Zvhil rosh yeshivah and veteran maggid shiur Rav Michel Zilbershares the secret fueling a century of Daf Yomi
Tens of thousands of people the world over consider themselves Rav Zilber’s talmidim: rebbes, roshei yeshivah, avreichim, and laymen — all of his regular listeners. Toward the end of his life, when he’d lost his vision, the Vizhnitz-Monsey Rebbe ztz”l would spend hours every day listening to Rav Michel Zilber’s tapes in Yiddish.
The presentation was always clear and concise: Every daf took exactly sixty minutes, the length of an average tape. Thousands of people connected daily, either with the Kol HaDaf tape gemach or the few shiur phone hotlines.
Reb Michel might be the rebbi of so many Yidden, but in essence, he’s also their chavrusa, having not only learned from him, but with him as well.
Sixty years after Rav Meir Shapiro’s Daf Yomi revolution in Poland, beginning on Rosh Hashanah of 1923, the next stage began in Jerusalem with Rav Zilber. Now, a hundred years later, it’s hard to imagine how Daf Yomi could reach every corner of the world without these shiurim.
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