Daf Yomi

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An all-day mitzvah?

Rules for tefillin.

More rules for mezuzah.

Menachot 33

Proper mezuzah placement.

How not to hang your mezuzah.

Rules for scribing a mezuzah.

The last eight verses.

Moses the student.

Seven branches.

All for one and one for all.

All fired up.

The frontplate atones.

Three halves.

Like substances.

In the 24th and final chapter of 2 Samuel, God becomes angry with the people of Israel and commands King ...