One Daf, One People
Rav Meir proposed that Jews everywhere learn the same daf each day, so that no tractate would be neglected and Klal Yisroel would be joined by shared learning.
A teaching ofRav Yehuda Meir Shapiro of Lublinהרב יהודה מאיר בן יעקב שמשון שפיראProfile ›
At the Knessiah Gedolah of Agudas Yisroel in Vienna, Rav Meir put a question to the delegates: would they begin, from Rosh Hashanah 5684, to learn one daf of Gemara a day, following the order of Shas? He asked them to picture a Jew sailing from Eretz Yisroel to America, learning a page each day on the two-week voyage. When he reached New York he would walk into a beis medrash and find others learning the very page he had reached, and Hashem's Name would be sanctified. The plan would also keep the smaller tractates from being orphaned, learned only by a few, since the whole of Shas would be taken up by everyone. Above all, a single daf would unite Jews across every border through the Torah they share. He closed by leaving the decision to the congress.
Source: His address to the Knessiah Gedolah of Agudas Yisroel, Vienna, Elul 5683 (1923), as reported with his words in Dei'ah veDibur, 'The Daf Yomi: from the Beginning to the Eleventh Siyum' (14 Adar I 5765); the printed text of the address (Sefer HaYovel, Lodz 5690) was not opened.
Choose one small piece of Torah that you will share with other Jews this week: today's daf, a daily halachah, or a few lines of Tehillim. Do it at a fixed time and tell one other person, so that you are learning alongside someone. If you are already in a shiur, thank the person who gave it, or invite a friend to the next one. Your few minutes join thousands of others who are learning the same words today.