“Every blatt Gemara is a missile. Every Tosafos is a rocket. Every kapitel Tehillim is a bomb”
— Rav Noach Isaac Oelbaum, mara d’asra of Khal Nachlas Yitzchok in Queens speaking at the Agudah’s siyum on Seder Nashim in Bell Works.
The siyum was a joint celebration of Daf Yomi participants finishing Seder Nashim as well as a commemoration of the centennial of Daf Yomi.
ITwas Sunday night at 11 p.m. when the phone rang in the Reisman home in Lawrence. Rabbi Yaakov Reisman shlita, rabbi emeritus of the Agudath Israel of Long Island, had retired for the evening, but he and his Rebbetzin were awakened by the phone. When the Rebbetzin answered the call, the caller said he had a sh’eilah for the Rav. The Rebbetzin awoke her husband, who hurried to the phone.
“Is this Rabbi Reisman?” asked the caller. “The one from America? From New York?” When Rabbi Reisman confirmed that yes, he was the American Rabbi Reisman, and he resided in New York, the man sounded relieved.
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