Hundreds of Daf Yomi learners were joined by gedolei
Torah and gedolei Chassidus, roshei yeshivos and
rabbonim from neighborhoods, towns and cities throughout the
North at an event in Haifa on Monday to mark the completion
of maseches Yuma and the start of maseches
Succah.
The event was held in the North to recognize the
extraordinary dedication shown by Daf Yomi learners and
maggidei shiurim during the recent war. Participants
arrived in cars and buses from every part of Northern Israel,
filling the Municipal Conference Hall to capacity. An
overflow crowd watched the event on a giant screen outside
the hall.
HaRav Yosef Kudari, a Daf Yomi maggid shiur in Kiryat
Herzog for 13 years, was invited to give the final
shiur on maseches Yuma, and the opening
shiur for maseches Succah was delivered by
HaRav Chaim Dovid Kovalsky, head of the Meoros Daf HaYomi
beis medrash.
HaRav Avrohom Tzvi Margolis, the rov of Carmiel, read a
letter of support from Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita.
"Certainly at a time like this there should be more and more
shiurei Torah and lomdei Torah, for Torah has
the power to protect, and may all who are involved in this be
blessed from the Source of Blessings," he wrote.
The siyum itself was led by the Admor of Seret-
Vishnitz and the central address was given by HaRav Aharon
Leib Shteinman shlita.
The event was organized by Meoros HaDaf HaYomi, which
recently distributed 16,000 copies of a newly published
edition of maseches Succah, including diagrams,
illustrations and a section called Meoros Halochoh. The
current Daf Yomi cycle will reach the end of the halochos on
succah construction before Succos arrives.
