I even went to the Siyum Ha-Shas in Madison Square Garden in 1989, and after hours of prosaic speeches, experienced a spiritual high as over 20,000 voices cried out the praise of God at the start of evening prayers: Baruch Hashem hamevorakh l’olam va'ed! May God's Name be blessed forever and ever! It was not the voices of Torah giants or of rabbis that were transformative it was the collective voice of the people-the people who discovered the voice of God through Talmud study. Still, this was only a partial endeavor: not every day, not every daf, and often resentful of other impingements and commitments.
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To this day my wife tells me that she can tell when I haven't cracked a Gemara for a few days, because I become grumpy and morose, uncommunicative and generally miserable.Īlmost thirty years ago, as Rabbi at New York’s Lincoln Square Synagogue, I tried to keep up with the cycle of daf yomi for six years, and taught it once or twice a week. The study of Talmud transports me outside myself into different worlds: into the world of the farmer struggling to produce crops and to share fairly into God's world of Holy Time into the world of complex family formation, interactions and conflicts into the world of the ethical challenges of business transactions, the achievement of justice and criminal punishment and into the world of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem with its special purity rules and its regulations of the offerings of self and property in divine worship.
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To mark the occasion, Jewish Ideas Daily invited several prominent thinkers to reflect on the phenomenon of daf yomi and their own engagement with the practice. Over the course of the twelve cycles completed thus far, the number of learners has burgeoned to many tens of thousands around the world. Rabbi Shapiro proposed the idea to the Agudath Israel convention in Vienna in August, 1923, and the enterprise was launched with much fanfare the following Rosh Hashanah. The tradition was established by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, the Hasidic rebbe of Lublin. These events honor the conclusion and re-commencement of a seven-and-a-half-year cycle in which people-individually, with partners, or in groups-learn a folio page (two facing pages) of the Babylonian Talmud each day in a tradition known as daf yomi, “a page a day.” The event followed similar ceremonies, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, London, Melbourne , and other cities and communities around the world, in which thousands more participated in person or via closed-circuit TV. Last night some 90,000 people gathered at the MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for a ceremony celebrating the twelfth completion of the daily reading of the Talmud (Siyum ha-Shas). Fully digitized, with audio versions and a countdown clock. The weakest ink is more permanent than the strongest memory I guess.The Daily Daf. I do, understand, however why the written accounts of the Jewish history and commentary final became necessary. I think it also speaks to the fact that our society has become too divorced from the rich heritage of an oral tradition. The Jews would repeat laws over and over to themselves until they became ingrained upon their consciousness and then would pass these traditions on to their children, and so on. I think it worked because a large part of their oral tradition involves mutterings, or meditations on the law. The fact that Orthodox Jews could have passed down their laws, histories and traditions simply by word of mouth, so to speak, is amazing. The Jewish oral tradition is a thing to marvel at in my opinion. Commentaries are viewed simply as that, commentaries the Scriptures alone are the final authority, in and of themselves. I don’t think Christianity has anything comparable. I ask because I believe that in some religions, like Islam, there is a comparable weight given to a commentary of its holy text. Jews and Christians share their same conviction in the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, so I don’t think any commentary could stand on that level if that’s what you’re asking.Īugust 14, - What I wonder is how much authority these written commentaries have in the Jewish tradition? For example, do the written commentaries hold the weight of the law? I don’t get the impression that either of the two groups put the commentaries on the same plane as the Talmud, but the Orthodox Jews encourage reading the commentaries while the non Orthodox Jews do not. August 15, - I think that, according to the article, it would depend upon how whether you are describing Orthodox Jews or more mainstream Jews.
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