Editing The Talmud (section)

== Learning Gemara ==
The Alter Rebbe established a division of the Shas for Chabad chassidim, so that each chassidic community would complete the entire Shas together – including Mishnah tractates that don't have Gemara – within one year. Today, the custom is to arrange the division of Shas on Yud-Tes Kislev.

The Rebbe Maharash stated: "It is inappropriate for a Jewish householder not to study Gemara every day," and established that "at the very least, everyone needs to study one tractate of Gemara in a year."

The Rebbe Rayatz instructed that every chassid should establish a daily session for in-depth study of Gemara. The Rebbe explained this as being because a person with the ability to study in-depth who doesn't do so, this is considered, in a subtle way, as bitul Torah (neglect of Torah study), since he is not utilizing '''all''' his intellectual powers for Torah study.