Today's Mishnah Yomi
Keilim 25:2 - 25:3
The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, August 17, 2026 is Keilim 25:2 - 25:3
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Keilim Perek 25 Mishnah 2
כלים פרק כ"ה משנה ב׳
Bartenura
מרדע. הוא מקל ארוך עגול ועב שליש טפח, ובראשו האחד ברזל רחב מחודד לחתוך בו שרשים, ושמו חרחור, ובראשו השני ברזל כמו מרצע, ושמו דרבן, שבו מלמד הפרה לתלמיה:
משבעה לחרחור מארבעה לדרבן. אם נפלו משקין טמאים על החרחור, אין טמא מן המרדע אלא שבעה טפחים ואם על הדרבן נפלו, אין טמא אלא ארבעה. ורמב״ם פירש, שאם נפלו משקין טמאין במרדע חוץ לשבעה טפחים מן החרחור או חוץ לארבעה טפחים מן הדרבן, הוי ככלי שנטמאו אחוריו ולא נטמא תוכו, ואותן שבעה טפחים הסמוכים לחרחור והארבעה הסמוכים לדרבן לא נטמאו:
אלא לשיריים. כשנתנו חכמים שיעור לחרחור שבעה ולדרבן ארבעה, לא נתנו אלא לענין זה שאם נשבר המרדע ונשאר סמוך לחרחור שבעה טפחים או סמוך לדרבן ארבעה, טמא, מפני שראוי לעשות מעין מלאכתו. פחות מכאן, הוי כשברי כלי וטהור. והלכה כר׳ יהודה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Keilim Perek 25 Mishnah 3
כלים פרק כ"ה משנה ג׳
Bartenura
זומא ליסארא (soup-ladle, with a spoon on one side and a fork on the other) – a vessel that on one head is a spoon and the other head is a fork; with the spoon one raises the soup from the bowl, and with the fork one lifts with it the meat.
ר' יהודה אומר אין להם – an outside and inside. The reasoning of Rabbi Yehuda, because that all of these vessels have on their outsides engraved a receptacle similar to what they do for a silver vessel, and sometimes, that they bend it on its opening and use the hollowed out area on the backside.
ר' שמעון אומר יש להם – regarding the matter of what is inside the vessel, they have the law of outside and inside, for if its outsides were defiled, what was inside the vessel was not defiled But reading the matter of the vessel itself, there is no separation of the law of its outside from the law of its inside, for if the outsides had been defiled, one must immerse all of it [In a Mikveh] as if the inside was defiled. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.
זומא ליסטרא. כלי שראשו אחד כף וראשו האחר מזלג בכף מעלין בו מרק מן הקדרה ובמזלג מעלין בו בשר:
ר׳ יהודה אומר אין להם. אחוריים ותוך. טעמא דר׳ יהודה, משום דכל הני כלים יש מאחוריהן חקק בית מושב כעין שעושים לכלי כסף, ופעמים שכופהו על פיו ומשתמש בחקק שבאחוריו:
ר׳ שמעון אומר יש להם. לענין מה שבתוך הכלי יש להן דין אחוריים ותוך, שאם נטמאו אחוריו לא נטמא מה שבתוך הכלי. אבל לענין הכלי עצמו אין חלוק דין אחוריו מדין תוכו, שאם נטמאו אחוריו צריך להטביל את כולו כאילו נטמא תוכו. והלכה כרבי יהודה:
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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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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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מרדע (handle of the plough-having on one end a broad iron blade/חרחור and on the other a spud/דרבן) – It is a long, round staff that is a third of a handbreadth thick. And at its one end, is a wide piece of sharpened iron to sever/cut the roots, and its name is חרחור/broad iron blade, and its other end is a piece of iron like an awl/borer, whose name is דרבן /spud/point, through which leads the heifer to its furrow/ridge.
משבעה לחרחור מארבעה לדרבן – if impure liquids fell upon the broad iron blade, it is not impure from the handle of the plough other than seven handbreadths, but if they fell on the spud/point, it is not impure other than four-handbreadths. But Maimonides explained/expounded, that if if impure liquids fell on the handle of the plough seven handbreadths outside from the broad iron blade or outside four handbreadths from the spuds, it is like a vessel whose outsides had been defiled, but its inside was not defiled, and those seven handbreadths that are next to the broad iron blade and the four [handbreadths] that are next to the spud were not defiled.
אלא לשיריים – when the Sages gave measurements for the broad iron blade of seven [handbreadths] and for the spud four [handbreadths], it was not given other than regarding this matter that if the handle of the plough was broken and there remained next to/adjacent to the broad iron blade seven handbreadths, or adjacent to the spud four [handbreadths, it is impure, because it is appropriate to do some kind of its work. Less than this, it is like the shards of a vessel and is pure. But the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.