Talmud Torah is a commandment in its own right, and the daily liturgy places its value as equal to all the others combined. The characteristic form is chavruta: two people, one text, reading aloud and arguing, which is why a beit midrash is loud. Nobody is required to be a scholar to participate, and the tradition's highest praise is reserved for people who study while doing something else for a living — Hillel the woodcutter, Akiva the shepherd, Rashi the wine grower. Daf yomi, a page of Talmud a day, was proposed by Rabbi Meir Shapiro at a conference in Vienna in 1923 with the explicit aim that Jews everywhere would be on the same page on the same day; the cycle takes seven years and five months, and the thirteenth completion in January 2020 filled MetLife Stadium and Barclays Center. It is now also an app, a podcast in several languages, and — since Michelle Farber's Daf Yomi for Women began in 2012 and Hadran's first women's siyum in 2020 — no longer only a men's practice, which in the Orthodox world is a change of real size. The women's Talmud question was itself the argument a generation ago; the argument has moved on to ordination.