Reply To: Joint Siyum

ujm > usual reductio ad absurdum

common > Rabbi Shachter will get up there and talk about how יפה תלמוד תורה עם דרך ארץ
.. the Lakewood era would close their ears

> the best learners are the ones that go to work and learn from an artscroll and the Lakewood era would close their ears,

I’ll then protest that the best ones are using Steinsaltz (aka Sefaria Davidson). Artscroll with all great work they did, tend to close rank on anything mildly controversial (from their point of view).

OMG, Lakewood bochrim will be confused by Pirkei Avos? Maybe because it does not have a gemorah, so not in Daf Yomi? Nevermind, Bava Kamma mentions that there are 3 ways to chassidus: brochos, nezikin and avos. Also, majority of advice at the end of Kiddushin is about selecting the right job, even as R Nehorai’s “Torah only” deserved the final spot. See, they had a variety opinion at the half-siyum of the Gemora 🙂

I do see concerns about what will be said. Can we rely that “talmidei chachamim merabim shalom b’olam” and speak politely in the presence of each other like, say R Soloveitchik and R Kotler did at that famouns chinuch atzmai dinner? Maybe, there should be guidelines that rabonim (not necessarily top ones) will speak on a gemora sugya rather than politics? If there is a clandestine Satmar Daf Yomi group, I’ll be happy to hear them too. Even if it will be about shalosh shevuos.