Today's Mishnah Yomi
Kilayim 8:5 - 8:6
The Mishnah Yomi for Friday, January 21, 2028 is Kilayim 8:5 - 8:6
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Kilayim Perek 8 Mishnah 5
כלאים פרק ח׳ משנה ה׳
Bartenura
פרוטיות. מין פרדות שאין אדם יכול לעמוד [עליהן] ולברר ע״י סימנים איזה מהם אמו חמור ואיזה מהם אמו סוס, הלכך אסורין זה עם זה:
והרמך מותר. שכולם מין אחד ואמם סוס, ובלשון ערבי קורין לסוסיא נקבה רמ״ך, ודומה לו בני הרמכים:
אדני השדה. חיה הגדלה בשדות, וכמין חבל גדול יוצא מן הארץ שגדלה בו אותה חיה, ושמה ידוע, והוא ידעוני הכתוב בתורה, ומחובר בטבורו באותו חבל היוצא מן הארץ, וצורתו צורת אדם בפרצוף וידים ורגלים ואין כל בריה רשאה לקרב אליו כי הוא הורג וטורף כל הקרב אליו. וכשרוצים לצוד אותו מורים בחצים בחבל עד שנפסק וצועק בקול מר ומת מיד, ואליו רמז באיוב כי עם אבני השדה בריתך:
מטמא באהל כאדם. דכתיב (במדבר י״ט:ט״ז) וכל אשר יגע על פני השדה, באדם שגדל בשדה:
הקופד. שרץ שגופו מלא קוצים וכשאדם נוגע בו כופל עצמו ומכניס ידיו ורגליו בבטנו ונעשה ככדור, וקורין לו בלע״ז אריצ״ו:
חולדת הסניים. חולדה הגדלה בסנה:
כזית במשא. דמספקא להו אם מין חיה ומטמאה נבלתו בכזית ומטמאה נמי טומאה חמורה במשא לטמא אדם לטמא בגדים כנבלת בהמה טמאה, או מין שרץ הוא ומטמא בכעדשה אבל אינו מטמא במשא כנבלת בהמה אלא במגע כשרץ. ואין הלכה כר׳ יוסי לא באדני השדה ולא בחולדת הסנאים:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Kilayim Perek 8 Mishnah 6
כלאים פרק ח׳ משנה ו׳
Bartenura
שור בר – an ox that grew up in the desert (i.e., wild ox).
מן בהמה – but its milk is forbidden but it doesn’t require an act of covering, for the Rabbis hold that it was uprooted from civilization but that it fled to the wildness and became a wild ox/a desert ox.
מן חיה – and it requires covering but its milk is permitted, for he holds that it was uprooted from the wilderness. But the signs that the Sages counted to recognize between a domesticated animal and wild animals in the rest of the creatures, it was stated, except for the wild ox. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.
כלב מן חיה – the practical difference to one who writes all wildlife that is in his domain to someone else, or that he dedicates all of the wildlife that is in his domain/possession.
ר' מאיר אומר מן בהמה – but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.
ערוד – wild ass/the donkey of the wilderness/desert.
ואדם מותר עם כולם – as it is written (Deuteronomy 22:10): “You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together,” but you can plow with a man and an ox, with a man and a donkey/ass.
שור הבר. שור הגדל במדבר:
מין בהמה. וחלבו אסור ואינו טעון כסוי, דסברי רבנן עקרו מן הישוב היה אלא שברח למדבר ונעשה שור בר:
מין חיה. וטעון כסוי וחלבו מותר, קסבר עקרו מן המדבר היה. וסימנים שמנו חכמים להכיר בין בהמה לחיה בשאר חיות נאמרו חוץ משור הבר. ואין הלכה כרבי יוסי:
כלב מין חיה. נפקא מינה לכותב כל חיה שברשותו לאחר, או למקדיש כל חיה שברשותו:
ר׳ מאיר אומר מין בהמה. ואין הלכה כר״מ:
ערוד. חמור הבר:
ואדם מותר עם כולם. דכתיב (דברים כ״ב:י׳) לא תחרוש בשור ובחמור, אבל אתה חורש באדם ושור, באדם וחמור:
Mishnah Yomi FAQ
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.
What is the Mishnah?
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.
How long does it take to complete the Mishnah with Mishnah Yomi?
Following the Mishnah Yomi program, one can complete the Mishnah in approximately six years.
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פרוטיות (a sort of hybrids – mules of which it is unknown whether their sires were horses and their mothers asses or the reverse) – a species of mules that a person is unable to stand [upon them] and to verify through signs which of them its mother is a donkey and which of them its mother is horse, therefore, they are prohibited one with the other.
והרמך מותר (but the mule of a horse dam/rammakh gender with its kind – i.e., a mule foaled by a horse) – for they are all of one sex and their mothers are a horse, and in the Arabic language they call a female horse RAMAKH, and similar to it are the offspring of the mule of a horse dam.
אדני השדה (name of a mythical animal, orangoutang)– a large wildlife in the fields , and like a kind of large rope that comes out from the ground in which this wildlife was raised, and its name is known, and it is the charmer/soothsayer that is written in the Torah, and it is attached at its navel with that rope that goes out of the ground, and its form is the form of a man in its face and hands and feet, but no creature is permitted to approach it for it kills and tears all who are near it. Bug when they wish to hunt it, they shoot arrows with a rope until it is severed and it cries out in a bitter voice and dies immediately. And there is a hint concerning it in Job (5:23): “For you will have a pact with the rocks in the field, [and the beasts of the field will be your allies].”
מטמא באהל כאדם – as it is written (Numbers 19:16): “And in the open, anyone who touches a person,” like a person who grew up in the field.
הקופד (hedgehog) – a reptile whose body is full of thorns and when a person touches it, it folds itself and brings in its hands and feet in its stomach and becomes like a ball, and we call it in the foreign tongue, ARITZO.
חולדת הסניים (porcupine) – a weasel that grows in a bush.
כזית במשא (an olive’s bulk when caried) – that it was doubtful to them if it is kind of wildlife and that its carcass defiles by an olive’s bulk, and that it is defiles also in a graver manner through carrying to defile humans, to defile clothing like the carcass of an impure animal, or it is kind of unclean reptile and it defiles in like a lentil but it doesn’t defile by carrying like the carrion of an animal, but rather through contract like an unclean reptile. Bug the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi neither with regard to the large wildlife of the fields nor like the porcupine.