Listed in order of composition of text studied, from oldest to most recent.
Weekly Torah portion •
Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum (
Weekly Torah portion, with or without
Rashi) – weekly or daily study (1-year cycle)
Mishnah •
Mishnah Yomis - daily study of the
Mishnah (6 year cycle).
Talmud •
Amud Yomi – daily study of a single folio of the Babylonian Talmud. (This cycle is about 14 year in length) •
Daf Yomi – daily regimen of studying the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the
Gemara), all ,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud ( years). First cycle initiated on the adoption of a resolution on Elul 10, 5683 at the First World Congress of the
World Agudath Israel,
Vienna,
Austria starting from Elul 3, 5683 / August 15, 1923 and which lasted for ten days. The proposal for the study of Daf Hayomi was made on Elul 7 or 9, 5683 (August 19 or 21, 1923) by Rabbi
Meir Shapiro, then
Rav of
Sanok, Poland, and future
rosh yeshiva of
Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. •
Yerushalmi Yomi – daily study of the
Jerusalem Talmud (-year cycle)
Mishneh Torah (, "Repetition of the Torah"), subtitled
Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה "Book of the Strong Hand") – a
code of
Jewish religious law (
Halakha) authored and compiled between 1170 and 1180 by
Maimonides (
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known as
RaMBaM or "Rambam"), one of history's foremost rabbis. •
Mishneh Torah Yomi – daily study with two simultaneous cycles: 1-year or 3-year cycle
Shulchan Aruch (, literally: "Set Table"). Published in 1565 Section
Orach Chayim only – laws of
prayer and
synagogue,
Sabbath,
holidays •
Halacha Yomis – daily study cycle intitiatewd around 1950 (4-year cycle)
The Tanya • The
Tanya () is an early work of
Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi
Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of
Chabad Hasidism, first published in 1797. Composed of five sections that define Hasidic mystical psychology and theology as a handbook for daily spiritual life in Jewish observance, the
Tanya is the main work of the
Chabad philosophy and the Chabad approach to
Hasidic mysticism, as it defines its general interpretation and method. Its formal title is
Likkutei Amarim (,
Hebrew, "collection of statements"), but is more commonly known by its opening word,
Tanya, which means "it was taught in a beraita (
literally outside)." This term designates traditions and teachings in the Jewish oral law "outside" of the six orders of the Mishnah. - daily study (1 year cycle)
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch – a summary of the
Shulchan Aruch of
Joseph Karo with reference to later commentaries first published in 1864 •
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi – daily study (1-year cycle)
Chafetz Chayim and
Shemiras Halashon •
Chafetz Chayim ( "Seeker/Desirer [of] Life"), the magnum opus of Rabbi
Israel Meir Kagan (1828-1933), first published in 1873, dealing with the Biblical
laws of
gossip and
slander (known in
Hebrew as
Lashon Hara, meaning "Evil tongue"), and is considered
THE authoritative source on Jewish ethics and laws of speech. Also included in this cycle is the Shemiras Halashon (trans., "Power of Speech") by the same author.
Mishnah Berurah ( "Clarified Teaching") – a work of
halakha first published in 1904 by
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan of
Poland, (1838–1933), also colloquially known by the name of another of his books,
Chofetz Chaim "Desirer of Life". •
Mishnah Berurah Yomit – daily study (Two evidently simultaneous cycles: -year or 5-year cycle) There also exists daily study cycles of one or three years.
Others • ''
Chok l'Yisrael'' •
Seder ha-Mishmarah •
Yonah Sztencl founded Halacha Yomis and Mishnah Yomis. --> == See also ==