Today's Mishnah Yomi
Mikvaos 2:3 - 2:4
The Mishnah Yomi for Friday, April 23, 2027 is Mikvaos 2:3 - 2:4
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Mikvaos Perek 2 Mishnah 3
מקואות פרק ב׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
ספק מים שאובים שטיהרו חכמים. במסכת טהרות פרק הזורק טומאה, תמן תנינן, אלו ספיקות שטיהרו חכמים ספק מים שאובין למקוה:
ספק נפלו. שלשה לוגין מים שאובים במקוה חסר:
ספק יש בהן ארבעים סאה. כלומר ספק היה במקוה ארבעים סאה כשרים קודם שנפלו השאובין, דשוב אין השאובין פוסלין אותו:
שיש לו במה יתלה. שיש לו מקום לתלות נפילתן שלא גרמו לו פסול:
שאין לו במה יתלה. דמה נפשך בהי מינייהו דנפל פסלוהו, הלכך שניהם פסולין. והאי דמטהרינן הכא ספק מים שאובין במקום שיש לו במה לתלות, היינו משום דשאובין דרבנן. והא דתניא בתורת כהנים אך מעין ובור מקוה מים, מה מעין בידי שמים אף מקוה בידי שמים, אסמכתא בעלמא היא:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Mikvaos Perek 2 Mishnah 4
מקואות פרק ב׳ משנה ד׳
Bartenura
בתחילה – [at first], there wasn’t any water in the Mikveh/ritual bath at all when a quarter [of a LOG] of drawn water fell into it, and afterwards, its measure was completed with rain water.
על פני המים – after that there was a great deal of kosher water [in the Mikveh, drawn water fell into it].
וחכמים אומרים – and the Halakha is according to the Sages (and see Tractate Eduyot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 3).
בתחילה. שלא היה במקוה מים כלל כשנפל בו רביעית מים שאובין, ונשלם אחר כך שיעורו במי גשמים:
על פני המים. לאחר שהיו בו הרבה מים כשרים:
וחכמים אומרים. והלכה כחכמים:
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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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ספק מים שאובים שטיהרו חכמים – In Tractate Tohorot, Chapter “He Who Threw Something Unclean [from Place to Place – chapter 4, Mishnah 7] there it teaches: “These are the doubtful conditions which the Sages declared clean: A doubt concerning drawn water [that falls into] the ritual bath.”
ספק נפלו – three LOG (i.e., a LOG equals the volume of six eggs) of drawn water in a Mikveh missing [its full complement of forty Seah]/
ספק יש בהן ארבעים סאה – that is to say, there is doubt that it were forty Kosher Seah [of water] in the Mikveh/ritual bath prior to the drawn [waters] that fell in, for furthermore, the drawn [waters] do not invalidate it (i.e., since it is lacking the required forty Seah to begin with).
שיש לו במה יתלה – that it has a place to depend upon their falling that they did not cause it to become invalidated.
שאין לו במה יתלה – that whichever way you turn, in which of them that it fell, it invalidates it, therefore, both of them are invalid. But that which we purify here – it is doubtful if is drawn water in the place where he has upon which to depend, that is because the [notion of] drawn [water] is from the Rabbbis. And it is taught in a Baraita in Torat Kohanim (i.e., the Halakhic Midrash of SIfra on the Book of Leviticus: - see Leviticus 11:36): “However, a spring or cistern [in which water is collected shall be pure, but whoever touches a such a carcass in it shall be impure],” that just as a spring is in the hands of Heaven, so also is a ritual bath/Mikveh in the hands of heaven, it is a mere support but not an absolute proof.