LEVEL 01
רמת המתחיל
Base — Beginner & Intermediate
The fourteen seifim in Hebrew, with fluent translation and a clause-by-clause breakdown: the four formulas of seif 1, the debt and the household, the sick man and the standing posture, the shared bed and bath, the תפיסת יד, the קונם against the שעבוד, the shopkeeper and the labourers, the belied gift, the flame, the slaughter, the shofar and the lulav. The hundred and sixty apparatus entries — Shakh, Taz, Ba’er Hetev, Pitḥei Teshuva, Nekudot HaKesef — cited one by one.
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LEVEL 02
רמת הלמדן
Lamdan — Talmid Hakham
Pilpul: Rabbi Eliezer’s ויתור and the dispute over the shortcut; the גרמא of settling a debt, and the Ba’h who would restrict it; the Taz’s long note on חנן, Rabbenu Tam and the Rosh; why the wife and not the beast; the קונם against the tenant’s שעבוד, and the Shakh’s two dissertations on קדושת הגוף and the Yerushalmi; the mechanics of שליחות in seif 8 and the refutation of the Perisha; the Rama–Taz dispute on slaughtering, refuted by the Nekudot HaKesef; and the three reasons the book is not the shofar.
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LEVEL 03
חזרה וסיכום
Synthesis — Revision
A synthesis arranged by mechanism rather than by number: what the vow reaches, what it does not, the measure of the fee, what passes through a third party, the estate and its transfer, and the mitzva. Then a master table restoring the fourteen seifim to the order of the book, clause by clause, the open disputes, the vocabulary, the golden rules 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, then contemporary cases: a quarrel sealed by a formula, a debt one wishes to settle for another, help routed through a third party, a service normally paid for. Note: the Admur HaZaken did not write a Shulḥan Arukh on Yoreh De’ah — a level of psak, not “Daat HaRav”.
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