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On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:00:47PM +0000, Prof. L. Levine via Areivim wrote:<br>
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<div class="PlainText">> For a bechor stuck at home. See attached video first.<br>
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> *Harav Asher Weiss Shlit"a on Making Your Own Siyum (for Taanis Bechoros) in under 90 minutes*<br>
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> *Harav Asher Weiss Shlit'a*: So let me say this, *if you can actually<br>
> do a Siyum, that's preferable*. One of my Talmidim had a great idea,<br>
> & he recorded himself the entire Meseches Makkos Yerushalmi, it's the<br>
> shortest Mesechta in Shas.<br>
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Micha Berger wrote:</div>
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<div class="PlainText">I am wondering whether that really works, or if we're taking a Corona heter<br>
and turning into a norm.<br>
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After all, where is the simchas mitzvah that would underly making a<br>
se'udah? Is someone really making a se'udah over completing 90 minutes<br>
of learning? (Although if someone really does feel that simchah over 90<br>
minutes of learning, kol hakavod!)</div>
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<div class="PlainText">I do not know how a siyum Eruv Pesach is made where you daven, but the ones I have attended are done as quickly as possible, and then some non Gebrockts "cake" and juice are served and people run home. Not much simcha as far as I am
concerned. <br>
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<div class="PlainText">I will grant you that in this 90-minute siyum there will probably be no kaddish unless one gathers a minyan for this in one's home.</div>
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<div class="PlainText">YL<br>
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