Lakewood Daf Yomi

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Lakewood Daf Yomi gives serious learners a fast, inside-baseball walk through the daily daf. The shiur moves from Mishnah and Gemara into Rashi, Rambam, halachic categories, and practical conceptual distinctions without slowing the pace.

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About Lakewood Daf Yomi

Lakewood Daf Yomi is a rigorous daily daf shiur aimed at people who want the sugya itself, not a softened summary around it. The show moves fast. Each episode usually begins by locating the daf and the line, then names the sugya and starts building the question from inside the text. The language is unapologetically beis midrash: daf, perek, Mishnah, Gemara, Rashi, Rambam, posuk, nafka mina, machloikes, and halacha l'maaseh all appear naturally in the flow. Recent episodes spend substantial time in Menachos, especially the Lechem HaPonim, the Shulchan, the Minchas Chavitin, Smicha, korbanos, and the structure of the Mikdash service. Other material reaches into Chulin and hilchos shechita, including the ben pekuah and the status of a fetus after the mother's shechita. The style is precise but not quiet. It has the momentum of a shiur trying to keep the whole daf moving while still stopping for a real cheshbon when the sugya demands it. Some episodes become almost architectural, measuring the Shulchan, the Mizbeach, amos, tefachim, rows, sides, and height markers until the layout becomes part of the learning. Others are more conceptual, asking what Smicha represents, how kaparah works, or why one kind of pesul applies where another does not. The show frequently distinguishes similar halachic categories by asking what the practical difference would be. That habit gives the shiur its shape. It is not casual background audio for a first encounter with Talmud. It expects a listener who can tolerate dense transliteration, quick references, and unresolved technical pressure while the sugya is still being worked. For that audience, the reward is a serious, continuous path through the daf that keeps both the textual detail and the larger lomdus in view.

Made for: For Daf Yomi learners and anyone comfortable following Gemara at a brisk pace with dense beis midrash terminology. It suits people who want the structure and pressure of the sugya preserved.

What sets it apart: The show keeps the daf dense and alive, moving from line-by-line placement into conceptual nafka minas, measurements, and halachic categories. It treats technical sugyos as the main event rather than material to simplify away.

In their own words

Daf Yomi Shiur by Sruly Bornstein of The Lakewood Daf Yomi Chaburah. For the most comprehensive APP of Daf Yomi shiurim, Get the APP - "Lakewood Daf Yomi" on iTunes & Google Play

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Sruly Bornstein turns dense Talmudic argument into a guided chain of questions, distinctions, calculations, and conclusions.

Lakewood Daf Yomi makes the architecture of a daf audible. Sruly Bornstein locates the passage, identifies its central question, then follows the Gemara through competing readings and practical distinctions.

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The Shulchan becomes a math problem, and your calculator has a Torah study assignment.

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  • to follow why one measure could mean five or six tefachim
  • to work through who must perform smicha, and how
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Daf Yomi Gemara studyMenachos sugyosLechem HaPonim and ShulchanSmicha and korbanosMikdash measurementsHilchos shechitaYom Kippur avodahRashi, Rambam, and posuk analysis

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    Menachos 58

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    Menachos 89

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    Menachos 88

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    Menachos 86

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    Menachos 84

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    Menachos 83

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    Menachos 82

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    Menachos 81

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    Menachos 79

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    Menachos 57

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    Menachos 34

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    Menachos 80

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    Menachos 39

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    Menachos 78

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    Menachos 77

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    Menachos 76

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    Menachos 75

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    Menachos 74

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    Menachos 69

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    Menachos 68

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    Menachos 67

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    Menachos 63

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    Menachos 62

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    Menachos 61

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    Menachos 18

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    Menachos 2

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    Zevachim 120

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    Zevachim 119

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    Zevachim 118

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    Zevachim 110

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    Menachos 64

    This episode of a Talmud study podcast begins a new chapter on the Minchas HaOmer offering, discussing its unique barley composition and omer measurement.

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    Menachos 35

    This episode discusses the Halachos of Tfilin, specifically the order of the four Parshiyos in Tfilin based on a Brisa.

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    Menachos 40

    This episode discusses the Talmudic principle that a positive commandment overrides a negative prohibition, using the example of tzitzis and shatnez from Menachos 40.

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    Menachos 65

    This episode discusses the sixth chapter of Menachos, focusing on the Karben Omer and its biblical source in Parashas Emar.

