Category: daf yomi
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learning from a non-existent verse
Those of you who are learning daf yomi will have learnt (or be about to learn) the first daf of Eruvin today. On this daf, the gemara tries to find a source for the maximum height and width of a hechsher mavoi. At one point the gemara tries to learn from a verse, which Tosefot… Read more
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Rav Elchanan Wasserman on Daf Yomi
I was looking in a book of collected ideas of Rav Elchanan (Kovetz Maamarim ve-Iggrot). There is a one line comment there about daf hayomi: דף היומי הוא רעיון נהדר, אבל אפ אין חוזרים על הדף הרבה פעמים, הלא בפירוש הגידו חז”ל סנהדרין צ”ט ע”א) שהוא כזורע ואינו קוצר. “Daf Yomi is a wonderful idea.… Read more
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Avodah Zara 10a and Jesus
This week in Daf Yomi we learned a lot about Romans. One of the things that Rashi cites on daf 10a is that the Romans have no language or script of their own. For anyone, like me, who spent years studying Latin and learning Virgil, Cattallus, or any of the other Latin authors it is… Read more