Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Study Guide Eruvin 43 Today's daf is sponsored by Judi Felber in honor of Lynn Farber and the Ra'anana community. Thanks for helping us through yet another crisis. And by Joanna Rom and Rebecca Schwartzmer in memory of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a true tzadeket. She championed for the rights of women everywhere and loved knowledge and justice. May her memory be for a blessing and m...

Today's daf is dedicated by Oren and Rachel Seliger in memory of Tzvi ben Aryeh (Zvi Seliger) husband, father, father in law, grand-father and great grand-father, שעלה בתרועה השמיימה one year ago, on א' תשרי תש"פ . He was a חוזר בתשובה who showed us all how to be dedicated to Torah and Mitzvot בשמחה . His way of life was an example to us all, and why all of his nearly 50 descendants are יראי שמיים...

Today's daf is dedicated anonymously in honor of our fearless leader and teacher Rabbanit Michelle Farber for her constant encouragement of our learning especially in the middle of Eruvin from all the women you inspire to learn daf yomi. Thank you!! If Tisha B'av falls on erev Shabbat, does one finish fasting or does one eat before Shabbat starts so as not to enter Shabbat fasting? Two opinions ar...

A different version of the story of Rav Sheshet and Rav Nachman in the Exilarch's house is told by Rav Ashi - the issue regards an animal brought from outside the techum and not two days of Yom Tov. The gemara discusses halachic issues regarding melacha done by a non-Jew for a Jew on Shabbat or chag. Can the Jew benefit? If so, when? Does it depend if it were done specifically for you or for a dif...

Today's daf is dedicated by Gabrielle and Daniel Altman in honor of their wonderful nephew Eliyahu Stark on his upcoming wedding to Ariella Weiss. What is the difference in the case of Shabbat and Yom Tov that fall out one after the other between one who puts out bread/food for an eruv and one who stands at the spot where one wants to designate as one's eruv? How do we understand the nature of the...

Study Guide Eruvin 38 Today's daf is sponsored in honor of Ann Goldhirsch on her birthday. Happy birthday to our #1 Daf Yomi learner! Love, Barry, Aaron and Ezra. And by Yael in honor of her sister Shifra on her birthday. What happens regarding an eruv techum when Shabbat and Yom Tov fall out right next to each other? Can one make a separate eruv in two different directions - each for a different...

Study Guide Eruvin 37 Today's daf is sponsored by Ellen Golub & Steven Sass in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their oldest grandson, Levi Moshe Weinograd, on Shabbat Nitzavim-Vayelech. Levi, Bobbe and Zayda love you so much! We offer two words of wisdom: D'kula bo . Ellen & Steve are also celebrating the brit milah of their newest grandchild, Leo Golub-Sass, named for Ellen's beloved father, Leo Golu...

Study Guide Eruvin 36 Today's daf is dedicated by Rachael Bentley. "I am so very grateful to be able to participate in this cycle of Daf Yomi and want to thank you all. Who would have thought at the outset that we would be living in such strange times? My Montreal group arranged to meet as we finished Tractate Berakhot but of course...even as we finished Tractate Shabbat, we have still not met in...

Study Guide Eruvin 35 The gemara brings three different explanations of the case in the mishna where the rabbis and Rabbi Eliezer debate the case of one who loses the key to the closet in which the eruv is placed. Is it only on Yom Tov and in a case where it is built with bricks places on each other without being cemented together? Or is it made of wood and it is a debate whether or not it is cons...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 34 Today's daf is dedicated by Miriam Tannenbaum in memory of her mother, Ruth Zemsky, Raizel bat Yehushua HaLevi and Chaya Keila z"l on her yahrzeit. Her greatest nachat was her children and grandchildren and their involvement in the learning and teaching of Torah. יהי זכרה ברוך Two questions are brought on Rabbi Yirmia's explanation of the basket attached to the tree....

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 33 Today's daf is dedicated by Rabbi Julie Danan in memory of a beloved friend, Rabbi Dr. Sarah Tauber, a brilliant teacher and scholar who will be sorely missed by a wide circle of family, friends, and communities. The gemara continues to understand the cases brought in the mishna regarding accessibility to one's eruv. The more the gemara delves into it, the more the g...

Click for Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 32 Today's daf is dedicated by Art Gould to the health, healing and well-being of his beloved bride of 47 years, Carol Robinson - Karina Gola bat Huddah. "Carol has been my best friend and partner, mother to our daughters, bubbe to our grand-daughter and the emotional center of our extended family. She has an almost magical ability to always know the right thi...

Click for Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 32 Today's daf is dedicated by Art Gould to the health, healing and well-being of his beloved bride of 47 years, Carol Robinson - Karina Gola bat Huddah. "Carol has been my best friend and partner, mother to our daughters, bubbe to our grand-daughter and the emotional center of our extended family. She has an almost magical ability to always know the right thi...

