Rabbi Shmuel Wise is the founder of Real Clear Daf, a website and mobile app providing shiurim on every daf of Shas. He is based in Lakewood,New Jersey.
I run Real Clear Daf. That includes producing daily daf yomi shiur videos — by early 2020, I’ll have completed 2,711 shiurim, one for every single daf of Talmud Bavli, b’ezras Hashem! I also fundraise and oversee the development of the website and mobile apps, which we use to broadcast the shiurim.
We’re in the middle of a learning revolution that’s created a large demand for learning tools. On Real Clear Daf, I offer an audio shiur along with great features like tzuras hadaf, where you can see what the page looks like in the actual sefer, and a speedup function to play my recording at a faster pace. I recently received a glowing review from someone in Zimbabwe.
People ask me what level I gear my shiurim to. My response: What level was Rashi’s commentary geared to? Rashi came to explain the Torah as accurately as possible, and he created something that resonates for people on all levels. I try to emulate that with my shiur, to present the material in a way that it can be enjoyed by people on all levels.
In 2012, at the beginning of the 13th daf yomi cycle, I was learning daf yomi and I thought, What better way to crystallize my learning and share with others than to record every daf as a shiur? So with a little iPod next to my Gemara, Real Clear Daf was born.
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