Nomesorah
a yartzeit seudah isn’t inherently a siyum
there are 2 examples i can think of where we use the siyum excuse to get out of fasting, erev RH and Pesach. Rav Chaim was makpid to always make a bracha on at least a cup of water when he finished a mesechta. That way a siyum is always associated with food and the “heter” for using it on erev RH and Pesach makes sense.
But my question is: both erev RH and Pesach are personal tshuva days. so the siyum seems to act in the place of tshuvah. But the yartzeit, is that personal or for the niftar? bc if it is for the niftar, then its nice to make a siyum for the neshama, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to making a party which seems very much not in the spirit of the day.
personally I try not to go to a yartzeit seudah that isn’t a siyum bc without the siyum it seems very wrong.
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