[Avodah] what is a siyum?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 07:18:13AM -0700, saul newman wrote:
: http://yeranenyaakov.blogspot.com/2013/07/rav-chaim-kanievsky-shlita-completes.html

I'm betting it's fiction.

The story sounds too similar to one that floated around YU well before a
week ago Wed (older than my time) in which some rav was quoted as telling
his talmid to get a meat meal ready as he was in the mood for meat and
would finish Berakhos on time for a dinner siyum. Did you start yet?
No, I'll do it now.

I'm not naming the figure in the story (whose last name was NOT
Soloveitchik) because I don't think either story is true, nor entirely
complementary. It sounds more like a talmid made something up to say
how learned the rebbe is, not realizing that it sounds like the rebbe
is making a mockery of minhag Yisrael.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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