For over 30 years NCFJE (www.ncfje.org) has organized live siyumim for each of the nine days on the radio.
This year there will be a live video of these siyumim as well, which will be broadcasted via www.Jewish.TV, Chabad.org’s audio and video site.
The siyumim can be viewed live online at 7:30 pm (every day of the week except Friday and Motzei Shabbos, when it airs at 2:45 pm and 10:15 pm respectively).
Making the first siyum, today, Rosh Chodesh Av, will be Rabbi Michoel Seligson who will conclude Tractate Tamid.
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“When Av begins, we diminish [our] rejoicing” (Talmud, Taanit 26b).
On the 1st of Av, “The Three Weeks” mourning period over the destruction of the Holy Temple–which began 13 days earlier on Tammuz 17–enters an intensified stage.
During “The Nine Days” from Av 1st to the Ninth of Av, a heightened degree of mourning is observed, including abstention from meat and wine, music, bathing for pleasure, and other joyous and enjoyable activities. (The particular mourning customs vary from community to community, so consult a competent Halachic authority for details).
Consumption of meat and wine is permitted on Shabbat, or at a Seudat Mitzvah (obligatory festive meal celebrating the fulfillment of a mitzvah) such as a Bris (circumcision), or a “Siyum” celebrating the completion of a course of Torah study (i.e., a complete Talmudic tractate).
The Lubavitcher Rebbe initiated the custom of conducting or participating in a Siyum on each of the Nine Days (even if one does not avail oneself of the dispensation to eat meat).
Citing the verse (Isaiah 1:27) “Zion shall be redeemed with mishpat [Torah] and its returnees with Tzedakah,” the Rebbe urged that we increase in Torah study (particularly the study of the laws of the Holy Temple) and charity during this period.
– Chabad.org
The Siyum can also be heard on the radio at 7:30 on 620AM.
I have to listen to a siyum and STILL can’t eat meat?? Why would I do that?
lots of things are like that, but the Rabbeim, who are mefarnes the emunah are mechazek the things that need chizuk. The Frierdiker Rebbe’s “Takana” of the yom tehilim also wasn’t his own invention, all the tehilims have where to start each day from.
The line “The Lubavitcher Rebbe initiated the custom of conducting or participating in a Siyum on each of the Nine Days (even if one does not avail oneself of the dispensation to eat meat)” is incorrect, the custom is already mentioned by the early commentaries in the Shulchan Aruch. There is a common misconception that The Rebbe started many things which in fact other Rabbiem actually started such as Chitas (the Rebbe Rayatz instatuded this) and Maos Chitim (from ages ago, mentioned in Shulchon Aruch(and Alter Rebbe)) .If you are an upstanding chossid then you would see in Hayom Yom,… Read more »
If I listen to this siyum, do I get to eat all the meat I want?