Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Pictures Today's shiur is dedicated in memory of Rana Samuels Ofran z"l on her yahrzeit by Erin Piateski.  The gemara brings several cases where they had heated water before Shabbat for a baby for the brit milah and it spilled. In each case, they found a solution for how to get more water, either by carrying from a nearby courtyard, even though there was no eruv (by asking a gentile to move the wa...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 67 Today's daf is dedicated in honor of Sam Cohen, starting a year of shlichut in Germany. Wishing you only the best and may we continue to strengthen each other and continue daf yomi. Also thank you to our amazing teacher who constantly makes complicated sugiout comprehensible and relatable. Ben and Shai. Rav Chisda asks Rav Sheshet two questions regarding situations t...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 66 Today's daf is dedicated in memory of Avraham Nachum ben Yitzchak Refael z"l on his yahrzeit. His dedication to Daf Yomi is an inspiration to his family, who continue in his footsteps. And by Debbie and Michael Schreiber in honor of our first grandchild Naomi Frumit to our children Yarden and Adam Schreiber of Jerusalem. May she flourish and grow and may her parents...

Pictures Is one exempt from prayer, or prayer with the proper intent if one is drunk? Is one who is drunk liable for one's actions in general? Can one get punished for a sin committed while intoxicated? Does it depend on how intoxicated one is? One needs to have intent when praying or issuing a ruling and therefore one should make sure to be focused, and in a good mood, etc. Wine can have both pos...

Rava did not agree with Abaye's solution in the alley where the non-Jew Lachman bar Ristak lived. He suggested an alternative solution. Rav Yehuda said two halachot in the name of Shmuel - one regarding a hired laborer or gatherer of a non-Jew can join the eruv on behalf of the non-Jew's property and one regarding one who drinks a quarter log of wine cannot teach/rule on halachic issues. Rav Nachm...

Today's daf is dedicated to Ariella Radwin. Happy Birthday Ariella, the Talmud scholar of the Radwin family! We are so proud of your commitment to study the daf yomi and to share your love of Torah and learning in our house. A student cannot teach a halacha in front of his rabbi. Can he check a shechita knife for himself without asking his rabbi? Can he teach a halacha if his rabbi is not there? O...

What are the laws regarding carrying in a courtyard where a Jew and a non-Jew are living? Does it matter if it is one Jew or two Jews living there? On what principles are these laws based? The gemara discusses the importance of the law to not teach a halacha if there is a more senior rabbi there - he should be the one to answer the question. 

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi brings two cases - if one acquired residence outside the city and measured the techum from there and it ended in the middle of a city, one's limit ends there. But if it ended at the end of the city, the entire city is like 4 cubits and one continues counting from the other side of the city. Rav Idi questions Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levy as there is no basis for saying this. Is t...

Pictures Today's daf is dedicated by Gary Zeitlin in honor or Dr. Earl Zeitlin. Happy birthday and gratitude for his many years as a tirelessly devoted neurologist, father and grandfather. And to Ellen Segal in honor of her 60th birthday with love from your children and grandchildren. Ema, your devotion to Limmud Daf Yomi fills us with pride and inspiration. Your example teaches us that we should...

Pictures Today's daf is dedicated by Gitta and David Neufeld as a zechut for our dear friend and mentor, Chaya bat Osna Rachel, a fierce advocate for Jewish education, בתוך שאר חולי ישראל . We are blessed by her friendship and leadership. One can be lenient with mistakes in measurements regarding techum since alws of techum are rabbinic. Also one can accept testimony of people whose testimony rega...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 58 How does one measure the 2,000 cubits if the terrain is not flat? When does one span the space and one does one pierce it? What is the difference between them? From where do we derive that 50-cubit ropes are used? Why can't they be shorter or longer? What material are the ropes? For the red heifer and the Sotah, ropes were needed - of what material for each? How do w...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 57 The gemara brings two more explanations regarding the Levite cities to explain how the empty space around the city comes out to a quarter - how is it measured and a quarter of what? Some questions are raised on some of the explanations. The mishna brings a debate between Rabbi Meir and the rabbis. According to Rabbi Meir, the 2,000 cubits of the techum are measured f...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 56 Today's daf is sponsored by by Rachel Alexander Levy in honor of her mother, Sheila Alexander. When Mom created the Jewish Day School 40 years ago, would she have every thought that I would be learning Daf Yomi at age 47! And by Caroline Ofstein in honor of Yakir's bar mitzvah and for a refuah sheleima to Sheindel Chaya Bat Leah בתוך שאר חולי ישראל . Does a Torah sch...

