Daf Yomi (Hebrew for "daily page") is a daily regimen of learning the Babylonian Talmud. The program covers one folio (daf) each day over approximately 7.5 years, completing the entire Talmud in one cycle.

How do I start learning Daf Yomi?

You can start learning Daf Yomi by following the daily schedule and using resources like our site which provides English summaries, ELI5 explanations for beginners, Gemara breakdowns, and visual guides for each daf.

What is today's Daf Yomi?

The current Daf Yomi cycle (Cycle 14) is studying Masechet Menachot. Visit our homepage to see today's exact daf and access its summary and resources.

Can I learn Daf Yomi in English?

Yes! Our site provides free English summaries, translations, and explanations for every daf. We also offer ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5) sections for beginners.

Sources and translation notes

Sefer Yonah | Texts used, editions consulted, and editorial decisions

Biblical text: Hebrew Tanakh, Chapters 1-4. Chapters 2-4 use the Miqra according to the Masorah text supplied by Sefaria, with cantillation removed for this learning edition. English is a direct study translation; differing interpretations are explained in the commentary.
Radak: the complete commentary on Yonah 1:1-16, 2:1-11, 3:1-10 and 4:1-11. Chapter 1 retains the supplied Hebrew and English, checked against the retrieved Hebrew; Chapters 2-4 use Sefaria’s Hebrew “Radak on Nach”, compared with Wikisource. All new English translations were made for this booklet. Divine-name forms are abbreviated throughout.
Radak 2:4: the obvious digital typo “haya” in the phrase about the meeting of sea and river is corrected to “hayam”, following Wikisource. Radak’s 2:6 geographical alternatives and 4:6 botanical and medicinal descriptions are translated as historical claims in his commentary. The latter is not a practical remedy.
Grammatical notes are retained. Nifal is the name of a Hebrew verb pattern; patah and kamatz are vowels; dagesh is the dot within a consonant; milra means stress on the final syllable. Radak 2:9 contrasts meshammerim with a causative sense: here it means keeping, not making others keep. In 3:9 the past-form verb is directed towards the future; in 4:2 the similar-looking word is a participle.
Chapter 1 supplementary selections: Malbim 1:2, 1:3, 1:5, 1:10-14; Metzudat Tziyon 1:15; Rashi 1:16. A selected passage is translated completely within its printed boundaries. It is not necessarily the commentator’s entire comment on the verse.
New selections: Rashi 2:1, the passage beginning “A great fish”, excluding the separate parenthetical addition; Rashi 3:4 with the addition explicitly marked as a gloss in the source; full Malbim comments on 3:10 and 4:2. The gloss at Rashi 3:4 is not silently attributed to Rashi himself.
The Gra page is a sourced secondary overview, not an edition of his Hebrew commentary. The Yom Kippur section prints complete selected passages from Megillah 31a and Mishnah Ta’anit 2:1. Key points, summaries and questions are editorial explanations, distinct from source translation.

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