Megilla 29, 30, 31 for Shabbos, Sun, Mon Aug 9, 10, 11 Megilla 29 Megilla 30 Megilla 31Daf Yomi Digest is compiled by members of the Ruben Shas Kollel, edited by Rabbi Ben-Zion Rand. Halachah Highlights is not intended to be relied upon for halacha l’maase. It is intended for interest and information. For…
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Daf Notes
Please have our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel in mind when you are learning the Daf. It should also be l’zchus Refuah Shleimah for all the Israeli soldiers who are currently in critical condition. An extensive list of their names appears below. Daf Notes is currently being dedicated to the neshamah of Tzvi…
D’var Torah
Parshas Vaeschanan How Ironic By Rabbi Label Lam For what great nation is there that has G-d so near to it, as HASHEM our G-d is at all times that we call upon Him? (Devarim 4:8) Now I know that HASHEM has delivered His anointed. He will answer him from His Holy Heavens, with the…
Daf Notes
Please have our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel in mind when you are learning the Daf. It should also be l’zchus Refuah Shleimah for all the Israeli soldiers who are currently in critical condition. An extensive list of their names appears below. Daf Notes is currently being dedicated to the neshamah of Tzvi…
Parsha Summary
Parshas Vaeschanan Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. Sefer Devarim is called “Mishneh Torah – The Review of the Torah” because it repeats over 100…
Haftorah
Parshas Vaeschanan – Shabbos Nachamu Yeshaya 40:1 This week’s haftorah introduces a special series of haftorah readings related to our final redemption. In this opening one the prophet Yeshaya delivers the Jewish people warm words of comfort from Hashem. After over one thousand years of exile the time will finally arrive for the Jewish nation…
Sfas Emes
Parshas Va’eschanan By Dr. Nosson Chayim Leff Sfas Emes, Zechuso Tagein Aleinu, Parshas Va’eschanan This parsha begins with Moshe Rabbeinu davening to HaShem. So it comes as no surprise that the first paragraph of Medrash Rabba on the parsha focuses on the subject of tefila (prayer). So, too, the Sfas Emes also concentrates today on…
Daf Notes
Incidental to the laws of the reading of the Megillah and the Torah, this chapter of the Tractate deals with the laws pertaining to the sanctity of the synagogue. This Mishna states that the proceeds from the sale of a sanctified object assumes the level of sanctity previously possessed by the object and may…
shulchan-aruch
Chapter 23 – CARE OF THE BODY AND CLOTHING ON THE SABBATH It is permitted to warm the body at a fire or to put warm objects on it; see 326:4,6. It is forbidden to wash in warm water even if the body is not all washed at once; but washing only parts of the…
Daf Yomi audio shiurim
The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Sunday, August 10, 2014: Megillah 30 image of daf Shabbos, August 9, 2014: Megillah 29 image of daf Friday, August 8, 2014: Megillah 28 image of daf Thursday, August 7, 2014: Megillah 27 image of daf
VA’ETCHANAN
VA’ETCHANAN Devarim 4:5-40 Moses describes the revelation of G-d at the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. ____________ INSIGHT Overcoming the Limits of Creation Moses told the Jewish people that at Mount Sinai, “You were shown in order to know that G-d is the only deity. There is nothing other than Him.”…
Wearing a Kippa on One’s Head
Wearing a Kippa on One’s Head Question: Is one halachically obligated to wear a Kippa (skullcap) on one’s head? Answer: The Gemara (Kiddushin 31a) relates that Rav Huna son of Rav Yehoshua would take care not to walk four Amot(approximately six feet) without a head covering, for he would say, “Hashem’s Divine presence is above…

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