Today's Mishnah Yomi
Eduyos 5:4 - 5:5
The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, April 7, 2025 is Eduyos 5:4 - 5:5
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Eduyos Perek 5 Mishnah 4
עדיות פרק ה׳ משנה ד׳
Rabbi Eliezer says: there are two instances of lenient rulings by Beth Shammai and strict rulings by Beth Hillel.The blood of a woman after childbirth who has not immersed herself, Beth Shammai says: [it is] like her spittle and her urine. But Beth Hillel says: it causes impurity whether wet or dry. However, they agree in the case of the blood of a woman who gave birth when she had non-menstrual discharge, that it causes defilement whether wet or dry.
רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, שְׁנֵי דְבָרִים מִקֻּלֵּי בֵית שַׁמַּאי וּמֵחֻמְרֵי בֵית הִלֵּל. דַּם יוֹלֶדֶת שֶׁלֹּא טָבְלָה, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, כְּרֻקָּהּ וּכְמֵימֵי רַגְלֶיהָ. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, מְטַמֵּא לַח וְיָבֵשׁ. וּמוֹדִים בְּיוֹלֶדֶת בְּזוֹב שֶׁהוּא מְטַמֵּא לַח וְיָבֵשׁ:
Bartenura
דם יולדת. ששהתה שבוע לזכר ושבועיים לנקבה ולא טבלה:
בית שמאי אומרים כרוקה וכמימי רגליה. שמטמאים לחים ואין מטמאים יבשים, אף דמה מטמא לח ואינו מטמא יבש. ואינו חשיב כדם נדה שמטמא לח ויבש:
ובית הלל אומרים מטמא לח ויבש. כל זמן שלא טבלה כדם נדה הוא חשב, ואע״פ שהוא בתוך ימי טוהר:
ומודים ביולדת בזוב. שצריכה לספור שבעה ימים נקיים כדין כל שאר זבות, שאם לא ספרה ולא טבלה וראתה דם בתוך ימי טוהר, שהוא מטמא לח ויבש, דדם זיבה הוא חשיב כל זמן שלא ספרה ולא טבלה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Eduyos Perek 5 Mishnah 5
עדיות פרק ה׳ משנה ה׳
[In the case of] four brothers of whom two were married to two sisters, if those married to the sisters died, behold, these should perform halitzah and not enter into levirate marriage (with the brothers-in-law). If they went ahead and married them, they must put them away (divorce them). Rabbi Eliezer says in the name of Beth Shammai: they may keep them. But Beth Hillel say: they must put them away.
אַרְבָּעָה אַחִים, שְׁנַיִם מֵהֶם נְשׂוּאִין שְׁתֵּי אֲחָיוֹת, מֵתוּ הַנְּשׂוּאִים לַאֲחָיוֹת, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ חוֹלְצוֹת וְלֹא מִתְיַבְּמוֹת. וְאִם קָדְמוּ וְכָנְסוּ, יוֹצִיאוּ. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר מִשּׁוּם בֵּית שַׁמַּאי, יְקַיְּמוּ. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, יוֹצִיאוּ:
Bartenura
חולצות ולא מתיבמות – for since both of them are tied by their interdependence of a childless widow and her late husband’s brothers (i.e., they cannot marry otherwise until released from their dead husband’s brother) to this one and to that one first and if he (i.e., one of the brothers) marries the wife of a brother who died without issue, he strikes against the sister of his obligated leviratical relation who is like his wife.
משום ב"ש יקיימו וב"ה [אומרים] יוציאו – in the Gemara in [Tractate] Yevamot 28a in the chapter “Four Brothers” (chapter three), they reverse it, as the School of Shammai states that they should release her, and the School of Hillel states they should uphold it [and remain wed], and such is the Halakah that if he went ahead and married [the two sisters], they may remain wed.
חולצות ולא מתיבמות. דכיון דתרוייהו זקוקין להאי ולהאי, קמא דמיבם פגע באחות זקוקתו דהויא כאשתו:
משום בית שמאי יקיימו ובית הלל אומרים יוציאו. בגמרא ביבמות פרק ד׳ אחין מפכינן לה, ב״ש אומרים יוציאו וב״ה אומרים יקיימו. וכן הלכה שאם קדמו וכנסו יקיימו:
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Mishnah Yomi is a daily study program where participants study two mishnayot (individual teachings from the Mishnah) every day. By following this program, one can complete the entire Mishnah in about six years.
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In 1934, the Kozoglover Gaon, Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer, who took over from Rav Meir Shapiro (the founder of Daf Yomi) as the head of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, initiated the Mishnah Yomi cycle, focusing on Seder Zeraim and Seder Taharos. After World War II, in 1947, Rav Yonah Sztencl, a disciple of Rav Frommer, expanded the program, advocating for a comprehensive study of Shishah Sidrei Mishnah. The idea of studying two Mishnayos daily gained the support of figures like Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Tchebiner Rov, and the Gerer Rebbe, marking the formal inception of Mishnah Yomi.
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דם יולדת – that she delayed a week for [the birth of] a male and two weeks for female, and did not immerse [in a Mikveh].
בית שמאי אומרים כרוקה וכמימי רגליה – which ritually defile moist but do not ritually defile as dry,. Even her blood defiles moist but does not defile dry, and is not considered like the blood of a menstruant woman which defiles [both] moist and dry.
ובית הלל אומרים מטמא לח ויבש – all the time that she has not immersed [in a Mikveh], it is considered like the blood of a menstruant woman, and even though it is amidst the days of her purification.
ומודים ביולדת בזוב – that she needs to cunt seven clean days like the law of all the rest of those with a flux, for if she did not count nor immersed [in the Mikveh], and saw blood during the days of purification, which defiles [both] moist and dry, for it is considered like the blood of someone with a flux all the time that she didn’t count or immerse [in the Mikveh].