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Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 11 Daf 5a / 5b (using Koren Talmud Bavli)

What are afflictions of love? We take off from where we left in our last lesson. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (the author of the holy Zohar) teaches us that there are three gifts that God gives us – but that they all come with hardships. We learn about Rabbi Yochanan and as we are to find out later – he too encountered some great trials in his own life.

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 10 Daf 5a (using Koren Talmud Bavli) – On Suffering

After a brief teaching discussing the issue of the Torah that Moshe received, the Gemara continues teaching that there is a great power to reading the Keriat Shema before one goes to sleep. Two unrelated issues (on the surface at the least!) but then this is the way of the Talmud – to jump from one issue to another within just a sentence.

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 9 Daf 4b & 5a part 1 (using Koren Talmud Bavli)

If the Sages said that we must join the Geulah (Redemption i.e. the blessing that follows from the recitation of the Shema and precedes the Amidah prayer) directly with the Amidah prayer then we have a problem with regards to the way the prayers were fixed. In truth, in the evening prayers we recite two blessings after the Keriat Shema.

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 8 Daf 4a end & 4b part 1 (using Koren Talmud Bavli)

It seems from the wording of Tehillim that King David considered himself to be a Chassid (a pious, righteous person). Occupied with purifying women (validating that various blood markings were not to be considered impure) so that they would be permissible to their husbands and dealing with various cases of afterbirths, King David may have imagined himself to have been on the path of righteousness.

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 7 – Daf 4a (Part 1) (Using Koren Talmud Bavli)

How did King David know when it was midnight so that he could awaken to pray and sing songs to God? If he knew, why did he need a “Kinor” to let him know?

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 5 – Daf 3a & 3b (Part 1) (Using Koren Talmud Bavli)

After having learned about how the Divine Presence cries over the destruction of the Temple and the dispersion of the Jewish people into the exile, we continue with a story somewhat related to this theme of destruction…

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Lesson 4 – Daf 2b and 3a (Part 1) (Using Koren Talmud Bavli)

The Gemara continues with a discussion about the time considered to be the correct one to recite the Keriat Shema in the evening. A number of opinions was already given in the previous Shiur. Our Gemara now wishes to establish which the earlier and later times are concerning the various opinions.

Lessons in Talmud – Tractate Berachot – Daf 2a/2b (Part 3) – Lesson 3 (Using the Koren Talmud Bavli)

Continuing our lessons in Talmud, studying Tractate Brachot (Blessings), we conclude Daf 2 Amud Aleph and move on to Amud Beit. We continue the discussion regarding the recitation of the Keriat Shema in the evening. Various opinions are given from various sages each expressing the time for reciting the Keriat Shema based upon particular events in people’s lives.

Lessons in Talmud: Tractate Berachot Lesson 2 Daf 2a Part 2

In our second lesson studying Tractate Berachot, we continue on our first page – Daf 2a. After a quick summary of the Mishnah as we discussed in our first lesson, we visit a great site online www.myzmanim.com to learn more about the different Halachic times of the day and how we can use a calendar like this to help us to fulfill the various Mitzvot (commandments) in good time!

Lessons in Talmud: Tractate Berachot Daf 2a – Lesson 1

Join me in studying Talmud! We are beginning with the first Masechet (Tractate) known as Berachot (Blessings). Text is shown in the lesson so that you can follow along.

We’re using the beautiful Koren Talmud Bavli edition written by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. It features the text in easily digestible paragraphs, biographies of various Sages featured on the page, practical Halachot (laws), notes to help understand the text, pictures to help understand the text – and really so much more!