iCal Daf Yomi

From Wikipedia: Daf Yomi (Heb. דף יומי “page [of the] day” or “daily folio”) is a daily regimen undertaken to study the entire Talmud Bavli one daf (i.e. two actual pages), one day at a time, so that it can be completed in a cycle of seven and a half years.

I started the cycle a bit late, but have caught up. To help me keep track I created a iCal compatible calendar that will insert a reminder for each day’s reading. It also has some links to common resources. It is configurable to take 2 URL parameters and will subscribe the item for 2 days in the past and 12 days in the future. Once in iCal edit the URL to change to your needs. There are other options available to use this application in others applications. Write to me if you want to use the webservice or plain HTML.

To subscribe to the calendar file the url is: http://www.tableman.com/dafyomi/icaldafyomi.php?past=3&future=10 where past is how many days behind today you want to show and future is how many days in the future. I know that might seem obvious and if that is the case, then I did it right!

The basis of this work is a derivative of the code by Bob Newell and I thank him for sending me his C code.

Some useful links to Talmud study:

• Daf Notes
• Daf Digest
• Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
• Orthodox Union
• http://ohr.edu/yhiy.php/this_week/the_weekly_daf/
• http://www.webshas.org/