One page a day, with the whole Jewish world
Daf Yomi with David Retter is a shiur series built around one of the great communal projects in Jewish life: Daf Yomi, the worldwide cycle in which Jews everywhere learn the same daf, the same page of Talmud Bavli, on the same day. Over roughly seven and a half years the cycle carries a learner through all of Shas. This series joins that rhythm, offering a recorded daf so a person can keep pace no matter where the day takes them.
The discipline of Daf Yomi is its genius. The daf does not wait for the learner to feel ready, and that steady, non-negotiable pace is exactly what carries people through tractates they would never have finished on their own. A recorded shiur makes the commitment keepable: the daf can be learned on a commute, made up after a missed day, and heard again when a sugya refuses to sit still.
Following the daf, sugya by sugya
A good Daf Yomi shiur does more than read the page. The Gemara moves by question and answer, objection and resolution, and a clear maggid shiur keeps a learner oriented — marking where the give-and-take begins, which opinion is holding, and where the halacha lands. This series works through the daf in that spirit, aiming to leave a listener not merely having heard the page but genuinely following its argument.
That orientation matters most for the person learning alone. Without a chavrusa to catch a missed step, it is easy to drift a few lines and never recover. A steady recorded voice fills that gap, holding the thread across the daf so the learner arrives at the next day's page still standing on the last. For anyone committed to the cycle, that continuity is much of the value.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Daf Yomi with David Retter follows the worldwide Daf Yomi cycle — one page of Talmud Bavli each day, in sequence.
- The cycle carries a learner through all of Shas over roughly seven and a half years.
- The recorded format makes the daily commitment keepable — learn on a commute, make up a missed day, replay a hard sugya.
- A clear maggid shiur keeps a learner oriented in the Gemara's give-and-take, which matters most for the person learning alone.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.