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✦ A Beginner's Guide to Gemara
Companion Resource Pack

Free extra resources for your beginner Gemara journey

A three-mode practice game, printable pamphlets, and a five-week reading calendar: everything that goes alongside A Beginner's Guide to Gemara.

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The Practice Game

Twenty short lessons walk you through Berachos 2a–3b one move at a time: name the logical component of a line, answer questions about what the Gemara is actually doing, and learn the Aramaic vocabulary as it comes up. Lessons unlock as you finish them and carry you straight through from one to the next.

Two more modes drill the language on its own. Aramaic Words runs through every term in the book, grouped by the job it does. The Matching Game puts words beside meanings with no multiple choice to lean on.

Progress is saved in your browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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Three kinds of question
  • Name the move Statement, Question, Answer, Inquiry or Proof, on the real Aramaic.
  • Think it through What should bother you next? Why is that answer not yet enough?
  • Vocabulary The words that keep recurring: mai, heicha, i hachi, kashya.
Twenty lessons

From the opening Mishnah, through the Gemara's first questions and the reversal on 2b, to the watches of the night and King David at midnight.

Print & Keep

Printable Pamphlets

Six short PDFs pulled straight from the book, laid out for printing and keeping inside your Gemara: reference material, a glossary, and every practice exercise with its answer included.

Essential Words & Concepts

The foundational Hebrew and Aramaic terms the book leans on from page one: Torah, Mishnah, Gemara, Talmud, and more, in one place.

Printable · 3 pages Download

Quick-Reference List

The one-page card: the five logical components, the ArtScroll page at a glance, and the twenty Aramaic words to know first.

Printable · 3 pages Download

Glossary of Terms

Every Hebrew and Aramaic term in the book, A to Z, with pronunciation and a plain-English definition.

Printable · 5 pages Download

General Gemara Concepts

The same ground as the glossary, grouped by concept instead of by letter: structure, historical voices, source types, and outcomes.

Printable · 5 pages Download

Common Gemara Vocabulary

The fuller word list to grow into once the basics are familiar, organized by the job each word does: questions, objections, answers, citations, and more.

Printable · 7 pages Download

Your Turn: Exercises with Answers

All five practice exercises from the guided-learning chapters, printed with the answer key already filled in, ready to check your work against.

Printable · 7 pages Download
Five Weeks Out

Daily Reading Schedule

A short daily reading that carries a beginner through the entire book (guided learning, appendices, and all five practice exercises) in time for the Siyum HaShas on Sunday, June 6, 2027, when the next Daf Yomi cycle opens with Berachos 2a. The plan starts the Sunday after Pesach (which ends Thursday, April 29, 2027) and leaves every Shabbos for review, with a buffer day built in near the end.

Download the printable schedule Printable · 4 pages

Put it in your calendar

All 36 days as all-day events, each with a reminder. Works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook.

How do I import it?

iPhone / Mac: open the downloaded file and Calendar offers to add the events.

Google Calendar: on desktop, Settings → Import & export → select the file → Import.

Outlook: File → Open & Export → Import an iCalendar (.ics) file.

Reading Reference Shabbos Buffer Siyum HaShas

Where you are

    Tap any day below to see that day's reading.