100,000 Jews Gather to Celebrate Completion of Shas
Close to 100,000 Orthodox Jews sang, danced and prayed inside what is billed as the world’s largest synagogue — at least for a night. MetLife Stadium was transformed Wednesday for a celebration of the completion of the reading of the Talmud, the book of Jewish laws and traditions.
Rabbis wrapped their arms around one another, singing into microphones and rocking on a dais. Men were dancing in circles on the field while others were swaying in the stands. Women were praying from prayer books.
Portions of the program have been somber, though. It is dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.
The celebration marks the completion of the daily reading and study of one page of the 2,711 page book. The cycle takes about seven and a half years to finish.
Photos Courtesy of VIN News. First video by Meir Pliskin.
the visionary
why were women participating,big television screens might influence people to buy televisions videos etc all this is bittul torah we were sitting and learnig gemorrah ,not reading and davening it.
Mendel
Why don’t we join the rest of the Klal Yisroel and learn Daf Yomi?
Oh, please
The women were four thousand feet up in the air, yet they still needed a mechitzah to obstruct their view? Maybe a man would turn around and look at them with binoculars?
Nobody
#1, it is inspiring people to learn Torah. Nothing bittul about it.
#2, several pictures clearly show there was no Mechitza for the women, other than being higher up.
TO ALL COMMENTS
ALL THE ABOVE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THESE RIDICULOUSLY STUPID COMMENTS ALL I CAN SAY TO YOU IS A BIG REFUA SHLAIMA! WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS FIND THE NEGATIVE IN EVERYTHING. YOUR COMMENTS ARE NOT EVEN WORTH REFUTING BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL SO FAR FETCHED AND STUPID!
Just Do!
To Mendel #3:
Go ahead, learn!
It’s a free country.
yay for curtains
i would have a problem with that..
In addition to Rambam and Likuti Sichos
Some Bochrim in Lubavitch learned 2-4 daf a day and completed shas at age 19.
Proud
Amazing!!! Mi K’amcha Yisrael! This is our FAMILY! Yes, their commitment to torah learning is doing a tremendous thing for our world!