Next year on Chaf Adar we will be celebreting the completion of the Shas in the Daf Yomi program. I was wondering if anyone is interested in travling to Poland and celeberating the siyum in the Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin, the yeshiva founded by Rabbi Meir Shapiro. The day later is Chaf Aleph Adar the yahrtziet of Rebbi Elimelech of Lezhansk, located about 40 miles away. The oportunity is there to be i Poland for both occasions in one trip.

I am willing to start the process of setting up the trip if people are i terested. Seven years ago at the last siyum there was a small group of aboout ten people that made the trip including Rabbi Caskel Besser, the former international head of the Daf Yomi program for Agudat Yisrael.

theoretically id love to go. part of the reason i became frum was because of my trip to poland (and the yeshivas chochmei lublin). but alas, i am but a poor college student without the means. have a great time in the alter heim this spring!

I was happy to hear from you hopefully as a student you will learn a lot and get a good job and be able to make this and many other trips. anyway in the meanwhile you can find my articles on the old shtetl in the Jewish Press under Polin.

Shanah Tova

Shmuel Ben Eliezer

Why the love affair with Europe?? Understanding that Rav Shapiro founded daf yomi, I don't see anything holy about having the siyum in Lublin. Having the siyum in Yerushalayim or Tzfat would be more appropriate. The zechut is larger.

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Originally posted by Shmuel Ben Eliezer:
Next year on Chaf Adar we will be celebreting the completion of the Shas in the Daf Yomi program. I was wondering if anyone is interested in travling to Poland and celeberating the siyum in the Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin, the yeshiva founded by Rabbi Meir Shapiro. The day later is Chaf Aleph Adar the yahrtziet of Rebbi Elimelech of Lezhansk, located about 40 miles away. The oportunity is there to be i Poland for both occasions in one trip.

I am willing to start the process of setting up the trip if people are i terested. Seven years ago at the last siyum there was a small group of aboout ten people that made the trip including Rabbi Caskel Besser, the former international head of the Daf Yomi program for Agudat Yisrael.

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