A Daf-by-Daf Journey Through Makkos
A backbone of Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim's library is a running Gemara series on Maseches Makkos, taught page by page — "Daf 8A," "Daf 8B: Mishna Ha'av Goleh and Gemara," "Daf 9B: Mishna HaSuma Ainoh Goleh and Gemara." He works through the mishna and the gemara in sequence, the way a real Gemara shiur is meant to unfold.
That structure gives the learning traction. Rather than isolated talks, a listener gets a continuous progression through the masechta, with each daf building on the last — the kind of steady Gemara study that actually moves a person through the tractate.
The Moadim, Read for Meaning
His holiday classes reach for the ideas beneath the season. "Sefirat Ha'Omer" and "Passover: The Middle of Maggid" open the Pesach period from the inside, and "The Purpose of Galut" takes on one of the largest questions the exile poses — why the Jewish people have been where they have been.
Those themes of redemption and exile recur, and he treats them as more than history. He reads the moadim and the national story as a framework for understanding the present, so a holiday becomes a lens rather than only a date.
Chizuk When It Was Needed
Among his subjects is a set of corona-era chizuk classes, given during a period when steady Torah and encouragement were in short supply. They offered exactly that — a source of grounding and hope when the ordinary structures of communal learning had fallen away.
That range rounds out the library. Between the daf-by-daf Gemara, the machshava of the moadim, and the chizuk, his more than one hundred recorded classes move comfortably from close text study to the questions of meaning that sit on top of it.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim teaches a running, daf-by-daf Gemara series on Maseches Makkos.
- He is associated with the Passaic Torah Institute (PTI).
- His holiday classes reach for meaning — Sefiras HaOmer, the middle of Maggid, and the purpose of galus.
- He also recorded corona-era chizuk when steady Torah and encouragement were scarce.
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