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daf yomi
Daf Yomi Fever: How Daily Talmud Study Is Sweeping the Nation
Esther D. Kustanowitz
January 14, 2020
Drawing new interest to the Talmud
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2013
Last August, in conjunction with the beginning of a new seven-and-a-half year cycle of “daf yomi”—the daily study of a double page of the Babylonian Talmud that is observed by tens of thousands of Jews worldwide—Nicholls inaugurated an online “Draw Yomi” project that day-by-day results in a hand-drawn response to what she has studied.
Talmud: The seven-year cycle
Salvador Litvak
August 8, 2012
After seven and a half years of daily study, my voyage through the sea of Talmud ended with these words, as approximately 90,000 Jews filled every seat of MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to celebrate the completion of Daf Yomi in an event called the 12th Siyum HaShas. My voyage began with a miracle, and ended in transformation.
Talmud in Downtown L.A.
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2012
Around 2,500 people turned out for the citywide Siyum HaShas celebration at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Aug. 1. The event marked the completion of the seven-and-a-half year cycle of daily Talmud study known as Daf Yomi.
With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox
Jewish Journal
August 2, 2012
As a light drizzle tapered off over MetLife Stadium, more than 90,000 Jews packed into the home of the NFL\’s Jets and Giants for an event quite unlike any the popular sports and concert arena had ever seen.
Celebrations mark end of Talmud cycle
Jewish Journal
July 25, 2012
Serious study of the Talmud requires a high level of devotion and consistency. Finishing all 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse in one’s lifetime is an admirable feat. Completing the whole series in a little more than seven years is almost unfathomable.
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