Joins Previous Amud HaYomi Call from HaGaonim HaRav Dov Landau and HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Shlita

Sometimes opportunity calls and the only thing that a person should do is grab the opportunity while it is still possible. The message that leading Gedolei Yisrael have issued in advance of the start of Perek Arvei Pesachim in the Dirshu Amud HaYomi program is too chap arein, to join now so as to upgrade your learning to new levels while simultaneously transforming and elevating your seder night, and your entire Pesach!

The Gedolim are calling on Yidden all over the world to seize the amazing opportunity by joining the Amud HaYomi program starting on Sunday, 14 Shevat/ February 1, when the program will begin Perek Arvei Pesachim, the perek that contains all the geshmake Gemaras about the seder night. If you start Arvei Pesachim with the program, you will finish before Pesach. What an amazing opportunity to truly “live” the seder and to make sure that your seder won’t ever be the same!

On Rosh Chodesh Shevat, HaGaon HaRav Isamar Garbuz, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Orchos Torah, issued a powerful and compelling letter calling on Yidden to join the Amud HaYomi.

His letter comes in the aftermath of a call last year by the senior Gadol Hador, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka. In Rav Landau’s seminal letter written a year ago during the month of Kislev, in his own handwriting, he described the unique opportunity that Amud HaYomi afforded Klal Yisrael. He wrote:

How important, how vitally necessary it is to learn the entire Masechta… page by page with the Amud HaYomi program. It is even important for those who have already learned and have already been deeply engaged in this Masechta to join and learn the Amud HaYomi together with Klal Yisrael.

Learning the Gemara combined with [learning] the specially published booklets [Iyun HaAmud] containing chiddushim from the meforshim and many important halachos related to the Gemara [learned in the Amud HaYomi] is a very worthy undertaking that brings out the greatness and the strength of the Torah.

With faithful bracha,

Dov Landau,

Now, in advance of the commencement of Perek Arvei Pesachim, Rav Isamar Garbuz, has issued his own letter.

Rav Garbuz writes:

It is already more than two years since the Torah organization Dirshu has established a program to learn Shas with the Amud HaYomi, where lomdim learn one amud every day and therefore merit to have an eternal kinyan in yedias haTorah.

This is a wonderful development for everyone, also for bnei Torah who spend most of their day immersed in the learning of sugyos b’iyun. It is well known that [bnei Torah] who [have a seder] where there is a set amount of Gemara to cover every day gain a tremendous amount in their depth of understanding of Torah by learning full masechtos. This is especially true with the learning of the Amud HaYomi due to the fact that every month [Dirshu publishes] Gilyon Oholei Ha’amud, that contains wonderful, in-depth chiddushim on the sugyos being learned in the Amud HaYomi.

Rav Garbuz goes on to urge the general community to grab the opportunity to learn Perek Arvei Pesachim.

Now that [the Amud HaYomi] is beginning to learn Perek Arvei Pesachim, this is certainly a wonderful opportunity to join the program because by joining now, the learner will be able to complete the perek in advance of this coming Pesach. There is no simcha like the simchas haTorah combined with the simcha of Yom Tov. When a person comes into the Yom Tov of Pesach after having been deeply immersed in learning about Pesach and the seder night, he is able to talk in learning with clarity about so many relevant sugyos and spar in the battle of Torah with others. There is no simcha like the simcha of clarity in Torah that comes through deeply debating the sugyos!

Rav Garbuz then continues that once a person has tasted the sweet taam of the Amud HaYomi by learning Arvei Pesachim, he will certainly want to go to the next level.

After Pesach, they will go m’chayil el chayil, and begin Masechta Yoma [on Yom Kippur] which they will learn until the coming Yom Kippur.

This will provide tremendous benefit because the lomdim will be able to learn about the Yom Tov of Yom Kippur in advance of that holy day.

As the Amud HaYomi has become one of the staple limudim for Klal Yisrael many have found that the slower pace of learning truly connects Jews to Torah. The fact that they can understand what they learn at a deeper level intensifies their bond with Torah in a profound way.”

Another important benefit of joining is the protection learning Amud HaYomi affords Klal Yisrael. Several months ago, right before the Amud HaYomi embarked on Masechta Eruvin, the Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, shlita, said, “This limud has the power to protect Klal Yisrael at time when its enemies seek its destruction. Everyone knows the difficult situation in which the Torah world finds itself.”

He then exclaimed, “What saves us?! Only an increase in Torah learning and in honor of the Torah. I hear that people from all walks of life have undertaken to learn the Amud HaYomi. Many kehillos have adopted it as their kehillah’s official learning seder. The increase in learning Torah and kavod haTorah is beyond belief. This is what can save Klal Yisrael!”

The Amud HaYomi program which was launched two years ago in Vienna at the Sofiensäle Hall, the same hall in the same city where the Daf HaYomi had been established at the Knessiah Gedolah one hundred years previously, is now almost completing its fourth major masechta, Maseches Pesachim.

Currently, there are more than one thousand Amud HaYomi shiurim across the globe from Brooklyn to Be’er Sheva, Melbourne to Lakewood, Antwerp to Mexico City… wherever you go, Yidden are learning the Amud HaYomi, attending shiurim on Amud HaYomi and enjoying the slower paced limud that enables them to digest, review and truly gain a kinyan in the amud.

Now is the time to join the Amud HaYomi. You will see that if you do, your life will never be the same!

To join the Amud HaYomi and to complete Arvei Pesachim by this coming Pesach contact Dirshu at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at 1-888-5Dirshu.

By Chaim Gold