Today's Mishnah Yomi
Chullin 3:5 - 3:6
The Mishnah Yomi for Saturday, November 1, 2025 is Chullin 3:5 - 3:6
Mishnah 1
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חולין פרק ג׳ משנה ה׳
Bartenura
אחוזת הדם. שאחזה דם וחלתה:
והמעושנת. שנכנס עשן בגופה:
והמצוננת. חולי מחמת צינה. ורמב״ם פירש אחוזת הדם שגבר עליה הדם, והמעושנת שגברה עליה הליחה השחורה, והמצוננת שגברה עליה הליחה הלבנה. ולא הזכיר הליחה הרביעית שהיא האדומה, לפי שאינה מצויה כל כך בבהמות:
הרדופני. סם המות דבהמה. וכן צואת התרנגולים, הבהמות האוכלות ממנה מתות:
מים הרעים. מים מגולים:
סם המות. דבר שהוא סם המות לאדם ואינו סם המות לבהמה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Chullin Perek 3 Mishnah 6
חולין פרק ג׳ משנה ו׳
Bartenura
הדורס (that attacks with paws or claws) – it grasps with its nails and lifts up from the ground what it eats. And there are those who explained it, that it doesn’t wait for the living prey until it dies but rather eats it while [it is] living.
אצבע יתירה – this is the high finger–digit (i.e., talon) that is behind the [other] fingers.
וקרקבנו נקלף – the pocket that is within the thick muscular stomach–craw peals from the flesh of the thick muscular stomach–craw . But not that every pure–clean fowl has all of these organs, but one organ alone is sufficient, but as long as we know about it (i.e., the animal) that it doesn’t attack with paws or claws and eat. But the Gaonim wrote that the tradition in their hands was that they don’t validate fowl that comes with one organ and even though it is known to us regarding it that it does not attack with paws or claws and eats, other than if that that organ whose thick muscular stomach can be pealed by hand, but if it cannot be peeled by hand even though it always has a crop or an extra finger–talon, they did not permit it.
החולק את רגליו – when he places it on a chord–sinew, it places its two fingers from there and two from there.
טמא – whereby it is known that it attacks with its claws or paws.
הדורס. האוחז בצפרניו ומגביה מן הקרקע מה שהוא אוכל. ויש שפירשו, שאינו ממתין לבעל חי עד שימות אלא אוכלו מחיים:
אצבע יתירה. זו אצבע הגבוהה שאחורי האצבעות:
וקרקבנו נקלף. הכיס שבתוך הקורקבן נקלף מבשר הקורקבן. ולא שיהיה כל עוף טהור צריך לכל הסימנים הללו, אלא סימן אחד בלבד די, ובלבד שנדע בו שאינו דורס ואוכל. והגאונים כתבו שמסורת בידם שאין מכשירים עוף הבא בסימן אחד ואע״פ שידוע לנו בו שאינו דורס ואוכל, אלא אם כן היה אותו סימן שקורקבנו נקלף ביד, אבל אם אינו נקלף ביד אע״פ שיש לו זפק או אצבע יתירה מעולם לא התירוהו:
החולק את רגליו. כשמעמידו על החוט נותן שתי אצבעותיו מכאן ושתים מכאן:
טמא. בידוע שהוא דורס:
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What is Mishnah Yomi?
Mishnah Yomi is a daily study program where participants study two mishnayot (individual teachings from the Mishnah) every day. By following this program, one can complete the entire Mishnah in about six years.
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The Mishnah is the first major written collection of Jewish oral traditions, forming the basis of the Talmud. It dates back to around 200 CE and consists of teachings and discussions of Jewish law by various rabbis.
Who started the Mishnah Yomi program?
In 1934, the Kozoglover Gaon, Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer, who took over from Rav Meir Shapiro (the founder of Daf Yomi) as the head of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, initiated the Mishnah Yomi cycle, focusing on Seder Zeraim and Seder Taharos. After World War II, in 1947, Rav Yonah Sztencl, a disciple of Rav Frommer, expanded the program, advocating for a comprehensive study of Shishah Sidrei Mishnah. The idea of studying two Mishnayos daily gained the support of figures like Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Tchebiner Rov, and the Gerer Rebbe, marking the formal inception of Mishnah Yomi.
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אחוזת הדם – that it (i.e., the animal) was attacked with congestion and became sick.
והמעושנת – that smoke entered into her body.
והמצוננת – sickness on account of cold. But Maimonides explained that אחוזת הדם is that the blood overcame her, and המעושנת is that the black secretion had overcome her; and המצוננת is that the white secretion has overcome her. But it did not mention he fourth secretion which is red, because it is not found so much with cattle.
הרדופני (creeper- the berries of which are injurious to animals) – it is a deathly drug of cattle, and similarly, the excrement of chickens, that animals–cattle that eat from eat die.
המים הרעים – revealed water.
סם המות – a thing that is a deadly drug to humans, but is not a deadly drug to animals.