And then there was a sight to be seen: Tables full of Jews sitting and learning at all hours of day and night
When the Chofetz Chaim completed the writing of his monumental halachic work, the Mishnah Berurah, he marked the occasion with a six-day celebration.
Beginning on Sunday and continuing for the next five days, local talmidei chachamim joined him each day for a festive meal at which they discussed in depth the topics appearing in another of the Mishnah Berurah’s six volumes.
But when Shabbos arrived, the Chofetz Chaim held yet a seventh celebratory meal. When asked to explain, he said, “Shabbos came to me and requested its own special simchah.”
A distinct echo of that joyous Shabbos in Radin of long ago could be heard reverberating throughout Stamford, Connecticut’s Armon Hotel last week, where 1,000-plus members of Dirshu’s international learning programs and their spouses gathered for a double celebration: Some were completing the cycle of study of Mishnah Berurah in the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program, some were finishing Seder Moed in the Kinyan Torah program of Gemara study that follows the daf yomi schedule, and yet others were concluding both.
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