Summary of the first year

This is a summary of the schedule for the first year, to give a sense of the general flow:

• August 25 - November 21: midrashim on the events in the Torah (i.e. the first five books)
• November 22 - January 4: "Nakh" (the other biblical books)
• January 5 - February 6: the Second Temple period
• February 7 - April 5: the tannaitic (Mishnah) period
• April 6 - June 3: the amoraic (Gemara) period
• June 4 - July 31: Israel (the people and the land)