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This seems to be a topic that is never discussed and is hard to inquire.
3) How much do you prepare for tomorrow? Schedule, keys, pockets,
4) Do you read to bed, radio/music, talk to your spouse or text friends, eat nash, or Hamapil and silent? (one person told me he thinks mishnayos by heart)
5) Do you think this effects success and siyate dshmaye?
Hatzlacha in improving your bedtime avoda.
“Doing the daf” is not necessarily an admirable goal. If you take an hour or two each day to learn with Rashi, at the minimum, than you are having quality learning. Davening a daf in 45 minutes is not a valuable religious activity.
I do say the full Krias Shema al ha Mita, vidui, a final cheshbon hanefesh of the day, prepare negel vasser to keep bedside, keep tzitzis and kippah next to the bed, etc.
I know that if I say haMapil and bedtime shema that I won’t actually stay silent and will end up going to the bathroom/ eating nosh/ using my computer/ texting, so I don’t really do much Jewish bed time rituals…
Rebdoniel- When you make your “chesbon Hanefesh” tonight think about all the ziknei Hador of the past 50 years who spoke about how choshuvh the 45 minutes of a day that a person gives up for the daf is. I doubt you will sleep much tonight as you figure out how to ask mehcila from the gedolim. I doubt someone of your great stature would bother to ask mechilla from the plain folk who are mosser nefesh for the 45 minutes Daf – so for now just ask mechila from the gedolim.
After tikkun chatzos, I read the CR until Alos. ^_^
3) How much do you prepare for tomorrow? Schedule, keys, pockets,
I always prepare my clothing for next day before going to sleep, so that in the morning, I never arrive late to Shul Chas veSholom. BTW, the definition of arriving in time to Shacharis is being at least 5 minutes early, so that I am clad in Tallis & Tefillin before the Cantor commences services.
Of-course I also schedule time to talk with my spouse at nite, or to quote Hilary Clinton:- A am there at 3AM for my spouse.
BTW, the definition of arriving in time to Shacharis is being at least 5 minutes early, so that I am clad in Tallis & Tefillin before the Cantor commences services.
Our davening starts with “Rabi Yishmoel omer,” so arriving on time means getting there 17 minutes early so I can put on my tallit and tefillin, and I can say brachot and most of karbanot. As someone in the CR once said, “Having the karbanot in the siddur is not a printing error.”
During the 30 days before Purim there is a minhag to say parshas Haman every day so make that a few minutes earlier.
Shema in bed. I’m an insomniac so I read, listen to the radio or play with my iPhone (new: still an amazingly interesting toy) while waiting to fall asleep while DH slumbers peacefully, lights on, sound on, sirens wailing — oh that’s outside.
I didn’t mean to insult anyone.
The main inyan of daf yomi, in my humble opinion, is that there is the achdus of klal yisroel learning the same thing on the same day. I am just speaking from my personal experience- I felt that in 45 minutes, I didn’t really make a kinyan b’torah at the end of it all. What I do now, because this works better for me, is in a week’s time, I learn 2-3 blatt gemara with Rashi, Tosafos, Rambam, and now, the “iyun kal” perush of Shas Illuminated.
You should do whatever floats your boat. A person should learn what interests him.
Please do not allow me to discourage you. Continue shteiging and being moser nefesh for the sake of limud hatorah.
takahmamash:- So your time of arrival is being predicated on what is done in many places in Israel, whilst the time of arrival I mentioned is predicated on what most places do in the diaspora.
say krias shima b4 you go to sleep
RebDoniel: Thank you for that clarification. There is an unresolved machlokes in the gemara about whether be’iyun or bekius learning is better. That said, I think there is definitely a lot of merit to your derech halimmud, Shkoyach!
Thank you.
In Horayos 14, the maskana is that sinai has precedence over oker harim. Le ma’aseh, since I go to school and work, I only have 4 hours a day to learn, and I prioritize learning halakha le ma’aseh (in the form of Mishna Berura, Kitzur, and Hakham Ovadia Yosef), Shulchan Aruch and nosei kelim, Gemara with Rashi, Tosfos, and Rambam, Mishnayos, Tanach, Midrash, Halakhic Midrashim, important parshanim and darshanim, important sifrei mussar and machshava, etc. I generally am a big fan of the Dirshu, Reb Sender Dolgin, Breslov, R’ Shimon Green, and Reb Meir Pogrow approach to learning. I also hear that an emphasis on bekius is a generally Sephardic approach, historically.
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