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Shinun Halacha is a work summarising the Halakhic conclusions presented in Kaf Hachaim. In addition to the Kaf Hachaim, Sofer authored: Kol Yaakov: on the laws of writing torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot, as well as on the tefillin in general; Yagel Yaakov: a compendium of Shabbat drashot delivered while in mourning for his father
Daf Yomi. Daf Yomi ( Hebrew: דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio ") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara ), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence. A daf, or blatt in Yiddish, consists of both sides of the page.
Sifrei Kodesh ( Hebrew: ספרי קודש, lit. 'Holy books'), commonly referred to as sefarim ( Hebrew: ספרים, lit. 'books'), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred. These are generally works of Torah literature, i.e. Tanakh and all works that expound on it ...
The Hebrew calendar ( Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized : HaLuah HaIvri ), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of public ...
Dovid Grossman (scholar) Rabbi Dovid Grossman at a student's wedding. Pictured (left-right): Rabbi Eliezer Gross (Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles), Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein, and Rabbi Dovid Grossman. Dovid Grossman (1946 – 5 February 2018) was a well-known Talmudic lecturer and Talmid Chochom who disseminated Torah worldwide.
Hadran ( Imperial Aramaic: הַדְרָן, lit. 'we returned') is a short prayer recited upon the completion of study of a tractate of the Talmud or a Seder of Mishnah. It is also the name of the scholarly discourse delivered at a siyum masechet, the ceremony celebrating the completion of study of a Talmudic tractate.
Sanhedrin (tractate) Sanhedrin ( סנהדרין ) is one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin (a section of the Talmud that deals with damages, i.e. civil and criminal proceedings). It originally formed one tractate with Makkot, which also deals with criminal law. The Gemara of the tractate is noteworthy as precursors to the development of ...
Siyum HaShas (Hebrew: סיום הש"ס, lit. "completion of the Six Orders [of the Talmud]") is a celebration of the completion of the Daf Yomi (daily Talmud folio) program, a roughly seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries, in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud are covered in sequence – one page per day.