Ranked #1
Take One: Berakhot 4 and 5
Take One: Berakhot 4 and 5
Today's Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 4 and 5, begin with a king fretting about his sins and soul. He is King David: No stran... Read more
8 Jan 2020
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11mins
Ranked #2
Take One: Berakhot 6 and 7
Take One: Berakhot 6 and 7
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 6 and 7, raise a strange and wonderful question: Does God pray? And if so, what does th... Read more
9 Jan 2020
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10mins
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Ranked #3
Take One: Shabbat 53
Take One: Shabbat 53
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 53, is a work of stable compassion, asking just what we're permitted to do to keep our ho... Read more
28 Apr 2020
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8mins
Ranked #4
Take One: Shabbat 49 and 50
Take One: Shabbat 49 and 50
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 49 and 50, tell us a moving story of a righteous man, Elisha, who teaches us a more spir... Read more
24 Apr 2020
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13mins
Ranked #5
Take One: Shabbat 51 and 52
Take One: Shabbat 51 and 52
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 51 and 52, have a nice ring to them. We mean this literally: The rabbis give us an intri... Read more
27 Apr 2020
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10mins
Ranked #6
Take One: Berakhot 8 and 9
Take One: Berakhot 8 and 9
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 8 and 9, begin with a thorny statement: If you don't visit your local synagogue, you're... Read more
10 Jan 2020
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7mins
Ranked #7
Take One: Berakhot 10
Take One: Berakhot 10
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 10, introduces us to one of the Talmud's most formidable—and only—women. Her name is Ber... Read more
13 Jan 2020
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11mins
Ranked #8
Take One: Berakhot 63 and 64
Take One: Berakhot 63 and 64
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 63 and 64, bring us to the end of our first tractate. After weeks of thinking about whi... Read more
6 Mar 2020
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9mins
Ranked #9
Take One: Shabbat 18
Take One: Shabbat 18
Today's Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 18, revolve around a strange question: Should we let our utensils, too, rest on Shabbat? ... Read more
24 Mar 2020
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12mins
Ranked #10
Take One: Shabbat 19
Take One: Shabbat 19
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 19, dives into a nautical question: Is it permitted to go a-sailing just before Shabbat? ... Read more
25 Mar 2020
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9mins
Ranked #11
Take One: Shabbat 2 and 3
Take One: Shabbat 2 and 3
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 2 and 3, launch a brand new tractate, dedicated to all the things we can and can't do on... Read more
9 Mar 2020
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7mins
Ranked #12
Take One: Shabbat 48
Take One: Shabbat 48
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 48, is all about pillows. Are you allowed to stuff yours on Shabbat? The rabbis' decree i... Read more
23 Apr 2020
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8mins
Ranked #13
Take One: Berakhot 48
Take One: Berakhot 48
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 48, raises a question we've all bumped up against now and then: What's the proper way to... Read more
20 Feb 2020
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8mins
Ranked #14
Take One: Berakhot 11
Take One: Berakhot 11
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 11, begins with a loopy parable about beards that's really about something much bigger: ... Read more
14 Jan 2020
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7mins
Ranked #15
Take One: Berakhot 28 and 29
Take One: Berakhot 28 and 29
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 28 and 29, tell a story of an awkward meeting between two rabbis, one wealthy and imper... Read more
31 Jan 2020
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11mins
Ranked #16
Take One: Berakhot 41
Take One: Berakhot 41
Today’s Daf Yomi, Berakhot 41, gets us into the nitty-gritty of how to say different blessings over different foodstuffs... Read more
13 Feb 2020
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11mins
Ranked #17
Take One: Shabbat 21 and 22
Take One: Shabbat 21 and 22
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 21 and 22, contain a well-known discussion of how to light the Hanukkah menorah. Which, ... Read more
27 Mar 2020
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13mins
Ranked #18
Take One: Berakhot 21 and 22
Take One: Berakhot 21 and 22
Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 21 and 22, give us a torrent of bodily fluids, and one astonishing story that begins wi... Read more
24 Jan 2020
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8mins
Ranked #19
Take One: Berakhot 47
Take One: Berakhot 47
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 47, asks a big, tough question: Exactly what does a Jew need to know and do in order to ... Read more
19 Feb 2020
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10mins
Ranked #20
Take One: Berakhot 54
Take One: Berakhot 54
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 54, raises one of the most difficult edicts in all of the Talmud: We must, it informs us... Read more
26 Feb 2020
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10mins