BROOKLYN, NY — A six-continent simultaneous Web-cast Thursday marked the completion of a cooperative global initiative to learn the entire Talmud within the first 30-day mourning period for Charlotte Rohr, the matriarch of the philanthropic Rohr family who passed away Oct. 22.
Shluchim Complete Talmud Study in Memory of Charlotte Rohr
BROOKLYN, NY — A six-continent simultaneous Web-cast Thursday marked the completion of a cooperative global initiative to learn the entire Talmud within the first 30-day mourning period for Charlotte Rohr, the matriarch of the philanthropic Rohr family who passed away Oct. 22.
The Talmud, which amounts to 5,094 double-sided pages of text when accompanied by its standard commentaries, takes seven years to complete by an individual learning one page a day.
Conceived and organized by the scholars of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, a leading provider of adult Jewish education courses, the effort drew the participation of more than 1,000 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from across the globe who divided up the landmark Jewish text among themselves.
Hundreds of friends joined the Rohr family on Thursday at Mrs. Rohr’s synagogue, located in Bal Harbour, Fla., and known worldwide simply as “The Shul,” to mark the end of her shloshim, a mourning period lasting for 30 days after one’s passing. According to Jewish law, a lesser period of mourning ensues afterward.
Charlotte Rohr’s son, philanthropist George Rohr of New York, delivered a scholarly siyum, or completion, of the six tractates of Mishnah studied by the Bal Harbour community in memory of his mother. All eyes then turned to large video screens which alternatively displayed study groups gathered live at Jerusalem’s Western Wall; in Sydney, Australia; Moscow; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Bogota, Colombia.
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Mathematician
Uh…
The Talmud, which amounts to 5,094 double-sided pages of text … takes seven years to complete by an individual learning one page a day.
365 x 7= 2555
Duh!
The Talmud is actually 2,711 pages double-sided pages of text, or 5,110 single-sided pages of text.
To Our esteemed mathmatician
Duh!!!!!!
The Talmud is actually 2,711 pages double-sided pages of text, or 5,110 single-sided pages of text.
check YOUR math again, 2711×2 isnt 5110 its 5422.
mendel
its actually 2712×2 which is 5424 smart one!!!!!!
C;-mon now
How do they allow themselves to make such a mistake??