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We use the expression ‘The Sea of the Talmud’ because the Talmud is vast, deep and apparently unending. It is fascinating, intricate and instructive. Amazingly, it can be studied with enthusiasm by ...

For our story on Siyum HaShas, see With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox. 6:18 p.m.: On the way to the siyum. Mob scene at Penn Station, with lines stretching around ...

This year, in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan and following the Rebbe's call, bochurim in Tomchei Temimim Morristown have created a ...

New Year’s Day presented America with a split-screen of Orthodox American Jewish life in 2020. A jubilant 90,000 souls gathered at the MetLife stadium on Wednesday, proudly celebrating the Talmud ...

Excitement is at its peak in Dirshu Headquarters as it engages in avid preparations in honor of the grand Siyum Hashas English-Speakers’ Event that will take place on Tuesday, 12 Av in the National ...

“I’m sorry if I don’t read the Hadran perfectly. Aramaic wasn’t one of the foreign language choices in my elementary school in the former Soviet Union.” So began the first of our six Siyum’s at the ...

Security is high at Met Life Stadium as 93,000 Jews come to celebrate the 13th global Siyum Hashas, the reading of the Talmud.Matthew McDermott Security is high at Met Life Stadium as 93,000 Jews come ...

The big stadium seemed to be levitating; looking up, framed against storm clouds, 90,000 Jews were on their feet, then were rising to their toes in unison, once, twice, three times, calling out loudly ...

Singing, dancing and prayers to inspire communal celebration will highlight the gathering of 92,000 Jewish people at MetLife Stadium on New Year's Day, an event that marks the conclusion of a 7 ...

The massive turnouts around the world celebrating the completion of the twelfth cycle of the Daf Yomi should finally put to rest any remaining claims by leaders of non-Orthodox movements that they ...

Dirshu allows over 150,000 people to study Torah over the world. From December 2019, the organization planned 11 Siyum HaShas from Israel, to France, to South Africa, to England. 3,300 women gathered ...