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    Gemara for Beginners - Foundations

    From zero to reading the daf on your own

    The opening course. Build vocabulary, daf structure, and core tools - step by step, nothing skipped.

    420 learners 37 lessons
    What you will be able to do
    • Fluent reading of a daf
    • Mishna/Gemara structure
    • 120 core Aramaic words
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    Curriculum

    The full blueprint

    8 chapters · 37 lessons

    1. 1.01Written Torah and Oral Torah~15m
    2. 1.02What is the Talmud? Bavli, Yerushalmi, the order of the Shas~18m
    3. 1.03The hierarchy - Tanna, Amora, Savora, Gaon, Rishon, Acharon~20m
    4. 1.04How a tractate is built - chapter, mishnah, sugya~14m

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