Pictures The gemara disucsses what is considered part of the city and what is not considered part of the city regarding from where we would measure the techum. Straight lines are drawn from parts that protrude and if the shape of the inhabited part of the city is not square (i.e. round, rainbow-shaped, etc.) from where do we measure the 2,000 cubits?

Today's daf is sponsored by Ben Teitelbaum in honor of Melissa Raphaely. And by Deborah Dickson in honor of Audrey Levant in lieu of the siyum and celebration we should be having at the completion of a year-long parasha chevruta. Looking forward to next year! And by Yoni and Clara Dolgin. Wishing my children a Hag Sukkot Sameach. We wish we were able to celebrate together instead of in Bidud. The...

Pictures Today's daf is dedicated by Joanna Rom in memory of her mother Rose Rom (Surah Raizel) on her twelfth yahrzeit. She was a lawyer by training, a teacher, and believer in equality and would have been thrilled to know that her daughter was studying Talmud with such a great teacher. The mishna deala with setting the boundaries of the city when the boundaries are not in a straight line or ther...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 52 The gemara brings a case in which Raba bar Rav Chanan acquires residence from afar from his house without going to the location. Abaye questions his actions based on the conclusions reached at the end of the previous section and Raba changes his behavior. If one acquires residence with food, does one get in addition to the 2,000 cubits' also 4 cubits like in the case...

Study Guide Eruvin 51 Today's daf is sponsored by Ari Welner for a refuah shleima for Chaim David ben Chana Zelda and Rivka bat Ita. The mishna states that one who is on the way can point out a distant place and acquire residence there. Rava limits it to a case where one could potentially arrive there before Shabbat by running. How does Rava read the mishna according to his explanation? The gemara...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 50 Today's daf is dedicated by Gitta and David Neufeld in loving memory of Marvin Stokar, a"h Meir ben Aryeh Leib HaLevi on his first yahrzeit (Yom Kippur). Marvin was dedicated to his family and his learning, and was so proud of completing the Daf Yomi cycle. Like the postal service, he let nothing stand in his way! We miss our honorary Zaidy Marvin so much. May our le...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 49 This week's learning is sponsored by Leora and Marty Fineberg in memory of their mother and mother in law, Miriam Ruda Adler, z"l, Miriam Ruda bat Yitzchak and Chana Zissel on her second yahrzeit, which will take place on Yom Kippur. And by Medinah Korn in memory of her beloved teacher and mentor Rav Reuven Aberman, Harav Reuven ben Tzvi Aryeh ve-Rivka zt"l, on his f...

Water in a ditch that is exactly in between the techum of two cities, does one need to put a partition in the water to not allow water to flow from one side to the other? Would a partition be effective? When the mishna says that one who leaves the techum gets four cubits, how do we measure those cubits? Is it four in each direction, two in each direction or can one move four in one direction? Are...

Study Guide Eruvin 47 Today's daf is dedicated by Heather Stone in memory of her mother, Ellie Stone, Esther Bina bat Rachel and Avraham HaLevi z"l. And by Ilana Mushkin in memory of her father, Rav Pinhas Shmuel Laderman z"l, on his fifth 5th yahrzeit on the 8th of Tishrei. My father was a well loved Rav, a social activist and a scholar who completed the Daf Yomi cycle 2.5 times. I learn every mo...

Study Guide Eruvin 46 Today's daf is sponsored by Ranana Dine in honor of Rabbi Dan Ross. To a great chevruta - thank you for supporting my Torah learning and supporting the Torah learning of women everywhere. And to my grandmother, Sonja Waschitz on her 95th birthday who has always been a role model to me. Wishing her more years of good health.  Why is rainwater that falls on Yom Tov not limited...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 45 Today's daf is sponsored by Natalie Taylor in honor of Betsy Mehlman. Wishing you a year of health and hatzlacha and nachat from your children and grandchildren. Does everyone agree that overlapping techumim works? How can the last line of the mishna - that one who leaves the techum for saving someone can go back home - in light of the first line of the mishna that o...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 44 Today's daf is sponsored by Rivkah Isseroff in honor of all the women who participate in learning daf yomi, and especially in honor of our dear friends Sally Poolat and Shlomit Metz-Poolat who recently made aliya. Wishing them a wonderful sweet year, the first of many to come in Israel, and continued joy in learning (in this daf yomi class!). Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak...