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Central Dirshu Siyum in Israel
By Yechiel Sever
The Siyum
Rejoice in the celebration of the Torah: close to fifteen thousand people participated this past Thursday (12 Teves) at the Dirshu Siyum HaShas event, with tremendous emotion and genuine joy for Torah. The occasion reached a climax with the entrance of Sar HaTorah HaRav Chaim Kanievsky and the Rosh Yeshiva HaRav Gershon Eidelstein, as well as with the presence of revered Gedolei HaTorah and Chassidus, and various roshei yeshiva. The audience of thousands welcomed them for a long time through mighty, moving singing.
The chairman of the event, Rav Shlomo Rosenstein, one of the heads of the World Dirshu organization, said, "We are now at the peak of an exhilarating series of Dirshu siyumim throughout the world which symbolizes the active power of Dirshu activities on five continents and 27 countries. In the past twenty-five years, Dirshu has stamped itself in the hearts of Jewry through to study and review and achieve expertise in Torah knowledge, in understanding it, wholesome study, wholesome perfection of the individual and establishment of Dar Ha\Yomi in Halacha, to which program tens of thousand Jews have jointed."
Some of the Rabbonim at the siyum
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