydia Medwin in memory of her grandmother Helen Bloom. "We never met, but as I carry your name, I like to think that you'd be proud of how I carry our tradition and my new-found love of Talmud as well. I always think of you when I pull out your china for the holidays. May your soul be in perfect rest." And "A shout out to all the Daf Yomi learners...

Study Guide Beitzah 9 Today's daf is sponsored by Elimelech and Reena Lebowitz in honor of Zisi Turner Berkowitz on becoming a Yoetzet Halacha.  "May all your decisions be strong and with love." Is it possible to move a ladder from dovecote to dovecote to take out birds to eat on Yom Tov? Beit Shamai forbids and only allows tilting from window to window. Beit Hillel permits moving it. Rabbi Hanan...

The gemara deals with issues relating to covering the blood and laws of muktze of earth and ashes. 

Study Guide Beitzah 7 Today's daf is sponsored by Ellen Werlin and Rachel Geballe in honor of the yartzeit of Jim Dinerstein who was a life long learner who taught his daughters to pursue learning and a sense you can always try a new challenge, two ways of many that he inspires them as they learn the daf. The Gemara brings three more options to explain the sentence: An egg is completed when it exi...

How would they bury the dead on Yom Tov – what is the difference between the first day and the second? On the first day, by gentiles and the second by Jews. There is a discussion about burial on the second day of Rosh Hashanah - is it like Yom Tov in the Diaspora or not? Is it only permitted if the person died before Yom Tov or even on Yom Tov? Because of the fear that the chabarim (hostile gentil...

Study Guide Beitzah 5 Today's daf is sponsored anonymously for the yahrzeit of Shaul ben Kish, Shaul Hamelech and Gershon Chaim Alter ben Shaul George Rosenberg, Rhona Plunka's father. An egg laid on the first day of Rosh Hashanah - is it permitted on the second day? Are two days of Rosh Hashanah one sanctity or two? Rav and Shmuel forbid the egg. To their understanding, because they kept institut...

Study Guide Beitzah 4 In trying to explain the braita regarding a case of doubt with an egg as relating to a doubt relating to an egg that possibly came from a treifa bird, the Gemara concludes that the braita must have been authored by the tana who appear in the Mishna/Tosefta in Terumot regarding a litra  of pressed figs that are teruma that get mixed up with others. There is an opinion there th...

Study Guide Beitzah 3 This month's learning is sponsored by Rabbi Lisa Malik in honor of her daughter, Rivkah Wyner, "who recently made aliyah, and in memory of Rivkah's namesake, Lisa's maternal grandmother, Regina Post z"l, a Holocaust survivor from Lubaczow, Poland who lived in Brooklyn, NY during the post-Shoah stage of her life. Babi Gina's yahrzeit was on the 24 Elul. It is very fitting that...