Daf Yomi
***NEW @ KTM***
Night Daf Yomi
with Rabbi Dovid Rothschild
Join thousands of world-wide Daf Yomi participants
Sunday-Thursdays, 8:15-9:00pm
(for men only)
About Daf Yomi
Daf Yomi is a daily regimen undertaken to study the Talmud (a daf consists of both sides of the page) each day. Under this regimen, the entire Talmud would be completed, one day at a time, in a cycle of seven and a half years.
The novel idea of Jews in all corners of the globe to participate in completing together the entire Talmud, was put forth at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna in 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro. On the first day of Rosh Hashana 1923 (5684) the first cycle began. To strengthen this idea, the Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, learned the first daf in public on that day.
With 2,711 pages in the Talmud, one cycle takes about 7 years, 5 months. Daf Yomi started its 12th cycle of study on March 2, 2005. The completion of the cycle is celebrated in an event known as Siyum HaShas ("completion [of] the Shas" -- Shas, an acronym for shisha sidreim or "Six Orders of the Mishnah" -- is another name for the Talmud). The next Siyum HaShas will take place on August 2, 2012.
