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First Ever Daf Yomi Siyum in Crown Heights

The Jewish world today celebrates the completion of learning Shas after seven and a half years of learning one page a day, with central celebrations held in all major Jewish communities around the world, especially in Eretz Yisroel and in America – the main event will be tonight in the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. This morning, for the first time in [Lubavitch inhabited] Crown Heights, Congregation Anash 770 Montgomery St. held a Daf Yomi siyum as well.

A group of dedicated mispallilim have met daily in the morning and again in the evening for the last 7.5 years to hear a Daf Yomi shiur from the acclaimed Talmud Chochom Rabbi Shlomo Aron Holzberg. This is not the first time R’ Shlomo Aron has finished Shas, but it is the first time he has completed it as a Maggid Shiur.

R’ Shlomo Aron was joined at the Siyum and L’Chaim that followed by the shiur participants, including the shul’s Rov – Rabbi Dovid Fischer.

R’ Shlomo Aron was mesayim Shas with the last gemora in Niddah, followed by a pilpul, and Shas was started again with gemora Brochos by Rabbi Nochum Kaplan, who himself also celebrated completing shas.

This will be followed by another Siyum Hashas tomorrow night, Thursday, in Getzel’s Shul.

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25 Comments

  • SIYUM

    THIS IS NOT THE FIRST ONE. THERE WAS ONE MADE AT THE LAST SIYUM HASAS 71/2 YEAS AGO IN KSAV SOFER SHUL.

  • Mendel

    How come most of us dont know there is a Daf Yomi shiur in CH? How can I join? Why are the young people not joining?

    Where is the publicity, where are the schedules?

  • mas

    Curious to know: when did a misnagdishe site post about the siyum hoRambam?
    on the other hand, something that was not implemented by the Rebbe’im for known reasons – makes it way on chabad sites. A lack of geon Yaakov.

  • Not the first...

    There have been people learning daf yomi and making siyumim in crown heights for years…

  • Stop Hating

    To #5:

    1. I didn’t know that the talmud belonged more to one group of Jews then the other.

    2. What difference does it make what the “other group” does or doesn’t? Shouldn’t we learn from all or any group when it comes to good things?

    I’ll bet $100 bucks you don’t even know the reason why this was not implemented by the Rebbe zt“l, otherwise you would have stating it. All you know is that the Rebbe zt”l didn’t implement this idea for reasons.

    Besides, the post above is about how a Shul of ANASH made a Siyum.

  • #5, why?

    #5 – I’ve always wondered. What are the reasons
    for the Daf Yomi boycott in Chabad?

  • #8 why?

    Why is a klippah! A chosid does not ask why! If the Rebbe was against it, that’s good enough for me.

  • mas

    to # 7

    Here is your answer

    the Rebbe has stated it very clearly (Shlach 5748) that the PR has not implemented it amongst his chassidim because it’s not shovo lchol nefesh (something for all) and a person needs to study where his heart desires (Talmud Avoda Zoro)

    see Sicha 12 tamuz 5692.

  • choyv kadosh

    #7, don’t be upset with #5, he just made the customary, mandatory negative post about any good thing, apparently it’s a choyv kadosh… You can manage to put a negative spin on any good thing, and some personality types are inclined to do so. When Mashiach comes they’ll have what to say about that too…

  • DeClasse- Intellectual

    On numberous occassions the Rebbe would make a a siyum during his farbringins, and it would occur on Yud tes Kislev that cards would be passed out for people to learn a meschite of Germora during the year so that the whole Chabad community would complete the whole Shas by the following Yud tes Kslev and then it start again. I understand as well that the Rebbe was a big fan of Rabbi Shaprio for what he had done with the advancement of learning. As for the Rambam–going out on a limb–maybe the Rebbe felt that since the Mishnah Torah covered the whole spectrium of Jewish thought, Halacha and so forth, this would be the best way to acommplish this.

  • extended family Holtzberg

    Dear father
    We – the whole family, are proud of you, for (once again) you have completed the entire SHAS(Talmud)

    You are a source of our family’s prid
    And you bring respect and honor to Chabad

    Love
    From the extended family Holtzberg

  • Berele

    It is high time that Lubavitchers should know wht the Rebbe had to say about the Daf Yomi. Mny years ago there was a Shiur of the Daf Yomi in Montreal with Rabbi Avraham Karp. Rabbi Gerlitzky Sr. Wrote a report to the Rebbe. The answer was swift. It is OK to learn a Blat Gemarah daily, but I never heard from the previous Rebbe about the Daf Yomi.

  • Milhouse

    People now don’t realise that Daf Yomi was until quite recently not a universal thing, it was an Agudah thing, and specifically a Gerrer thing, and if you weren’t an Agudist it had nothing to do with you. If you were anti-Agudah then you were against it, but even if you were just not in the Agudah then it would never occur to you to do it. Since the Rebbe Rashab kept Lubavitch out of the Agudah, because he was politically aligned with Reb Chaim and supported his 18-point list of objections, Lubavitchers never got into daf yomi. That’s all.

    (By the way, it’s well known that Reb Chaim issued a list of 18 objections, but does anyone know what they were?)

  • NOW

    Would the Rebbe recognize us as Chassidim today? I wonder, with Daf Yomi siyumim, and many other things that it is better not to write about. Time to get back on track! Moshiach now!

  • Mednel

    Objections, no objections. The fact is that people would learn less if not for daf yomi.

    Would the Rebbe have you rather learn the daf yomi for the rest of your life or watch even one “kosher” movie?

    People who are looking for Machlokes will always find it.

  • To #18, Milhouse who

    “Reb Chaim issued a list of 18 objections [against Agudah]”

    Reb Chaim Dovid Zweibel is AGAINST Agudah??? WOW!!

  • Stay the course

    Lubavitch should stay shtark and be against daf yaymi, like Satmar. This will give them something in common!

  • Milhouse

    #21, who said anything about him? If you don’t know who Reb Chaim was, you should keep quiet.

  • Hillel the Peace Man

    People are against CAY too Frie
    Against 770 too Moshiach
    Against Fisher’s Shul too much Gemora
    Against Beis Shmuel too Lite

    Where is okay to Daven? I don’t want to offend anyone.

  • YBR

    Can I say something positive if it won’t offend too many people?

    I am proud to hear that there were two siyumim in C“H.
    I was awed to be in the presence of almost 90,000 people,
    to say kaddish and have so many answer.

    I have not ”studied the daf“ except –
    1. One year, I did Sotah with a tape as per our minhag
    2. One year, my community suffered losses in Adar, and joined the Daf for Moed Kotan during Shloshim.

    (I truly can learn a daf in a day if I try – about 7.5 hours)

    There was a well-known Magid shiur who said ”It doesn’t have to be Daf Yomi, just so long as it is Yomis” – For that, we have our sedarim….Chitas, Rambam.

    Shalom to all