Learning for 16th of Av, 5779

🕍 Tanakh


Shabbat Torah reading: Vaetchanan
Full Torah portion read in synagogue on Saturday morning
Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1-26
Nevi’im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings)
Daily study of few chapters from the book of Psalms

📖 Talmud and Mishna


Daily regimen of learning the Babylonian Talmud
One chapter (perek) of Mishnah each day
Jerusalem Talmud (Vilna edition)
One page of Babylonian Talmud per week

📚 Halacha


Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah legal code
Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah legal code
Maimonides’ list of the 613 commandments
Simplified summary of the Shulchan Arukh, focusing on Orach Chayim and Yoreh De'ah

⚖️ Ethics


Jewish ethics and laws of speech
Part One, The Prohibition Against Lashon Hara 10.14
Ethics of our Fathers, studied on Shabbat between Pesach and Rosh Hashana

🕯️ Chasidut


Daily study of the Tanya by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi