Lakewood Daf Yomi

The fantastic, insightful, clear, and high energy shiur itself doesn't need my haskama, given that thousands of people listen to it (and the reid bites are also fantastic.) But i did want to give a shout out to the app itself which is very well done. You can follow along the daf which is highlighted as it goes, you can download, the reid bite mareh mekomos/notes are slowly getting up there, there are links to related reid bites, you can search reid bites by topic (useful if you need to say a dvar torah or a speech). You can listen at faster speed (recommend shiur at 1.5x and reid bite at 1.75x or even 2x, sorry for ly impatience reb sruly ). You can also skip to any point on the daf by pressing on the place in the daf while you are viewing. Really well done and kudos to all involved.

I started looking for a shiur to listen to while in the car a while back when learning Kesubos. I stumbled upon this app and really enjoyed the shiur infused with wonderful insights. I did this for Megillah also. Never had a thought at the time to learn Daf Yomi. Something about the enthusiasm of this particular shiur was so enjoyable and drawing me in. I was finishing a mesechta just as the cycle was starting Menachos and then decided to join the Daf yomi. So I started and BH have been going strong with this shiur since Menachos. I now also got my father-in-law to join and he is also doing Daf yomi for the first time, he joined with Bechoros. My wife always comments how beautiful it is to hear me discussing the Daf and shiur with her father every day. Really appreciate all that goes into this. Tremendous zchus and many brachos to all involved and to Klal yisroel.

Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, and a man who knows what it takes to be successful and effective, said that there are two things he looks for in new employees: clarity and energy. Sruly Bortnstein, the magid shiur of the Lakewood daf, has these two qualities to a degree that I have never experienced before in a daf yomi shiur. It would be wonderful to one day meet him. He does not teach the daf, rather he lives it, bringing it alive with background information and insights which sometimes I share with my wife. I think even somebody who has the time and ability to learn the daf inside for himself will gain greatly from the shiur. Sruli deserves five stars, the only issue - and it's a big one - is that he does not give the shiur every day. I hope so much that a solution can be found for this. The app itself has multiple issues: the text is poor resolution, and can disappear from the screen, either partly or fully, when the orientation is changed. Saved shiurim are not ordered and there is no way to delete them, so that if you download a shiur it can be a pain to find it to listen offline. When listening offline, if the daf starts on the previous amud that text is not visible, likewise if the shiur continue to the next daf. The application needs a total overhaul, ideally so that either the current line or section which is being discussed is highlighted. Nevertheless, even though visually there are much better quality apps, if you are interested in content, not presentation, look no further. Sruli Bornstein is the gold standard to which all magidai shiurim should aspire.