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    Menachos 90

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    Menachos 66

    A Talmudic discussion on Menachos 66 about the dispute between the Prushim and Baisusim regarding the correct interpretation of 'Mimachras HaShabbos' for bringing the Omer offering and counting the Omer.

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    Menachos 56

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    Menachos 54

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    Menachos 51

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    Menachos 50

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    Menachos 41

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    Menachos 33

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    Menachos 26

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    Menachos 20

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    Menachos 19

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    Chulin 68

    This Daf Yomi shiur begins a new perek of Meseches Chulin, Behemah HaMekashah, covering the halacha of ben pekuah, the case of a fetus that emerges from a slaughtered mother animal.

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    Chulin 67

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    Chulin 66

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    Chulin 64

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    May 29, 2026·51m
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    May 18, 2026·1h 16m
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    Menachos 97

    Hidden gem

    ["Lakewood Daf Yomi on Menachos 97 centers on the Shulchan, the Lechem HaPanim, and the verse in Parashat Terumah that lists the table's four accessories.", "The lesson says today's page is one of the 'math dafim in Shas' and then counts the konim, including a beraisa that totals 28.", "The discussion turns to Rava's Shabbos objection, Rabbi Akiva's rule about work that could have been done before Shabbos, and a beraisa that places the konim on Erev Shabbos and removes them after Shabbos.", "From there the sugya moves into Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Yehuda's dispute over 5-tefach and 6-tefach amot, Yechezkel 43:13, and the mizbeach geometry that is checked against Zevachim and Maseches Middos."]

    Apr 17, 2026·1h 11m·4 clips
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    Menachos 98

    Lakewood Daf Yomi's Menachos 98 centers on the Shulchan and the Lechem HaPonim, starting with Rabbi Meir's 12-by-6 tefachim reading and Rabbi Yehuda's 10-by-5 reading.

    Apr 17, 2026·57m·4 clips
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    Menachos 96

    This episode discusses the Talmudic tractate Menachos, focusing on the preparation of the Minchas Chavitin offering by the Kohen Gadol and the rules regarding which parts of the preparation override Shabbos.

    Apr 16, 2026·53m
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    Menachos 95

    This episode discusses the Talmudic question of whether the lechem haponim became permissible for consumption when the mishkan traveled in the desert.

    Apr 15, 2026·58m
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    Menachos 93

    This episode continues the Talmudic discussion on the laws of Smicha, focusing on the transfer of sins through leaning on a sacrifice and the associated repentance.

    Apr 14, 2026·1h 4m
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    Menachos 94

    Lakewood Daf Yomi covers Menachot 94, beginning with the halacha that smicha must be performed immediately before shchita and in the same place, with one exception — the metzora who stood at Shaar Nikanor while shchita occurred in tzafon, separating the two by 22 amos.

    Apr 14, 2026·50m·3 clips
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    Menachos 92

    This Lakewood Daf Yomi shiur covers Menachos daf Tzadik Beis, opening a multi-day study of the halachic and conceptual dimensions of Smicha, the ritual of laying hands on a sacrifice before it is brought.

    Apr 13, 2026·1h 11m·5 clips
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    Menachos 91

    Hidden gem

    Menachos 91 works through the nesachim parashah in Bamidbar 15 and shows how "oyla," "zevach," and "oy b'mo'adeichem" are each darshened with precision.

    Apr 12, 2026·1h 19m·2 clips
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    Menachos 88

    Apr 6, 2026·55m
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    Menachos 87

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    Menachos 86

    Apr 6, 2026·52m
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    Menachos 89

    Apr 6, 2026·46m
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    Menachos 90

    Apr 6, 2026·1h 2m
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    Menachos 80

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    Menachos 84

    Apr 1, 2026·56m
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    Menachos 83

    Apr 1, 2026·44m
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    Menachos 82

    Apr 1, 2026·55m
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    Menachos 81

    Apr 1, 2026·59m
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    Menachos 79

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    Menachos 77

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    Menachos 76

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    Menachos 75

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    Menachos 74

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    Menachos 73

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    Menachos 72

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    Menachos 71

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    Menachos 70

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    Menachos 69

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    Menachos 68

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    Menachos 67

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    Menachos 66

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    Menachos 65

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    Menachos 64

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    Menachos 62

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    Menachos 63

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    Menachos 61

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    Menachos 58

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    Menachos 56

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    Menachos 53

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    Menachos 52

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    Menachos 50

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    Menachos 49

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