The Halacha Yomis Program (or ''Halacha Yomit'', as it is known in Israel) is a learning program which covers the entire
Shulchan Aruch
The ''Shulchan Aruch'' ( he, שֻׁלְחָן עָרוּך , literally: "Set Table"), sometimes dubbed in English as the Code of Jewish Law, is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Judaism. It was authored in Safed (today in I ...
Orach Chaim
Orach Chayim, (''manner/way of life'') is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of Halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section addresses aspects of Jewish law pertinent to the Hebrew calendar (be it the daily, weekly, monthly, or ...
followed by the
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. The cycle takes about 4 years to complete. Every day, Jewish participants study 3 se’ifim (subsections) of Shulchan Aruch or 5 se’ifim of Kitzur.
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch is covered in addition to Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim to include the generally applicable halachas not included in Orach Chaim.
History
The Halacha Yomis was started circa 1950 by Rabbi
Yonah Sztencl
Yona Sztencl ( he, יונה שטנצל, ; August 3, 1904 – July 5, 1969) was an Orthodox rabbi who founded the Mishnah Yomis and the Halacha Yomis. He also served as the rabbi of Congregation Bais Hassidim Arlenger in Tel Aviv and was a member ...
, under the guidance of many Orthodox Jewish leaders of the time, including the
Chazon Ish
Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), also known as the Chazon Ish () after his magnum opus, was a Belarusian-born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where he spent his ...
. The Halacha Yomis, and the
Mishnah Yomis
In Judaism, Mishnah Yomis ( he, משנה יומית "The Daily Study of the Mishnah") refers to the Torah study cycle in which two Mishnayos (brief collections of rulings dealing with the Oral Law) are learned every day.
Previous cycles of the Mish ...
(also started at about the same time), were launched in the memory of the six million Jews that were murdered in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
.
Breslov ''hasidim'' have a similar practice to daily review the Shulchan Aruch.
"A Day In The Life Of A Breslover"; #11:''Shulchan Arukh''
breslov.org
See also
*Other study cycles, under Torah study #Study cycles
References
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External links
OUKosher.org: Halacha Yomis
Jewish law
Jewish education