LEVEL 01
רמת המתחיל
Base — Beginner & Intermediate
Hebrew text of the twelve seifim with a flowing English translation. The two פאות of the head and their extent, the implement, the one trimmed, the minor, the non-Jew, the woman, the slave, the טומטום, the beard and its five פאות, the question of the throat — with the sugya of מכות כ׳–כ״א, the Tur, the Beit Yosef, the Chakh, the Taz, the Ba’er Hetev, the Pit’hei Teshuva and the Rambam.
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LEVEL 02
רמת הלמדן
Lamdan — Talmid Hakham
In-depth pilpul: the reasoning בל תשחית / בל תקיף and the four seifim it produces, the dispute of the Rambam and the Rosh over scissors, the asymmetry of head and beard, the Rambam’s motive and the Tur’s reservation, the מקיף and the ניקף, the minor against the non-Jew, the three locations of the five פאות, the throat between the Bach, the Rama, the Chakh and the Taz, and the arrangements the Pit’hei Teshuva examines.
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LEVEL 03
חזרה וסיכום
Synthesis — Review
A master table of the twelve seifim clause by clause, the axiom of the siman, the three reflex questions, who is bound, the two פאות of the head, the five of the beard, the implement, the apparatus on one page, the vocabulary, the golden rules, the mnemonic and the classic pitfalls.
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LEVEL 04
הלכה למעשה
Halakha lema'asse — Psak
The practical halakha according to the ש״ך, the ט״ז, the באר היטב and the פתחי תשובה, followed by contemporary cases. Note: the Admur HaZaken did not write a Shulchan Arukh on Yoreh De’ah — a level of psak, not a “Daat HaRav.”
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