Rabbi Avraham Goldhar has built a system that brings mastery of the entire Shas to the everyman
At 300 people, the room was full to capacity with standing room only, and the decor was signature Passaic: understated elegance that enhanced but did not distract from the focus of the evening.
On stage, a group of 21 balabatim sat on a two-tiered dais facing the crowd. These guests of honor were to be tested orally — publicly — on the first 1,000 blatt of Shas Bavli, 15 masechtos in all.
In the front row of the audience sat Rabbi Menachem Zupnik, mara d’asra of Passaic’s Beis Torah Utefillah (BTU); Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Appel, rosh kollel of Cheshek Shlomo in Lakewood; and Rabbi Odom Silverstein, a well-known Lakewood sofer and maggid shiur.
The three rabbanim took turns firing questions at the balabatim onstage.
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