Study Guide Eruvin 31 Today's daf is sponsored by Judy Shapiro for the 7th yahrzeit of her mother Deera Tychman z"l. The gemara brings another law of Rabbi Yehuda regarding a priest setting up an eruv in a cemetery – this time by putting pure truma on a grave. How is this even possible – the gemara raises several potential problems and resolves them. The gemara raises three possible ways to unders...

Study Guide Eruvin 30 This week's learning is sponsored by Terri Krivosha in honor of Judge Norman Krivosha. My father, Judge Norman Krivosha, has encouraged my sister and me, since we were young girls growing up in the sixties, that girls could do anything to which we set our minds. Who would have ever thought that could mean reading the entire talmud from beginning to end? He has been and still...

Today's daf is dedicated by Judi Felber in memory of her father, Hershel-Tzvi Shlomo Haim ben Pesach v'Dina Sara z"l on his third yahrzeit. And by Leah Ackner in honor of her son Zev Yehuda Loring becoming a Bar Mitzvah. "Today I learn the daf in your honor and in honor of our past year of learning together to prepare for..." And by Candace  Plotsker-Herman in honor of her mother Elaine Riff, Ilan...

Study Guide Eruvin 28 Today's shiur is sponsored by Shari Mendes in honor of women's learning and the marriage, this evening, of her daughter, Naomi to Menachem Lindner! Mazel tov. And by Amy Cohn on the yahrzeit of her father Rav Dov Chaim ben Zeev z"l who taught all his five daughters Talmud and the love of Torah. Do fish fall into the category of those who get their nourishment from the ground...

Rabbi Yochanan taught that any time there is a general rule in a mishna, one can assume that there are exceptions to that rule. Even in a case where exceptions are listed, there may be more exceptions. The gemara learns that this statement was made in reference to the mishna in Kiddushin 29 about women being exempt from time bound mitzvot and obligated in non time bound commandments. The gemara th...

Today's daf is sponsored by Gary Zeitlin in memory of Dr. Alexander Glassman z"l, a dedicated family man and anesthesiologist, who recently passed away at the age of 107. And in memory of Lea Ziering, Leah bat Mazal z"l on her yahrzeit.  The Exilarch has a dining pavillion (like an enclosure, karpaf ) in an orchard and wanted to be able to carry there so they erected a fence made of reeds/posts. R...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 25 Sponsored in honor of Deborah Dickson's 40th birthday by Audrey Levant. Deborah: You enrich the lives of people around you by approaching life with passion. You are motivated, and decisive, and committed to your endeavors and I am so happy we are learning daf yomi together.  Happy Birthday! What methods can be used to fix an enclosure larger than beit saatayim (5,000...

Pictures Study Guide Eruvin 24 Today's daf is sponsored by the Loebenberg family in honor of the yahrzeit of our father and grandfather, Ralph Loebenberg, Raphael ben Mordechai, z"l, who was able to be mesayem Masechet Eruvin two cycles ago, and also in honor of one of his granddaughters, Danya Gewurz, who is continuing on with her daf yomi learning with this third masechet as part of this cycle....

Study Guide Eruvin 23 Pictures Today's daf is sponsored by Medinah Korn in memory of her dear mother, Rosalie Katchen, Shoshana Raizl bat Avraham Yehoshua ve-Baila Toiba, z"l, on her 20th Yahrzeit. She loved to learn Torah and connect with people and would have loved the incredible work Hadran is doing in promoting both of those values. And in honor of all the teachers and students who are startin...

Pictures Today's daf is sponsored by Ellie Gellman and Becky Portnoe, in memory of their father, Jerry Bach, Yosef Menachem ben Yaakov Yehuda and Leah z"l, on his 30th yahrtzeit. A father of daughters, he taught us that we could do anything we dreamed of. And by Tali and David Clements in honor of the birth of their daughter, Brielle Ava, whom they hope will grow up with a love of Torah, inspired...

Today's daf is sponsored by Mary Lee, whose husband Steven Lee studies with Hadran daily, who is happy to listen to the voices of women, especially studying Talmud, and who would likely drive her crazy -- being locked down together during this pandemic -- if he weren't so immersed in it. Is the allowance of beams around the well applicable only for those going to the Temple for the holidays? Is it...

Study Guide Eruvin 20 Pictures Abaye asks Rabba more questions regarding the case of a well. Other issues are discussed - are these posts considered a real mechitza? In order for a person to drink from a well (without the posts), one's head and the majority of the body need to be in the private space of the well. Is the same true for an animal? This question appears in two variations. Attempts ar...