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For each day, the calendar prescribed sections of Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya for study that day; this practice is known in Chabad as Chitas (חת"ת). Each day's portion of Chumash is studied with the corresponding Rashi commentary. [3] Hayom Yom contains a biographical overview of the seven Chabad Rebbes. [4]
'Twice Scripture and once translation'), is the Jewish practice of reading the weekly Torah portion in a prescribed manner. In addition to hearing the Torah portion read in the synagogue, a person should read it himself twice during that week, together with a translation usually by Targum Onkelos and/or Rashi 's commentary.
Each daily section from Sunday to Thursday morning contains: a set number of verses [1] from the Torah reading for the week, together with its Targum and the commentary of Rashi; the same number of verses from Nevi'im (the prophetical books) [2] and Ketuvim (the Hagiographa), also with Targum and commentary; one chapter from the Mishnah; [3]
Moshe Menachem Mendel Spivak Meir Shapiro, initiator of Daf Yomi. The novel idea of Jews in all parts of the world studying the same daf each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was first proposed in a World Agudath Israel publication in December 1920 (Kislev 5681) Digleinu, the voice of Zeirei Agudath Israel, [9] by Rabbi Moshe Menachem Mendel Spivak, [10] [11] and was put ...
Tanya - daily study (1 year cycle) as part of the Chitas cycle as for Rashi above; 929: Tanakh B'yachad - study of 5 chapters of Tanakh (Jewish Bible) per week (approx 4 year cycle) Chafetz Chayim and Shemiras Halashon, daily review of the laws concerning Lashon Hara (meaning "Evil tongue", gossip and slander; 1 year cycle).
Rashi completed this commentary only in the last years of his life. It was immediately accepted as authoritative by all Jewish communities, Ashkenazi and Sephardi alike. [dubious – discuss] The first dated Hebrew printed book was Rashi's commentary on the Chumash, printed by Abraham ben Garton in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, 18 February
Chitas (Hebrew: חת"ת, Chitat or Chitas) ('ch' (ח) is pronounced as guttural 'kh' (/ x /)) is a Hebrew acronym for Chumash (the five books of Moses), Tehillim , and Tanya (a seminal work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi). These are considered basic Jewish texts according to the Chabad Jewish community, a Hasidic group.
Chumash from Basel, 1943, in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection.. Chumash (also Ḥumash; Hebrew: חומש, pronounced or pronounced or Yiddish: pronounced [ˈχʊməʃ]; plural Ḥumashim) is a Torah in printed in book bound form (i.e. codex) as opposed to a Torah scroll.