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  • The Mission Continues

    As in the past so it remains today - we were and still are under the selfsame commitment to adhere to the directions of the Gedolei Yisrael, who stand guard against breaches of purity threatening our camp. When we were required to ask – we asked. When we were instructed to depart – we left. The moment we are summoned back to raise the flag, every other consideration is pushed to the side and we answer: We are ready!

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  • Harav Yisrael Friedman zy”a, the Rebbe of Husyatin

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    The ancestral chain of Harav Yisrael Friedman, the founder of the Husyatin chassidic court, originates with the holy Baal Shem Tov. The Husyatin chassidus has its roots in Galicia and eventually came to Tel Aviv, during the turbulent years between the two World Wars.

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  • Maccabi'im Gravesite

    In honour of Chanukah, we will discuss a fascinating, ongoing investigation attempting to establish the place of burial of Mattisyahu Kohen Gadol and his family.

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In I got It!

The International Daf HaYomi Movement

N. Lieberman 29/09/2009 10:00
One of the most significant enterprises ever created, uniting Jewry from all corners of the globe, is the Daf HaYomi movement. It was initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin - the ‘Maharam Shapiro’, founder of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin in Poland, and endorsed by all the Gedolim of his generation. Based on this revolutionary idea, one page of Shas (Talmud Bavli) is learnt each day, by Jews all over the world.

The beauty of this phenomenal project is the uniting factor between all types of Jews in the study of Gemara, in an organized framework of study. Many who until then had given up on the idea of completing the entire Shas, or were hesitant even to start, joined the collective study cycle. In every location over the globe that a Jew could possibly reach, he can be integrated into a Gemara class delivered there. The entire Jewish nation is learning the same material, at the same pace.
This was indeed the scenario painted by the Maharam Shapiro before the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisrael, headed by the generation’s greatest personalities: The Rebbe of Gur - the ‘Imrei Emes’, the Chafetz Chaim, R’ Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and other renown Torah giants. This was during the first Kenessia Gedolah (grand convention) in Vienna, which opened on the 9th of Elul 5683/1923. Rabbi Meir presented his idea of the study of ‘Daf HaYomi’, together with his proposal of setting up Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin.

Rabbi Meir Shapiro was given widespread support in his new endeavor, and on the 1st of Tishrei 5684 the first study cycle began, after the Rebbe of Gur announced on Rosh Hashana that he is ‘going to learn Daf HaYomi’. There are 2711 pages (Dafim) in the entire Shas; learning one Daf every day means that each study cycle is completed after seven and a half years.

An offshoot of the main Daf HaYomi movement is the Limud Daf HaYomi of the Talmud Yerushalmi, introduced by the 5th Gerrer Rebbe the ‘Lev Simcha’, in the 6th Kenessia of Agudas Yisrael that took place in Yerushalayim in the year 5740/1980. In this framework, the cycle of study is completed every four years and three months.