Mishnah Yomis
In Judaism, Mishnah Yomis (Hebrew: משנה יומית "The Daily Study of the Mishnah") refers to the Torah study cycle in which two Mishnayos (brief collections of rulings dealing with the Oral Law) are learned every day. The previous Mishnah Yomis cycle, the 12th, began on 22 Tamuz 5770 (July 4, 2010). The current cycle began on Wednesday, 20 Adar-B 5776 (March 30, 2016).
History
Although Jews have been studying the Mishnah ever since it was first compiled about 2000 years ago, this systematic cycle was first established in 1948 by Rabbi Yonah Sztencl. His goal in creating the Mishnah Yomis cycle was to memorialize the Jews that were killed in the Holocaust, through a global studying of the Mishnah. He also wanted to provide a realistic way for even a simple, working Jew to familiarize himself with the six orders of the Mishnah, upon which the Jewish system of law is based. In just 6 years, anyone can learn the entire set of 4,192 Mishnayos.
See also, a similarly named program linked to Daf Yomi, initiated by Aryeh Tzvi Frumer in 1938, under #Rav and rosh yeshiva there.
In 2020, Rabbi Yitzchak Silman, the grandson of Rabbi Shtenzel and one of the leaders of the Kviuta organization for the study of the Mishnah and the daily Halacha, initiated another study order: Mishnatit - Mishnah per year, which offers four additional study tracks of the six Mishnahs in one year - years for a regular year and years for a leap year.
See also
- List of masechtot, chapters, mishnahs and pages in the Talmud
- Other study cycles under Torah study #Study cycles